Jacob Thompson-Bell

This looks like a brilliant opp!

Original report on artistic citizenship available here: researchgate.net/publication/36…

Lovely to see my recommendations for artistic citizenship featured in this @HEPI_news article from Fiona Walsh @studenthubs #citizenship #music #HigherEducation #arts hepi.ac.uk/2023/11/30/wha…

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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. greenwichdance.org.uk/about-us/news/…

It was an excellent event - Leeds Climate Hackathon, thank you to the visionary organisers from @LeedsMusicDrama and Leeds Uni and all the scientists and artists involved. Thank you for inviting us, looking forward to seeing generated ideas come to fruition @Jake_ThompsonBe

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

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. thetimes.co.uk/article/e27415…

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). theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@dermot_daly Nice one Dermot! Same conversation happening (and much needed) in music circles too. Going to give this a read.

‘Completely disregarding the ‘Master Teachers’ is not the aim […], but augmenting and allowing those teachings to sit in a cultural, societal, and personal context, can and […] does, enrich training and empower makers.’ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #AcademicTwitter

@Chris_J_King Also simple fact of getting different people together to collaborate can be a form of innovation itself I’d argue - it makes possible new ways of doing things. Whether it’s artists who wouldn’t/ couldn’t ordinarily work together or artists + practitioners from other disciplines

@Chris_J_King That last point is where it’s at I think - making spaces where innovative or inventive approaches can emerge because there are other immediately tangible benefits to networking in terms of infrastructure + shared funding streams (+ so legacy potential) that attract funders

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