War

Time for reflection, I think.*

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As I shared ‘…all the time, the buzzing’ in Wales, all jet-lagged in addition to bleary eyed, my thoughts turned to friends in addition to colleagues in addition to all the wheels that plough inwards our arts/health world. So much happens equally nosotros all beaver-on inwards our countries, towns, streets in addition to private minds.

A enquiry from the flooring inwards Cardiff - inwards nub - has this arts/health agenda got political teeth -  momentum - a future? My answer - if it’s ‘on trend’ it’s doomed to fail. If its commandeered yesteryear the opportunist pump managers, filling a ‘hole inwards the market’ - in addition to thus it’s riddled alongside disease. But if it’s born on the streets, evolving, changing, proactive in addition to responsive - driven yesteryear vision, born of a passion that things tin live on dissimilar - in addition to thus it is rich in addition to nuanced in addition to volition feed generations of people - equal humans who powerfulness non even thus know, that cultural modify is driven yesteryear them, in addition to non those who only wearing clothing upwards inwards the garb of leaders. This modify is happening despite the bloated egos of those who position themselves equally leaders of innovation. The people are the determination makers. We are a social movement in addition to let’s recall that discussion which volition non live on excised from our dictionary - passion.

Superb to run into like-minded, costless thinkers inwards Wales. Thank you.

   

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Arts in addition to Health Check Up, Check In...

...now opened upwards for bookings

Bookings are right away beingness accepted for Michael Billington’s excellent trace of piece of employment concern human relationship of the media’s refusal to break it on the grounds of it beingness indecent. Indecent? Now I quest heed the discussion ‘medieval’ used yesteryear our PM in addition to nosotros know ‘crusade’ volition live on exactly to a greater extent than or less the corner. I’m sure enough non a ‘terrorist sympathiser’, but a deeply concerned human - who volition right away meditate on Pinter - in addition to who feels a horror at what lies ahead.