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Tag: Art work with people

A Selfless Age? From ‘Winter Fires’ to ‘1001 Stories’

Gwen Sewell and Rosie Wheatland, iPad painting by Mik Godley from Winter Fires (2012) I think about unravelling it, but … More

Art work with people, Arts and older people, Community art, Cultural democracy, Participatory art

Principles of co-creation?

Three years after it began, the Traction project is finally complete. A review meeting with the European Commission two weeks … More

Art work with people, Community art, Cultural democracy, opera, Participatory art, Traction

This is special

In the dusty hall of a disused prison workshop, 30 people shuffle into a big circle. Silence falls. They draw … More

Art work with people, Community art, opera, Participatory art, Traction

Building a bridge

Suddenly, we are there. In the next six months, a series of performances will test everything we have imagined, planned, organised and created. There are dates. There will be audiences

Art work with people, Community art, Community theatre, Cultural democracy, opera

The difference between a professional and a non-professional artist – Part 3

In the previous post, I outlined a range of resources that professional artists can draw on in their work, including … More

Art work with people, Community art, ethics, INO, Participatory art, Traction

Chór POLIN

The POLIN Choir is an ambitious and sustained initiative to develop the relationship between a new museum and the community in which it stands.

Art work with people, Community art, Participatory art

Work in progress

In the heart of midwinter, people in Kaunas shared their community opera as a work in progress, a 40 minute celebration of

Art work with people, Community art, Lithuania, opera

‘Brave people with big eyes’

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

Art practice, Art work with people, community, Community art, Community music, Community theatre, John Fox, Quality, Sue Gill, Theatre, Welfare State International

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 … More

Art practice, Art work with people, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Community art, Murals, Newark

The Lawnmowers

The Lawnmowers are a theatre company run by and for people with learning disabilities. Founded in 1986 by Them Wifies, … More

Art work with people, Arts and disability, Arts and learning disability, Participatory art, The Lawnmowers, Theatre for social change

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