What happens when ideas, frustrations and dreams meet across age, geography and education? With our partners, we set out to answer that question, when we created a national gathering for cultural entrepreneurs.

The result was Culture Kicks Back – a knowledge festival built on openness, curiosity, and agenda-setting conversations. Panels became workshops, networks became friendships, and collaborations became alliances. Culture Kicks Back created a space for reflection, inspiration, exchange, and the development of practical tools to build stronger, fairer, and more sustainable cultural futures.

In many ways, the festival became more than a single event – it became a multi-year shared platform and a network where culture doesn’t just exist, but is reborn as a space for action.