BLACKOUT TUESDAY - A STATEMENT
Yesterday the Music Venue Trust team stepped back from our own messaging and campaigning. We chose to do this as part of a collective initiative by the music sector to reflect on the continuing challenge of racism in our society and in our industry.
Our team chose to be silent in our messaging for a day so we could pause and properly listen to BAME colleagues. We wanted to learn from their experiences and reflect on what we do as an organisation to acknowledge their contribution, support and promote their work.
Reflecting on what we learned, our team has chosen some some articles and comments from BAME colleagues that we felt were helpful to us and important to read, understand and act upon. The first of these is by Keith Harris and you can read it here: musicweek.com/management/rea…
We’d like to ask you to share this @MusicWeek article so that everyone, in our industry and outside, can read and understand the real experiences of people in their own, authentic voices.
One day of silence and reflection is not going to solve the issue of racism in our society or our industry. As an organisation we acknowledge that we are not taking enough positive and supportive steps to play our part in the change required.
Music Venue Trust intends to take those steps and challenge ourselves to do better. #BlackOutTuesday
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