A journey from shame to activism
Continuing our series on activism in the arts, Kevin Osborne reflects on how his early antipathy has been transformed into a great…
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Is money a help or hindrance in fulfilling potential?
While not making him rich, Kevin Osborne’s early career earnings in the music industry were enough to allow him career break…
A champion of racial equity
The driving premise behind Kevin Osborne’s career has been to help people meet their basic needs, so they can achieve their…
Diversity data: colour or ethnicity?
With all the ambiguity around ethnicity terminology, Kevin Osborne is gradually coming to the view that identifying people by thei…
The arts divided cannot stand
Kevin Osborne calls on leaders of the major classical music organisations to join his campaign to close the racial equity gap as a…
Responses to ACE National Portfolio funding expose systemic racism
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…
‘I don’t hate the Arts Council’
Kevin Osborne has made perhaps one of the most public and prolonged critiques of Arts Council England ever. But now he wants to se…
Cost-of-living crisis: how will it impact diversity in the arts?
Over the last three years, the arts sector has stumbled from crisis to crisis. Kevin Osborne thinks the bailouts have masked the s…
Is ACE’s diversity strategy – and reporting – fit for purpose?
Reading ACE’s latest Equality, Diversity and Inclusion data report, it appears diversity is primarily seen as the number of…
Why levelling up shouldn’t mean levelling down on diversity
How will Arts Council England square the circle of delivering increased funding to regions outside London while also meeting its c…
What can investment contribute to race equity?
The existential question of race inequity demands new solutions. Kevin Osborne and Genevieve Maitland Hudson explore the potential…
Inequity in funding decisions
Funding ‘criteria’ tell you what a funder will or won’t support, but organisational ‘constraints’ ul…
Whose ‘lived experience’ matters most?
A new strand of political correctness is reshaping conversations on race: the idea of ‘lived experience’ driving the d…
We need to talk about race
A reluctance to share opinions openly is a significant block to achieving racial equity. But as Kevin Osborne argues, without unde…
Racial equity: a zero-sum game?
The fight for racially equitable funding in the creative industries is what drove Kevin Osborne to set up Create Equity. Here…
Why funders must pledge to fund equitably
Covid, the murder of George Floyd and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement all led to an outpouring of statements committin…
State funding for BAME entrepreneurs
Can using public money to make BAME* entrepreneurs successful be in the public interest if it makes them wealthy too? Kevin Osborn…
Funding BAME creativity
Kevin Osborne has long been exercised by systemic racial bias in UK arts funding. Last month he produced a panel discussion aimed…
BAME over – the unintended consequences
With a Government report recommending the dropping of the term BAME, people have been challenging Kevin Osborne’s continued…
Beyond Culture Recovery
The distribution of Arts Council England’s Culture Recovery Fund has attracted widespread criticism, not least from those ca…
Systemic funding failures: it’s time to fix the fault lines
To future-proof the creative sector we must root out systemic funding bias against BAME organisations, says Kevin Osborne, startin…
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