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Category: Community arts

4 January 2020 Community arts / policy / Thinking

Culture is a right, not a solution

‘This week, faith leaders, unions and others called for 2020 to be the “decade of reconciliation and reconnection”. Creating cultural

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29 September 2018 Community arts / For itself / Thinking

Relieved of duty

Today, I turn sixty. Such anniversaries are foreseeable, and this one’s long presence on my personal horizon was a reason

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21 February 2017 Community arts / Experiences / Thinking

Cultural Collaboration and Civil Society

Last year I spent some time looking at the work of Tandem, a partnership between the European Cultural Foundation and MitOst

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11 July 2015 Community arts / Experiences / Thinking

Worlds within words

Yesterday two short conversations reminded me of the pitfalls that make words so elusive, so fascinating and so important. The

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28 June 2015 Community arts / Experiences

On the futility of comparing experiences

It’s a genuine shock when the soprano hits her first note. The contrast between the purity of the sound and

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5 June 2015 Community arts

Mike White

The most potent contribution that this new field of arts practice can make is the revelation of just how creative

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23 May 2015 Community arts / Experiences

Optimism is a valuable resource

  Jubilee Arts was a pioneering community arts project founded in 1974, in West Bromwich, an industrial town west of

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16 May 2015 Community arts / Thinking

Serious stories

‘I’m certainly not doing this for some high-flown reason. I don’t consider myself to be a reformer, and I don’t

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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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