“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
“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
“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.
“We have let product rule over process”
PRESENTATION – to a conference which explored socially engaged practice – called Uncommon Ground at The Lowry in Salford
“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
“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
“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
“As you walk out from this hall don’t wait for permission from someone else to get started on something”
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
“my contribution to this conversation is captured in the words of the 1982 hit by Fun Boy Three and Bananarama”
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?
“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
“We should put the prosecution on trial for being elitist and for seeking to create boundaries”
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
“I think it’s good to question whether critics are covering the right shows”
BLOG – a response to Lyn Gardner’s blog in Guardian
“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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