While the need to foster cultural equity is not new, recent events have further confirmed its urgency, and this month’s headlines have highlighted how different actors worldwide are responding to work towards a more equitable future.

Solidarity and shared purpose have informed the international arts and culture sector’s response to COVID-19 in recent months, despite the very different realities in which we all operate.

This week we are pleased to share with you Supporting Culture in the Digital Age, which we have developed with external expert author Octavio Kulesz.

In the last month arts and culture sectors worldwide have been radically transformed with the entire cultural value chain – from creation to production, distribution, access and participation – inconceivably disrupted. An uncertain future in a time of global crisis is not unique to our sector. However, the current crisis has exacerbated an existing precarity that affects many working in our international community.

This month, the headlines for arts and culture reflect the headlines in general, as the world responds to the spread of COVID-19.