England – A Restless Art

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

More insights from the past: the London Community Video Archive is a fantastic showcase of the work being made in the

Community is such a complicated word because it points towards a profound yet contested aspect of human experience. Most people

‘Care in the Community’ was a flagship policy of the third Thatcher government at the end of the 1980s. It

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

‘We simply want to say we’re all human beings, and we really mean it, when we think: This could

Theatre changes people. Mostly, it does so in small ways by rearranging our mental furniture, hanging around for a bit

Almost imperceptibly participatory art is becoming an ordinary dimension of social programmes. It has happened quietly over two or three

Farnham is a handsome market town in Surrey, an ancient place with a castle, Roman roads and hill forts. It