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August 19, 2020 A Restless Art / England / First Generation / Visual art

Which murals are worth saving?

Murals were a cornerstone of the early community art movement. Between the 1960s and 1990s, hundreds were painted, mostly outdoors,

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July 24, 2020 A Restless Art / England / Ireland / Netherlands / Opera / Portugal / Spain

Community opera in a pandemic

In February, I participated in the kick-off meeting of TRACTION, a Horizon 2020 project researching how digital technology can support

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April 24, 2020 A Restless Art / England

Kevin Ryan: community artist, photographer, friend

Kevin Ryan, a pioneer of community art in England, died in hospital on Wednesday, 22 April 2020. He had been

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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 13, 2020 Art and older people / England / First Generation

A story that deserves telling

Yesterday I got an email from a research student called Chloé Bradwell who wanted to contact artists who had worked

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October 14, 2019 A Restless Art / Cultural democracy / Democratisation of culture / Education / England / Europe / social change / Theatre / Visual art

Anne Peaker Memorial Lecture

Tomorrow evening at the Young Vic Theatre in London, I will give the 10th Annual Anne Peaker Memorial lecture, on

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October 3, 2019 A Restless Art / Cultural democracy / Democratisation of culture / England / Europe / social change / Third generation

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

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June 7, 2019 A Restless Art / England / Writing

Community art is improvisation

Someone asked what plan I’d prepared before the project and there was some surprise when I said that I didn’t have one, just an idea.

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