Traction – an EU research project
An article by Emanuela Barbiroglio published in Horizon, The EU Research and Innovation Magazine,10 August 2022 A prison opera and digital
Category: Guest contributions
Funding community arts – a new episode of ‘A Culture of Possibility’ podcast
In the fourth episode of our monthly podcast Arlene Goldbard and I talk about how community art is funded in
Leaning in to the uncertainty
The pandemic has caused all sorts of trouble to the Traction project, as it has to everything and everyone, everywhere.
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.
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
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.
Talking about culture, philanthropy and democracy – Part 2
Following yesterday’s post, here is Sajida Carr‘s presentation to ADESTE+. Following on from Francois talk there have aeons of activities
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
‘Just our imagination’
Bridget Lambert has spent the summer painting a tribute to Dolores O’Riordan with children in rural Limerick. The singer, who
Lanterns on the Cabbage Field
Ed Carroll and Vita Gelūnienė live in Kaunas (Lithuania) where they have been exploring ways of creating community art for
A Restless Art 