Happy New Year! We’re drawing a line under that latest shitshow and hoping for some general improvements in many areas, including the state slash overall precarity of the cultural sector. The arts have been increasingly under pressure for a long time now, a pressure that is undermining individuals, organisations and the entire edifice, to be frank. We talk to a range of creatives, producers, and institutions to take a survey of the sector and search for a little hope as we enter the second quarter of the 21st century (probably, slightly unclear on how years work).