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I wanted to attend decibel because I'd heard so much about it.
I was really excited about the variety and the mix of art.
I'm really interested to hear what the temperature
of diversity in Britain is today.
I think the amount of people here to me reflects
how important it is.
I really kind of believe there is a value in making a creative
case for diverse art at this time you know, when there's
financial constraints on things and everyone's looking a bit
bleak. It's not the time to turn away from engaging
in these kinds of arguments.
I think diversity has always been there and being a black
disabled man, you know, all you need is to talk about it.
But I think, you know, I know people are doing it on the ground.
Leadership is one of the big things that came up as part of the
creative case and how that leadership gets implemented, change
occurs and different faces and different voices
get into positions of power.
There's been some quite provocative, a couple of provocative
speakers, which is always good because it's nice to not just
hear sort of, you know, everybody agreeing with everybody else.
It's nice for people to sort of question things a bit as well.
It's given me an opportunity to consolidate my thinking about
the new world in which cultural diversity sits, and to hear all
of the panel members speak has given such a
diverse range of opinion.
The main thing that I got though is that it's an approach, not
a strategy or a policy. There was a lot of really interesting
comments from the floor about the consultation around
bringing the creative case together.
I'm looking forward to see what kind of policy proposals are
going to come out of it and how the sector is going to approach
government and the way that we're going to approach
mainstream culture.
A lot of questions and I think we need more than this one
conference to answer those.
Really excited to see what the future holds really and if
they're actually true to their word.