“I do not think good governance is depressing, it is one of the most electrifying and exciting things on the planet”
Blog – can we talk about the governance of cultural organisations?
“Too many cultural organisations operate on a self-replicating model”
CHAPTER – this was for a book called What Would Joan Littlewood Say? Published by Gulbenkian with interviews conducted, edited and compiled by Lyn Gardner
“We have let product rule over process”
PRESENTATION – to a conference which explored socially engaged practice – called Uncommon Ground at The Lowry in Salford
“As we look towards the Phoenix Season we’ve been thinking about 5 questions”
PRESENTATION – an overview of the programme to re-open the Grand Hall at a press event on 13 Mar 2018 three years after the fire
“Cultural centres need to be led by the passions, interests and concerns of the communities they serve”
BLOG – exploring how cultural centres can also be community centres – describing the foundation of the Co-Creating Change network
“One by one we went round the table and each Trustee said it was terrible”
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
“Generation Z: it’s not a great label…it’s as if you are the last of your kind”
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
“The simple idea – that we should support everyone in our communities to be creative – continues to be seen as marginal”
PRESENTATION – this was a contribution to an Arts Council England event looking at future strategy for the cultural sector
“There are some old-fashioned hierarchies inside our cultural spaces”
ARTICLE – this was an article for The Stage a year on from the Grand Hall fire about we can rethink the role of our theatres
“the complexity of our ecology has fed in to our most interesting projects”
BLOG – which explores Battersea Arts Centre’s new purpose to inspire people to take creative risks to shape the future
“What would our culture look like if arts organisations all thought of themselves as change-makers?”
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
“how it can encourage more innovative regional and London partnerships”
PARLIAMENTARY SUBMISSION – by the Collaborative Touring Network – made up of partners in Hull, Darlington, Torbay, Great Yarmouth, Gloucester, Thanet and London
“here are 8 pragmatic ideas for how we change the relationship between artists and venues”
BLOG – this is a contribution to the #IllShowYouMine debate about how we change venues for the better
“how can new ideas from the periphery take centre stage?”
PRESENTATION – at a conference about Talent Development in which I challenge the idea of “talent” and promote the idea of all our potential
“Ten, twenty, thirty men and women are running towards us, shouting, some are riding on six foot canons, all are dressed as soldiers”
CHAPTER – about the value of vulnerability – for a book called Proximo Ato published in Brazil
“The following confession will probably mark the end of my producing career”
CHAPTER – in The Producers: Alchemists of the Impossible – published in UK
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