Music – Thinking about participatory art

Curtain

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

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

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

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

The end of Welfare State Ulverston is a country town a mile or two from Morecambe Bay, in North West

Teaching failure Did you learn to play a musical instrument as a child? Classical music is a pinnacle of human

Ed Carroll and Vita Gelūnienė live in Kaunas (Lithuania) where they have been exploring ways of creating community art for

Participatory art depends on many things, including some that it is easy, in more affluent parts of the world, to

Rural touring is not a participatory art, but it is participatory culture. Why the distinction? Because in rural touring participation

This text and its photographs are taken from ‘Where We Dream: West Bromwich Operatic Society and the Fine Art