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
Tag: community art
There exists a genuine mystery at the heart
“I believe that there exists a genuine mystery at the heart of songwriting. Certain lines can appear at the time
Radical Hope: Carol Bebelle on Belonging, Becoming, and Healing
This post from Arlene introduces the new episode of our monthly podcast, ‘A Culture of Possibility’, which is available from
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
Old Words #8: Music and Social Change
Re-reading this text, it struck me as rather dense, perhaps because it deals with questions I have thought about for
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
‘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
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
Parliament of Dreams 