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Brighton Festival: University of Sussex Festival of Ideas - Cultural Recovery

As the UK emerged from successive Covid-19 lockdowns, there was a lot of talk about the need for a ‘Cultural Recovery’, normally in relation to the re-opening of cultural spaces and, sometimes, a return to business-as-usual. But what else could the term imply? Join a panel including Eliane Glaser (author of Elites: A Progressive Defence), Gilane Tawadros (writer, curator and Chief Executive of DACS: the Design and Artists Copyright Society) and Professor Kate O’Riordan (Dean of the School of Media Arts and Humanities, University of Sussex & Co-Chair of ABCD for Cultural Recovery in Brighton & Hove), as they ask what exactly culture needs to recover from? What is it we want to recover? And might some things be best left in the past?

Organised by the School of Media, Arts and Humanities, University of Sussex, in collaboration with Photoworks. Part of Third Thursdays and the ABCD for Cultural Recovery in Brighton & Hove.

Festival of Ideas is a collaboration with the University of Sussex.