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| We, the creative community as represented by the signatories below, ask all those responsible for negotiating the post-2020 climate change framework to agree an ambitious and inspiring international agreement. | We, the creative community as represented by the signatories below, ask all those responsible for negotiating the post-2020 climate change framework to agree an ambitious and inspiring international agreement. |
| The creative community – design, broadcasting, publishing, film, gaming, fashion, literature, music, the performing and visual arts, galleries and museums – can make a unique contribution to the global sustainability challenge. Collectively we shape not just our material world, but our conceptual world too, including the values that underpin our lives. The creative industries generate wealth and employment but we also innovate, we shape and express cultural values, influencing how people feel and the choices they make: as such we have huge potential to prompt, and reinforce, positive and sustainable change. | The creative community – design, broadcasting, publishing, film, gaming, fashion, literature, music, the performing and visual arts, galleries and museums – can make a unique contribution to the global sustainability challenge. Collectively we shape not just our material world, but our conceptual world too, including the values that underpin our lives. The creative industries generate wealth and employment but we also innovate, we shape and express cultural values, influencing how people feel and the choices they make: as such we have huge potential to prompt, and reinforce, positive and sustainable change. |
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| We are deeply concerned that our global economic and industrial systems are accelerating rates of extinction, desertification and soil depletion, degrading ecosystems, acidifying and littering our rivers and oceans, and resulting in a relentless rise in greenhouse gas emissions driving irreversible climate change. In short, we are overwhelming the planet’s life-support systems. The outcomes of the COP21 climate change conference and the political decisions taken over the next months will determine many of the long-term conditions that will affect us today and for many generations to come. | We are deeply concerned that our global economic and industrial systems are accelerating rates of extinction, desertification and soil depletion, degrading ecosystems, acidifying and littering our rivers and oceans, and resulting in a relentless rise in greenhouse gas emissions driving irreversible climate change. In short, we are overwhelming the planet’s life-support systems. The outcomes of the COP21 climate change conference and the political decisions taken over the next months will determine many of the long-term conditions that will affect us today and for many generations to come. |
| In combining our collective strengths, the creative community will amplify world leaders’ commitments to positive change and strengthen the implementation of good policy decisions those leaders make now. An international policy framework with a long-term and realistic goal of limiting greenhouse gas emissions below 2C of warming will give us the confidence to deploy our considerable energy towards a sustainable and equitable future. A healthy creative community relies on collaboration. Using this as a first principle for action we will: | In combining our collective strengths, the creative community will amplify world leaders’ commitments to positive change and strengthen the implementation of good policy decisions those leaders make now. An international policy framework with a long-term and realistic goal of limiting greenhouse gas emissions below 2C of warming will give us the confidence to deploy our considerable energy towards a sustainable and equitable future. A healthy creative community relies on collaboration. Using this as a first principle for action we will: |
