Continuing our series on activism in the arts, Kevin Osborne reflects on how his early antipathy has been transformed into a greater sense of belonging.
While not making him rich, Kevin Osborne’s early career earnings in the music industry were enough to allow him career breaks which were important learning opportunities.
The driving premise behind Kevin Osborne’s career has been to help people meet their basic needs, so they can achieve their full potential.
With all the ambiguity around ethnicity terminology, Kevin Osborne is gradually coming to the view that identifying people by their colour is the best way to drive race equity.
Kevin Osborne calls on leaders of the major classical music organisations to join his campaign to close the racial equity gap as a means of preserving their own funding.
ACE has pulled off a coup in racial and geographic equity. Kevin Osborne says now we need to fight to prevent any reversal of this progress.
Kevin Osborne has made perhaps one of the most public and prolonged critiques of Arts Council England ever. But now he wants to set the record straight – he doesn’t hate ACE.
Over the last three years, the arts sector has stumbled from crisis to crisis. Kevin Osborne thinks the bailouts have masked the structural issues that underpin current challenges.
Reading ACE’s latest Equality, Diversity and Inclusion data report, it appears diversity is primarily seen as the number of people who work for or visit arts institutions like the Royal Opera House, says Kevin Osborne.
The existential question of race inequity demands new solutions. Kevin Osborne and Genevieve Maitland Hudson explore the potential of impact investment.