The murder of George Floyd has felt like a singular beacon, lighting a flame under white people and their awareness of white privilege. As a result, the Black Lives Matter movement has been reignited on the global stage and for the first time in my lifetime it has extended beyond my social media echo chamber…
During the summer term, I’m running the Arts Award ‘Discover at Home’ online programme for Coventry Music. As a music service, we’ve had to find innovative ways of keeping our children and young people accessing creative opportunities when our ensembles can’t meet, and many pupils haven’t been in school; we’ve delivered online instrumental lessons and…
There are certain things in life that have an impact on all of us. Such as the death of Princess Diana, the destruction of the twin towers on 9/11 and of course Covid-19. These are the sorts of things that, if we ever have grandchildren, we’ll probably sit them on our knee and say: “I…
I joined the Birmingham Cultural Education Partnership – known as Birmingham Creates – as Development Coordinator at the end of January 2020. I managed two meetings in person with the CEP’s Steering Group – then we went into lockdown. Taking on the role of Development Coordinator at a time of such great change and upheaval…
The extent of inequalities has been amplified during this crisis and as said elsewhere ‘We are all in the same storm but not the same boat’. Our response to the stark ‘materials divide’, that is lack of basic resources in home, is to organise the delivery of packs of art materials to 4,000 vulnerable children…
