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• The Cultural Age - Integration and Cohesion Earlier this week, we held the second of our two seminars on The Cultural Age.It focused on integration and cohesion.  One of the most interesting things to emerge was that much is going on in the cultural sector, policy-making and academic research but, often, each is unaware of what is going on in the other.  At the very least, some of those ends could be tied up in conversations between participants of Monday's session.  Another area of debate was long-term change. ... from : samjones 27th June 2008
• Cultural and Artistic Practice and Democratic Participation Last week, I spoke at the launch of Peckham Space, a project run by Camberwell College of Arts that looks at the role or participation in contemporary art.The speech covered a range of topics, in particular that of creative and artistitc production as a democratic space and its potential in relation to politics.  You can read a text of the speech, here ... and a podcast of the event will follow soon. from : samjones 27th June 2008
• Social Capital and the Material World Last week, I spoke at a summit on Conservation Education convened by the Textile Conservation Centre.  I presented the interim thinking from our project, Saved for the Nation.I've put the speech and the presentation I gave on the website.  They outline one of the ideas we are developing in the project, which is about the symbolism of caring for the material world, and what it means in relation to wider agenda, from identity and communities, to building cultural literacy. from : samjones 20th June 2008
• Contemporary Art and Social Change A couple of months ago, I wrote a review of Provoking Democracy, a book about the role of artisitc production in a democracy.We'll be revisiting this, and other topics, when we speak at the launch of Peckham Space in a couple of weeks.  It's a project run by Camberwell College of Arts and promotes participation in contemporary art as a means of social expression.It's at 7.30 pm at Camberwell School of Art ... you can find out more details here and here from : samjones 9th June 2008
• Thinking outside the box If women are excelling in the arts, why - as culture minister Margaret Hodge claims - are so few taking the top jobs? from : samjones 9th June 2008
• The Cultural Age Last week, we hosted the first of our Cultural Age Seminars.  It addressed education for the cultural age.  We've put a transcript of the opening speech on the website - it's available for download here.The next seminar will be held on 23rd June and will address Integration and Cohesion in the Cultural Age.  Speakers include Rushanara Ali Associate Director of the Young Foundation, Kim Knott - Head of the AHRC Diaspras, Migration and Identites Programme and Moira Sinclair -... from : samjones 9th June 2008
• Culture and learning urgent news We experienced severe problems with our emails around the deadline for responses to the cultural learning paper on April 30th. If you sent a response then, you will probably have received a message saying that your email could not be delivered.
  
  Responses that did not get through can still be sent  to
  
  cultural_learning@demos.co.uk; or to
  rachel@cloreduffield.org.uk
  
  With many apologies for this inconvenience. from : johnholden 28th April 2008
• Women and culture New report into women in the workforce in the cultural sector... from : johnholden 21st April 2008
• Book Review: 'Provoking Democracy: Why we Need the Arts' I've just written a review of Caroline Levine's book, Provoking Democracy: Why we Need the Arts. Overall, it encourages constructive discussion of the relationship between the arts and democracy that goes beyond territorialism and, even if it does leave questions unanswered, that is part of its value, flagging up areas to which policy-makers and cultural professionals must pay greater attention. from : samjones 28th March 2008
• Caring for the Material World Simon Jenkins wrote an article in Good Friday's Guardian in which he made the case that 'the dazzling walls of medieval England deserve a bold restorer'.  It's good to see conservation getting coverage. As discussion of identity intensifies, culture and heritage are increasingly being looked to as sources for that identity, and points around which we can commune.  However, what is often forgotten in this debate is that much of that culture and heritage exists only because it is cared... from : samjones 25th March 2008

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