I'd like to meet:
Hmmm... several different areas here; some professional, some personal:
Greens who are worried enough about climate change and peak oil to want to be professional enough in our presentation to ensure our urgent and universally relevent message gets across...
Arts Marketers who are worried enough about the state of media/digital arts to want to come down off their high horse and find ways of making these interesting and socially inclusive artforms relevent to the everyday public..!
Musicians who are worried about the fact that the greatest music in the world (and I don't just mean Bach) is mainly listened to by people with white hair (and not very much white hair, at that..). Shall we make "classical" (art) music relevent to ordinary people? Didn't it USED to be, when it was composed? Didn't it used to be ground-breaking, intellectually scalding, and exciting? What happened...?! Shall we connect it with a modern aesthetic - the same modern aesthetic that new music by definition always has, whatever century it is composed in? Or shall we sentimentalise, reify it and fetishise it until it's completely dead, meaningless and only fit for a museum?
Cellists who play the Bach suites very fast (I love them). Job ter Haar, you are the man, but there's only one of you and you've never made a bloody recording!!! Natalie Clein, very interesting so far as the prelude of the first suite goes.... ...let's see what you're made of :-)
Film-makers who are worried enough about climate change and peak oil, or just the fact that half the world lives on less than $2 a day, to make an independent film about it and want to swap enthusiasm/expertise/ideas.
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