The Smith Institute Arts Lecture: Arts in the core script - writing ourselves in
[17 July 2006 - New Statesman - By Peter Hewitt, CEO, Arts Council of England] ... The arts are about releasing the imagination, about finding ways to understand our deepest feelings and motivations, about making sense of our most personal instincts and behaviours. The arts are about freedom, about unlocking creativity in ways that can produce unpredictable, sometimes shocking, results. The arts are, by nature, ground shifting and often disruptive. More