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Category: social change

Co-creating Opera: Presenting the learning from the Traction project

Regular visitors to this site (and its retiring companions) will know that I have spent much of the past three … More

Community art, Cultural democracy, opera, Participatory art, Traction

There is another way

A guest post by Richard Willacy, General Director, Birmingham Opera Company I’m arriving at a foyer buzzing with excitement; youth, … More

Community art, Cultural democracy, opera, Traction

A Culture of Possibility Podcast #25 – Jasmina Ibrahimovic 

NOTE: This post is to introduce you to the 25th episode of François Matarasso’s and my monthly podcast, “A Culture … More

There is always an alternative. Always.

On Tuesday, I facilitated a talk for the Scottish Culture Collective by my friend Heba El Cheikh. She spoke about her work as a … More

Community art, Democracy, Mahatat, Port Said, Resistance

Signal Fires

In another time, I was asked by Fuel Theatre to write the introduction for a book called Signal Fires, collecting … More

Cultural democracy, Theatre

Still thinking about co-creation

In March, I posted a question on Twitter about co-creation.  What do artists mean by ‘co-creation’? I’m writing about the … More

‘What I’ve Been Looking For’

The Musicals Choir was started by Cristina Colomer, director of the Escola de Músics in Raval, for young people experiencing … More

Traction

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 … More

Art for social change – or social justice?

In 1990s Britain the term community art began to be replaced by participatory arts, which many people hoped didn’t carry ‘the baggage of … More

Arts and homelessness during Covid-19

‘Stay home’ is good advice, but it depends on having a home to stay in. Across the world, millions of … More

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