This is excellent.

Episode 54: Afraid of Poetry? @timiswriting Tim Rich joins Niall @elondems in the Arts First kitchen to discuss the health of poetry today. He reads and we talk about his poem ‘Afraid of Poetry’, the inspiration for this episode, and Tim tells us doubters there’s nothing to fear. #PoetTown #Hastings #poetry artsfirst.substack.com/p/afr…

Excellent discussion on the Odyssey and Nolan's film with speakers including @MadamMarenT and Niall @elondems from Arts First.

We are very excited about our latest episode: 'Rosie Kay: dancer, choreographer, freedom fighter' 'Rosie Kay has had an award winning career in dance and choreography. She is the director of her own company K2CO and is in the forefront of the campaign Freedom in the Arts, which she founded with Denise Fahmy, after the experience of being cancelled because of her gender-critical views. We have interviewed Rosie in the past, here, when she and @DeniseFahmy talked about their experiences of cancellation, and how their fight back turned them into foremost campaigners for freedom of expression in the arts! @Freedom_in_Arts In this episode though, we wanted to learn about why she became a dancer and choreographer and how she approaches the creation of new works. We specifically focus on two films that she has made of two of her creations. Adult Female Dancer is a solo performance which she created during COVID and 5 Soldiers: The Body is the Frontline which she premiered in 2010 after a long period of training and embedding herself in a military unit.' @wearliegig @acadofideas Read more and watch our interview with the fantastic @RosieKayK2CO here. artsfirst.substack.com/p/ros…

Very important piece. "Which came first? Did an artist begin with a social objective and choose art as the way to achieve it? Did he or she begin with an artistic idea and learn that it needed to be described through participation, inclusion, wellbeing, representation or community benefit to become fundable? Or has the funding system gradually encouraged more projects to be conceived around those criteria in the first place?"

Out shortly - award-winning dancer and choreographer Rosie Kay @RosieKayK2CO in conversation, talking about her career and how she creates her work. We discuss two of her works in particular: Adult Female Dancer, a solo performance created during COVID, and 5 Soldiers: The Body is the Frontline. Fully interview out shortly on Substack, YouTube, Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Subscribe for free at artsfirst.uk @Freedom_in_Arts @wearliegig @acadofideas

On @PoetryDayUK here’s an extract from our forthcoming episode, ‘Afraid of Poetry’, inspired by Tim Rich’s poem of the same name. So what is there to be afraid of? Why does poetry make so many people nervous? Find out in our forthcoming episode, one of two we have coming out before we go live at the Battle of Ideas @acadofideas on 17-18 October. #NationalPoetryDay #HastingsPoetry #PoetTown