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      • O Portland Inn Projeto – Um caso de estudo de arte participativa
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Category: Cultural democracy

March 24, 2019 A Restless Art / Cultural democracy / Film / Portugal / Projects / Third generation

‘Cidade’, Terratreme

The Portuguese edition of A Restless Art will be published on 9 May 2019, and we are making final corrections

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March 3, 2019 A Restless Art / Art and older people / Cultural democracy / Disability art / England / Writing

I remember workshops

For several weeks, I’ve been facilitating creative writing workshops in Leicester. The project, commissioned by Writing East Midlands with the

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February 22, 2019 Book extracts / Cultural democracy / Music / Poland / Projects / Third generation

Chór POLIN

The POLIN Choir is an ambitious and sustained initiative to develop the relationship between a new museum and the community in which it stands.

December 5, 2018 A Restless Art / Cultural democracy / France / Third generation / Visual art / Where do you stand?

A brief observation on aerosols

Sometimes you miss the obvious thing, even when you’ve been looking at it for years. Yesterday, as I walked along

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November 28, 2018 A Restless Art / Cultural democracy / Where do you stand?

Everyone can cook

The idea that everyone can be an artist has always underpinned my work. It seems straightforward to me, but some

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November 13, 2018 A Restless Art / Cultural democracy / England / First Generation / Second generation

An elegy for ‘The Public’

I only saw The Public from a distance, from the other side of the Midlands, but I liked what I

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October 18, 2018 A Restless Art / Cultural democracy / First Generation / Where do you stand?

Cultural democracy and the European Parliament

Today, I got to speak at the European Parliament, at a conference organised by the Progressive Alliance of Socialists &

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October 12, 2018 A Restless Art / Cultural democracy / Democratisation of culture / England / Europe / France / Germany / Ireland / Lithuania / Netherlands / Northern Ireland / Portugal / Professional artists / social change / Third generation / Where do you stand?

Is there a community arts movement once more?

ICAF (the International Community Arts Festival in Rotterdam) has just published a photo book of the 2017 edition, and an

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October 6, 2018 A Restless Art / Cultural democracy / Democratisation of culture / England / First Generation / Funding / Quotes / Scotland / Wales

One for the historians

In my view community arts must still be regarded as an experiment—an experiment in ‘cultural democracy’ of great importance not

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September 29, 2018 A Restless Art / Cultural democracy / First Generation / History / Reflexive practice / Second generation / Third generation

Relieved of duty

Today, I turn sixty. Such anniversaries are foreseeable, and this one’s long presence on my personal horizon was a reason

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