A podcast that listens in to the artists, directors, producers and publishers who are reshaping the future of arts and culture. Produced as part of Culture Reset, a project by people make it work. Editor: Marcin Pawlik. Produced by: Claire Doherty and David Micklem. www.culturereset.org.
In this episode writer and producer David Micklem talks to Jackie Wylie, Artistic Director and Chief Executive of National Theatre of Scotland. The National Theatre of Scotland is a theatre without walls set up 15 years ago to make exceptional, audacious, collaborative theatre that represents the complexity of modern Scotland, and to take that theatre to communities and to the world. Jackie has been its Artistic Director since 2016. Before that she founded Take Me Somewhere, a Glasgow wide...
5 Sept 2020
Passing down and diallng up with Sydney Festival Director Wesley Enoch
In this episode, Claire Doherty talks with Wesley Enoch, Artistic Director of the Sydney Festival. A proud Noonuccal Nuugi man, Wesley Enoch has been responsible for some of Australia’s best-known indigenous theatre productions. He was appointed as the Artistic Director of Sydney Festival in 2016 following his direction of the Queensland Theatre Company. His writing and direction is committed to First Nation storytelling. They explore how might use the opportunity of crisis to refashion...
30 Aug 2020
Seeking revenge from the heart of the apocalypse with Tania El Khoury
In this episode writer and producer David Micklem talks to Tania El Khoury. Tania is a live artist based in London and Beirut. Over 15 years she has created a body of interactive installations and performances in which the audience is an active collaborator. Her solo work has been translated into multiple languages and shown in 32 countries. She is the recipient of the International Live Art Prize, the Total Theatre Innovation Award and the Arches Brick Award. She has recently bee...
23 Aug 2020
Talking cash, the hustle and the urgency of reinvention with Nato Thompson
Philadelphia-based curator and author, Nato Thompson was chief curator at Creative Time 2007-2017 and recently has been developing ideas for a civically engaged contemporary museum in Philadelphia. His Instagram Live series - Let's Talk Alternatives - has brought together change-makers, activists and artists globally. Here Nato talks candidly about his roots, what scares him and his aspirations for the way we might make new worlds. Instagram: @natothompson natothompson.com You can discover...
16 Aug 2020
Beautiful things happen when different worlds meet with Farooq Chaudhry
In this episode writer and producer David Micklem talks to Farooq Chaudhry – co-founder of the world-renowned Akram Khan dance company and one of the UK’s leading producers. Through a 20 year collaboration, Farooq has built a company that has provided the optimum conditions for Akram’s development as an artist. He’s built a complex web of relationships and partnerships right across the world, blurring boundaries between cultures, artforms and styles of presentation. He’s also the founder of...
9 Aug 2020
Unlearning and remaking with Nina Simon
In this episode, Claire Doherty talks to Nina Simon, author of The Participatory Museum and the Art of Relevance, and formerly transformational Executive Director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) and now CEO of OF/BY/FOR ALL - a movement for more inclusive community-centred cultural organisations world-wide. They discuss how OF/BY/FOR ALL responded as the pandemic hit and Black Lives Matter intensified alongside the challenges of unlearning and remaking museums and cultural o...
2 Aug 2020
Changing the world with Olivia Lee (age 20)
In this episode writer and producer David Micklem talks to Olivia Lee – Project Manager of Contact’s The Agency, creative activist, DJ, dancer and all round force for good. Olivia talks passionately about the complexities of life as a young mixed-race woman, and the simple steps we might take to conquer systemic and systematic racism in our society. In the podcast she asks us not to be scared of young people, but to empower them to be courageous and watch them flourish. And she talks about th...
26 Jul 2020
Changing the story with Sharmaine Lovegrove
Whose stories are you reading? What's going to change that? Publisher Sharmaine Lovegrove, Head of Dialogue Books and co-founder of Black Writers Guild, talks to Claire Doherty about her work to reform the publishing industry. They talk about the barriers to change, what Covid might spark in new fiction and when, the passion it takes to shake up the industry and their shared love of Michaela Coel's I May Destroy You. Recorded remotely during Covid lockdown in Summer 2020. culturereset.org ...
18 Jul 2020
Everything has to change, with Bryony Kimmings
Performance artist Bryony Kimmings talks with writer and producer David Micklem about what might tempt her back into making theatre again. In this podcast she pleads with those that hold the power in theatres to better respond to the needs and wants of local audiences. She argues for the better payment of all artists, and their future role in getting out into the real world to make theatre by, with, and for the people theatres exist to serve. She calls for radical change - a culture reset per...
17 Jul 2020
Reimagining theatre with Marc Rees and Adele Thomas
Opera and theatre director Adele Thomas and artist and director Marc Rees reimagine the future of Welsh arts and theatre – calling for a radical reinvention of how and where theatre takes place. They talk about the rising voice of freelance artists and theatre-makers, Welsh leadership in site-specific practice and how we might reimagine theatre embedded in the diverse histories and stories of Wales. Recorded remotely during Covid lockdown in Summer 2020. culturereset.org #culturereset...
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