| • Take action ourselves to make our businesses and our industries more sustainable, actively managing our impacts.• Speak out to our audiences and customers, using our creative voices to affect the public narrative and create social consensus for action on climate change and environmental degradation.• Work together to influence and support policymakers who have the capacity to accelerate positive change, to make the right decisions.• Take a leadership role with a cultural mandate for action, which exceeds the commitments of governments.• Do what we do best and use our creativity and our collaborative culture to help find, and scale, solutions to global environmental challenges. | • Take action ourselves to make our businesses and our industries more sustainable, actively managing our impacts.• Speak out to our audiences and customers, using our creative voices to affect the public narrative and create social consensus for action on climate change and environmental degradation.• Work together to influence and support policymakers who have the capacity to accelerate positive change, to make the right decisions.• Take a leadership role with a cultural mandate for action, which exceeds the commitments of governments.• Do what we do best and use our creativity and our collaborative culture to help find, and scale, solutions to global environmental challenges. |
| We ask Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN framework convention on climate change and Laurent Fabius, foreign minister of France and president of COP21, to agree to a comprehensive, binding international framework agreement on greenhouse gas emissions reductions, with mechanisms to assess, review and revise commitments over the long term. We ask for: | We ask Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of the UN framework convention on climate change and Laurent Fabius, foreign minister of France and president of COP21, to agree to a comprehensive, binding international framework agreement on greenhouse gas emissions reductions, with mechanisms to assess, review and revise commitments over the long term. We ask for: |
| • An ambitious commitment to climate action, starting now, that will limit future global warming to below 2C relative to pre-industrial levels.• A legally robust and accountable global climate governance framework and implementation strategy that we will be able to support.• Realistic delivery timetables which account for the long term and which enable us to invest in future-focused and collaborative creative practice.• Financial mechanisms to stimulate extensive infrastructure for poorer nations to support them in achieving their reduction commitments while permitting equitable development.• Significant investment in low carbon infrastructures which we can champion and deploy.• Alignment with the sustainable development goals. | • An ambitious commitment to climate action, starting now, that will limit future global warming to below 2C relative to pre-industrial levels.• A legally robust and accountable global climate governance framework and implementation strategy that we will be able to support.• Realistic delivery timetables which account for the long term and which enable us to invest in future-focused and collaborative creative practice.• Financial mechanisms to stimulate extensive infrastructure for poorer nations to support them in achieving their reduction commitments while permitting equitable development.• Significant investment in low carbon infrastructures which we can champion and deploy.• Alignment with the sustainable development goals. |
