Thread by @MigrantsCulture, A few weeks ago, we asked some questions on #FUKAccountability, this being [...]

A few weeks ago, we asked some questions on #FUKAccountability, this being public money et al, and they yet again went unanswered.

So gather around folks, we have some more questions for @FestivalUK22 and their winning teams.

It's time for another #FUKAccountability THREAD!

Recently @festivaluk2022 announced its final 10 teams and is now using migrant activist language ('Open', 'Borderless') to obfuscate criticism while silent on #FUKAccountability such as on the Qs we posed: https://twitter.com/MigrantsCulture/status/1368934346078490624

BUT we know you are listening

so we have more:

https://twitter.com/MigrantsCulture/status/1368934346078490624

1. Can we see a transparent account of the #FUK2022 budget and expenditure so far? We need clear information and appropriate breakdowns for management fees and how much freelancers, artists and admins are getting per team.

@FestivalUK2022 #FUKAccountability #FestivalUK2022

2. What are the salaries of the ALL senior management and executive teams of @FestivalUK2022 and why are you refusing to divulge this information to the public? This is public money so where is the transparancy? What do you have to hide?!

#FUKAccountability #FestivalUK2022

2. What are the salaries of the ALL senior management and executive teams of @FestivalUK2022 and why are you refusing to divulge this information to the public? This is public money so where is the transparancy? What do you have to hide?! #FUKAccountability #FestivalUK2022

3. The language you use (‘open’, ‘optimistic’, ‘borderless’) is used to obscure supremacy towards migrant, PoC & wc communities. Are you suggesting we lack ‘optimism’ & ‘openness’ in the face of structural dispossession which your festival is contributing to?

#FUKAccountability

4 @FestivalUk2022 claims independence from UK Gov BUT is a direct Gov project and as per your website you are working with each of the 4 UK Govs. How much involvement in setting of agendas, programming decisions & grant-awards does each UK Gov bodies have? We need factual detail!

5) Pitching and programming: Who were the people on the panel and who are the people who make the programming decisions of each stage of the process?

We have it in good authority that the 'panel of 4' weren't the only ones making decisions

#FUKAccountability @FestivalUK2022

5) Pitching and programming: Who were the people on the panel and who are the people who make the programming decisions of each stage of the process? We have it in good authority that the 'panel of 4' weren't the only ones making decisions #FUKAccountability @FestivalUK2022

6 @OliverDowden of @DCMS did a presentation for R&D teams where he explicitly said the value of the arts is measured by its income & #FestivalUK2022 branding exercise.

Does @FestivalUk2022 stand by that? How does that match with your ‘we are not a propaganda machine’ stance?

7. We learnt that 30% of each team’s £10million winning award was taken away at the last minute, to ‘pay for marketing’. So how much is being spent on marketing? Is there a separate PR budget for each team? Why was this not initially communicated to the teams? #FUKAccountability

8. Where is each team's €3million marketing budget being spent? Does the festival itself have a separate marketing budget?

9. What are your marketing and audience development plans, how are they reaching your ‘audience of 66million people’?

#FUKAccountability @FestivalUK2022

10. Can you publish your Conflict of Interest Register for Senior Management, Executive teams and board, publicly for everyone to be able to consult this?

@FestivalUk2022 #FUKAccountability @DCMS @CommonsDCMS

11. What data sharing processes do you have in place and how are you ensuring protection for the personal information of workers/contractors, especially those who are migrants? Is everyone having to sign NDAs to keep issues at bay? #FUKAccountability

@FestivalUK2022 @DCMS

12. How does @FestivalUK2022 ensure the teams are not forced to be compliant with Gov policy and its attack on freedom of speech & staging of so-called culture wars? #FUKAccountability

FYI @OliverDowden & @DCMS are going HARD on supressing free speech: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/may/01/charles-dunstone-quits-as-museum-group-chair-amid-culture-war

13. How will creativity bring people together for a “borderless festival”, when the hostile environment and the UK’s border policies are keeping them apart?

See case in point, where now even @ace_national is working with Home Office https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/05/elite-award-winners-allowed-fast-track-route-into-uk

#FUKAccountability

Elite award-winners allowed fast-track route into UK

Recipients of certain Nobel prizes, Oscars and Brit awards can bypass existing immigration process under new rules

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/may/05/elite-award-winners-allowed-fast-track-route-into-uk

We will be waiting for a response from @FestivalUK2022 Martin Green @DCMS @OliverDowden or even @neilfmendoza (hey Neil

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Until then we will continue to work with our allies to expose the nationalistic propaganda machine that this festival is! #FUKAccountability

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