How participation won, and why it matters
It’s messy, difficult, compromised—but at its best community art can be joyously emancipatory. It shows us that we will only find pathways to a better place if we work together. We need each other. And we need to keep asking questions we can’t answer.
Valleys Kids shows how close community art and community development can be, especially when work is rooted and sustained. The
I only saw The Public from a distance, from the other side of the Midlands, but I liked what I
Today, I got to speak at the European Parliament, at a conference organised by the Progressive Alliance of Socialists &
In my view community arts must still be regarded as an experiment—an experiment in ‘cultural democracy’ of great importance not
Today, I turn sixty. Such anniversaries are foreseeable, and this one’s long presence on my personal horizon was a reason
This is a quick post to let people know that Alison Jeffers’ and Gerri Moriarty’s book about the first 20
If you’ve read some of the material published on this site, I hope you’ll understand why I describe participatory
There are very few books about community art in Britain, despite its 50 year history. The key texts are: 1978, Artists
In 1976, the Council of Europe organised a conference of European ministers with responsibility for cultural affairs in Oslo ‘to
