... prepare; collaborate; enjoy by any means necessary;
Read MoreAmerica can be a puzzling place to grow up in – beautiful but ugly, simple but extremely diverse, a land of opportunity but also a land of barriers to that opportunity for so many of its citizens and its visitors.
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'Where exactly does one become a second class citizen?'
Read MoreWhen I first heard this song, it seemed featureless and grey - nothing special, no energy. But it was memorable, somehow struck a chord.
So I came back to relisten today, and now it has grown on me, and seems incredibly beautiful in its bleakness.
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I am always suspicious about generalisations, and the people who make them.
So Gareth Malone’s comment below made me immediately sceptical:
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I am so inspired by this TED clip. Robinson’s idea is that education and the arts in society perform a vital function in facilitating creativity, and that we should use divergent thinking to restructure education, so that people have better tools to reconstruct their world as it changes ever faster.
Read More... 'We love innovation, we love technology, we love creativity, we love entertainment. But ultimately those realities are shadowed by suffering, abuse, degradation, marginalisation. And for me it becomes necessary to integrate the two ...'
Read MoreSinging heals people. It creates community. It gives singers an opportunity to express themselves and let stuff out. It helps them find their voices as human beings.
Read More... the essential first step in changing the world is telling the story of connection instead of contrast and potential instead of poverty.
Read MoreNo job is ever what you expect, and the leadership challenge of rebuilding an arts organisation has been a revelation
Read MoreLittle did I know that we had created a sell-out monster.
Read More"In a song, often you're dealing with slightly troubling things below the spoken desires of the audience,"...
Read More... it is great to know that the future of the US gay choral movement looks so rosy.
Read MoreI was willing him to move on, convinced he could somehow grow further into a different singer in his 50s, and produce a great autumn flowering.
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