‘Write this down’
It was the end of a long day. We’d run out of time and the guards needed to get us
Thinking about culture as if people mattered
It was the end of a long day. We’d run out of time and the guards needed to get us
It has been a quiet joy to spend so much time in the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s facilities in the past
Three days ago, anticipating the first performance of the Leiria prison opera, I wrote that I didn’t expect to see
In the dusty hall of a disused prison workshop, 30 people shuffle into a big circle. Silence falls. They draw
For decades, longer even, cultural policy in Europe has been imagined as a conflict between two ideas. The first is
The lockdowns and physical distancing measures introduced to contain the spread of Covid 19 have had a devastating impact on