A celebration of Liz Moreton
Blog – a tribute to Liz as she leaves Battersea Arts Centre as Director of Creativity and Social Change
“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?
“the Cultural Recovery Fund missed the opportunity to activate a renaissance. Instead it bought the sector a £1.57 billion deep freeze”
CHAPTER – this was an interview with Caridad Svich for her book “Toward a Future Theatre – Conversations during a Pandemic”
“Culture Plan B meets with artists and communities who create culture outside big cultural institutions”
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.
“time to change the structure”
Blog – what should public funding for culture seek to achieve and who gets to set the strategy?
Sat 24th Oct 2020
“time to change the story”
Blog – how can we hear more and different voices about the future of funded culture?
Sat 23rd May 2020
“time to change the numbers”
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
“time to change”
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
“I felt empowered and informed – it gave me the language and skills to have difficult discussions”
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.
“a boy in my class answered a question using his imagination and he got a warning”
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
“I want to better understand the value of our own creative thinking & our creative potential”
CHAPTER – this is the second ‘scratch’ chapter of a book I am writing called Everyday Uses for Creativity in Public Life – Nov 1st 2019
“I think there is less written about the role of creativity in transforming public life”
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
“the chances are that if there is a backlash then we won’t hear about it”
THREAD – showing my support for the new 10 year strategy by Arts Council England
“My proposal is that we set up a network of citizen assemblies which take a creative approach”
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.
“Instead of TED talks perhaps we could have TED actions?”
PRESENTATION – this was a TEDx talk in Wandsworth about learning through doing rather than listening to bloody talks
“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
“We have to take responsibility that we have all been complicit in creating a system which has led to this moment”
BLOG – reflecting on the fire at Grenfell Tower and making a commitment
“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
“To be honest, my optimism partly sprang from a dawning realisation that I was part of the reason that REMAIN lost and that LEAVE won”
BLOG – a response in the days after the 2016 referendum about what Brexit means for culture
“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
“Yesterday there was a fire at Battersea Arts Centre that destroyed the Grand Hall and Lower Hall”
A series of blogs in the days after the Grand Hall fire, plus an annual update, which tell the story of the fire and its aftermath
“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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