Community art – A Restless Art

‘The MIAAW Monthly’, a cultural democracy email

For the last couple of years, I’ve been doing a podcast with Arlene Goldbard, in which we talk with like-minded people

When I began in community art, the photocopier was new technology. In the printshop where I was an apprentice, we

On Tuesday, I facilitated a talk for the Scottish Culture Collective by my friend Heba El Cheikh. She spoke about her work as a

TL;DR? No. In the 1980s, when the first generation of community artists had been around for long enough to feel

It was the end of a long day. We’d run out of time and the guards needed to get us

Today will see the third performance of O Tempo (Somos Nós) , “Time (It’s Us), this time at the Gulbenkian Concert

Between the Traction opera performances in the prison last week, and those that will take place in Lisbon at the

Three days ago, anticipating the first performance of the Leiria prison opera, I wrote that I didn’t expect to see

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

Evaluation has become a dominant preoccupation in participatory art in the past generation. It’s a fascinating field, and I’ve played