Talking about the ethics of participatory art
When I invited Arlene Goldbard to take up this virtual residency, it seemed a simple idea, and so it has
Category: Theatre
What did you do in the pandemic, daddy?
On Tuesday, I’d planned to go to Leeds to meet Alan Lane of Slung Low, and learn at first hand
It’s still A Dead Good Life
At the beginning of the year, The Lawnmowers premièred the movie that we’ve been working on. I wrote about how
When we were in the streets
With everything that is happening to us, I’ve rather neglected this site recently, writing elsewhere about community opera and how
ICAF is cancelled
The speed and depth of the events we are all now living through takes my breath away. Just a month
None of this is easy
A couple of days ago, I gave a lecture about art in criminal justice contexts. It’s not a field in
Anne Peaker Memorial Lecture
Tomorrow evening at the Young Vic Theatre in London, I will give the 10th Annual Anne Peaker Memorial lecture, on
‘Trans nature is diverse’ – a theatre project in Uruguay
Jussi Lehtonen, whose community work at the National Theatre of Finland features in A Restless Art, got in touch to
Work in progress
In the heart of midwinter, people in Kaunas shared their community opera as a work in progress, a 40 minute celebration of
Restless Research: Confessions of a Confused Community Art Scholar
If you’ve read some of the material published on this site, I hope you’ll understand why I describe participatory
