Archive
Celebrate Variety 2017
7 February 2017
Equity will be celebrating Variety throughout 2017. Performers Yvonne Joseph and Dan Shelton explain the past and present of the sector as we launch a guide to contracts.
Local Equity branch campaigns to Save Brighton Hippodrome
6 August 2014
Current plans sees it converted into an eight-screen cinema. Local campaigners want it restored as a live performance venue
Equity Vice President Elections
5 August 2014
The union's Council has elected two new Vice Presidents
Equity succeeds as ACE monitors diversity at last
4 August 2014
The union’s long-running campaign for compulsory diversity monitoring by Arts Council England
reaps rewards
Entertainment unions demand equality in film
31 July 2014
The FEU express concerns over BFI proposed new "three ticks" diversity strategy
Malcolm Sinclair re-elected for third term
30 July 2014
Equity President Malcolm Sinclair has been re-elected for a third two-year term
Audiobooks qualify for library fee
14 July 2014
Narrators will now receive a payment when library lends an audiobook
Commons enquiry into BBC takes evidence from Equity
24 June 2014
Equity General Secretary Christine Payne calls for more regional casting and more diverse casting across the BBC's output.
Jeffry Wickham, former Equity President, dies
18 June 2014
Jeffry Wickham, Equity President from 1992 to 1994, has died after a long illness.
Iranian actress and film-maker jailed
18 June 2014
Mahnaz Mohammadi has been jailed for five yearscharged with collaborating against the state.
