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
2. Self-knowledge: who are you and what do you want?
Welcome to Arlene Goldbard’s virtual residency on ‘A Restless Art’, in which she shares her ideas about the values and
1. Values and Ethics of Participatory Arts Practice
Welcome to Arlene Goldbard’s virtual residency on ‘A Restless Art’, in which she will share her thinking about the values
A virtual residency by Arlene Goldbard
Arlene Goldbard is an artist and activist who has dedicated her life to social justice and cultural democracy in the
The privatisation of risk
When I began working in community arts, at the beginning of the 1980s, I was taught to consider the risks
How can community art continue?
In the first days after everything stopped, I had a series of emails and calls about work I was expecting
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
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
The ethics of community art, Part 1
See all posts on A Restless Art about ‘ETHICS’ A necessary concern with ethics is one of the ways that
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
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
