Name: BREAD AND ROSES: STOPPING THE GENTRIFICATION OF BRITISH CREATIVE LIFE
Start: 2025-09-30T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-30T12:30:00+01:00
Location: The Quaker Meeting House

BREAD AND ROSES: STOPPING THE GENTRIFICATION OF BRITISH CREATIVE LIFE

We bring together academics, artists, union leaders and music form leaders to discuss the collapse of working class people in the arts
About this Event

Thank you for joining us for our Labour conference fringe event:

“Bread and Roses: Stopping the Gentrification of British Creative Life”

September 30th

At Quaker Meeting House, Liverpool
10am arrival
Panel 10.30am and 12.30pm
Since the 1960s, professional participation in the arts and cultural life of Britain has followed a trajectory of increasing exclusivity.Over a variety of media and art forms, creative professions are much less representative, in terms of class background than most of Britain.

WHAT DO WE WANT TO DISCUSS:

How unrepresentative of Britain’s class system are our country’s creative industries?
What are the barriers that are placed in front of working class people in arts careers?
At what stages in life are they felt and how?
What professional and working trends exclude working class people?
How are art forms associated with working class life treated by cultural funders alternatively to others
How has rentierism affected cultural institutions and how can it be combated
Our contributors:
Baz Ramaiah

Cultural Learning Alliance/ Million Plus