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Category: Community arts

16 April 2021 Community arts / Guest posts / Thinking

Funding community arts – this month’s episode of ‘A Culture of Possibility’

In the fourth episode of our monthly podcast Arlene Goldbard and I talk about how community art is funded in

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30 October 2020 Community arts / Regular Marvels / Thinking / This changes everything

Art and love

Last night, in an effort to arrest a rapidly-rising Covid-19 infection rate, France returned to a strict lockdown. Until at

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6 September 2020 Community arts / Thinking / This changes everything

The Importance of Community, Part 1

It’s been almost two months since the last post on this site, a silence that may be accounted for by

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13 July 2020 Community arts / Thinking / This changes everything

Clinging on in a tsunami: the arts and mental health

Since the beginning of 2020, the Baring Foundation has focused its arts support on the needs of people with metal

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1 June 2020 Community arts / Thinking

The Roots of War: Continuing a conversation with Arlene Goldbard

A couple of weeks ago, I published a text on the ethics of participatory art by Arlene Goldbard on A

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17 April 2020 Community arts / Thinking / This changes everything

Body and dance in the era of Coronavirus: A View from Colombia

Since 1997, Álvaro Restrepo has dedicated his energy to El Colegio del Cuerpo, a visionary dance centre in Cartagena de

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13 April 2020 Community arts / This changes everything

The power of art

Last night, Streetwise Opera replayed the film of their 2016 production, The Passion, on YouTube, for a world in the grip

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2 April 2020 Community arts / Thinking / This changes everything

This is what we’re trying to protect

Everyone knows the theatres are closed, along with cinemas, concert halls, museums and galleries. Yesterday, the 2020 Edinburgh Festivals were

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5 March 2020 Community arts / Talks / Thinking

People and places

The cultural dimension of places has become a common subject of policy, academic discourse and art projects. I don’t remember

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23 February 2020 Community arts / Regular Marvels

Returning to Regular Marvels

Ten years ago, I made a website called, Regular Marvels, to support what became a series of five creative projects,

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  • A Selfless Age? From ‘Winter Fires’ to ‘1001 Stories’21 April 2023
  • Time to go inward4 April 2023
  • Principles of co-creation24 March 2023
  • MIAAW LIVE! Inaugural Event14 March 2023
  • Co-creating Opera: Presenting the learning from the Traction project22 February 2023
  • Old Words #11 – ‘All in this together’6 January 2023
  • More carpenters than jackasses1 January 2023
  • Guest post: Arlene Goldbard on her new book16 December 2022
  • Old Words #10 – ‘Approximate Visions’2 December 2022
  • There exists a genuine mystery at the heart28 November 2022
  • Radical Hope: Carol Bebelle on Belonging, Becoming, and Healing18 November 2022
  • A museum is a strange place13 November 2022

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    1. François Matarasso on A Selfless Age? From ‘Winter Fires’ to ‘1001 Stories’24 April 2023

      Thanks Rebecca - have a wonderful opening day of rehearsal x

    2. Rebecca Manson Jones on A Selfless Age? From ‘Winter Fires’ to ‘1001 Stories’24 April 2023

      Oh what a perfect post to read on this first day of rehearsal for On The Beach a sensory show…

    3. François Matarasso on Time to go inward4 April 2023

      Oh, I'm wandering lost, for sure, thinking we owe the new generation something better than we've got.

    4. belfastguzzi on Time to go inward4 April 2023

      Well you know there are folk (even now / more so now) feeling totally lost in forging ahead (not to…

    5. jennifer hinves on Principles of co-creation24 March 2023

      Brilliant project! Well done all the co-creators.

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