History – A Restless Art

‘The MIAAW Monthly’, a cultural democracy email

For the last couple of years, I’ve been doing a podcast with Arlene Goldbard, in which we talk with like-minded people

When I began in community art, the photocopier was new technology. In the printshop where I was an apprentice, we

Early in 2020, Irish National Opera (INO) began work on an unusual community project—a new VR opera, co-created with people from three

On Tuesday, I facilitated a talk for the Scottish Culture Collective by my friend Heba El Cheikh. She spoke about her work as a

TL;DR? No. In the 1980s, when the first generation of community artists had been around for long enough to feel

Between the Traction opera performances in the prison last week, and those that will take place in Lisbon at the

In the dusty hall of a disused prison workshop, 30 people shuffle into a big circle. Silence falls. They draw

In another time, I was asked by Fuel Theatre to write the introduction for a book called Signal Fires, collecting

Regular readers (thank you for your interest) will know my admiration and affection for John Fox, Sue Gill and the

In January, I began an experiment in podcasting, following an invitation from Owen Kelly and Sophie Hope, who host an