Julie McCalden and Mark Robinson report on discussions at the No Boundaries symposium on the role of arts and culture.
Live streamed and taking place simultaneously in Bristol and Manchester via a near flawless live link up, the No Boundaries conference took an innovative approach that streamlined resources and increased accessibility, writes Julie McCalden, reporting from Watershed, Bristol.
If ticket prices were expensive, this was somewhat mitigated by 40 free places for artists and freelancers and the online availability of content. Appropriately, this model addressed some of the key issues arising: the sector’s need for diversity and the acknowledgment that radical institutional change is needed to achieve this.
Speaking on the question ‘Can we do things differently?’, Jo Verrent, senior producer for Unlimited, described the sector as made for and by the same people. She called for change to the way the sector makes, funds and delivers work: the people making and programming, the spaces themselves, as well as the discourses around the work. These sentiments were echoed time and time again... Keep reading on a-n
Live streamed and taking place simultaneously in Bristol and Manchester via a near flawless live link up, the No Boundaries conference took an innovative approach that streamlined resources and increased accessibility, writes Julie McCalden, reporting from Watershed, Bristol.
If ticket prices were expensive, this was somewhat mitigated by 40 free places for artists and freelancers and the online availability of content. Appropriately, this model addressed some of the key issues arising: the sector’s need for diversity and the acknowledgment that radical institutional change is needed to achieve this.
Speaking on the question ‘Can we do things differently?’, Jo Verrent, senior producer for Unlimited, described the sector as made for and by the same people. She called for change to the way the sector makes, funds and delivers work: the people making and programming, the spaces themselves, as well as the discourses around the work. These sentiments were echoed time and time again... Keep reading on a-n