Creative Coalition Festival 1-3 February 2022

 This event starts today and features Jed Mercurio, Sir Keir Starmer and more:

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Creative Coalition Festival 2022







This week: Tue 1 - Thu 3 February 2022









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Today is the day we launch Creative Coalition Festival 2022



We are delighted to open the doors of our virtual festival. With over 50 sessions and 200 speakers from all creative subsectors, we invite you to be a part of these industry critical conversations.



Hosted by broadcaster Swarzy, today’s programme looks at how we might reimagine the creative sector. Find out more about today’s sessions below, or see the full programme here.








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Highlights for today include...
















10:00 – 10:25
Welcome to Creative Coalition 2022

Rt Hon Nadine Dorries MP opens the festival with a welcome address and discusses the power and potential of our world-leading sector.












11:40 – 12:35
Cultural Change Starts with Us

Join leading creative institutions as we explore how to create cross-industry impact and change. Brought to you by BFI, speakers include Caroline Norbury - CEO, Creative UK, Briana Pegado - Co-Director, We Are Here Scotland CIC, Ben Roberts - CEO, BFI, Julia Hobsbawm - Chair of The Demos Workshift Commission.
















12:40 – 13:25
Pigeonholed: Jed Mercurio

Our CEO, Caroline Norbury, speaks to Jed Mercurio, leading television writer and showrunner and creator of Line of Duty. Brought to you by YouTube.












13:40- 14:35
Art as Activism: Punks, Poets, Rebels

Join the conversation with activists pioneering change across the creative industries. Featuring GAIKA - Musician, Artist, Lemn Sissay - Poet and Writer, Fats Timbo - Creator and Comedian and Sirin Kale - Journalist.
















14:50 – 15:45
A Case for Creativity

Creativity is the answer to reimagining the future. It is vital to all of our lives, from our wellbeing to our economy. How can we make the case for creativity as a tool for tomorrow’s discoveries, innovations, and experiments? With Henry Holland - Designer, Gus Casely-Hayford - Director of V&A East, Franki Goodwin - Executive Creative Director, Saatchi & Saatchi London, Fran Sanderson - Director, Arts & Culture Investments and Programmes, NESTA. Brought to you by Audience of the Future, UKRI.






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