There’s much doom and gloom at this moment in time, however, The Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi and Creative New Zealand visited 10 towns and cities over three months to uncover how creativity can propel us forward, and their findings are optimistic. They released a vibrant report on what they learned along the way.
Emily Perkins, 2011 Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi Laureate, stated in the report, “The world right now feels wild and out of control – you don’t need me to remind you about war, genocide, climate disaster, unethical AI development that would have robots coming for our jobs before doing things we might actually need. We have to meet this time with radical imagination and wildness of our own – the campfire wildness of creativity, of actions, visions, stories and experiences that bring us together, that reach across from one consciousness to another, to many.”
It is important to continue to nurture your creativity, even if things feel at a stand still.
To see the report, click here.