In this episode writer and producer David Micklem talks to Jackie Wylie, Artistic Director and Chief Executive of National Theatre of Scotland.

The National Theatre of Scotland is a theatre without walls set up 15 years ago to make exceptional, audacious, collaborative theatre that represents the complexity of modern Scotland, and to take that theatre to communities and to the world.

Jackie has been its Artistic Director since 2016. Before that she founded Take Me Somewhere, a Glasgow wide international performance festival based at the Tramway. Her early career, after a stint in television, was marked by 10 years at Glasgow's legendary The Arches where she worked under Andy Arnold and then became Artistic Director in 2008 at the age of 28, becoming the youngest serving director of a major Scottish venue

Recorded remotely during Covid lockdown in Summer 2020.

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 Edited by Marcin Pawlik with additional recording support from Mike Palmer
 Produced by Claire Doherty and David Micklem
 
Postcards to the Future is a People Make It Work project for Culture Reset, funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation. To download a transcription of this podcast, go to culturereset.org.

In this episode, Claire Doherty talks with Wesley Enoch, Artistic Director of the Sydney Festival. A proud Noonuccal Nuugi man, Wesley Enoch has been responsible for some of Australia’s best-known indigenous theatre productions. He was appointed as the Artistic Director of Sydney Festival in 2016 following his direction of the Queensland Theatre Company. His writing and direction is committed to First Nation storytelling. 

They explore how might use the opportunity of crisis to refashion and remake where and how art is made and for whom.

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Edited by Marcin Pawlik

Produced by Claire Doherty and David Micklem

Postcards to the Future is a People Make It Work project for Culture Reset. Funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation. 

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In this episode writer and producer David Micklem talks to Tania El Khoury. Tania is a live artist based in London and Beirut. Over 15 years she has created a body of  interactive installations and performances in which the audience is an active collaborator. Her solo work has been translated into multiple languages and shown in 32 countries. 

She is the recipient of the International Live Art Prize, the Total Theatre Innovation Award and the Arches Brick Award. She has recently been announced as Distinguished Artist in Residence of Theater and Performance at Bard College in upstate New York.

In this episode Tania talks about how she seeks revenge through her art – for the corruption and crises in Lebanese politics, and for the huge blast on 4th August that destroyed much of the capital, Beirut. She describes her experience of this tragedy and how the trauma of being born and growing up in a civil war has made her who she is. She gives an outsider’s view of the landscape in the UK and reflects on the responsibilities she feels around representation – as a woman of colour, from Lebanon.
 
 Recorded remotely during Covid lockdown in Summer 2020.
 
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To read more about Tania’s work visit https://taniaelkhoury.com/ and https://www.artsadmin.co.uk/profiles/tania-el-khoury/

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 Edited by Marcin Pawlik with additional recording support from Mike Palmer
 Produced by Claire Doherty and David Micklem
 
Postcards to the Future is a People Make It Work project for Culture Reset, funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation. To download a transcription of this podcast, go to culturereset.org.

Philadelphia-based curator and author, Nato Thompson was chief curator at Creative Time 2007-2017 and recently has been developing ideas for a civically engaged contemporary museum in Philadelphia. His Instagram Live series - Let's Talk Alternatives - has brought together change-makers, activists and artists globally. Here Nato talks candidly about his roots, what scares him and his aspirations for the way we might make new worlds.

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Nato mentions the following projects:
The Interventionists at Mass MoCA
Rick Lowe's Project Row Houses in Houston
Theaster Gates' Rebuild Foundation in Chicago
Christine Tohme's Ashkal Alwan in Beirut

In this episode writer and producer David Micklem talks to Farooq Chaudhry – co-founder of the world-renowned Akram Khan dance company and one of the UK’s leading producers. Through a 20 year collaboration, Farooq has built a company that has provided the optimum conditions for Akram’s development as an artist. He’s built a complex web of relationships and partnerships right across the world, blurring boundaries between cultures, artforms and styles of presentation.

He’s also the founder of Skye Blue Productions which nurtures younger artists of colour, and he’s the CEO and Creative Director for China House Arts in London.

Last year he was awarded an OBE for his services to Dance and Dance Production and was appointed a Tate Artist Trustee.

