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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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December 31, 2019 A Restless Art / Ireland / Lithuania / Opera / Portugal / Spain

Next steps for ‘A Restless Art’

The publication of A Restless Art, long-delayed, is now almost a year in the past. Time has flown, and the

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May 20, 2019 A Restless Art / Ireland / Portugal / Where do you stand?

Let’s talk about money

In the past ten days, I have visited two exceptional community art projects: ACERT in Tondela (Portugal) and Cork Community

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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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August 24, 2018 A Restless Art / Guest contributions / Ireland / Projects / Third generation / Visual art

‘Just our imagination’

Bridget Lambert has spent the summer painting a tribute to Dolores O’Riordan with children in rural Limerick.  The singer, who

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July 9, 2018 A Restless Art / Ireland / Reflexive practice / Third generation

What’s in a name?

When I began thinking about this project, several years ago, I was determined to avoid the marshlands of jargon. Participatory

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December 20, 2017 A Restless Art / Circus / Guest contributions / Ireland / Lithuania / Music / Theatre / Third generation / Visual art

Lanterns on the Cabbage Field

Ed Carroll and Vita Gelūnienė live in Kaunas (Lithuania) where they have been exploring ways of creating community art for

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May 22, 2016 A Restless Art / Dance / Ireland / Music / Photography / Theatre / Visual art

Inspiring change – the arts and older people in Ireland

Bealtaine must be one of the happiest arts festivals I know. Founded in 1995, it involves thousands of older people

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