| We understand the gravity of climate change and the historic opportunity represented by COP21. We will come together and intensify our efforts, but we need you to give us confidence in a sustainable future, to share our ambition, and recognise our capacity to strengthen your leadership. We must, we can, and together we will act on climate change.Wil-Dog Abers Musician, OzomatliRoy Ackerman MD Pulse FilmsAckroyd and Harvey ArtistsSidsel Agensø ActorDamon Albarn MusicianKarina Albers CEO Kontent Real FilmsSian Alexander CEO Lyric HammersmithIan Anderson Musician Jethro TullAnggun MusicianLisa Armstrong Fashion director, the Daily TelegraphMargaret Atwood WriterSteve Backshall Writer/television presenterBettina Bakdal Fashion designerMaria Balshaw Director, Whitworth, Manchester/City museumsEmma Banks Music agentRezwana Choudhury Bannya SingerCourtney Barnett MusicianAngus Baskerville 13 ArtistsNeil Bartlett Author/directorBlick Bassy MusicianAlex Beard CEO Royal Opera HouseSimon Beaufoy ScreenwriterLouise Beck Artistic director, Opera Nord/Board Danish Agency of CultureMomtaz Begum Singer/MP BangladeshUlises Bella Musician, OzomatliMelvin Benn MD Festival RepublicLaura Bergmann Musician The Family CrestBoris Berlin DesignerAmanda Berry BaftaPandit Debashish Bhattacharya MusicianBidisha Writer/broadcasterAndrew Bird Musician Ditte Maria Bjerg Artistic director Global Stories/Chair, Committee for Performing Arts, Danish Art CouncilBjörk MusicianMatt Black Musician, ColdcutTom Blankenship Musician, My Morning JacketTamsin Blanchard JournalistKamila Boudova DesignerDavid Robert (Bowie) Jones MusicianStéphane Braunschweig Artistic director, Theatre National La CollineZowie Broach Designer, BoudiccaCarl Broemel Musician, My Morning JacketSimon Broughton Editor-in-chief, SonglinesAlex Bruford Partner, ATC LiveDavid Buckland Artist/founder, Cape FarewellElse Marie BukdahlPaul Burger CEO, Soho ArtistsSimon Burstein CEO, BrownsRobert Butler JournalistBurak CakmakS Carey Musician, Bon IverOrsola de Castro Co-founder, Fashion RevolutionRob Challice Coda AgencyTom Chauncey Agent, Partisan ArtsElaine Chia Director, International Signature Projects, Australia Council for the ArtsAdam Chodzko ArtistCaryl Churchill PlaywrightDanny Cohen Director of television, BBCGuy Berryman Musician, ColdplayJonny Buckland Musician, ColdplayWill Champion Musician, ColdplayChris Martin Musician, ColdplayLily Cole ModelPandora Colin ActorPaule Constable Lighting designerSteve Coogan ActorDominic Cooke Theatre directorLionel Copley DesignerFrances Corner Head, London College of Fashion, PVC University of the ArtsChris Cotton CEO Royal Albert HallCarrie Cracknell Theatre directorMichaela Crimmin Art in the Public DomainDeborah Curtis Creative directorDessa Darling MusicianLucy Davies Executive producer, Royal CourtSiobhan Davies Choreographer/dancerKerry Dean Fashion photographerCharles Deull Broadway Green AllianceGraham DevlinJoyce DiDonato Mezzo sopranoPaul Dillinger Vice president, Innovation Levi StraussCollette Dinnigan Fashion designerJo Dipple CEO UK MusicMichael Dixon Director, Natural History MuseumGed Doherty Chairman BPIJonathan Dove ComposerJane Dyball CEO MPA GroupJonas Eder-Hansen Danish Fashion InstituteOlafur Eliasson ArtistRose Fenton CEO Free WordColin Firth ActorLivia Firth Creative director, Eco Age Consultancy Dan Fogler ActorAminatta Forna WriterCaryn Franklin Fashion journalist and broadcasterKyle