Are you trying to make sense of the world and your place in it?

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hoose one topic and write a 500–1000 word essay. Be as honest, quirky, and free as you would like to be. Remember: this is not an essay for school. We want to hear your voice and your own opinion. Use this as an opportunity to be creative, to let your thoughts roam, and to record your observations in a clear, cohesive, and engaging manner.

Your essay should be accompanied by a short biographical note where you state your date of birth, your grade/year in school or college/university and briefly introduce yourself in 100 words or fewer.

Prompt A: Creativity in Exile

Choose an art work, composition or choreography created by an artist in exile. Discuss the art work and how the experience of exile has shaped it. The artist can be either a contemporary artist or someone who lived in the past.

For inspiration, read From Berlin with Love: Nureyev – The Price of Freedom.

Prompt B: Music and Propaganda

To what extent could Dmitry Shostakovich’s 7th Symphony be used as political propaganda, or is instrumental music too open to personal interpretation to carry a fixed ideological message?

Focus on the first movement of Shostakovich’s 7th symphony, but feel free to listen to the entire symphony. This is our recommended recording.

For inspiration, read Ode to Manipulation.

Prompt C: Free Essay

Write your own “city letter.” Attend a cultural event in your city – it can be an exhibition, a concert, a performance, or something else. How does the cultural event you attended reflect the state of democracy in your city - through its themes, venue, audience, and atmosphere - and what does it reveal about who gets represented, included, or excluded from cultural life?

For inspiration, read “The Southbank Centre - Culture as a Democratic Social Good” and “On Singing, Soft Power, and the Very Best Food of My Life”

Prompt D: Music as a Force of Reconciliation

 

 

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