This looks like a brilliant opp!.

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Lovely to see my recommendations for artistic citizenship featured in this @HEPI_news article from Fiona Walsh @studenthubs #citizenship #music #HigherEducation #arts

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Yes! Hard agree. Well said. We need to be working together here and bridging our different positions because what we all really want is to keep making art and keep supporting people do and benefit from artmaking.

RT @Swarm_Dynamics: It was an excellent event - Leeds Climate Hackathon, thank you to the visionary organisers from @LeedsMusicDrama and L….

Excellent keynote presentations from @diana_nbd David Holyoake from @Swarm_Dynamics and John Kenneth Paranada Curator of Art and Climate Change at the @SainsburyCentre Climate science and the possibilities for artists to give voice.

Artists as change makers/activists/citizens #art #activism #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #biodiversity.

Looking fwd to the project pitches to follow! Thanks for support and input from @archipelagoarts @edjmckeon @dermot_daly @PGtipss @simon_mair @catzigle and many more!.

Thks to all delegates who came + offered such engaging ideas at the Climate Hackathon @LeedsMusicDrama last 2 days. Artists, scientists, social scientists + citizen activists working on climate change, biodiversity loss + social inequity. Co-developed w @mariarovisco

Employability and generic transferable skills are def important but not forgetting that specialised skills in arts (E.g. making, composition, design) are also essential for a healthy, functioning society. (3/3).

HE must be holistic - and that should not be confined to the “elite”. Holistic means not operating in disciplinary silos and STEM and arts/humanities being pitted against one another. We need many different ways of knowing and doing and HE must champion this. (2/3).

Bit late to the party here (article from Thursday) but this is a very abject sighted, reductive take on arts + humanities in HE. We shouldn’t cut + devalue arts + humanities bc they are not vocational but connect w other disciplines/sectors.

I think this take is about right. Value of arts and culture is in transformative impact on/in/as society. (Not withstanding messy ACE divestment from London and south east).

Answers on a postcard please….#art #music #citizenship #policy.

Also have to balance need to support specialised spaces for protecting art (E.g. heritage) + that artists aren’t just working within conventional/traditional areas of society - we have to also move into spaces dominated by other disciplines/skills (medicine, STEM, activism). 3/3.

It seems to me that we have to be both caretakers of artistic traditions and institutions that are run for public good, almost like looking after the NHS, but also inventors + independents with a critical voice that often runs counter to prevailing (institutional) narratives. 2/3.

Short/rambling thread… Heard Stewart Copeland on radio saying film music is abt making money but opera business model is spending money. Bit of a provocation but touches on major UK challenge: How to reconcile the idea of art as service (public good) with art as innovation?.1/3.

RT @KeeleyMP: This is appalling. I have raised questions in Parliament about visas for Ukrainian musicians - this is a Government fail @luc….

Opportunity for any current @LeedsDrama students on here to take up a paid internship May - July 2023 supporting a Climate Hackathon I’m organising. Details and how to apply: #climatechange #biodiversity #equity #ClimateJustice #music #art #activism