Frenette Manager, Middle West ManagementBella Freud DesignerAlastair Fuad-Luke DesignerJohn Fulljames Associate director, Royal Opera HouseMerrill Garbus Musician, Tune-YardsAdam Gardner Musician, Guster/Founder ReverbGuy Garvey MusicianLauranne Germond Director, COALBobby Gillespie Musician, Primal ScreamEd Gillespie Co-founder, FuterraOdie Gilbert StylistDavid Gilmour MusicianPeter Gingold Founder, Tipping PointMartin Glover Musician/producer YouthSimon Green Musician, BonoboIan Grenfell Quietus ManagementJay Griffiths WriterLynda Grose Fashion designerAmir Haddad Theatre directorPatrick Hallahan Musician My Morning JacketKatharine Hamnett Fashion designerAlex Hartley ArtistRichard Hawley ActorChristopher Haydon Artistic director, Gate TheatreRachel Healy Artistic director, Adelaide FestivalAndy Heath Beggars Group/Chair, UK MusicCaspar Henderson WriterSean Holmes Artistic director, Lyric HammersmithKasper Holten Director of opera, Royal Opera HouseRobert Horsfall LawyerTansy Hoskins AuthorSue Hoyle CEO, Clore LeadershipMarion Hume Fashion journalistChrissie Hynde MusicianNicholas Hytner Co-founder, London Theatre Company/film/theatre directorChase Igliori Manager, Middle West ManagementSingh Intrachooto Design principal OsisuProfessor Tim Jackson Poet/playwright/academicBel Jacobs Fashion journalistJack Johnson MusicianJim James Musician, My Morning JacketDylan Jones Editor-in-chief, GQPatrick Jordan Manager, Red Light ManagementDavid Joseph Chairman and CEO, Universal Music UKDavid Jubb Artistic director, Battersea Arts CentreDidier Juillard Director of theatre, National La CollineJohn Kampfner Creative Industries FederationAmar Kanwar Artist/filmmakerProsper Keating MD, 7Post MagazineUlrich Khuon Artistic director, Deutsches Theater BerlinAngélique Kidjo MusicianJuliet Kindersley Founder, Neals Yard/Dorling Kindersley PublicationsPeter Kindersley Founder, Neals Yard/Dorling Kindersley PublicationsMorten Kirkskov Artistic director, Royal Danish TheatreClayton Knight Musician, OdeszaJudith Knight Director, ArtsAdminTania Kovats ArtistPeter Kosminsky Writer/director/producerBo Koster Musician, My Morning JacketAstrid Krogh ArtistMarco Kusumawijaya Director, Rujak Centre for Urban StudiesDavid Lan Artistic director, Young VicPhyllida Law Actor Lazerbeak Musician, DoomtreeDebbie Levin President EMADavid Lewis COO, Effect PartnersLeona Lewis SingerRebecca Lichtenfeld Director, Bertha PhilanthropiesWilliam SW Lim Chairman, Asian Urban LabMichelle Lowe-Holder Fashion designerDara Lynch Director, D&ADLiam McCormick Musician, The Family CrestColin McDowell Fashion writerIan McEwan WriterRobert Macfarlane WriterUrsula Macfarlane Director/producer/cinematographerAlistair McGowan Comedian/actorKate McGrath Theatre producer,/co-director Founder FuelIan MacKaye MusicianDarragh McKeon WriterNathan McLay Founder, Future ClassicSabrina Mahfouz PoetRosemary Mangope CEO, National Arts Council of South AfricaKorda Marshall Founder, Infectious Music/VP BMG RecordingsMichael Martin CEO, Effect PartnersPenny Martin Editor-in-chief, The GentlewomanSteve Martin Agent, APADeborah Meaden Entrepreneur/presenterNatalie Merchant MusicianNicholas Merriman Director, Manchester MuseumUte Meta Bauer Founder, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art SingaporeCourtney Miller General manager, Australian Fashion ChamberHarrison Mills Musician, OdeszaKatie Mitchell DirectorAndrew Morgan DirectorVicki Mortimer DesignerJesper Moseholm DesignerEric Mouquet Musician, Deep ForestDave Moutrey CEO, HOME ManchesterAmanda Nevill CEO, BFIThandie Newton ActorBen Nicholson WriterVivian Nielsen PlaywrightAlex Noble Fashion designerRufus Norris Artistic director, Royal