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Tag: Cultural democracy

Why Nicholas Hytner is wrong about how to save the arts in England

Curtain call of ‘La Gate Perduda’, a community opera I helped with at the Liceu Opera House, Barcelona, October 2022 … More

Community art, Cultural democracy, Participatory art

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

Community art, Cultural democracy, Participatory art

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

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

Community art, Cultural democracy, ethics

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

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

Community art, Cultural democracy, opera, Participatory art, Traction

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

Community art, Cultural democracy, opera, Traction

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

Community art, Cultural democracy, History, Participatory art, Policy

‘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

Community art, Cultural democracy, Podcasts

Access ≠ Democracy

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

Community art, Creative reflection, Cultural democracy, Democracy, learning, Skills

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