ABSTRACT
Lisa Norman is the founder and director of Lout Productions, which promotes local and national music events including the hugely popular Great Escape Festival that sets the Brighton music scene alight for a week in May. Lisa’s work came under huge threat in lockdown, and now she is focused on developing sustainable and safe events that celebrate new music and draw diverse audiences. She has made her creative passion her job, and this inspires the author to reflect on how the arts can prevail despite funding cuts and global challenges. The author suggests that the method of creative conversation, reflection and writing that this book presents as a method can inform and evolve the reader’s creative practice, helping them to be create work that resists and challenges dominant narratives and work ethically with their collaborators to share power and produce innovative image. This approach has encouraged the authors to examine their own privilege as part of this book and commit to decolonising their methods of working. They argue that reimagining themselves as artists/activists can help us to feel positive about how our – reader and writer – future creative practice can draw on existing and new communities and be part of societal change
