Imagination Festival

EVENT | Culture In Discomforting Times - In theses discomforting times, from Trump and Brexit to public financial austerity, how can the arts and culture realistically thrive? Join us at @CustomLaneLeith on 2nd June. TKTS £5/£1 > eventbrite.co.uk/e/culture-in-d…

@PopcornFury @GerryHassan @joycemcm @JanieNicoll @DavieGreig Thank you for being there!

Really interesting discussion, well done to @GerryHassan @mrandysummers for organising and @joycemcm for chairing so well. The was the conversation went begged for @DrDaveOBrien input. Maybe next time. twitter.com/imaginationsco…

Thank you to @StaceyHunterEDI for live tweeting the event, @mrandysummers for social media and documentation, @GerryHassan for programming and @CustomLaneLeith for having us 👍

Thank you to all our wonderful speakers and our lovely audience for joining us this morning at Custom Lane 🙌

So no change there then. twitter.com/imaginationsco…

@DavieGreig really enjoyed hearing from you today at @imaginationscot :-)

#Decongest our heritage & museum culture trapped inside Scottish museums and galleries - and get it out of Edinburgh! says Neal Ascherson #constipation #imaginationscot

Some final words from @DavieGreig: Being an artist in Scotland, well in some way you are already a socialist or a nationalist because the market will always draw you away... #imaginationscot

In the context of Scotland 'every sentence that begins with a 'we' is a lie! :-)' laughs playwright @DavieGreig "In some ways 'we' didn't exist until Bill Forsyth put Cumbernauld in a film." #imaginationscot

The way that our society values humanity has come back says @robertsoftley Having gone round the world, yes – physical space has to be more accessible. Who is part of cultural space and who is not? #imaginationscot

There used to be consensus that we were opposing Thatcher's regime in the 80s whereas now a lot of creative people are shy of debating due to the shock of finding the audience so divided (paraphrasing @joycemcm) #imaginationscot

The Scottish print media is declining and so is broadcasting, it's too small and I worry that @scotgov is putting money into film when we need to resolve the media. People like @joycemcm should be in charge of @CreativeScots says an audience member at #imaginationscot

"Maybe that brings us to cultural spaces that people experience most (on iPad or other media)" says @joycemcm People construct their own spaces - says an audience member and we have to out to meet people - and not expect them to come to us... #imaginationscot

History is so important but we very rarely use history in the present says an audience member today at #imaginationscot

The @scotgov says it values the arts but more widely there is not a consent to that - as described by @joycemcm #imaginationscot

The @scotgov Culture Strategy is hampered by the word 'culture'. Really what I hope is that across govt and agencies there is an understanding that art has a value to our society says @DavieGreig #imaginationscot

I'm not interested anymore about the Culture Strategy or what @scotgov thinks about what artists are doing says our chair @joycemcm at #imaginationscot

The Greeks understood that society benefits from shared constructed spaces like art and theatre says @DavieGreig "I do think it's a choice for a society to have a constructed space and that we have to CHOOSE to fund it. It costs money". #imaginationscot

Tragedy was invented by the Greeks about 2 years before democracy! says @DavieGreig "If you invent democracy you have to decide what a citizen is – what a woman is. The family becomes essential to citizenship and that's the moment tragedy gets invented..." #imaginationscot