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Creativity, learning and tigers in the Forest of Imagination

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09 Sep 2014

Kate Monkhouse

The Forest of Imagination took place in Bath this summer and attracted over 2,000 visitors. It was a 4 day contemporary arts, creativity and learning event organised and led by RSA Fellows and hosted by Bath Spa University. Over the past year I’ve blogged a number of times about the ArtSpace Bath and the Forest of Imagination (from now on Forest) project and I had been involved in many meetings, discussions and communications about it. That said, when the Forest launched I still wasn’t quite sure what to expect. What I discovered was a creative world full of surprises and learning.

Time to agree to differ?

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20 Aug 2014

Matthew Taylor

I can’t hide my nervousness: broadcast for the first time tonight is a radio programme I have been trying to develop for several years (indeed I posted about it nearly four years ago!). Of course, I hope it sounds good and is reasonably entertaining but just as important that it helps to get across the idea that originally inspired me.

10,000 hours or 10,000 friends? eight perspectives on talent in music

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18 Aug 2014

Jonathan Schifferes

It's about time we reconsidered what we mean by talent: how it is defined, who gets identified as talented, and how they are developed, recognised and rewarded. Is talent the product of 10,000 hours of devoted practice, or the reward of cultivating 10,000 followers?

How networks help us create

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14 Aug 2014

Jonathan Schifferes

This is a guest blog by Channelling Talent co-author Siobhan McAndrew.

Power to create taken literally at the RSA Academies Arts Day

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09 Jul 2014

Georgina Chatfield

Booom, booom, booom, bom, bom, bom

From East to West: admitting the hypocrisy of history

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15 May 2014

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice – Mark Twain

The acceptable face of creativity: how Media Diversified creatively challenges the "ubiquity of whiteness" in the media

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15 Apr 2014

A couple of months ago, I was watching music videos with friends when a band made up of Cambridge graduates came on the TV. As images of the musicians flashed in front of our eyes, someone made a “joke” about one of the non-white band members: ‘he can’t have gone to Cambridge, he’s black’. While it’s easy for some to dismiss this as a harmless aside, this one comment tells us a lot about British society. Even if a minority ethnic person succeeds at their creative endeavour (whether academic or musical), the focus is not on their talent, but the colour of their skin.<!--more-->

I like it. What is it?

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10 Feb 2014

Gaia Marcus

Image by Anthony Burril. www.anthonyburrill.com

How do you tell a powerful story?

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05 Feb 2014

Alexandra Barker

One evening over the Christmas break, I found myself at the home of a friend and her partner, both of whom happen to be psychoanalysts. Over dinner, whilst attempting to steer the conversation away from work, we began discussing the role of storytelling in our lives; the social narratives we believe in, the stories we pass on to others and the ones that resonate at a personal level.