It’s that time once again when we look back at the news headlines that defined the previous 12 months.
Remember how we started the year full of enthusiasm and hope, convinced that the ravages of 2020-21 were surely behind us?
Now, as we stumble towards the finish line of the year, the arts sector seems collectively exhausted: because of every delayed event from the last two years suddenly seeming to happen all at once, by the challenges and constraints of working in the midst of pandemic-normal, and because of the repressed trauma of 2020 and 2021 slowly bubbling up to the surface.