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Subject: OBJECTION TO NEW HOME OFFICE RULES AFFECTING ARTISTS - THE PETITION
http://www.manifestoclub.com/visitingartists
The Home Office recently introduced new restrictions on international
artists and academics visiting the UK for talks, temporary exhibitions,
concerts or artists' residencies. Visitors now have to submit to a series of
arduous and expensive proceedures to get their visa, and then more
bureaucratic controls when they are in the UK. Already a series of concerts
and residencies have been cancelled. The campaign is led by Manick Govinda,
artists' adviser at Artsadmin, and has won support from artists, musicians,
gallery directors, academics and students. Together we call for these
parochial and suspicious regulations to be reconsidered, and affirm the
vital contribution made by global artists and scholars to UK cultural and
intellectual life. The petition was launched with a letter in the Observer
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2009/feb/22/9> , signed by
high-profile arts figures including artist Antony Gormley, Sandy Nairne,
director of the National Portrait Gallery, and Nicholas Hytner, director of
the Royal National Theatre. See the news story
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/22/immigration-arts-gormley> of the
petition launch.
http://www.manifestoclub.com/visitingartists
"nothing can release life from its obligation to be absolutely passionate"
(Lettrist International)
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