theories
The bigger picture behind money in culture — analyses, research papers and critical insights from the Rhizom Industries desk.
Your Network Is Your Balance Sheet: Sustainable Finance in the Creative Industries
Every few weeks I sit across from a genuinely brilliant creative organisation — a dance company, a festival, an artist-run space — that is one delayed grant payment away from insolvency. Not because…
Co-production as infrastructure
Somewhere along the way, "co-production" became a word we reach for to make a project sound more ambitious than it is. It appears in the third paragraph of the press release, next to the funders'…
Cashflow planning for cultural seasons
Most cultural organizations don't run out of money — they run out of money in March. Grants arrive in autumn, box office peaks in December, and the quiet months in between are where well-funded…