Curtain call of ‘La Gate Perduda’, a community opera I helped with at the Liceu Opera House, Barcelona, October 2022 … More
Tag: Cultural democracy
Failing to write about uncertainty
A Restless Art was written from a place of relative confidence, although that confidence ebbed during the four years it took … More
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
What is a ‘selfless’ art?
To be honest, I don’t yet know. For now, it’s a signpost, pointing in the direction that seems most promising. … More
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
Co-creating Opera: Presenting the learning from the Traction project
Regular visitors to this site (and its retiring companions) will know that I have spent much of the past three … More
There is another way
A guest post by Richard Willacy, General Director, Birmingham Opera Company I’m arriving at a foyer buzzing with excitement; youth, … More
Old Words #11 – ‘All in this together’
Still from ‘Ghost Town’ The Specials, 1981 THE DEPOLITICISATION OF COMMUNITY ART IN BRITAIN, 1970-2011 In 2011, I was asked … More
‘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 … More
Access ≠ Democracy
When I began in community art, the photocopier was new technology. In the printshop where I was an apprentice, we … More
A Selfless Art 