Thinking about participatory art

‘We want to be remembered.’

‘Sometimes you’ve got to take risks for the unknown. You don’t know what you are going into but you’ve got

The end of Welfare State Ulverston is a country town a mile or two from Morecambe Bay, in North West

Teaching failure Did you learn to play a musical instrument as a child? Classical music is a pinnacle of human

For the past three years, I’ve been researching a book about community art and participatory art, with the support of the

People are standing on the wooded slopes of Dotrščina park, their faces turned up towards the late September sunshine. Some

The British community arts movement was a loose grouping of artists who began their professional lives during the 1960s and

Jussi Lehtonen, Finnish National Theatre Introduction The Finnish National Theatre in Helsinki is involved in a range of work with

There was a time when I thought that community art had to be rooted in contemporary forms of art. I

Working in community art often feels precarious, certainly in comparison to more institutionalised areas of the arts sector. Funding tends

‘I think people with learning difficulties have had quite a bad deal in life and I think this is finally