Culture Reset Stroud

“ Hope lives eternally in our hearts, we cannot do anything about it, thankfully. As long as there is something inside of us which is the core of our humanity, we are going to maintain hope against all evidence. Because all the evidence is really bleak. But we have no right to be empirical about it. Unlike the weather, which is independent of what we think about it, history is made by people who don’t a damn about predictions”

Yanis Varoufakis, Greek economist, academic, philosopher and politician

What is Culture Reset?

Culture Reset is a UK wide practical rapid response programme to inspire more relevant and impactful cultural organisations and practices.  Born out of the devastating impact of Covid-19 and inspired by the urgent need to accelerate change and respond to the experiences of a broader diversity of people, it provided expert support and dynamic stimulus for 192 arts and cultural producers, makers and directors across the UK over the summer of 2020

#CultureResetStroud Mondays - Pod Sessions

Small groups are invited to meet at Atelier, SVA and online to listen to inspirational provocations by international ‘Culture Reset’ arts activists, leaders and thinkers.

We are inviting two groups of six people to meet at SVA and Atelier Stroud. There will be two pods for each session - one at SVA and one at Atelier Stroud. Each pod will take part in a #CultureResetStroud listening session and link up with the other pod to continue the discussion from a more local perspective.

You can also choose to join on Zoom from home. Each session will last approx. 1.5 hours. 

Katharina Child (Atelier Stroud) and Jo Leahy (SVA) met on a sunny Sunday morning to discuss what Culture Reset is all about and how it connects to the work they are doing, the community of Stroud and international connections such as the upcoming Creative Bureaucracy Festival in Berlin.

This conversation is an introduction to a series of #CultureResetStroud discussion groups which will take place at Atelier Stroud, SVA and online.



SVA
and #CultureResetStroud

Jo Leahy ( SVA), one of the participants of Culture Reset, engaged in critical discussions with artists, producers, theatre makers, operational managers, curators, artistic directors to build a body of research and network connections to help to find a way forward in finding some answers.

"Culture Reset and other initiatives like Culture Plan B (set up by David Jubb) have suddenly burst forward as result of the pandemic and the devastating consequences on the arts. The pandemic and Black Lives Matter have exposed the great inequalities in our society and as a result there is an urgent call to arms for a complete reset of the structural and economic systems that the current arts world so obviously relies on."

Atelier Stroud
and #CultureResetStroud

Following on from last years Berliner Zeitgeist and Creative Spaces and Communities spaces, Katharina Child and Uta Baldauf are keen to continue to work with SVA to share and extend these discussions in connection to Culture Reset and the community of Stroud.