Professor Paul Harris, Professor Anne Douglas and Chris Fremantle from Gray’s School of Art write:

You have in front of you a typewritten text. It could be poetry. It is an invitation to action, but not exactly an instruction. It reads:

planting a square of turf

amid grass like it

planting another

amid grass a little less green

planting four more squares

in places progressively drier

planting a square of dry turf…

Susanne Burns writes...

It is clear that within the current economic and political climate there is a need for substantial transformation in our business models, our ways of working and our overall view of the way the field is structured. It seems apparent that this will require a series of significant paradigm shifts.  In particular, we need to see a shift away from the model of organisations as individual units competing for…

Annie Sheen writes...

Appraisals, performance reviews, career development assessments – whatever we happen to call them – remain, for many of us, a standard part of employment and an important part of our CPD.

Recently, I have been considering whether it should be up to employers to take the leading role in the CPD of freelance practitioners and a session at the recent ABO (Association of British Orchestras) conference last week focused on the…

Peter Moser, Artistic Director at More Music writes...

I am white, of German/Swiss/English heritage and have a very confused sense of my traditional roots. I spend my life working with music from many cultures and many genres and create new music that draws from all of my life experiences.

For 30 years I have worked in participatory music making as an individual and as the Artistic Director of More Music. We regularly look for musicians from diverse cultures…