LCEPS. Infrastructures of Care and Possibility
This report was commissioned by Arts Council England to reflect on the current realities and future possibilities of Local Cultural Education Partnerships (LCEPs). Instead of restating what is already known, we wanted to ask deeper, strategic, and pedagogical questions about access, leadership, funding, and learning. The report is rooted in dialogue with those working across the sector and invites us to remake infrastructure not as delivery but as care. This isn’t just a policy tool; it’s a provocation.
Click here for the link to the report and to the ACE website.
Crowther, A., Martins, S., Page, T., Rose, B., & Steer, T. (2022). Rapid Research and Analysis of Local Cultural Education Partnerships (p. 1-43). Arts Council England. https://doi.org/10.17613/pyq3v-pp995
Below you’ll find the accompanying presentation, where I bring the report to life with voice and visuals.
Together, they offer a set of framing questions that support, not direct, LCEPs in shaping their next chapter.
This presentation is a commitment to different modes of knowledge. The report already exists. It’s there to be read. But the work of this presentation is different. It’s an invitation to think together, to dwell in the tensions and potentialities the report surfaces. Not to flatten them into findings, but to hold them open as questions.
Because what we learned through this research wasn’t just content, it was relational, processual, affective. It moved slowly. It needed care. It lived in conversations, in pauses, in frustrations. So the form of the presentation needs to hold that, not erase it. I’m not here to explain the report. I’m here to perform the ethics of the work: of listening, of withness, of holding space for what cannot be neatly packaged.