CREATIVITY IN THE FACE OF CRUELTY
In a time when thinking is in the hands of AI, creativity in education is optional and paintings are products, the question needs to be asked does art actually work?
Through inaction or silence does Art risk losing its voice? This talk series, doesn’t claim to offer all the answers, it does however open an urgent space for dialogue in the search for them.
This one-day symposium explored through examples from the creative industries, science, education, economics and welfare, why the arts and the act of making are so integral to fostering empathy – arguably lacking in the world today – thinking about art and creativity as a language through which we understand ourselves and others.
On the Day
10:45am Introduction by Johnny Messum, founder of Messums ORG
11:00am Lady Rachel Billington OBE, trustee of The Longford Trust ‘Painting and Other Visual Arts from the Point of View of the Writer, the Prisoner, the Mentally Unwell and the Misfit’
11:15am Victoria Lupton, co-founder of Seenaryo ‘Who Gets to Tell the Story?’
11:30am Nicola Hicks MBE, artist
11:45pm Break
12:00pm Q&A
12:30pm Lunch
13:30pm Lisa Anderson, arts and heritage leader ‘The Art of Curatorial Repair’
13:45pm Sir Christopher Le Brun, artist ‘How Does Art Work?’
14:00pm Suhair Khan, technology entrepreneur and creative leader ‘Conflict, Ethics & AI: Reimagining Power Through Art and Technology’
14:15pm Gabrielle Rifkind, artist, psychotherapist and conflict mediator ‘Art: from Conflict to Communication’
14:30pm Break
14:45pm Q&A
15:30pm End
