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Britain has long been seen as a crucible of performing excellence, but new issues have come to the fore in our stage schools. Are centuries of stagecraft about to be sacrificed? ....
Actors Sheila Atim and Jamael Westman were among who said they could no longer endorse Belsize charity Wac Arts - Credit: Polly Hancock / PA Prominent alumni of Belsize Park charity Wac Arts have followed patrons in expressing their great disappointment at the organisation. Almost a year after the Wac Arts Concerns group first made criticisms around a lack of diversity in leadership positions, and what they called microaggressions , a group of ex-students have written the charity is not the Wac we knew and loved , and reiterated concerns that it is departing further away from those values and has become a place of distrust, poor communication and unclear motives . ....
Updated: 1:36 PM December 14, 2020 Wac Arts, in Haverstock Hill, has promised changes in response to grievances raised by staff and students. - Credit: Polly Hancock A Camden arts group has promised changes after students claimed they were asked to perform for free at the homes of its benefactors. Students at Wac Arts, a registered charity in Belsize Park, said they were told they would be “paid in sandwiches” and “exposure”. The group’s new chair said the pledge was one of several measures to be implemented in response to a string of complaints. Another will be “anti-racism and unconscious bias training” for all staff and trustees. ....