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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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October 26, 2015 Music / Opera / Portugal

Against the odds: Opera in a Portuguese prison

The old carpentry workshop looks like something from Piranesi’s Carceri, which seems appropriate since it’s in the Youth Prison of

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October 20, 2015 A Restless Art / Music / Photography / Theatre

Participatory art in Portugal

Two or three years ago, I began to hear about some of the participatory arts projects happening in Portugal and

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September 22, 2015 A Restless Art

Introducing ‘A Restless Art’

What is community art and where is it going? Whether you call it community art, participatory art or something else

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