Arts & Culture

Seven considerations for strengthening your imagination muscle

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Where do good ideas come from and how can we have more of them? Albert Read and Will Gompertz’s mission to place the imagination at the forefront of our lives led to an illuminating discussion at The Conduit which yielded many thought-provoking takeaways.

An Evening with Acclaimed Director Carrie Cracknell

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Carrie Cracknell will be joining us to discuss her remarkable career, her transition from stage to screen and the lack of female representation in decision-making roles on set. What more needs to be done to bring brilliant female characters to life and how do we make sure it’s women calling the shots on set?

The film festival using art to shift narratives about migrants

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Years of anti-immigration rhetoric has made us lose touch with our shared humanity. Given the strength of feeling, can a film festival bring humanity back to how we relate to each other as individuals and communities? Our reporter Holly Bootman attended the London Migration Film Festival and shares her reflections on the power of art to shift narratives on the so called 'refugee crisis'. 

Q&A with Margaux Lunt, Founder of OTK

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Margaux Lunt is a previous Conduit team member, turned sustainable fashion entrepreneur! We checked in with her to hear more about her latest endeavours, her inspiration and what we can expect from her debut collection...

Soumik Datta’s Hope Notes

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Who is a refugee? What does it mean to be one? Conduit Impact Champion Soumik Datta has created 'Hope Notes' a project that tells unique human stories of survival through music and animation.

Field Notes, Nagorno-Karabakh

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Anastasia Taylor-Lind is an internationally renowned English/Swedish photojournalist who works for leading editorial publications all over the world on issues relating to women, population and war. She is a 2016 Harvard Nieman Fellow and spent a year at the university researching war, and how we tell stories about modern conflict. One Language is her debut collection of poetry, where verses sit alongside her powerful photography, creating a compelling method of storytelling that draws on Anastasia’s first-hand experience of conflict. Here, Anastasia shares with us a poem from One Language.

Eye on Ukraine: Andrey Kurkov in conversation

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Ukraine’s most famous novelist spends an evening exploring his new book, Grey Bees- a dramatization of the conflict raging in his country through the lens of a mild-mannered beekeeper.

How to Uncover the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest

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Raised in the hardy forest communities of British Columbia, scientist Suzanne Simard overturned conventional beliefs in proving that trees and plants are connected underground by an immense web of fungal mycelia, at the centre of which lie the Mother Trees: the mysterious, powerful entities that sustain the forest.

CITIZENS: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us

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Activist, author and co-founder of the New Citizenship Project, Jon Alexander, for an exploration of his new book- CITIZENS: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us

The Future of Circular Fashion

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The need for the world to shift from a linear, take-make-waste economy to a circular economy is becoming more compelling every day, and nowhere is this transition more urgent than in the fashion industry. But how will the fashion industry, and fast fashion in particular, make this transition?”