Letter of Support for the Centre for performance Research
I am very concerned about the decision to cut the revenue funding to the Centre for Performance Research. This company may be based in Aberystwyth but it plays a unique role in the international world of avant-garde performance. Wales has enough such companies and CPR has a very special place among them. It has proved over decades its ability to attract considerable additional funding but all such funds are predicated on having the infrastructure in place from which grant applications and new initiatives can be launched. In removing the base funding which attracts partnership funding from the university and many others the Art Council embarks on a very dangerous game of brinkmanship. It may claim that it wants to maintain this organisation and recognises its excellent work but cuts at this level will quickly lead to withering away of the fine initiatives that have been established and were so clearly reaching to new audiences with the opening of the Foundry.
Moira Vincentelli
Senior lecturer in Art History
School of Art
Buarth Mawr, Aberystwyth
Board member of CPR
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