National TheatreYoko Ono Artist/musician/peace activistLucy Orta University of the Arts LondonJames Osterberg aka Iggy Pop MusicianMax Osterweis Fashion designerRaúl Pacheco Musician, OzomatliPaul Pacifico On behalf of Featured Artists CoalitionMark Padmore TenorCarl Palmer Musician, Emerson Lake and Palmer/Asia/Carl Palmer TrioAntonio Pappano Pianist/conductor/music director, Royal Opera HouseCornelia Parker ArtistTim Parry Managing director, Big LifeLluís Pasqual Artistic director, Teatre LliureMichael Pawlyn Founder, Exploration ArchitectureRicardo Peach Director, Vrystaat Kunstefees/Arts Festival/Tsa-BotjhabaMick Perrin Director, WorldwideGlen Phillips Musician, Toad/The Wet SprocketBruno Pieters Fashion designerRobert Plant MusicianJustin ‘El Niño’ Porée Musician, OzomatliKevin Price COO, BaftaHeydon Prowse Satirist/comedianPhilip Pullman WriterPeter Quicke Ninja TuneChristopher Raeburn Fashion designerJonathan Reekie CEO, Somerset HouseJohn Reid President of Concerts Live NationDamien Rice MusicianRobin Rimbaud Musician/composer ScannerTimo Rissanen Fashion designerHenry Rollins MusicianTanya Ronder PlaywrightDavid de Rothschild Ecologist, Sculpt the Future FoundationCaroline Rush CEO, British Fashion CouncilDavid Ryding Director, City of Literature MelbourneMark Rylance ActorJay Ryves Art director, Future ClassicMaibritt Saerens ActorAruna Sairam Singer, US Congressional/Padma Shri awardeeLarry Sakin Green entrepreneurShaheen Samad SingerJosh Schachter PhotographerElisabeth Schweeger CEO/Artistic director, Academy for Performing Art Baden-Württemberg/President MITOS21Jess Search CEO, BRITDOCHelen Searle LawyerPhilip Selway Musician, RadioheadGraça Seligman PhotographerOrlando Senna Film directorElif Shafak WriterKamila Shamsie WriterAlice Sharp Artist/curatorZakee Shariff DesignerJane Shepherdson CEO, WhistlesStefan Siegel Founder/CEO, Not Just A LabelLucy Siegle Writer/broadcasterAsdrubal Sierra Musician, OzomatliLily Silverton Features director, Hunger MagazineJustine Simons Chair, World Cities Culture ForumJoe Smith Cultural commentatorJohn Smith General secretary, Musicians’ UnionPaul Smith Director, Oxford University Museum of Natural HistoryCarry Somers Designer/co-founder, Fashion RevolutionAlistair Spalding CEO, Sadler’s WellsDinaz Stafford FilmmakerSóley Stefánsdóttir MusicianNick Starr Co-founder, London Theatre CompanySting MusicianHelen Storey DesignerJosh Sundquist Manager, Middle West ManagementMeera Syal ActorAdrian Sykes ManagerSeth TabatznikIphigenia Taxopoulou General secretary, MITOS21Juergen Teller Fashion photographerNeil Tennant Musician, Pet Shop BoysMartin Terefe Music producerJohn ThackaraKenneth Olumuyiwa TharpEmma Thompson ActorAlison Tickell Founder, Julie’s BicycleJohn Tiffany Theatre directorHarold TillmanAmon Tobin MusicianSteve Tompkins ArchitectRuth Ben Tovim Creative director, Encounters ArtsPhilip Treacy MillnerKT Tunstall MusicianGavin Turk ArtistRenata Tyszczuk ArtistWally Valdez Musician, OzomatliDiana Verde Nieto CEO, Positive LuxuryCarla Visi SingerDubravka Vrgoč Artistic director, Croatian National Theatre/President ETCTony Wadsworth Chairman, Julie’s BicycleAlexander Walter Director, WOMEXRussell Warby WME EntertainmentNeil Warnock The Agency GroupSteve Waters PlaywrightSara Watkins Musician, Nickel CreekCilla Ware TV drama directorChristina Wendelboe DramaturgeAlison Wenham CEO, AIMVivienne Westwood DesignerHeidi Wiley General secretary, European Theatre ConventionTim Wilson Musician, Ivan and AlyoshaDilys Williams Designer, Sustainable FashionGrace Woodward Fashion stylist/presenterJiro Yamaguchi Musician, OzomatliThom Yorke Musician, RadioheadBrian Yost President, On-Site Products Live NationBaroness