August012 welcomes the Senedd culture committee’s report and recommendations on the state of funding of the arts in Wales. Arts spending in Wales per head is now the lowest in Europe, bar Greece. We call on the WelshGovernment to see this report for what it is; a final warning before irreversible damage is done to the cultural life of the nation. We ask the First Minister to act on the warnings in the report and reverse the decade-long devaluing of arts and culture this country has been subject to. We want to hear a recognition that arts funding is not subsidy, but investment, and that the people of Wales deserve arts organisations that are not just surviving, but thriving - now and for future generations. We call on the First Minister to make a public commitment to the value of arts in Wales.

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Rydym ni, y sefydliadau sydd wedi llofnodi isod, yn croesawu adroddiad ac argymhellion pwyllgordiwylliant y Senedd ar sefyllfa gyllido y celfyddydau yng Nghymru. Erbyn hyn, mae gwariant y pen ar y celfyddydau yng Nghymru yr isaf ond un yn Ewrop, gyda Gwlad Groeg yr isaf. Rydym yn galw ar Lywodraeth Cymru i gydnabod yr hyn sydd dan sylw yn yr adroddiadhwn, sef rhybudd olaf cyn y bydd hi’n amhosib unioni’r niwed i fywyd diwylliannol y genedl. Gofynnwn i’r Prif Weinidog i weithredu’r rhybuddion yn yr adroddiad a gwrthdroi’r degawd o ddibrisio rydym wedi’i weld yng Nghymru o ran y celfyddydau a diwylliant. Rydym eisiau clywed cydnabyddiaeth nad cymhorthdal yw cyllid ar gyfer y celfyddydau, ond buddsoddiad, a bod pobl Cymru’n haeddu sefydliadau celfyddydol sy’n ffynnu yn hytrach na goroesiyn unig - nawr ac ar gyfer cenedlaethau’r dyfodol.Rydym yn galw ar y Prif Weinidog i wneud ymrwymiad cyhoeddus i werth y celfyddydau yng Nghymru.Impact of funding reductions

Highway One

Caligula

August 012? August-oh-twelve. It was August. It was 2012. The London Olympics had trademarked the year, so we ditched the 2. Voila.

Roberto Zucco

Singing The Subject

August 012 make ambitious contemporary international theatre in Wales and beyond the border, directed by Mathilde López. We work with professionals and non-professionals together to create bold productions for 21st Century audiences, sometimes in theatres, sometimes not. We make shows in a number of languages, but mostly in the language of theatre.

Of Mice and Men