Ideas – A Restless Art

Between light and dark

People are standing on the wooded slopes of Dotrščina park, their faces turned up towards the late September sunshine. Some

Jussi Lehtonen, Finnish National Theatre Introduction The Finnish National Theatre in Helsinki is involved in a range of work with

There was a time when I thought that community art had to be rooted in contemporary forms of art. I

‘I think people with learning difficulties have had quite a bad deal in life and I think this is finally

Ed Carroll and Vita Gelūnienė live in Kaunas (Lithuania) where they have been exploring ways of creating community art for

The last post, which asked what an artist needs to know about the people they’re working with, drew lots of

At a conference in Sydney last week, I was able to catch up a little on current thinking in arts

Participatory art depends on many things, including some that it is easy, in more affluent parts of the world, to

‘Care in the Community’ was a flagship policy of the third Thatcher government at the end of the 1980s. It

In A Native Hill (1968) the American poet Wendell Berry writes about his decision to root his art where he