The petitioner,
Hannah Saayman writes:
Cardiff University
has announced that the School of Music is set to close amid cuts to staffing. This awful decision is once again a way to cut the arts in Wales
and will have a lasting impact on the arts scene throughout the UK. As well as
this, staff who work incredibly hard, have expertise that is rarely found and
put their hearts and souls into making the School a vibrant, welcoming place
are at danger of losing their livelihoods. Not to mention present and future
students who will be affected by these cuts. We cannot let this happen and we
cannot lose OUR School.
I graduated from the School of
Music with a Bachelor of Music in 2020. I always felt welcomed, at home and was
always learning new things constantly. Music has so many transferrable skills
that I have taken into jobs with me so far and I know many of my course mates
and peers either have careers in music now or use their music degrees in their
current roles.
If you are SICK of our arts
subjects being at threat and the wonderful Cardiff Uni School of Music’s threat
to closure PLEASE SIGN and SHARE to
all alumni, present students, staff and your local community.
Garry
Humphreys writes:
My daughter is a Cardiff English graduate but nevertheless
during her time there had the experience of playing, as a cellist, in the
University Symphony Orchestra and in the Chamber Orchestra and singing with the
Chamber Choir which included a visit to China! This must surely enrich the
lives of students beyond the specialized departments and bring together those
from different disciplines? The closure of the Royal Welsh College’s junior
department, the reduction in the number of overseas students (a significant
source of income, one assumes) and the current St David’s Hall situation (and
the authorities’ pathetic attitude to it) all add up to a pitiful reflection of
the arts in Wales’s so-called capital city.
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