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Category: Projects

Posts about arts projects and creative practice

August 24, 2018 A Restless Art / Guest contributions / Ireland / Projects / Third generation / Visual art

‘Just our imagination’

Bridget Lambert has spent the summer painting a tribute to Dolores O’Riordan with children in rural Limerick.  The singer, who

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August 1, 2018 A Restless Art / Ethics / Professional artists / Projects / Third generation / Where do you stand?

On volunteering: who gets paid (cont.)

A few days ago, I wrote a post about who does, could or should get paid for their time in

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July 1, 2018 A Restless Art / Circus / Disability art / England / Opera / Projects / Second generation / Theatre

‘Just watch, and listen, and take in their story.’

Don’t feel guilty. Don’t feel sorry. Don’t look away. Just watch, and listen, and take in their story. This Is

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June 27, 2018 A Restless Art / England / Photography / Projects / Writing

‘It’s not a fixed or ready-made thing’

Multistory is a small art organisation based in Sandwell, an urban borough west of Birmingham that was once a cradle

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June 16, 2018 A Restless Art / Dance / Lithuania / Music / Opera / Projects / Reflexive practice / Theatre / Third generation / Visual art

Curtain

When we met on Friday morning, there was a cheerful determination to get on with what was still to be

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June 14, 2018 A Restless Art / Dance / Lithuania / Music / Opera / Projects / Reflexive practice / Theatre / Third generation / Visual art

Things get tough

Well. Today was a challenging day. First of all, I had to dance, or at least move in roughly the

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June 14, 2018 A Restless Art / Dance / Lithuania / Music / Opera / Projects / Reflexive practice / Theatre / Third generation / Visual art

Finding our voice

The last post was about trusting the process. I didn’t expect things to happen so quickly, but a morning’s work

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June 12, 2018 A Restless Art / Dance / Lithuania / Music / Opera / Projects / Reflexive practice / Third generation

Community art is a high wire act

This is often the trickiest stage of a workshop – somewhere towards the end of the first half.  The novelty

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June 11, 2018 A Restless Art / Lithuania / Opera / Projects / Third generation / Visual art

First steps in the cabbage field

The five day community arts summer school in Kaunas got off to a prompt start at 9am this morning. Twenty

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June 10, 2018 A Restless Art / Dance / Lithuania / Opera / Projects / Reflexive practice / Theatre / Visual art

The Cabbage Field: First impressions

The Cabbage Field is part of a former barracks in Šančiai, a suburb of Kaunas (Lithuania). The site was established by

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