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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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10 June 2013 Thinking

Art’s liberating deniability

Monk: An intellectual ventriloquist: that’s an oxymoron. Nina: What’s an oxymoron? Monk: Well if you don’t know, why did I

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28 March 2013 Thinking

Artful integrity: on Alistair Cooke

In August 1983, New York experienced a heat wave of unusual ferocity. One evening, in his 15th floor apartment overlooking

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27 July 2012 Thinking

On the use of the word ‘professional’

‘Contempt for and indifference toward intellectual passions and creativity where these are not remunerative are precisely concordant with financial hierarchies.

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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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