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October 18, 2018 A Restless Art / Cultural democracy / First Generation / Where do you stand?

Cultural democracy and the European Parliament

Today, I got to speak at the European Parliament, at a conference organised by the Progressive Alliance of Socialists &

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October 6, 2018 A Restless Art / Cultural democracy / Democratisation of culture / England / First Generation / Funding / Quotes / Scotland / Wales

One for the historians

In my view community arts must still be regarded as an experiment—an experiment in ‘cultural democracy’ of great importance not

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September 29, 2018 A Restless Art / Cultural democracy / First Generation / History / Reflexive practice / Second generation / Third generation

Relieved of duty

Today, I turn sixty. Such anniversaries are foreseeable, and this one’s long presence on my personal horizon was a reason

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September 25, 2018 A Restless Art / Cultural democracy / England / First Generation / Northern Ireland / Research / Scotland / Wales

(Other people) thinking about cultural democracy

This is a quick post to let people know that Alison Jeffers’ and Gerri Moriarty’s book about the first 20

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September 16, 2018 A Restless Art / Ethics / First Generation / Guest contributions / India / Netherlands / New Zealand / Philippines / Reflexive practice / Research / Second generation / Theatre / Third generation / Where do you stand?

Restless Research: Confessions of a Confused Community Art Scholar

  If you’ve read some of the material published on this site, I hope you’ll understand why I describe participatory

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July 30, 2018 A Restless Art / Education / England / First Generation / Reflexive practice / Research / Scotland / Second generation / Third generation / Wales / Writing

Why are there so few books about community art?

There are very few books about community art in Britain, despite its 50 year history. The key texts are: 1978, Artists

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May 23, 2018 A Restless Art / Cultural democracy / Europe / First Generation / Norway

What cultural democracy meant in 1976

In 1976, the Council of Europe organised a conference of European ministers with responsibility for cultural affairs in Oslo ‘to

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May 15, 2018 A Restless Art / Art and older people / Case studies / Disability art / England / First Generation / Second generation / Theatre

‘We want to be remembered.’

‘Sometimes you’ve got to take risks for the unknown. You don’t know what you are going into but you’ve got

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May 1, 2018 Case studies / Circus / England / First Generation / Music / Opera / Theatre / Visual art

‘Brave people with big eyes’

The end of Welfare State Ulverston is a country town a mile or two from Morecambe Bay, in North West

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February 20, 2018 First Generation / Projects

Understanding the resilience of community art

Working in community art often feels precarious, certainly in comparison to more institutionalised areas of the arts sector. Funding tends

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