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
Category: Research
The invisible participants
This is quite something. The European Commission has developed a tool to monitor and assess the performance of ‘Cultural and
Looking back at Bath Arts Workshop
In the course of working on A Restless Art, I’ve met many people from what I think of as the
A Restless Art – TL;DR
Too long; didn’t read? Fair enough: so here’s a quick summary of the ground covered in the book: 80.000 words reduced to about 1,350
(Other people) thinking about cultural democracy
This is a quick post to let people know that Alison Jeffers’ and Gerri Moriarty’s book about the first 20
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
Why are there so few books about community art?
There are very few books about community art in Britain, despite its 50 year history. The key texts are: 1978, Artists
Be SpectACTive!
Be SpectACTive! describes itself as ‘a European project based on audience development, involving some of the most innovative European organizations working
Need to know
At a conference in Sydney last week, I was able to catch up a little on current thinking in arts
Participation can be more important than art
My talk at last week’s SIMM-posium in Ghent was an opportunity to share some concerns about widely held assumptions in the
