In our inaugural year Peterborough Cultural Alliance (PCA) have successfully kick-started our programme of Leadership & Accountability. This programme objectives looks to inspire and grow conversations about the impact of culture on identity, ambitions, education and growth.
Last week, we launched our Cultural Conversations series with thought-provoking insights from Lord Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, playwright and poet.
During his time in Peterborough, Lord Williams met with city and cultural leaders, young people and members of the public to share his perspective on culture as ‘nurture and growth’ and the pursuit of providing the right conditions in our city for people to grow.
As Lord Williams commented “Culture, the whole imaginative life of a society, matters so that the more complicated story of who we are can be told, and so we don’t find ourselves driven into oversimplified, polarised, untruthful narratives.”
We would like to say a huge thank you to our PCA partners for hosting these important conversations and demonstrating their commitment to cultural growth in our city, and to all who came and contributed!
Our future Cultural Conversations series will continue next year where we will continue to invite trailblazers in British culture. These events will continue to help to create cultural discussion, debate, networking, in expected and unexpected places, across the city.
If you have any questions or queries about the Cultural Conversations series, please contact Lydia.Baldwin@neneparktrust.org.uk.
