08/01/2025
Musicians here in Cardiff are putting their homes on the market while Welsh National Opera shrinks daily and St Davids hall, the NATIONAL concert hall of Wales, sits empty and derelict, with no progress on repairs in nearly 2 years. And this happened under a Welsh Labour Gov't. Blaming the Tories won't cut it - what's the point of devolution if you don't take responsibility for protecting your own cultural heritage? The national conservatoire ditched their pre-college programme this summer and made dozens of fine teachers redundant. It's sadly typical of the unfolding in communities all over the UK. Why are so slow to act when arts organisations and arts education are crumbling in real time. We don't have years to wait for task force results and white papers. We need urgent action and emergency funding. And serious reform of our system of funding the arts.
The country that gave the world Richard Burton, Michael Sheen, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Jonathan Pryce has killed off the National Theatre Wales. It's industrial scale neglect bordering on overt intentional destruction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Theatre_Wales
St David's Hall Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama - Coleg Brenhinol Cerdd a Drama Cymru Welsh National Opera Cenedlaethol Cymru
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