A new report says that support for music, arts, film, and culture in the North of England - and attracting more national names - could play a key role in "balancing" the post-pandemic.
According to the report, prepared by a cross-party group of lawmakers, there is a "clear and strategic case for investing in culture in the North." He compares the "big seams" of creativity in the North with the importance of coal in the past and points out that culture is "perhaps the fastest and least exploited counterbalance of today."
He cites Gateshead's Angel of the North, Manchester's music scene, and the power of Yorkshire in film and television as success stories that helped build the identity and economy of these places.
However, the "Billy Elliott Effect" still sometimes leads to creative careers that are seen as "a form of failure or loss of education," according to a report published by the All-Signing Northern Culture Parliamentary Group and endorsed by lawmakers and mayors from around the world. Region.
"Northern Brand"
It said culture "can make a significant contribution not only to our economic recovery but also to our prosperity agenda and national identity for years to come."
Recommendations include:
- More education and training opportunities.
- More funding opportunities for local leaders.
- Promoting Brand North.
He also said there should be encouragements for national sites and organizations to leave London or set up branches in the North, as Channel 4 and the British Library recently did in Leeds.
"Compensation programs can encourage old and new national institutions and organizations to relocate or create new central locations in the North; [and] main roads and heritage sites can be moved," said the Case for Culture report.
"Social and civic cohesion can be ensured through a culture of mitigating the impact of the Covid mental health crisis; [and] catching up in education could be facilitated by a renewed focus on creative curricula, education, and lifelong learning."
The Government's equality program "should aim to increase people's sense of where they live and culture is at the heart of it," said Labor MP and City of Sheffield Mayor Dan Jarvis at the report's launch.
"This report is based on this principle and confirms that culture is the fastest and least used lever for leveling today," he continued. "We all as a team need to shout this from the rooftops and make a sign." The City DPRD cultural selection committee is currently reviewing the role of culture in equity.
Its leader, the Conservative Member of Parliament Julian Knight, said: "For too long the focus of our cultural spending has been on London and the South East, and we haven't taken enough advantage of the rich talent we have north of Watford."
Secretary of the Arts Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay told the report's authors they "have an open-minded audience here at DCMS [Department of Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport]."
