‘It’s given us permission to play, to take part, to engage.’
‘A Fun Palace is not a fete. It’s not about coming along and having a lovely time. It’s not audience
Category: Music
Curtain
When we met on Friday morning, there was a cheerful determination to get on with what was still to be
Things get tough
Well. Today was a challenging day. First of all, I had to dance, or at least move in roughly the
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
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
‘Brave people with big eyes’
The end of Welfare State Ulverston is a country town a mile or two from Morecambe Bay, in North West
‘And every single one of them is a musician of real quality.’
Teaching failure Did you learn to play a musical instrument as a child? Classical music is a pinnacle of human
Lanterns on the Cabbage Field
Ed Carroll and Vita Gelūnienė live in Kaunas (Lithuania) where they have been exploring ways of creating community art for
Access to the means of cultural production
Participatory art depends on many things, including some that it is easy, in more affluent parts of the world, to
Rural touring and cultural democracy
Rural touring is not a participatory art, but it is participatory culture. Why the distinction? Because in rural touring participation
