It’s Fun Palaces weekend
When I was a young and earnest community artist, I bridled at the word fun. The art we made wasn’t
Category: Democratisation of culture
Searching for light in the participatory museum
For the past three months, I’ve been following a Museums Association initiative called Partnerships with Purpose. It builds on 10 years of
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
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
A Restless Art 