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Feb 27 β€’ 7 tweets β€’ 2 min read
1/ What can arts & cultural folks/orgs do in solidarity with #Ukraine? A brief 🧡 with my thoughts, all suggestions welcome!

🎨 Commissioning/platforming Ukrainian artists + other artists advocating peace

πŸ‘¨β€πŸ‘©β€πŸ‘§β€πŸ‘§ Capturing/amplifying the voices of civilians

#UkraineUnderAttack
2/ πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Sharing & celebrating historic & traditional #Ukrainian arts, heritage, music, folk culture

πŸ’Έ Sharing funding links for culture & heritage institutions, libraries etc

πŸ‘€ Being vigilant for looted items/monitoring markets over coming months to stop illicit trade
3/ πŸ” Identifying Ukrainian collections items/content (physical & digital), and planning for replenishment/repatriation

🀝 Forming long-term partnerships & collaborations with Ukrainian cultural/civic institutions

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Working with Ukrainian communities in the UK (or elsewhere)
4/ πŸ“£ Use powerful individual & collective institutional voice/access/influence to shape the public debate - calling for steps for peace, safe, open routes for refugees, etc
I've popped an amended/re-ordered version on LinkedIn, too:

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More from @JohnMcArts

Feb 25
1/ Putin's claim that Ukraine is run by 'Nazis' is absurd - Zelensky's government is patently liberal/democratic;

It's also deeply hypocritical, given Putin/United Russia's increasing ultranationalist bent, and Aleksandr Dugin's influence...

#bbcnews #newsnight
2/...But it would be good to see a proper analysis of the armed far-right in both countries;

Some minor reports note the paramilitary Azov Battalion & Right Sector in Ukraine, but almost none detail core far-right elements both of Donbas separatists & the Russian army #Newsnight
3/ I can't believe that no mainstream outlets have recently analysed Putin's ideological debt to Dugin, given the eerie alignment between the former's wild war rhetoric on Ukrainian 'illegitimacy' and the views of the latter.
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Jul 3, 2020
1/Some really strong campaigns to protect the arts in England are getting covered - especially for the performance venues worst-hit by the pandemic.

To me, they'd be stronger still if foregrounding the voices of people and communities whose lives have been changed; #r4today
2/I hugely respect the theatre directors & musicians making the case; more compelling still for many might be

young offenders set on a better path

older people escaping loneliness

mothers overcoming post-natal depression

disabled people liberated from isolation

#r4today
3/this only scratches the surface,

These theatres/music venues are for many, many people/places the drivers of jobs & tourism;

Spaces where people find hope/aspiration/pathways for the future;

That bind communities, giving pride/shared identity

Let's hear those voices too
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