Hear from Stephanie Grant, CPF Director, on the future of 'Culture in Crisis' under CPF's stewardship.
Spring, as always has brought a renewed energy and for CPF, nature reminds us that change is not only possible, but inevitable. We’re almost ready to launch new calls (more on that in next month’s newsletter) and we’re ready to take on the challenge of Culture in Crisis.
In January, we announced the future of the Cultural Protection Fund and our renewed three-year programme. Within that, was the takeover of Culture in Crisis from the Victoria & Albert Museum.
We haven’t yet explained what this means, and this is in part because we don’t know. We don’t know in an exciting way because there is an openness in what it will become. What we have is an opportunity to nurture and grow the Culture in Crisis network, programme and portal under the stewardship of the CPF.
The V&A built from scratch this brilliant event series and the world’s largest database of heritage preservation activities that we will continue to manage and deliver, with the intention of:
- Building bigger audiences and platforming more voices.
- Crowdsourcing event themes and programme ideas from this network and from other heritage funders like us.
- Bringing into the existing network more of our Cultural Protection Fund partners and projects, expert advisors as well as the wider, extensive networks of the British Council.
- Feeding in learning from our ten years of CPF into Culture in Crisis, and from Culture in Crisis back into CPF.
We’ll announce more about the programme in the coming months; in the meantime if you’d like to get in touch with your thoughts and ideas, you can contact us here.
