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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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