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Are the UK’s world-class creative industries at risk? - MediaCat
I’m writing this in the magnificent Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester. Earlier this month I saw legendary drum & bass DJ Goldie play an intimate set in the basement room at the local venue Joshua Brooks. Next week, I’ll visit the Royal Northern College of Music to watch a screening of 1920 horror flick The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari with a live improvised organ score, and I’ll visit The Lowry to watch an experimental play titled, Mushroom Language: A Fungal Gothic. Ain’t culture brilliant?
Is struggle the key to creative work?
OK, time to sit down and write. Ooh, a message — better check it. Hmm, this chair is having an argument with my back. Let’s move. I’ll just check whether I’ve had a reply to that email. Right then… Time to blow my readers’ minds. No pressure. ‘There is nothing to writing,’ said Hemingway. ‘All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.’ For many of us, standing desk enthusiasts excepted, the creative act isn’t an upright affair.
From nepotism to underdog in the creative industry
Nepotism is the unfair use of power to get jobs or other benefits for your family or friends. Constructed by favouritism, bias, and preferential treatment. Of late, it’s unfortunately become a recently glamourised term. Now comfortably claimed by the so-called tribe of nepo-babies.
The upside-down mentoring game
Reverse mentoring is not a new concept: it’s more than two decades old, yet it remains a training method capable of disrupting today’s work culture. A practice that strongly urges the overthrow of the Jurassic hierarchical system organized in top-down decision-making flows, and instead, it promotes a horizontal collaboration based on mutual listening. It’s a win-win relationship between multi-generational and multi-level workers.
This industry’s a better place without the nepo, baby
Writing on this month’s theme of hope, I instinctively looked to Oxford Language’s definition which states simply ‘a feeling of expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen.’ At On the One we’re usually tasked with the realisation of that hope — helping turn the wheels of activism through brand investment and passing the mic to voices that are being left out of the conversation.
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