A Culture of Possibility #2: The community murals of Amber Hansen and Reyna Hernandez
Amber Hansen and Reyna Hernandez live in Vermillion, South Dakota, a small city of about 10,000 people in the American Mid-West. Both women came
Category: Ideas
Guest blog: Art as vaccination against the Covid misery
Tony Stacey is Chief Executive of South Yorkshire Housing Association, which provides over 4,000 homes in Sheffield and the wider region.
250 and counting
Awareness of mental well-being has improved greatly during my lifetime, but there’s still a long way to go before people
Guest blog – Evaluating arts programmes in health care
Many people have written about evaluating the outcomes of participation in the arts, especially in the past 20 years as
From Regular Marvels: ‘What we talk about when we talk about love’
‘You know, while doing this, going through this journey, it has changed me. And, yes, I had a spiritual inkling,
Understanding community music – can you help?
About five years ago, a group of musicians and academics set up an international research platform to foster understanding of the social
Whose (community) opera is it anyway?
Intellectual property rights have rarely been an issue during my life in community art. The projects I’ve worked consciously rejected
Participation, cultural rights and the 2020 Rome Charter
Yesterday was the opening day of an international conference, focusing on the 2020 Rome Charter that was published in the summer. Along
What we have lost, and what we hold to still
I am looking up at the third floor window of number 36 – smaller than the windows below. We know there is a window seat inside. It’s where the midwife sat, almost 18 years ago, as our daughter Hannah gave birth to Rosa May, her second child, at 6am on a clear spring morning.
Speak your truth
It’s unusual nowadays to hear anyone in the arts speak against cultural participation. The directors of museums, galleries, orchestras and theatres –