In his 60th year, we find him contemplating possible futures for arts and culture in the UK. In this podcast he talks about trusting your instincts, the need for radical change, and acknowledging and letting go of power. He talks passionately about equality, diversity and inclusion and says that beautiful things happen when different worlds meet.

Recorded remotely during Covid lockdown in Summer 2020.
 
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Edited by Marcin Pawlik with additional recording support from Mike Palmer
Produced by Claire Doherty and David Micklem

Postcards to the Future is a People Make It Work project for Culture Reset, funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation. To download a transcription of this podcast, go to culturereset.org.

In this episode, Claire Doherty talks to Nina Simon, author of The Participatory Museum and the Art of Relevance, and formerly transformational Executive Director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) and now CEO of OF/BY/FOR ALL - a movement for more inclusive community-centred cultural organisations world-wide. They discuss how OF/BY/FOR ALL responded as the pandemic hit and Black Lives Matter intensified alongside the challenges of unlearning and remaking museums and cultural organisations.

Recorded remotely during Covid lockdown in summer 2020.

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Read Nina's most recent piece on Leadership - Calling All Phoenixes

Edited by Marcin Pawlik

Produced by Claire Doherty and David Micklem

Postcards to the Future is a People Make It Work project for Culture Reset. Funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation. To download a transcription of this podcast, go to culturereset.org.

In this episode writer and producer David Micklem talks to Olivia Lee – Project Manager of Contact’s The Agency, creative activist, DJ, dancer and all round force for good. Olivia talks passionately about the complexities of life as a young mixed-race woman, and the simple steps we might take to conquer systemic and systematic racism in our society. In the podcast she asks us not to be scared of young people, but to empower them to be courageous and watch them flourish. And she talks about the simple power of compassion and empathy.   

Recorded remotely during Covid lockdown in Summer 2020.
 
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Edited by Marcin Pawlik with additional recording support from Mike Palmer
Produced by Claire Doherty and David Micklem

Postcards to the Future is a People Make It Work project for Culture Reset, funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation. To download a transcription of this podcast, go to culturereset.org.

Whose stories are you reading? What's going to change that?

Publisher Sharmaine Lovegrove, Head of Dialogue Books and co-founder of Black Writers Guild, talks to Claire Doherty about her work to reform the publishing industry. They talk about the barriers to change, what Covid might spark in new fiction and when, the passion it takes to shake up the industry and their shared love of Michaela Coel's I May Destroy You.

Recorded remotely during Covid lockdown in Summer 2020.

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You can find out more about Dialogue Books here.

Britt Bennett's The Vanishing Half is out now. 

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Edited by Marcin Pawlik

Produced by Claire Doherty and David Micklem

Postcards to the Future is a People Make It Work project for Culture Reset. Funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation. To download a transcription of this podcast, go to culturereset.org.

Performance artist Bryony Kimmings talks with writer and producer David Micklem about what might tempt her back into making theatre again. In this podcast she pleads with those that hold the power in theatres to better respond to the needs and wants of local audiences. She argues for the better payment of all artists, and their future role in getting out into the real world to make theatre by, with, and for the people theatres exist to serve. She calls for radical change - a culture reset perhaps - and makes the case for the importance of arts and culture in the UK. 

Recorded remotely during Covid lockdown in Summer 2020.

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To read more about Bryony's work visit https://www.bryonykimmings.com/

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Edited by Marcin Pawlik with additional recording support from Mike Palmer
Produced by Claire Doherty and David Micklem

Postcards to the Future is a People Make It Work project for Culture Reset, funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation. To download a transcription of this podcast, go to culturereset.org.

Opera and theatre director Adele Thomas and artist and director Marc Rees reimagine the future of Welsh arts and theatre – calling for a radical reinvention of how and where theatre takes place. They talk about the rising voice of freelance artists and theatre-makers, Welsh leadership in site-specific practice and how we might reimagine theatre embedded in the diverse histories and stories of Wales. 

Recorded remotely during Covid lockdown in Summer 2020.

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You can find out more about Freelancers Make Theatre Work here.

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Edited by Marcin Pawlik
Produced by Claire Doherty and David Micklem

Postcards to the Future is a People Make It Work project for Culture Reset. Funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation. To download a transcription of this podcast, go to culturereset.org.