Silence
We know each other but there is nobody here to translate for us. We’ve talked before. Now we pretend to
Category: Thinking
Reflecting on culture and development
For the past 18 month or so, I have been working with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Art and love
Last night, in an effort to arrest a rapidly-rising Covid-19 infection rate, France returned to a strict lockdown. Until at
How the internet saved a community opera
It began with open workshops in community halls across County Durham, from ancient places sheltered in mountain valleys to younger
Let’s create a thousand little Works Progress Administrations
Why not to set aside 1%, 5% even 10% of the new cash to get artists – the people who create the work but who were ineligible for the Cultural Recovery Fund – working again? What’s to prevent each organisation in receipt of new funding from setting up their own Works Progress Administration to help the creative workforce?
9 Fables of the Reconstruction
The existential crisis now facing artists, performers, technicians, educators and many other freelance workers in the cultural industries has been
8 Where to now?
This post is the last of a series of conversations I held with Arlene Goldbard about public employment programmes and
7 What made public service employment successful – or not?
This post is part of a series of conversations I held with Arlene Goldbard about public employment programmes and the
6 The UK in the 1980s: MSC and the Community Programme
This post is part of a series of conversations I held with Arlene Goldbard about public employment programmes and the
5 The U.S. in the 1970s: CETA
This post is part of a series of conversations I held with Arlene Goldbard about public employment programmes and the
