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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 13, 2017 A Restless Art / England / Film / First Generation

London Community Video Archive

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

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September 24, 2017 A Restless Art / England / Portugal / Theatre

Talking about community

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

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August 24, 2017 A Restless Art / Case studies / England / Ethics / Photography / Second generation

‘Have I got to go somewhere?’

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

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June 28, 2017 A Restless Art / England / Music / Scotland / Theatre / Wales

Rural touring and cultural democracy

Rural touring is not a participatory art, but it is participatory culture. Why the distinction? Because in rural touring participation

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May 27, 2017 A Restless Art / England / Music / Opera / Skills / Theatre

Amateurs and professionals

  This text and its photographs are taken from ‘Where We Dream: West Bromwich Operatic Society and the Fine Art

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February 6, 2017 A Restless Art / Case studies / England / Theatre

True to the art – Cardboard Citizens

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

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January 22, 2017 A Restless Art / England / Portugal / Spain / Theatre

‘A gift for fiction’

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

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October 20, 2016 A Restless Art / Applied art / Case studies / England / Film / Theatre

Moments of Joy

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

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October 4, 2016 A Restless Art / Applied art / Craft / Education / England / Third generation / Visual art

2 – A Fun Palace reimagined in Farnham

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

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