Hello allies and frenemies, it is Gabrielle and Zarina - art critic / game critic baby gods. This time you don’t just have to put up with us telling stories and making each other laugh - this episode is actually USEFUL, thank GOD. It is the funding episode! And for it, we are joined by Anna Hart who is going to talk us through everything you need to know about (arts) funding (in the UK). When we were students paying 9 grand a year, CSM decided to allow us one teeny tiny lesson about art funding, and there were limited spaces in the class, ffs. Luckily, we both booked on. And thank god because it was led by visiting tutor and arts producer extraordinaire Anna Hart. She taught us so much in that one class and it’s always stuck out in our minds as being pretty foundational (Gab actually ended up working for Anna on AIR, who make art with people in places). We wanted to rope Anna into this podcast episode to do an explainer on funding because it’s tricky (like honestly what is it, how do I get some for myself, and where is the money coming from?). In this episode, Anna chats to us about the logistics of arts funding, the criticisms of it too, and offers some tips on writing a good application. Have a listen and hope it is useful!

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Hosts: Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad

Guest: Anna Hart

Jingle: toynoiz made this legendary tune for us back during the era of the 1st podcast years and years ago