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Category: Ethics

October 28, 2020 Ethics / Opera

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

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July 15, 2020 A Restless Art / Ethics / social change / Where do you stand?

Art for social change – or social justice?

In 1990s Britain the term community art began to be replaced by participatory arts, which many people hoped didn’t carry ‘the baggage of

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May 22, 2020 A Restless Art / Ethics / First Generation / USA

5. Practicing ethics

Welcome to Arlene Goldbard’s virtual residency on ‘A Restless Art’, in which she shares her ideas about the values and

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May 21, 2020 A Restless Art / Ethics / First Generation / USA

4. Spotting ethical challenges

Welcome to Arlene Goldbard’s virtual residency on ‘A Restless Art’, in which she shares her ideas about the values and

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May 20, 2020 A Restless Art / Ethics / First Generation / USA

3. What are your values and commitments?

Welcome to Arlene Goldbard’s virtual residency on ‘A Restless Art’, in which she shares her ideas about the values and

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May 19, 2020 A Restless Art / Ethics / First Generation / USA

2. Self-knowledge: who are you and what do you want?

Welcome to Arlene Goldbard’s virtual residency on ‘A Restless Art’, in which she shares her ideas about the values and

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May 18, 2020 A Restless Art / Ethics / First Generation / USA

1. Values and Ethics of Participatory Arts Practice

Welcome to Arlene Goldbard’s virtual residency on ‘A Restless Art’, in which she will share her thinking about the values

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May 15, 2020 A Restless Art / Ethics / USA

A virtual residency by Arlene Goldbard

Arlene Goldbard is an artist and activist who has dedicated her life to social justice and cultural democracy in the

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April 22, 2020 A Restless Art / Ethics

The ethics of community art, Part 1

See all posts on A Restless Art about ‘ETHICS’ A necessary concern with ethics is one of the ways that

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April 18, 2020 A Restless Art / Cultural democracy / England / Ethics / Theatre / Third generation

What did you do in the pandemic, daddy?

On Tuesday, I’d planned to go to Leeds to meet Alan Lane of Slung Low, and learn at first hand

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