{"id":38029,"date":"2023-11-03T17:06:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T17:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=38029"},"modified":"2023-11-03T17:06:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T17:06:44","slug":"uk-shadow-culture-secretary-to-map-out-first-national-infrastructure-plan-for-the-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=38029","title":{"rendered":"UK shadow culture secretary to map out first national infrastructure plan for the arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-38030\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/ThangamDebbonaire_Labour_MP-offical_portrait_2020.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" \/>In an interview with <em>The Art Newspaper<\/em> ahead of the Labour conference, Thangam Debbonaire maps out the first national infrastructure plan for the arts\u2026 artificial intelligence <em>etc.<\/em><\/h3>\n<h6><em>image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2018Everybody knows a pub theatre which is about to close\u2026\u2019<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><em>The Art Newspaper<\/em> writes: [9 Oct 2023]<\/p>\n<p>A new Labour government would put the creative industries \u201cat the heart\u201d of its plans for economic growth while embedding the Whitehall culture department in the UK regions, the British shadow culture secretary will say&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026.Thangam Debbonaire pledged to be a \u201cnational champion of the arts\u201d\u00a0 if a Labour government is voted into power at the UK\u2019s next general election.<\/p>\n<p>Debbonaire, a former professional cellist, was appointed by Labour leader Keir Starmer as the shadow secretary of state for culture, media and sport on 4 September. She will lay out her plans at the Labour party conference in Liverpool\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026.The plan, titled Space to Create, will seek to embed civil servants from the department for culture, media and sport (DCMS) in communities far from the traditional power centre of Westminster.<\/p>\n<p>They would be tasked with focusing on the specific cultural needs of the region&#8230; \u201cWe need to protect the cultural spaces we already have,\u201d Debbonaire said. \u201cEverybody knows a pub theatre which is about to close down, or a local gallery or music venue which can\u2019t pay its bills. If we lose those spaces, we lose the pipeline for young and emerging talent\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theartnewspaper.com\/2023\/10\/09\/exclusive-uk-shadow-culture-secretary-to-map-out-first-national-infrastructure-plan-for-the-arts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with The Art Newspaper ahead of the Labour conference, Thangam Debbonaire maps out the first national infrastructure plan for the arts\u2026 artificial intelligence etc. image for illustration: Open Government Licence v3.0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38031,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38029\/revisions\/38031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}