Reposted by Annabelle Chvostek
'The state’s own research found that for every euro the government spent on supporting artists, society received €1.39 in return, and the scheme was estimated to have generated more than €100m in social and economic benefits.'
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theguardian.com
Ireland's basic income for artists changed my life. Other people deserve the same luck | Caelainn Hogan
A pilot scheme offering some artists €300-plus a week for three years is being made permanent. But should something so fundamental be run like a lottery, asks writer Caelainn Hogan
![This place was never anyone's to buy
Never anyone's to sell
These laws are just the drone of the mosquito
Pricking at our will
If you tagged along these buildings
Who would you be?
What could you say to liberate
A way to see?
I don't wanna be ruled no more
Shovel and paint can, heading out the door
And if they take me, I'm still free
Rise, rise, dignity
Annabelle Chvostek Ensemble
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![Flooding from an ocean
Full of bliss
The gushing tide
All are equal in this
They can't beat down
The truth of it with blows
The seeds just fly
Catch the wind and grow and grow
We're meeting where the maples
Grow through concrete
Voices chorus in the air
I will meet you there
Annabelle Chvostek
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