Podcast – recorded during the first year of the pandemic, Culture Plan B listened to the ideas and perspectives of independent artists and communities about what next for culture.
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
Blog – looking at how Arts Council England’s investment could be used to directly fund 3,000 artists and 500 community venues
Sun 10th May 2020
Estimated reading time: 9 minutes
Blog – as well as thinking through the challenges of the pandemic for the cultural sector, we need to think about the longer-term and how subsidised culture emerges in a way that better supports communities and artists. Some thoughts on how…
Sat 25th April 2020
Estimated reading time: 23 minutes
CHAPTER – this is the fourth ‘scratch’ for a book called Everyday Uses for Creativity in Public Life – Feb 1st 2020
This is a story about my general election and the search for a different kind of democracy.
Estimated reading time: 24 minutes
CHAPTER – this is the third ‘scratch’ of some text for a book I am writing called Everyday Uses for Creativity in Public Life – Dec 1st 2019
Estimated reading time: 23 minutes
CHAPTER – this is the second ‘scratch’ chapter of a book I am writing called Everyday Uses for Creativity in Public Life – Nov 1st 2019
Estimated reading time: 33 minutes
CHAPTER – this is the first ‘scratch’ chapter of a book I am writing. It’s working title is Everyday Uses for Creativity in Public Life – Oct 1st 2019
Estimated reading time: 13 minutes
CHAPTER – this was for a book called What Would Joan Littlewood Say? Published by Gulbenkian with interviews conducted, edited and compiled by Lyn Gardner
Estimated reading time: 8 minutes
PRESENTATION – in praise of Sarah Golding (creator of The Good Neighbour, Town Hall Cherubs and Return to Elm House) at her leaving do in April 2019
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
PRESENTATION – this was for a NESTA conference in Bristol called “What could the future look like if creativity were at the heart of it?” I talked about creativity and policy-making.
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
PRESENTATION – this is about Scratch, being told your idea is rubbish and the emotional process of change – at a symposium called Creative Museums at Battersea Arts Centre
Estimated reading time: 9 minutes
BLOG – asking why we don’t do more to promote a leading role for young people in the way cultural organisations are run and developed
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
PRESENTATION – this was when I received an Honorary Doctorate from Roehampton University and I got to speak to all the students who had actually worked (and paid!) to get their honours
Estimated reading time: 8 minutes
BLOG – I wrote this for the National Lottery Community Fund (formerly Big Lottery) in response to their question What is the future of doing good over the next 10 years?
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
PRESENTATION – this was a playful debate which put “participation on trial” at Goldsmiths University in London – I argued that the whole premise of the debate was unhelpful
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
PRESENTATION – I was asked to respond to the question “What is the value of culture?” at a What Next? meeting at Young Vic in London
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
PARLIAMENTARY SUBMISSION – by the Collaborative Touring Network – made up of partners in Hull, Darlington, Torbay, Great Yarmouth, Gloucester, Thanet and London
Estimated reading time: 23 minutes
BLOG – responding to a question from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation about how to refresh its strategy Paul Hamlyn Foundation (PHF) is a significant investor in arts, education and social justice programmes. Their Director, Martin Brookes, has been asking everyone a question: what should PHF do? It’s a great way […]
Estimated reading time: 8 minutes
PRESENTATION – at a conference about Talent Development in which I challenge the idea of “talent” and promote the idea of all our potential
Estimated reading time: 13 minutes
PRESENTATION – about BAC’s capital redevelopment – made in partnership with Steve Tompkins at the Theatres Trust Conference at Pleasance Theatre London
Estimated reading time: 18 minutes