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November 28, 2021 A Restless Art / First Generation / Second generation / Third generation / Visual art / Where do you stand?

Safari park lions

BBC Radio has just broadcast a programme entitled ‘Everyone is an Artist’. It’s part of Archive on 4, a series

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August 21, 2021 A Restless Art / Art and older people / Cultural democracy / cultural diversity / Dance / England / Music / Second generation / Theatre / Visual art

Better together

Last night I sat in a Dublin B&B for watching a performance unfold in Leeds Playhouse through a laptop screen. It was

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February 20, 2021 A Culture of Possibility / A Restless Art / Cultural democracy / Podcasts / Third generation / USA / Visual art

A Culture of Possibility #2: The community murals of Amber Hansen and Reyna Hernandez

Amber Hansen and Reyna Hernandez live in Vermillion, South Dakota, a small city of about 10,000 people in the American Mid-West. Both women came

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October 3, 2020 A Restless Art / Applied art / Architecture / Circus / Comics / Craft / Cultural democracy / Dance / Film / Music / Opera / Photography / Sound art / Theatre / Third generation / Traditional art / Visual art / Writing

Holding onto community

Suddenly it’s October, and Fun Palaces weekend is here. Since its invention in 2014, the Fun Palaces idea has burst

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August 19, 2020 A Restless Art / England / First Generation / Visual art

Which murals are worth saving?

Murals were a cornerstone of the early community art movement. Between the 1960s and 1990s, hundreds were painted, mostly outdoors,

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March 30, 2020 A Restless Art / Cultural democracy / cultural diversity / Education / Projects / Spain / Theatre / Visual art

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

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March 16, 2020 Circus / Craft / Dance / Music / Netherlands / Photography / Theatre / Third generation / Visual art

ICAF is cancelled

The speed and depth of the events we are all now living through takes my breath away. Just a month

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October 14, 2019 A Restless Art / Cultural democracy / Democratisation of culture / Education / England / Europe / social change / Theatre / Visual art

Anne Peaker Memorial Lecture

Tomorrow evening at the Young Vic Theatre in London, I will give the 10th Annual Anne Peaker Memorial lecture, on

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June 29, 2019 A Restless Art / Art and young people / Ethics / Spain / Third generation / Visual art

‘Here we found a space to think’

When I argued – as I still do – that people benefit from participating in art, it is because of its potential for learning, emancipation and empowerment. Experience changes us. Powerful experiences, such as those that come from creating art with other people, can change us deeply. But that change is something we do for ourselves: it is not done to us

December 31, 2018 A Restless Art / Dance / Lithuania / Music / Opera / Projects / Theatre / Visual art

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

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