Talks – Parliament of dreams

Some thoughts on monitoring, evaluating and researching culture

Introduction Last week, I participated in a round table discussion organised by the Cultural Value Scoping Project at Tate Modern.

The view from 2003 Recent developments in my country, before and since the Referendum on 23 June 2016, have been very disturbing.

This is the text of a talk given on 3 September 2016 in Berlin at an event to mark the fifth

English arts policy has been preoccupied recently with how to increase people’s engagement in the arts. Since most people already

The 2015 daCi World Congress is taking place this week in Copenhagen, bringing together over 700 young dancers for an

It’s been a while since I last added anything here, partly because I’ve been meeting artists whose work is supported

The last days of September in Orkney: weather fine and sunlit mirrors in Scapa Flow and Hoy Sound. The sky

Music: What is it good for? In the 1970s, at a time when we were less anxious about many things

‘What are you going to do, then?’ I asked. ‘To smoke,’ he answered. ‘It is quite a three pipe problem,

Text of a talk for the Greek EU Presidency conference, “Heritage First! Towards a common approach for a sustainable Europe” •