Duncan Sones is looking forward – to a more culturally diverse and inclusive arts industry. As Chief Executive of arts training and development organisation, Metier, Sones observes while the company has been investing for the better part of 20 years in ethnic diversity programmes – not much has changed in that time in terms of attitudes towards inclusion of marginalised groups in the arts. But he now hopes that Metier’s new Creative Renewal scheme will change all that.
‘We [Metier] ourselves have struggled to create an organisation that is as diverse as we would like it to be. We were very conscious of the fact that those issues were common across the wider sector,’ says Sones, who is also Creative Renewal’s Project Manager.
