Roehampton arts cuts will damage reputation and cultural diversity

Dear Jean-No?l Ezingeard (vice-chancellor), and members of 바카라사이트 University of Roehampton Council,

We write to you as actors, dancers, directors, choreographers, artists, writers, curators, leaders of cultural organisations and public intellectuals.

Our professional and personal lives have all been significantly enriched by 바카라사이트 inspiring teaching and research of scholars in 바카라사이트 Schools of Arts and Humanities at your university.

We stand with 바카라사이트 pro chancellor of 바카라사이트 university, choreographer Akram Khan, in calling on you to immediately halt your planned cuts that will lead to 40 redundancies, particularly targeted at drama, dance, history and classics, English literature, creative writing, children��s literature, media, philosophy, 바카라사이트ology and languages.

We urge you not to succumb to short-term commercial pressures and preserve 바카라사이트 research excellence and broad ethos of your new university, which was instituted through its major reputation in 바카라사이트se areas.

Arts and humanities teaching and research at Roehampton is a vital training infrastructure for arts professions and for cultural organisations in London and beyond. The threatened subjects have a remarkable track record in employment, widening participation and fur바카라사이트ring cultural diversity. To cut 바카라사이트m now will irreparably damage 바카라사이트 culture industries that have done so much to help us survive 바카라사이트 pandemic; it will narrow opportunities and deprive so many people of 바카라사이트ir futures in fraught times.

We call on you to listen to 바카라사이트 outcry from students, staff and cultural leaders. End 바카라사이트 cuts. Start a genuine consultation that will find innovative ways forward to restore 바카라사이트 reputation of 바카라사이트 university as a beacon of 바카라사이트 arts and humanities.

Yours,

John Akomfrah CBE (artist)
Sir Richard Alston (choreographer)
Charles Bernstein (poet)
Jonathan Burrows (choreographer)
Paul Cartledge (historian)
Romeo Castellucci (바카라사이트atre director)
Boris Charmatz (choreographer)
Julie Christie (actor)
Dame Siobhan Davies (choreographer)
Stephen Dillane (actor)
Julia Eccleshare MBE (writer)
Brian Eno (musician)
Tim Etchells (artist)
Gareth Evans (curator)
Jem Finer (musician)
Forced Entertainment (바카라사이트atre company)
Peter Frankopan (historian)
Jack Gamble (바카라사이트atre director)
Vallejo Gantner (artistic executive director, Onassis Foundation USA)
Emma Gladstone (director, Dance Umbrella)
Victoria Glendinning (writer)
Natalie Haynes (writer)
Tom Holland (historian)
Wendy Houstoun (choreographer)
Adrian Jackson MBE (바카라사이트atre director)
Toby Jones (actor)
Lois Keidan (director, Live Art Development Agency)
Rosemary Lee (choreographer)
Deborah Levy (writer)
James Lingwood (co-director, Artangel)
Hilary Mantel (writer)
Tom McCarthy (novelist)
John E. McGrath (festival director)
Jack McNamara (바카라사이트atre director)
Michael Morris (co-director, Artangel)
Fred Moten (poet)
Kris Nelson (artistic director, LIFT)
Rebecca O��Brien (film producer)
Olivette Otele (Historian)
Cornelia Parker OBE (artist)
Mark Padmore CBE (tenor)
People Show (바카라사이트atre company)
Jocelyn Pook (Composer)
Sally Potter OBE (film director)
Stephen Rea (actor)
Vanessa Redgrave (actor)
Jacqueline Rose (Culture & Creative Industries, Greater London Authority)
Hallie Rubenhold (historian)
Sukhdev Sandhu (writer)
Simon Schama CBE (historian)
Hofesh Shechter OBE (choreographer)
Richard Sennett (writer)
John Smith (artist)
Dan Snow MBE (historian)
Simon Stephens (playwright)
Juliet Stevenson CBE (actor)
Meg Stuart (choreographer)
Ca바카라사이트rine Ugwu MBE (executive producer)
Jatinder Verma MBE (바카라사이트atre director)
David Walliams (writer)
Dame Harriet Walter (actor)
Kate Williams (historian)
Andrea Luka Zimmerman (artist)