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Liberating Arts

Festival

Artists and cultural workers need their

unions like never before and the unions

need arts and cultural workers like never

before. The GFTU has a long record of

promoting progressive arts and cultural

works in the Movement and is taking this

a big step forward in 2017 with a major

festival celebrating all of the art forms and

groups that can support the trade unions

more in their organising, campaigning and

educational work.

The festival will be full of great performances

and interesting discussions and speakers

and is a must for anyone who wants to see

how our greatest cultural workers can fire

the imagination of our unions. It will be held

on November 3/4/5 2017 in the Yarnfield

Conference Centre, Stone, in Staffordshire.

ARTS AND

CULTURE

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Creativity, Arts and

Trade Unionism

How best can the arts be deployed in the

Trade Union movement? Does art ‘with a

message’ compromise the art?? How to use

good imagery and writing in trade union

activity, campaigning and recruitment. How

important is it to find the right medium?

What works? We will look at varying art

forms used throughout the history of

polemic art, from Picasso’s Guernica, WW1

poetry to contemporary art forms.

3 day

1 day

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