ACFM Microdose: Making Art in a World on Fire w/ Amber Massie-Blomfield

Novara Media

Philosophy, News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

What’s the point of the arts when the world is on fire? To follow the pipeline from creativity to activism and back again, Nadia Idle is joined by Amber Massie-Blomfield, former chief of theatre company Complicité and the author of Acts of Resistance: The Power of Art to Create Better World. They discuss Dan Edelstyn […]

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is acid man.
0:20.4	Hello and welcome to ACFM, the home of the weird left.
0:24.6	I'm Nadia Idol and I'm joined today for this very special microdose by Amber Massey Blumfield
0:30.8	to talk about her book.
0:32.9	Acts of Resistance.
0:34.4	The power of art to create a better world.
0:37.0	The hardback is out now and the paperback is
0:39.1	out in June 2025. Amber, welcome to the show. Hello, Nadia. How nice to be here. Amber is an arts
0:46.9	consultant, producer and non-fiction author. Her most recent role was executive director of
0:52.9	internationally renowned theatre company Complicite,
0:56.5	where she was recognised on the stage 100 power list in 2024.
1:01.5	During her tenure, she oversaw major projects including drive your plow over the bones of the dead,
1:08.7	figures in extinction, the dark is rising, and can I live?
1:13.1	She has worked for the Swiss Arts Council, the Barbican, ATC, China Plate, Free Word and Penn International,
1:20.4	and many, many more institutions. She was executive director of Camden People's Theatre,
1:25.8	from 2014 to 2018, receiving a special
1:30.2	achievement award at 2018's Off West End Awards in recognition of her work. As an author, she has
1:36.8	written 20 theatres to see before you die, which won and was shortlisted for loads of awards.
1:42.2	An Act of Resistance is her latest book. What a series
1:46.2	of amazing accolades. So Amber, let's start, if I may, by giving listeners a bit of context about
1:53.3	this book from The Blurb so they know what we are chatting about. So Act of Resistance is a
1:58.9	wide-ranging exploration of art as a form of political activism.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Novara Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Novara Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.