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Category: Thinking

5 October 2022 Regular Marvels / Thinking

The night of the première

Nature doesn’t have a sense of humour, so it’s just coincidence that I’ve caught my first dose of Covid-19 in

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25 September 2022 Regular Marvels / Thinking

Virtual Realities (Part Three)

But for the first two hundred years of its life spectacle, associated in particular with stage technology – referred to

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12 September 2022 Community arts / Thinking

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

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11 September 2022 Community arts / For itself / Thinking

‘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

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7 September 2022 Community arts / Thinking

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

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4 September 2022 Community arts / For itself

Access ≠ Democracy

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

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2 September 2022 Thinking

Old Words #7: The Shoreline and the Sea

In contrast to the previous episodes in this series, this essay is a discursive reflection on the meaning of heritage,

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23 August 2022 For itself

The best of us

When I was young, I often heard it said that if Shakespeare were alive, he’d be writing for TV. Today,

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19 August 2022 For itself / Thinking / This changes everything

Will someone in government please take responsibility?

On my websites, and Twitter, I try to share stories about community art that are honest, but encouraging. Fortunately, the

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16 August 2022 For itself / Thinking

Feelings are not reality

On his appointment to the US Supreme Court in 1939 Justice William O. Douglas was told by the then Chief Justice, Charles Evans

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«Previous Posts 1 2 3 4 … 29 Next Posts»
  • 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
  • Watch the making of ‘La Gata Perduda’6 November 2022
  • Old Words #9 – ‘Another Angle of Vision’4 November 2022

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

      Brilliant project! Well done all the co-creators.

    2. François Matarasso on Radical Hope: Carol Bebelle on Belonging, Becoming, and Healing21 November 2022

      I’m so glad you enjoyed it. Fx

    3. fionahope on Radical Hope: Carol Bebelle on Belonging, Becoming, and Healing20 November 2022

      Thank you Francoise for this inspiring talk of Carol's Fiona and Mark xxxx

    4. anthonysargent0 on Watch the making of ‘La Gata Perduda’6 November 2022

      What a beautifully made film - it really captures the dynamic of this kind of intense journey ...

    5. Rebecca Manson Jones on A time of endings31 October 2022

      Thank you for all the work you share here. Wishing you well. Pondering the Twitter deletion. Haven’t been there much…

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