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19 June 2013 Experiences / Thinking

‘There’s no insurance against life’

Dementia has become the fate worse than death that haunts the imagination of Western societies. It is the price we

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21 May 2013 Asides / Thinking

Artists teaching art

Mik Godley, the artist with whom I worked on Winter Fires, is threatened with redundancy from his part-time teaching post

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5 April 2013 Research

The Swiss Cultural Programme in the Western Balkans

Next week, I will be in Sarajevo for a conference to mark the end of the Swiss Cultural Programme in

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24 January 2013 Asides / Thinking

The mailman’s authority

‘Alert always to “Wittgenstein’s distinction between all the trivia you can talk about, and all the essentials you can’t,” Steiner

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6 January 2013 Thinking

For the good of the others

‘Inform, educate and entertain’ This week, Radio 4 has been broadcasting a series of 45-minute programmes by Melvyn Bragg under the title The

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8 November 2012 Talks

Arts outreach programmes: self-development or social instruction?

On 7 November, I took part in a symposium about cultural mediation in Basel, organised by Pro Helvetia with Migros.

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6 November 2012 Talks

An even break for young artists

Three months ago, I agreed to make a ‘digital postcard’ for the engage conference, which takes place in Cardiff today

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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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