Andrew Dixon’s blog discussed on Twitter

Playwright David Greig, journalists Phil Miller, Neil Cooper and the Guardian’s own Mark Fisher discuss Andrew Dixon’s blog about Creative Scotland.

  1. Re: Andrew Dixon's blog. Concerns were never about the speed of change. They were about the principles behind it. #creativescotland
  2. @DavieGreig His idea seems to be that if he moves artists somewhere awful really REALLY slowly, they might not notice. Like a boiled frog.
  3. @danielbye I think he still genuinely thinks we don't understand. But a listening ear is at least a start. Small steps.
  4. It's good that dialogue seems to be opening up though, a significant gesture. I hope the representative organisations are listened to.
  5. Andrew Dixon at FST meeting: "We've been going too fast. We've not communicated the bigger picture."
  6. "We are going to curate work through strategic commissioning..."
  7. @mhari79 Did he really say "curate"? Surely CS has no mandate to curate.
  8. @MarkFFisher @mhari79 Absolutely none. If AD wan ts to curate, get him to apply for his own crummy schemes, then see how long he lasts.
  9. Key in all this CS is they believe (strongly) they have pro-active agent role in arts world, not 'just a funding body'. That's the strategy
  10. @DavieGreig @PhilipJEMiller Not a strategy. it's a misinterpretation of their role. CS are there to fund and enable, not curate or produce.
  11. Worth noting amid the FXO controversy, Scottish Government reducing Creative Scotland's grant by £2.1m in next 3 years.

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