Basic Income for the Arts in Ireland - What have we learned after 32 months?
Start: 2025-06-04 18:30:00 UTC Greenwich Mean Time : Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London (GMT+00:00)
End: 2025-06-04 20:00:00 UTC Greenwich Mean Time : Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London (GMT+00:00)
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UBI Lab Arts, UBI Lab Leeds and UBI Lab Network, in association with Basic Income Ireland present:
Please join us for the sixth in our special series of discussions dedicated to reflecting on what we can learn from the Irish Basic Income for the Arts Pilot Scheme, as it unfolds.
The Government of Ireland is running a Basic Income pilot that began in September 2022 and will end in August this year. 2000 artists and cultural workers receive a weekly unconditional income of €325 weekly for a period of three years. This sixth session will be an opportunity to check-in with some of the artists involved in the pilot scheme and learn from them about how it is affecting them and their creative communities. We will also discuss whether the change of Irish government in January 2025 has affected the pilot, the end of the pilot in August this year and what may happen afterwards. You can watch the recordings from our previous five sessions here:
We will again be joined by artists Alisha Doody, Shane Finan, Lauren Conway and Tadhg Ó Cuirrín, who will give us personal insights from the perspective of recipients and members of the ‘control group’ who applied but do not receive the Basic Income for the Arts (BIA). We may be joined by other Irish artists from different fields of the Arts and the National Campaign for the Arts. BI Ireland will provide us with an update about their work, the actual political context in Ireland, the evaluation and the future of the BIA scheme.
Following a brief refresher about Universal Basic Income, other pilot schemes, and the work of UBI Lab Arts, the wider UBI Lab Network, and Basic Income Ireland we will open up a discussion with the artists. There will also be plenty of opportunity for questions from the audience.
The Irish Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sports and Media released the second impact assessment after one year of BI for the Artists. Unfortunately no further report has been published since then. You can find all the info about the Pilot and the two reports (6 months, 1 year) on the dept website at gov.ie/basicincomearts . You need to click on the square ‘Report’ and scroll down to find the two impact assessments.
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