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February 20, 2021 A Culture of Possibility / A Restless Art / Cultural democracy / Podcasts / Third generation / USA / Visual art

A Culture of Possibility #2: The community murals of Amber Hansen and Reyna Hernandez

Amber Hansen and Reyna Hernandez live in Vermillion, South Dakota, a small city of about 10,000 people in the American Mid-West. Both women came

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October 3, 2020 A Restless Art / Applied art / Architecture / Circus / Comics / Craft / Cultural democracy / Dance / Film / Music / Opera / Photography / Sound art / Theatre / Third generation / Traditional art / Visual art / Writing

Holding onto community

Suddenly it’s October, and Fun Palaces weekend is here. Since its invention in 2014, the Fun Palaces idea has burst

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October 2, 2020 A Restless Art / Cultural democracy / Democratisation of culture / Ideas / social change

Participation, cultural rights and the 2020 Rome Charter

Yesterday was the opening day of an international conference, focusing on the 2020 Rome Charter that was published in the summer. Along

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September 9, 2020 Cultural democracy / Democratisation of culture / Guest contributions / Third generation

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

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September 8, 2020 A Restless Art / Cultural democracy / Democratisation of culture

Talking about culture, philanthropy and democracy (ADESTE+)

ADESTE+ is a European project dedicated to increasing cultural participation, supported by the EU’s Creative Europe funding. With 15 partners from

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September 1, 2020 A Restless Art / Cultural democracy / England

Talking with Northern Heartlands

In February, I spent a couple of days in County Durham, meeting artists and local people involved in the Northern

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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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April 15, 2020 Cultural democracy / Disability art / England / Film / First Generation / Projects / Second generation / Theatre

It’s still A Dead Good Life

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

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April 2, 2020 A Restless Art / Art and older people / Art and young people / Cultural democracy / Dance / Democratisation of culture / England / Music / social change / Third generation

This is what we’re working to protect

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

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March 30, 2020 A Restless Art / Cultural democracy / cultural diversity / Education / Projects / Spain / Theatre / Visual art

When we were in the streets

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

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