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August 30, 2016 A Restless Art / Dance / England / Ethics / Reflexive practice / Second generation

Men & Girls Dance – Successful risk-taking in participatory art

‘That’s a bad idea.’ It was months ago and I don’t remember now who told me about a proposed dance project

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June 24, 2016 A Restless Art / England / Scotland / Theatre

ACTA Community Theatre Festival

The acta community theatre festival was held in Bristol last week, and featured performances by acta’s own Malcolm X Elders,

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May 30, 2016 A Restless Art / Case studies / England / First Generation / Second generation / Visual art

Murals, craft and community art in the 1980s

My early steps in community art In 1982, I got a job as a community arts worker on a council

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May 26, 2016 A Restless Art / Applied art / England / Visual art

Older artists working with older people

The Baring Foundation (of which I’m a trustee) has prioritised arts work with older people since 2009, supporting the a

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March 30, 2016 A Restless Art / England / First Generation

English visionaries: John Fox, Sue Gill and Welfare State

A few weeks ago, I spent a day with John Fox and Sue Gill at their home on Morecambe Bay.

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March 28, 2016 A Restless Art / Dance / England / Music / Opera / Second generation / Theatre

The difficulty of thinking outside of the box

Community and participatory art has long roots in Britain. Its practice owes much to ideas that were developed in the

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November 6, 2015 A Restless Art / Comics / England / Film / Reflexive practice

Radical Vulnerability – The Making of Art Lady

The remarkable comes in all shapes and sizes. Last week it was an inspired performance of Mozart by prison inmates.

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November 3, 2015 England / First Generation

Slipping into history

‘The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.’ L.P. Hartley, The Go Between (1953) Part of what

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October 21, 2015 Case studies / England / Film / First Generation / Photography / Projects

‘Integrate life and work and friendship’

Integrate life and work and friendship. Don’t tie yourself to institutions. Live cheaply and you’ll remain free. And then, do

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