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Category: Third generation

June 13, 2019 Italy / Skills / Third generation

Resource: ‘The Art of Dialogue Cookbook’

The ideas vary in style, duration and resources, from a short workshop to projects lasting several months There’s are lots of nourishing stuff, some you might want to adapt and replicate, some that could just spark new ideas in your own work

March 24, 2019 A Restless Art / Cultural democracy / Film / Portugal / Projects / Third generation

‘Cidade’, Terratreme

The Portuguese edition of A Restless Art will be published on 9 May 2019, and we are making final corrections

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February 22, 2019 Book extracts / Cultural democracy / Music / Poland / Projects / Third generation

Chór POLIN

The POLIN Choir is an ambitious and sustained initiative to develop the relationship between a new museum and the community in which it stands.

January 24, 2019 Art and young people / Book extracts / First Generation / Second generation / Third generation

Valleys Kids

Valleys Kids shows how close community art and community development can be, especially when work is rooted and sustained. The

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December 5, 2018 A Restless Art / Cultural democracy / France / Third generation / Visual art / Where do you stand?

A brief observation on aerosols

Sometimes you miss the obvious thing, even when you’ve been looking at it for years. Yesterday, as I walked along

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October 12, 2018 A Restless Art / Cultural democracy / Democratisation of culture / England / Europe / France / Germany / Ireland / Lithuania / Netherlands / Northern Ireland / Portugal / Professional artists / social change / Third generation / Where do you stand?

Is there a community arts movement once more?

ICAF (the International Community Arts Festival in Rotterdam) has just published a photo book of the 2017 edition, and an

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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 26, 2018 A Restless Art / Bosnia Herzegovina / Education / Ethics / Photography / Projects / Third generation / Writing

‘Ja sam Muzej’ (Bosnia Herzegovina)

“I am the Museum” is a civil society and media action aimed to mobilize a massive citizens engagement to save

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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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September 4, 2018 A Restless Art / Applied art / Architecture / Art forms / Case studies / Circus / Comics / Craft / Cultural democracy / Dance / England / Film / Music / Opera / Photography / Scotland / Theatre / Third generation / Traditional art / Visual art / Wales / Writing

‘It’s given us permission to play, to take part, to engage.’

‘A Fun Palace is not a fete. It’s not about coming along and having a lovely time. It’s not audience

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