Hosted by Stella Ioannou, Sculpture in the City Artistic Director & LACUNA Founding Director; joined by Fatoş Üstek, Co-Founder & Managing Director of FRANK (Fair Artist Pay); Ying Tan, Senior Programmes Manager at Art Fund; and James Roe, Art & Design Lead at The Aldgate School.

Join Sculpture in the City & LACUNA once again at the long table, as they ask, what does the future for the creative industries look like?

Within the context of the arts, ‘A Labour of Love’ is often defined as a creative endeavour undertaken primarily for personal passion & pleasure rather than for financial gain, recognition or obligation.

In the UK, nearly two and a half million people are employed across the creative industries, which, in 2022, added £124.6 billion to the economy (more value that the life science, aerospace and automotive sectors combined). The number of GCSE entries to creative subjects has fallen by 42% since 2010, and numbers have dipped to just 49% of the target number for trainee arts teachers*.

*Data courtesy of The Arts & Mind Campaign – further data can be found here.

A welcoming place to ask questions and share experiences.

A Lois Weaver Long Table format is a dinner party structured by etiquette, where conversation is the only course.

To secure your free place, please book here

When: Monday 16 March, 6pm to 8pm

Where: Private Dining Room, Fazenda, 100 Bishopsgate, EC2M 1GT

Should you have any questions or access needs you would like to share with the team, please email alice@lacuna-projects.com.

Please Note:

Complimentary drinks and bar snacks are available to all guests.
On arrival, please inform the main desk that you are here for ‘Sculpture in the City’s Sculpting Perspectives: A Labour of Love’ where you will be directed to the event space.
Photography will be taking place at this event. Should you not wish to be snapped, please inform a member of the team during the event.
Audio Recording will be taking place at this event. This recording may be translated into a written public document & resource. All guests will remain anonymous.

About The Long Table:

The Long Table is a format for discussion that uses the setting of a domestic dinner table as a means to generate public conversation. Conceived in 2003 by Lois Weaver in response to the divided nature of conventional panel discussions, the Long Table allows voices to be heard equally, disrupting hierarchical notions of ‘expertise.’ It was inspired by Maureen Gorris’s film Antonia’s Line, the central image of which is a dinner table getting longer and longer to accommodate a growing family of outsiders, eccentrics and friends – until finally it has to be moved outside. Since then, the Table has been set at institutions and festivals worldwide and invited hundreds of people to sit and share their views on myriad topics. The Long Table is an opensource format; anyone is welcome to use it as a means of generating discussion on any subject you choose.