BREAD AND ROSES: STOPPING THE GENTRIFICATION OF BRITISH CREATIVE LIFE

Thank you for joining us for our Labour conference fringe event:

“Bread and Roses: Stopping the Gentrification of British Creative Life”

September 30th

At Quaker Meeting House, Liverpool
10am arrival
Panel 10.30am and 12.30pm
Since the 1960s, professional participation in the arts and cultural life of Britain has followed a trajectory of increasing exclusivity.Over a variety of media and art forms, creative professions are much less representative, in terms of class background than most of Britain.

WHAT DO WE WANT TO DISCUSS:

• How unrepresentative of Britain’s class system are our country’s creative industries?
• What are the barriers that are placed in front of working class people in arts careers?
• At what stages in life are they felt and how?
• What professional and working trends exclude working class people?
• How are art forms associated with working class life treated by cultural funders alternatively to others
• How has rentierism affected cultural institutions and how can it be combated
  Our contributors:
  
• Baz Ramaiah

Cultural Learning Alliance/ Million Plus

• Dr Mark Taylor

Author ‘A Class Act’ For Sutton Trust

• Clive Davis

Theatre Critic, The Times

• Joanne Coates

Photographer and farmer worker

• Dr Ewan Mackenzie

Newcastle University

• Loraine Monk

Artist Union England

• Kenny Crookston

Brass Band England

• Jonathan Gordon-Farleigh

Centre For Democratic Business

Host or Publisher Restoration