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
Thinking about culture as if people mattered
Still from ‘Ghost Town’ The Specials, 1981 THE DEPOLITICISATION OF COMMUNITY ART IN BRITAIN, 1970-2011 In 2011, I was asked
When I began in community art, the photocopier was new technology. In the printshop where I was an apprentice, we
On my websites, and Twitter, I try to share stories about community art that are honest, but encouraging. Fortunately, the
On his appointment to the US Supreme Court in 1939 Justice William O. Douglas was told by the then Chief Justice, Charles Evans
The most disheartening thing about politics today is the lack of ideas about how to make people’s lives better. That’s
On Tuesday, I facilitated a talk for the Scottish Culture Collective by my friend Heba El Cheikh. She spoke about
This month’s Old Words are unusual, since they don’t get around to the arts until the last quester of the
It’s been said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture. I’ve never been convinced. Human beings are not
Jubilee Arts was a pioneering community arts project founded in 1974, in West Bromwich, an industrial town west of
I’ve been made blue, I’ve been lied to When will I be loved? I’ve been turned down, I’ve been pushed