Lola Young of HornseyMadani Younis Artistic director, Bush TheatreAda Zanditon Fashion designer | We understand the gravity of climate change and the historic opportunity represented by COP21. We will come together and intensify our efforts, but we need you to give us confidence in a sustainable future, to share our ambition, and recognise our capacity to strengthen your leadership. We must, we can, and together we will act on climate change.Wil-Dog Abers Musician, OzomatliRoy Ackerman MD Pulse FilmsAckroyd and Harvey ArtistsSidsel Agensø ActorDamon Albarn MusicianKarina Albers CEO Kontent Real FilmsSian Alexander CEO Lyric HammersmithIan Anderson Musician Jethro TullAnggun MusicianLisa Armstrong Fashion director, the Daily TelegraphMargaret Atwood WriterSteve Backshall Writer/television presenterBettina Bakdal Fashion designerMaria Balshaw Director, Whitworth, Manchester/City museumsEmma Banks Music agentRezwana Choudhury Bannya SingerCourtney Barnett MusicianAngus Baskerville 13 ArtistsNeil Bartlett Author/directorBlick Bassy MusicianAlex Beard CEO Royal Opera HouseSimon Beaufoy ScreenwriterLouise Beck Artistic director, Opera Nord/Board Danish Agency of CultureMomtaz Begum Singer/MP BangladeshUlises Bella Musician, OzomatliMelvin Benn MD Festival RepublicLaura Bergmann Musician The Family CrestBoris Berlin DesignerAmanda Berry BaftaPandit Debashish Bhattacharya MusicianBidisha Writer/broadcasterAndrew Bird Musician Ditte Maria Bjerg Artistic director Global Stories/Chair, Committee for Performing Arts, Danish Art CouncilBjörk MusicianMatt Black Musician, ColdcutTom Blankenship Musician, My Morning JacketTamsin Blanchard JournalistKamila Boudova DesignerDavid Robert (Bowie) Jones MusicianStéphane Braunschweig Artistic director, Theatre National La CollineZowie Broach Designer, BoudiccaCarl Broemel Musician, My Morning JacketSimon Broughton Editor-in-chief, SonglinesAlex Bruford Partner, ATC LiveDavid Buckland Artist/founder, Cape FarewellElse Marie BukdahlPaul Burger CEO, Soho ArtistsSimon Burstein CEO, BrownsRobert Butler JournalistBurak CakmakS Carey Musician, Bon IverOrsola de Castro Co-founder, Fashion RevolutionRob Challice Coda AgencyTom Chauncey Agent, Partisan ArtsElaine Chia Director, International Signature Projects, Australia Council for the ArtsAdam Chodzko ArtistCaryl Churchill PlaywrightDanny Cohen Director of television, BBCGuy Berryman Musician, ColdplayJonny Buckland Musician, ColdplayWill Champion Musician, ColdplayChris Martin Musician, ColdplayLily Cole ModelPandora Colin ActorPaule Constable Lighting designerSteve Coogan ActorDominic Cooke Theatre directorLionel Copley DesignerFrances Corner Head, London College of Fashion, PVC University of the ArtsChris Cotton CEO Royal Albert HallCarrie Cracknell Theatre directorMichaela Crimmin Art in the Public DomainDeborah Curtis Creative directorDessa Darling MusicianLucy Davies Executive producer, Royal CourtSiobhan Davies Choreographer/dancerKerry Dean Fashion photographerCharles Deull Broadway Green AllianceGraham DevlinJoyce DiDonato Mezzo sopranoPaul Dillinger Vice president, Innovation Levi StraussCollette Dinnigan Fashion designerJo Dipple CEO UK MusicMichael Dixon Director, Natural History MuseumGed Doherty Chairman BPIJonathan Dove ComposerJane Dyball CEO MPA GroupJonas Eder-Hansen Danish Fashion InstituteOlafur Eliasson ArtistRose Fenton CEO Free WordColin Firth ActorLivia Firth Creative director, Eco Age Consultancy Dan Fogler ActorAminatta Forna WriterCaryn Franklin Fashion journalist and broadcasterKyle Frenette Manager, Middle West ManagementBella Freud DesignerAlastair Fuad-Luke DesignerJohn Fulljames Associate director, Royal Opera HouseMerrill Garbus