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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

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

At the beginning of the year, The Lawnmowers premièred the movie that we’ve been working on. I wrote about how

Everyone knows the theatres are closed, along with cinemas, concert halls, museums and galleries. Yesterday, the 2020 Edinburgh Festivals were

With everything that is happening to us, I’ve rather neglected this site recently, writing elsewhere about community opera and how

Many artists who work with people now find themselves with time on their hands as governments escalate measures to slow

Yesterday I got an email from a research student called Chloé Bradwell who wanted to contact artists who had worked

Listening to a radio discussion about failure in the arts, I asked myself why I’ve always had reservations about the

In many ways, art is a young person’s game. It’s central to how children process and share their discovery of

For as long as I can remember, the accusation of instrumentalising art has been flung at community artists, as a