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Julia Turpin
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Associate Citizens in Power; Interim Head of Programmes & Projects Tate (Modern/Britain); Factory International Engagement Director; LeftCoast Executive Director; Non Executive Director @9a Gallery & Heptonstall Community Assets
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“We exist now in a fleeting bloom of life and knowing, one finger snap of frantic being and this is it. This summery burst of life is more bomb than bud. These fecund times are moving fast”
Samantha Harvey, Orbital
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I'm back. Here's how we fix the UK's dire economic and political situation www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMor...
I'm back – and I think we can win
YouTube video by Garys Economics
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July 13, 2025 at 8:11 AM
“The problem is, all the optics are wrong.You need to show young people that there are people in town doing creative, inspiring things.That’s how aspiration grows” Aish Bell Doughty
Blackpool is one of the most extraordinary places I've had the joy to visit, live and work in.
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‘If you hear your town is scum all the time that sinks in’: the young people in Blackpool refusing to be written off
The seaside resort has become a byword for coastal deprivation but its youth say there’s a world of creativity bubbling under the surface
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July 8, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Expressions of interest are now open for our Creative Foundations Fund!

This open-access capital fund supports creative and cultural organisations in revitalising, restoring, retrofitting, or renewing cultural assets.

Find out more and apply 👇
www.artscouncil.org.uk/our-open-fun...
Creative Foundations Fund: Guidance for applicants
The Creative Foundations Fund is an open-access capital fund that supports creative and cultural organisations in England in revitalising, restoring, retrofitting, or renewing cultural assets.
www.artscouncil.org.uk
June 30, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Brand new pilot programme, the Northern European Mobility Opportunity (NEMO), opens for applications 18 August for individual artists and arts professionals 🎨

NEMO aims to improve collaboration and networking across the region 🌍

Find out more 👇
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June 19, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Congratulations to Shanaz Gulzar and the whole team at @bradford2025.co.uk. Loved the music biennial this weekend and We Will Sing by Ann Hamilton at Salts Mill. Free to access world class art on my doorstep 🙏
Free - This weekend - New Music Biennial!
New Music Biennial is a three-day festival celebrating the best new music across all genres from the country’s most exciting composers – and in 2025, for the first time, it’s coming to venues around Bradford.
Tickets: bradford2025.co.uk/programme/ne...
New Music Biennial 2025 | Bradford 2025
Fresh sounds from the UK’s most exciting composers.
bradford2025.co.uk
June 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
1985 - 40 years ago.
The Miners’ Hymn by Johann Johannsson m.youtube.com/watch?embeds...
Jóhann Jóhannsson - The Miners' Hymns trailer
YouTube video by Fatcat Records
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March 12, 2025 at 7:50 PM
“We exist now in a fleeting bloom of life and knowing, one finger snap of frantic being and this is it. This summery burst of life is more bomb than bud. These fecund times are moving fast”
Samantha Harvey, Orbital
March 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM