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1 May 2021 For itself / Thinking

A question of identity

Like most people with a mixed heritage, I expect, I’ve had to think a good deal about identity—my own and

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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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1 January 2021 For itself / Thinking

Because I am involved in humankind

A little over 30 years ago—in May 1989 to be exact—the Communist authorities in Hungary began to dismantle the barbed

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27 August 2018 For itself / Thinking

Holding on to democracy

Yesterday I was asked why I accept the result of the 2016 referendum in which a majority of English and

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23 October 2014 Thinking

Why we need parliaments

Yesterday, Canada’s Parliament was attacked by an armed man. Twenty years ago, the philosopher Isaiah Berlin was awarded an Honorary

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11 July 2014 Experiences / For itself

Art across borders

Migranland It is in the nature of artistic work to reach beyond the boundaries of language, culture and context. You

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30 June 2014 Thinking

Human diversity is

I have seen the future, brother, it is murder. Leonard Cohen, The Future, (1993) From the street corner where Gavrilo

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28 May 2014 For itself

On the value of not putting things into words

It’s uncomfortable for a writer to admit, but sometimes words fail us. They seem to have done so both before

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6 April 2014 Thinking

In search of gravitas

Gravitas, the heavy tread of moral earnestness, becomes a bore if it is not accompanied by the light step of

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5 April 2014 For itself

The Budapest Observatory

  There’s has been a great increase in cultural policy data, research and commentary in recent years, reflecting culture’s greater importance in the

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  • Old Words #11 – ‘All in this together’6 January 2023
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  • Guest post: Arlene Goldbard on her new book16 December 2022
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  • 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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