Arts groups grapple with state budget: ‘We’re between a rock and a hard place’

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Arts groups grapple with state budget: ‘We’re between a rock and a hard place’

Proposed changes to the way Florida’s arts organizations receive state funding have leaders of cultural nonprofits watching developments in Tallahassee with a mix of wariness and hope. “We’re between a rock and a hard place,” said Jennifer Jones, president of the Florida Cultural Alliance statewide advocacy organization. This week, cultural leaders and advocates travel to the state capital to meet with legislators on the annual Arts and Cultural…

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Walking a trade tightrope between a rock and a hard place

Australian exporters will need to show greater flexibility, says NSW academic Maggie Dong. Photo: UNSW Australia is facing an increasingly fraught trading tightrope walking act between a swinging rock and a hard place, says a University of NSW business marketing academic. Professor Maggie Dong is head of the School of Marketing at UNSW Business School. In a publicly-released non-exclusive interview, she looks at ways for Australian expo…

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From the Pays de la Loire to the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, to the New Aquitaine, from left to right, local authorities seem to have passed the word: it is the culture that must suffer in order to find the budgetary savings demanded by the state. Without taking into account the devastating domino effect of such cuts, says the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.