The gift of close reading
Last month, at the launch of A Restless Art, the novelist and campaigner Stella Duffy spoke powerfully about how much
Last month, at the launch of A Restless Art, the novelist and campaigner Stella Duffy spoke powerfully about how much
Now that I don’t have to write, I’m rediscovering the pleasure of reading, especially around the subject that has occupied
Too long; didn’t read? Fair enough: so here’s a quick summary of the ground covered in the book: 80.000 words reduced to about 1,350
A Bao A Qu is a small Catalan organisation, founded in 2004 by friends passionate about sharing their love of cinema,
Valleys Kids shows how close community art and community development can be, especially when work is rooted and sustained. The
Thank you to all the artists, professional and non-professional, who have shared this journey and trusted me with your work.
Community art is the creation of art as a human right, by professional and non-professional artists, co-operating as equals, for purposes and to standards they set together, and whose processes, products and outcomes cannot be known in advance.
Participatory art The term participatory art is used in the arts, policy and academia to signify a very wide range
In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, culture stands between participation and community. Those words express the concepts most widely used to describe art made collaboratively by professional and non-professional artists: participatory art and community art.
In the heart of midwinter, people in Kaunas shared their community opera as a work in progress, a 40 minute celebration of