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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 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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May 29, 2018 Case studies / England / Northern Ireland / Professional artists / Scotland / Second generation / Theatre / Visual art / Wales

‘I hope it was a slight jolt for the public.’

We’re here Choked by this #Somme100 commemoration. At a time when being British makes little sense, just beautiful. #wearehere Tweet

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May 15, 2018 A Restless Art / Art and older people / Case studies / Disability art / England / First Generation / Second generation / Theatre

‘We want to be remembered.’

‘Sometimes you’ve got to take risks for the unknown. You don’t know what you are going into but you’ve got

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May 1, 2018 Case studies / Circus / England / First Generation / Music / Opera / Theatre / Visual art

‘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

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March 2, 2018 A Restless Art / Case studies / Reflexive practice / Theatre / Third generation

The Syrian Civil War in a theatre workshop – and how we got over it

Jussi Lehtonen, Finnish National Theatre Introduction The Finnish National Theatre in Helsinki is involved in a range of work with

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February 6, 2018 A Restless Art / Disability art / England / Projects / Theatre

Who is changed by participatory art?

‘I think people with learning difficulties have had quite a bad deal in life and I think this is finally

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December 20, 2017 A Restless Art / Circus / Guest contributions / Ireland / Lithuania / Music / Theatre / Third generation / Visual art

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

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