Musician, Tune-YardsAdam Gardner Musician, Guster/Founder ReverbGuy Garvey MusicianLauranne Germond Director, COALBobby Gillespie Musician, Primal ScreamEd Gillespie Co-founder, FuterraOdie Gilbert StylistDavid Gilmour MusicianPeter Gingold Founder, Tipping PointMartin Glover Musician/producer YouthSimon Green Musician, BonoboIan Grenfell Quietus ManagementJay Griffiths WriterLynda Grose Fashion designerAmir Haddad Theatre directorPatrick Hallahan Musician My Morning JacketKatharine Hamnett Fashion designerAlex Hartley ArtistRichard Hawley ActorChristopher Haydon Artistic director, Gate TheatreRachel Healy Artistic director, Adelaide FestivalAndy Heath Beggars Group/Chair, UK MusicCaspar Henderson WriterSean Holmes Artistic director, Lyric HammersmithKasper Holten Director of opera, Royal Opera HouseRobert Horsfall LawyerTansy Hoskins AuthorSue Hoyle CEO, Clore LeadershipMarion Hume Fashion journalistChrissie Hynde MusicianNicholas Hytner Co-founder, London Theatre Company/film/theatre directorChase Igliori Manager, Middle West ManagementSingh Intrachooto Design principal OsisuProfessor Tim Jackson Poet/playwright/academicBel Jacobs Fashion journalistJack Johnson MusicianJim James Musician, My Morning JacketDylan Jones Editor-in-chief, GQPatrick Jordan Manager, Red Light ManagementDavid Joseph Chairman and CEO, Universal Music UKDavid Jubb Artistic director, Battersea Arts CentreDidier Juillard Director of theatre, National La CollineJohn Kampfner Creative Industries FederationAmar Kanwar Artist/filmmakerProsper Keating MD, 7Post MagazineUlrich Khuon Artistic director, Deutsches Theater BerlinAngélique Kidjo MusicianJuliet Kindersley Founder, Neals Yard/Dorling Kindersley PublicationsPeter Kindersley Founder, Neals Yard/Dorling Kindersley PublicationsMorten Kirkskov Artistic director, Royal Danish TheatreClayton Knight Musician, OdeszaJudith Knight Director, ArtsAdminTania Kovats ArtistPeter Kosminsky Writer/director/producerBo Koster Musician, My Morning JacketAstrid Krogh ArtistMarco Kusumawijaya Director, Rujak Centre for Urban StudiesDavid Lan Artistic director, Young VicPhyllida Law Actor Lazerbeak Musician, DoomtreeDebbie Levin President EMADavid Lewis COO, Effect PartnersLeona Lewis SingerRebecca Lichtenfeld Director, Bertha PhilanthropiesWilliam SW Lim Chairman, Asian Urban LabMichelle Lowe-Holder Fashion designerDara Lynch Director, D&ADLiam McCormick Musician, The Family CrestColin McDowell Fashion writerIan McEwan WriterRobert Macfarlane WriterUrsula Macfarlane Director/producer/cinematographerAlistair McGowan Comedian/actorKate McGrath Theatre producer,/co-director Founder FuelIan MacKaye MusicianDarragh McKeon WriterNathan McLay Founder, Future ClassicSabrina Mahfouz PoetRosemary Mangope CEO, National Arts Council of South AfricaKorda Marshall Founder, Infectious Music/VP BMG RecordingsMichael Martin CEO, Effect PartnersPenny Martin Editor-in-chief, The GentlewomanSteve Martin Agent, APADeborah Meaden Entrepreneur/presenterNatalie Merchant MusicianNicholas Merriman Director, Manchester MuseumUte Meta Bauer Founder, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art SingaporeCourtney Miller General manager, Australian Fashion ChamberHarrison Mills Musician, OdeszaKatie Mitchell DirectorAndrew Morgan DirectorVicki Mortimer DesignerJesper Moseholm DesignerEric Mouquet Musician, Deep ForestDave Moutrey CEO, HOME ManchesterAmanda Nevill CEO, BFIThandie Newton ActorBen Nicholson WriterVivian Nielsen PlaywrightAlex Noble Fashion designerRufus Norris Artistic director, Royal National TheatreYoko Ono Artist/musician/peace activistLucy Orta University of the Arts LondonJames Osterberg aka Iggy Pop MusicianMax Osterweis Fashion designerRaúl