Hi I’m no longer posting on here. Follow me on Insta @ jthompsonbell Composer, curator, researcher. Senior Lecturer in #Music @unilincoln (views my own).
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This looks like a brilliant opp! – at Leeds, England
Are you an ambitious #researcher passionate about the role #culture & #creativity can play in supporting sustainable place-based development? Come & work with @valuingculture @PCI_UniofLeeds & @culturecommons et al. on a #policy design programme culturecommons.uk/items/post…
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/what-u… – at Leeds, England
Original report on artistic citizenship available here: researchgate.net/publication… – at Leeds, England
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🚨 BREAKING: 31 supporters of Just Stop Oil have taken to roads in Leeds in resistance to the UK Government's attempts to license new oil and gas projects.
🦺 Greg Sculthorpe from Doncaster, who is attending the march today said:
💬 “We’ve had enough of this government’s lies. We all know that we cannot continue adding carbon into the atmosphere without consequence.”
“The consequences are already unfolding around us. Panicking holiday makers in flip flops fleeing wildfires on Greek islands, floods and storms sweeping away houses and cars in China, India banning rice exports after heavy rains have decimated crops: nowhere is safe.”
🌡 Just Stop Oil is hosting online talks every Sunday at 5pm. Sign up for tomorrow's talk at juststopoil.org/zoom
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-…
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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
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
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
Artists as change makers/activists/citizens #art #activism #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #biodiversity – at Leeds, England
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
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/e2741… – at Leeds, England
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)
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/commentisfre…
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 – at Leeds, England
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 – at Leeds, England
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This is appalling. I have raised questions in Parliament about visas for Ukrainian musicians - this is a Government fail @lucyfrazermp
Ukrainian orchestra’s key members refused visas to play in UK theguardian.com/uk-news/2023…
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: life.leedsconservatoire.ac.u… #climatechange #biodiversity #equity #ClimateJustice #music #art #activism
