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"Researcher and author Dave O’Brien joins Bookhaus and Rising Arts Agency to discuss newly revised work ‘Culture Is Bad For You’: a sobering analysis of the deep-rooted inequalities shaping the creative industries, and how race, gender and class dictate access to culture’s creation and consumption. Essential."
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A event held at Bookhaus on Monday 24th March. The event starts at 18:00.
Culture will keep you fit and healthy. Culture will bring communities together. Culture will improve your education. This is the message from governments and arts organisations across the country; however, this book explains why we need to be cautious about culture.
Offering a powerful call to transform the cultural and creative industries, Culture is bad for you examines the intersections between race, class, and gender in the mechanisms of exclusion in cultural occupations. Exclusion from culture begins at an early age, the authors argue, and despite claims by cultural institutions and businesses to hire talented and hardworking individuals, women, people of colour, and those from working-class backgrounds are systematically disbarred.
While the inequalities that characterise both workforce and audience remain unaddressed, the positive contribution culture makes to society can never be fully realised.
This event is in partnership with Rising Arts Agency.
Dave O'Brien will be at bookhaus to discuss the themes raised in the book with Euella Jackson (Rising Arts Agency). Tickets cost £6 and include a glass of wine or a soft drink.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
Offering a powerful call to transform the cultural and creative industries, Culture is bad for you examines the intersections between race, class, and gender in the mechanisms of exclusion in cultural occupations. Exclusion from culture begins at an early age, the authors argue, and despite claims by cultural institutions and businesses to hire talented and hardworking individuals, women, people of colour, and those from working-class backgrounds are systematically disbarred.
While the inequalities that characterise both workforce and audience remain unaddressed, the positive contribution culture makes to society can never be fully realised.
This event is in partnership with Rising Arts Agency.
Dave O'Brien will be at bookhaus to discuss the themes raised in the book with Euella Jackson (Rising Arts Agency). Tickets cost £6 and include a glass of wine or a soft drink.
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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