Good morning
I have just heard about another big Science Festival offering to pay a speaker £150 whilst expecting to sell 300 tickets at £10 each! To help stop this kind of profiteering I think it would be great for Festivals to adopt a Charter that guarantees minimal fees for performers.
Basically, they would agree to always offer performers a minimum of 25% of the door, plus travel and accommodation. Obviously, some performers may want to negotiate more, and others may wish to decline the fee (if, for example, they thought that speaking at the event was part of their job, or were trying out new material), but this would be the performer's choice.
And the code would only apply to solo talks, and not panels, events where people were only doing a few mins, or fund raisers.
It would be great if funders and sponsors encouraged this best practice by not supporting festivals that didn't sign up for the Charter.
Any thoughts?
Best
Richard
Prof Richard Wiseman
Psychology Department
University of Hertfordshire
Mob: 077 90905219
www.richardwiseman.com
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