Including everybody

Well perhaps one redeeming feature of Shakespeare is that he did famously point out that there are more things in heaven than philosophy, which is a piece of wisdom we could all learn from.

One other thing that’s going on is we’re sponsoring art as huge sharing events where everybody can join in—living art, not the macho, modernist, control freak tradition of object making. And we’re also trying to create a sense of identity, encouraging ethnic music, so that recent guests feel welcomed. And folk music and Morris dancing, of course, so white Anglo-Saxon peoples don’t feel excluded—exclusion breeds resentment. Community art wrests cultural capital away from the elite and shares it among the community, involving everyone, and that means less tension of the kind we’ve been seeing recently. Though the fascists are now trying to get a foothold even in the Morris dance classes, just as they appropriated our old flag. But our programme for cultural inclusion and diversity aims to undermine their schemes.