Poor people and middle class people produce art. They both work as artists or do art on the side as a hobby. It is not that expensive either.
Expectation that you have portfolio does not strikes me as outrageous either.
Expectation that you have portfolio does not strikes me as outrageous either.
Writing a few songs on a guitar from Facebook marketplace is cheap. Turning that into a live show is expensive and time consuming.
Writing some Irish language poems on your lunchbreaks is cheap. Doing public readings as an unknown poet is not.
Well done Ireland.
How is doing public reading of poetry not cheap?
I have friends who do standup comedy and they just show up at open mic nights and it doesn’t cost them anything. One is good enough that now the venues are paying him a little bit.