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Category: Theatre

Sharing control in participatory art

Participatory art is normally spoken about in terms of how people are changed by being involved. There are problems (at … More

Jeremy Deller, National Theatre Wales, Participatory art, Rufus Norris, Spencer Tunick, Theatre

ACTA Community Theatre Festival

The acta community theatre festival was held in Bristol last week, and featured performances by acta’s own Malcolm X Elders, … More

Cardboard Citizens, Community theatre, Entelechy Arts

Hands across the dangerous sea

One of the best things about a restless art has been seeing just how much great community art is happening across and beyond … More

Community art, Community theatre, Intercultural cooperation, Intercultural dialogue, Mediterranean crisis, migration, Tandem, Tandem Shaml

Inspiring change – the arts and older people in Ireland

Bealtaine must be one of the happiest arts festivals I know. Founded in 1995, it involves thousands of older people … More

Arts and older people, independent creative living, Inspiring change, Ireland, Participatory art

La creatividad y coraje: community art in Spain

ver más abajo para leer este texto en español… A performance about bodies and long lives opened Spain’s annual conference … More

Community art, Mariaantònia Oliver, Teatro de Consciencia, transFORMAS, Xamfre

The difficulty of thinking outside of the box

Community and participatory art has long roots in Britain. Its practice owes much to ideas that were developed in the … More

Arts Council England, Cardboard Citizens, Entelechy Arts, Evaluation, London, Participatory art, Streetwise Opera

Why Joan Littlewood Matters – possibly more now than ever

A guest post by Stella Duffy, theatre maker, novelist and Fun Palaces champion Joan was a working class actor and … More

Joan Littlewood, Stella Duffy, Theatre Workshop

Hope in dark days: participatory art in Greece

The crisis in Greece has slipped from the front pages as others, even more urgent, force themselves on Europe’s consciousness. … More

Community arts conferences, Europe, European cultural policy, Kathréptis, Urban Dig

Participatory art in Portugal

Two or three years ago, I began to hear about some of the participatory arts projects happening in Portugal and … More

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Portugal, Spain

The Lawnmowers

The Lawnmowers are a theatre company run by and for people with learning disabilities. Founded in 1986 by Them Wifies, … More

Art work with people, Arts and disability, Arts and learning disability, Participatory art, The Lawnmowers, Theatre for social change

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