Pacheco Musician, OzomatliPaul Pacifico On behalf of Featured Artists CoalitionMark Padmore TenorCarl Palmer Musician, Emerson Lake and Palmer/Asia/Carl Palmer TrioAntonio Pappano Pianist/conductor/music director, Royal Opera HouseCornelia Parker ArtistTim Parry Managing director, Big LifeLluís Pasqual Artistic director, Teatre LliureMichael Pawlyn Founder, Exploration ArchitectureRicardo Peach Director, Vrystaat Kunstefees/Arts Festival/Tsa-BotjhabaMick Perrin Director, WorldwideGlen Phillips Musician, Toad/The Wet SprocketBruno Pieters Fashion designerRobert Plant MusicianJustin ‘El Niño’ Porée Musician, OzomatliKevin Price COO, BaftaHeydon Prowse Satirist/comedianPhilip Pullman WriterPeter Quicke Ninja TuneChristopher Raeburn Fashion designerJonathan Reekie CEO, Somerset HouseJohn Reid President of Concerts Live NationDamien Rice MusicianRobin Rimbaud Musician/composer ScannerTimo Rissanen Fashion designerHenry Rollins MusicianTanya Ronder PlaywrightDavid de Rothschild Ecologist, Sculpt the Future FoundationCaroline Rush CEO, British Fashion CouncilDavid Ryding Director, City of Literature MelbourneMark Rylance ActorJay Ryves Art director, Future ClassicMaibritt Saerens ActorAruna Sairam Singer, US Congressional/Padma Shri awardeeLarry Sakin Green entrepreneurShaheen Samad SingerJosh Schachter PhotographerElisabeth Schweeger CEO/Artistic director, Academy for Performing Art Baden-Württemberg/President MITOS21Jess Search CEO, BRITDOCHelen Searle LawyerPhilip Selway Musician, RadioheadGraça Seligman PhotographerOrlando Senna Film directorElif Shafak WriterKamila Shamsie WriterAlice Sharp Artist/curatorZakee Shariff DesignerJane Shepherdson CEO, WhistlesStefan Siegel Founder/CEO, Not Just A LabelLucy Siegle Writer/broadcasterAsdrubal Sierra Musician, OzomatliLily Silverton Features director, Hunger MagazineJustine Simons Chair, World Cities Culture ForumJoe Smith Cultural commentatorJohn Smith General secretary, Musicians’ UnionPaul Smith Director, Oxford University Museum of Natural HistoryCarry Somers Designer/co-founder, Fashion RevolutionAlistair Spalding CEO, Sadler’s WellsDinaz Stafford FilmmakerSóley Stefánsdóttir MusicianNick Starr Co-founder, London Theatre CompanySting MusicianHelen Storey DesignerJosh Sundquist Manager, Middle West ManagementMeera Syal ActorAdrian Sykes ManagerSeth TabatznikIphigenia Taxopoulou General secretary, MITOS21Juergen Teller Fashion photographerNeil Tennant Musician, Pet Shop BoysMartin Terefe Music producerJohn ThackaraKenneth Olumuyiwa TharpEmma Thompson ActorAlison Tickell Founder, Julie’s BicycleJohn Tiffany Theatre directorHarold TillmanAmon Tobin MusicianSteve Tompkins ArchitectRuth Ben Tovim Creative director, Encounters ArtsPhilip Treacy MillnerKT Tunstall MusicianGavin Turk ArtistRenata Tyszczuk ArtistWally Valdez Musician, OzomatliDiana Verde Nieto CEO, Positive LuxuryCarla Visi SingerDubravka Vrgoč Artistic director, Croatian National Theatre/President ETCTony Wadsworth Chairman, Julie’s BicycleAlexander Walter Director, WOMEXRussell Warby WME EntertainmentNeil Warnock The Agency GroupSteve Waters PlaywrightSara Watkins Musician, Nickel CreekCilla Ware TV drama directorChristina Wendelboe DramaturgeAlison Wenham CEO, AIMVivienne Westwood DesignerHeidi Wiley General secretary, European Theatre ConventionTim Wilson Musician, Ivan and AlyoshaDilys Williams Designer, Sustainable FashionGrace Woodward Fashion stylist/presenterJiro Yamaguchi Musician, OzomatliThom Yorke Musician, RadioheadBrian Yost President, On-Site Products Live NationBaroness Lola Young of HornseyMadani Younis Artistic director, Bush TheatreAda Zanditon Fashion designer |
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