Restoration @ Labour Conference 2025
BREAD AND ROSES: HOW TO STOP THE GENTRIFICATION OF THE ARTS
“In any civilised community the arts… must occupy a central place. Their enjoyment should not be regarded as something remote from everyday life. “
Jennie Lee, A Policy for the Arts 1965
Arts participation among working class people has seen a long and terminal decline for decades. Our panel looked at ways to reverse this trend.
Careers and education:
Where does working class exclusion from the arts begin?
Living through a changing era of work and career prospects:
What has changed to exclude working class professionals?
‘Hope Labour’
How normalising unpaid work has excluded working class people
How a Labour government could support working class
participation in the arts
How can unionisation help working class people stay in the arts?
Rebuilding working class participation in the arts through traditional working class institutions and art forms
