The Arts as a Catalyst for Dialogue

Shona McCarthy is an artist from Northern Ireland and the CEO of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society, the greatest open access arts festival in the world. She sits on the board of several cultural centers and events, following her vocation to lead and develop projects through internationally engaged cultural practice.

In this episode we talk about the challenge of increasing inequality in a fast moving world and the transformational power of arts

I really enjoyed talking to Shona and I hope you will enjoy the conversation too

Key take aways

• Inequity is not lessening, its increasing
• Political leadership is broken. Organizations have to lead by example with models of good practice for sustainability
• Arts encourages curiosity, questioning and analytical thought in a different way from science
• Arts and artists and storytellers and creative people are really important communicators of the challenges of our time
• Arts is one of the few places left where informed and engaged debate can happen (and you can look at things from a different perspectives)

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