Watch the making of ‘La Gata Perduda’
Reading about ‘La Gata Perduda‘ in these posts must be a somewhat frustrating experience. After all, it has often been
Category: Community arts
Virtual realities (Part Two)
If you go to experience Out of the Ordinary/As an nGnách at the Dublin Fringe Festival today, you’ll be greeted
‘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
Four years to get here, four weeks to go
Exactly a month from now, on 7 October 2022, the second and final performance of La Gata Perduda will happen
Access ≠ Democracy
When I began in community art, the photocopier was new technology. In the printshop where I was an apprentice, we
Old Words #6: Cultural policy in a post-political age (2021-22)
Neglecting the origins and principles of cultural policy is damaging because it will lead to to confusion at best and illusion at worst, both of which will make democratic accountability more difficult. In that respect, these developments are in keeping with the powerful—and dangerous—practices of many politicians in democratic societies today. Cultural policy is not immune from this infection.
There is always an alternative. Always.
On Tuesday, I facilitated a talk for the Scottish Culture Collective by my friend Heba El Cheikh. She spoke about
Can you teach community art?
TL;DR? No. In the 1980s, when the first generation of community artists had been around for long enough to feel
Building Capabilities: Rethinking the social value of culture
Today will see the third performance of O Tempo (Somos Nós) , “Time (It’s Us), this time at the Gulbenkian
‘From little things, big things grow’
Between the Traction opera performances in the prison last week, and those that will take place in Lisbon at the
Parliament of Dreams 