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Category: Second generation

October 6, 2017 A Restless Art / Morocco / Music / Second generation / Skills

Access to the means of cultural production

Participatory art depends on many things, including some that it is easy, in more affluent parts of the world, to

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August 24, 2017 A Restless Art / Case studies / England / Ethics / Photography / Second generation

‘Have I got to go somewhere?’

‘Care in the Community’ was a flagship policy of the third Thatcher government at the end of the 1980s. It

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May 5, 2017 France / Music / Projects / Second generation

Lycéens à La Dynamo

(Scroll down for the English text) L’élection présidentielle française, dont le second tour aura lieu le 7 mai, remplit en

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October 5, 2016 A Restless Art / Applied art / Architecture / First Generation / Second generation / Theatre / Visual art

3 – Nearly building a Fun Palace in West Bromwich

‘But what is it for?’ was a question often asked by funders. There has been at least one serious attempt

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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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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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April 22, 2016 A Restless Art / Dance / Music / Second generation / Spain / Theatre / Third generation / Where do you stand?

La creatividad y coraje: community art in Spain

ver más abajo para leer este texto en español… A performance about bodies and long lives opened Spain’s annual conference

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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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