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RSA Journal - The arts issue

4 Dec 2023

bringing to life a ‘Northern Cultural Corridor’ to For evidence that the arts and culture really supercharge the growth of the creative industries do change lives for the better, you need look in the North (as the article by Professor Jonathan no further than Syima and the success of Sapsed sets out). [...] purpose is to confront the lack of representation Artists help us to explore and understand the for the LGBTQ+ community in data, and ‘truth of AI’, the uncanny nature of synthetic to conjure positive images of non-binary media, and help us to envision, and maybe performing bodies, to represent an expansion of even realise, alternative possibilities. [...] There is a clear opportunity which, in turn, increases demand for content for the North of England to develop a cross- and services from creative businesses in the regional strategy to support the growth of the rest of the economy. [...] imaginative and effective new policies that will reverse the current drop in the rate of charitable Southern discomfort and philanthropic giving in this country? That And this is the crux of the matter: there has been will incentivise individuals and companies no sign, for decades, of any coherent strategy to support and sponsor the arts? That will to support the arts in this country, no rhetoric. [...] Natural capital captures the stock of natural So, what will it take to rewire the way the UK assets on the planet, from lakes and oceans to works to better account for social, cultural and forests and soils, to animals and the biosphere.
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