The Engage Journal Podcast

The Engage Journal Podcast - Series 2, Episode 4: The New Art Gallery Walsall

The fourth and final in our new series goes to The New Art Gallery Walsall in the West Midlands where we meet the Collections Curator, Julie Macfarlane Brown, and Kiran Billing, HLF Embedding Diversity Project Assistant.

We delve into the history of the collection and how they have created some groundbreaking work with their Collections Community Panel. We also hear from members of the Collections Community Panel directly: Toyin Oshaniwa, Neil McNaught, Crow Dillon-Parkin, Zarida Kayani and Corinne.

This is a companion piece for the Journal 47 article by Julie Macfarlane Brown ‘Made to break: museums, objects, people, and belonging’ accessible to members here.

The Engage Journal Podcast - Series 2, Episode 3: Seonaid Murray in Edenderry

The third in our new series is fully set in Edenderry in the Republic of Ireland and joins the community there to talk about the impact of the Creative Places project. Our host Seonaid Murray is a community musician who joined the lead organisation, Creative Lives, in December 2022, previously Outreach Officer at The Black Box, Belfast. 

The journey meets a wide range of people involved and covers timelines for place-based projects, a creativity bus, the role of imagination in communities and much more. This is a companion piece for the Journal 47 article by Seonaid Murray titled ‘Bringing us out of our living rooms: limitless imagination in Edenderry, Republic of Ireland’ accessible to members here.

The Engage Journal Podcast - Series 2, Episode 2: Léa Guzzo in Plymouth

For the second podcast of our new series,  Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Consultant Léa Guzzo interviews people on the streets of Plymouth to gather opinions on art as a way of thinking through issues of class, social mobility and representation in the sector.

Léa runs an Impactful and Inclusive Leadership programme and draws on her own lived experience as a white LGBTQ+ woman from a multicultural and working-class background.

This is a companion piece for the Journal 47 article by Léa titled ‘The unspoken divide: class and the cultural sector’ accessible to Engage members here.

The Engage Journal Podcast - Series 2, Episode 1: Rising Arts Agency

For the first outing of our new series, we have a special conversation between the co-directors of Rising Arts Agency Jess Bunyan and Euella Jackson. Rising Arts is a not-for-profit creative agency based in Bristol led by young underrepresented creative thinkers aged 18-30. Their mission is to use their distinctive ways of working and facilitating, years of production experience and their intersectional community to do things differently, this conversation highlights how this approach leads to meaningful change and what it means for those they partner and collaborate with. 

The Engage Journal Podcast, Series 1, Episode 4

Welcome to the fourth and final podcast in our series that follows Generation Z and the Future of Creative Work. Hosted by Prof Sarah Perks, our new podcast extends the topics of our online Engage Journal and for this final one we chat with Dr Emily Pringle about her career, now freelance and previously Head of Learning Practice and Research for 12 years at Tate. We also look at apprenticeships and the experiences of Beth Smith at Tees Valley Arts.

The Engage Journal Podcast - Series 1, Episode 3: Empathy

Taking the third theme from our online Journal, this episode considers Empathy and what it means in the context of our podcast series on Generation Z and the Future of Creative Work.

We start by delving straight into artist Clare Patay’s fantastic project Empathy Museum and the deep participatory work designed to help people see the world through other people’s eyes.

We then head to Edinburgh to catch up with Journal contributors Tracy Morgan and Bea Makan at the Fruitmarket Gallery as they continue their conversation, reflecting on empathy in theirs and others practice.

The Engage Journal Podcast - Series 1, Episode 2: Action

Episode 2 continues our exploration of ‘Generation Z and the Future of Creative Work’ through the theme of action, visiting two projects in the North of England. First, we meet producers Kenzie and Tess from Blaze Arts with their Stand Out project in East Lancashire, and then we focus in on all things internships with Dr Nkumbu Mutambo and Dr Paul Stewart from Creative Fuse.

The Engage Journal Podcast - Series 1, Episode 1: Analysis

The Engage Journal Podcast is a deep dive into Engage's International Journal.

Presented by our editor Professor Sarah Perks, Series 1 links to edn. 46 of the Journal: Gen Z & the Future of Creative Work.

Guest Contributors:

Dr Mansoor Soomro & Dr Xiaoxian Zhu from Centre for Future Work, Teesside University, Eliza Easton, Deputy Director at Creative Industries Policy and Evidence Centre (Nesta), and Adam Stoneman, a SPICE Project Researcher at IMMA.