To Innovate or Enervate?
“Money is a means of barter” Elaine Kraf: The Princess of 72nd Street
“Economic compulsion removes freedom”
London School of Economics talk Grace Blakely
“I object to money as a raison d’être or end in itself.”
Elaine Kraf: The Princess of 72nd Street
“As the culture wars intensify, the left needs to set out not its blue roots, but its true roots, showing how, at its best, it delivers emancipation. That means telling a story that recognises how poverty, inequality and injustice take many individual forms but are collectively devastating. Each holds back people in every community from realising their potential, to the detriment of all of us who will not benefit from what their talents can achieve.”
Stella Creasy: The Guardian 18.06.25
[#BasementFM] & [#BasementReads] can be found on Instagram Story Highlights and are archives of my listening and reading habits across the years
Each day I get up at 6am and go for a walk. I try to ensure that I get a certain amount of exercise and clear my head of the negativity that has so often overwhelmed me in the past before the day begins. [#BasementFM …. KJJ: Actress] Whilst doing this I am often posting my diaristic adventures as a domestic arts project to social media or making notes on my phone for exhibition texts. Even though I am working it is still cathartic to do it whilst walking through a tree lined park, when no one other than dog walkers and runners are around. It matters not what the weather is doing, the green and clean air helps. I recommend it. By the time I get home everyone else has usually left for work, college and school, although the last of my children has now left school so that is no longer a thing for us here, and I can get on with the rest of the day.
[#BasementFM ….Welcome Adventure!: Daniel Carter. Matthew Shipp. William Parker. Gerald Cleaver] There is always a certain amount of funding application form filling to do as I try to find ever more inventive, sorry I mean desperate, ways to bring in some cash to keep us going. This job is becoming an increasingly onerous task for everyone in the arts, myself included, with each passing day. If you are reading this post in full then you are one of the people helping us to do this.