theconversation.com: You are never far away from culture in Liverpool. The forthcoming host of the 2023 Eurovision Song Contest on Ukraine’s behalf has long pioneered the idea of “arts as life support” – via initiatives such as The Life Rooms, which uses a library and theatre (among other sites) to engage people in cultural activities as part of its social health model.
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People always tell us that artists have the power to change the world, and in this article that is shown. The artist community in Liverpool helped to lift up the community during the pandemic. Many of the people that lived in Liverpool during the pandemic struggled from mental health like anxiety, depression and overall sense of loneliness. One in five adults experienced this during the pandemic in Liverpool. However, with the use of digital technology and a sense of pride in one community, Liverpool had many different artists create a community online via zoom and other platforms to combat that loneliness that was sweeping the country. The pandemic taught Liverpool a lot about themselves as a county but also it helped the diverse cultural organizations learn more about their role to help build up the general population. The pandemic was able to create a new lens of looking at things in the art community and now we see just how effective art is on the general public.
It's so wonderful to hear about an Arts community that is helping their larger community in so many ways. I think that this was a really nice read. As someone who struggled a lot during the pandemic, I really found that art (of all sorts helped me, and that community helped me. I will say, I have never heard of a community that is so closely knit with their artists in this kind of way but I think there's something really amazing to it. I've done a lot of thinking on the subject, and I believe that for each and every human, in some capacity, art is the kind of work that may not be necessary in order to survive (although it usually is), but it is absolutely necessary in order to live. Art provides us with an outlet, it provides us with a community, it provides us with something more than just the idea of success. To me, art is what turns a house into a home, even in a less than literal sense.
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