‍The arts have a tradition of sparking cultural change and ‘speaking differently’: disrupting the status quo and creating space for new ideas to engage people at an imaginative level. Through its convening powers, the arts bring people together across differences of generation, heritage, gender, class and working expertise to find commonality: all perspectives can be drawn on to create the future we want to live in. Culture helps stir up our human response and create new stories and visions to…