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23 June 2022 Traction / Uncategorized

‘Write this down’

It was the end of a long day. We’d run out of time and the guards needed to get us

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16 June 2022 opera / Traction / Uncategorized

Building Capabilities: Rethinking the social value of culture

Today will see the third performance of O Tempo (Somos Nós) , “Time (It’s Us), this time at the Gulbenkian Concert

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6 June 2022 Traction

The meaning of risk in community art

Three days ago, anticipating the first performance of the Leiria prison opera, I wrote that I didn’t expect to see

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3 April 2013 Bread and Salt

Intercultural dialogue as a framing device for democracy

In 2009 and 2010, I worked with the Platform for Intercultural Europe on a series of meetings, exchanges and conversations

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24 March 2013 Winter fires

A conversation about drawing

Each project in the ‘Regular Marvels’ series is a collaboration between me and an artist whose work I value. Although

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27 February 2013 Uncategorized

Angels

Mike White is an old friend who has made a huge contribution to the field of arts and health, in

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8 February 2013 A Wider Horizon

A Wider Horizon

A Regular Marvel about tastes in art Did you fall for drama in your first primary school play or learn

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6 February 2013 Bread and Salt

45 years of hope

Be Like Water – Hetain Patel The ruler has already been a language teacher’s cane and a samurai sword dancing

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1 February 2013 Winter fires

‘The Crystal Quilt’, Suzanne Lacy

On Sunday, the American artist Suzanne Lacy will create a new performance piece called Silver Action at Tate Modern in London. She has invited

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24 January 2013 Winter fires

‘When will we get rid of you?’

Elder Abuse in Kyrgyzstan There is an extraordinary series of photographs in the latest issue of Anthropology and Ageing Quarterly

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17 January 2013 Bread and Salt

Three European myths about diversity

Myth # 1: The tradition of European democracy One of the comforting myths of European society is that it is

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4 January 2013 Bread and Salt

Do. Or do not.

I was sitting in a darkened auditorium. It was a modern cinema and the chairs were big and plush and

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27 November 2012 Winter fires

Winter Fires: Book now available

Winter Fires: Art and agency in old age is published today. Old age haunts the human imagination. Nowadays, it also

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I’m a community artist, writer and researcher, working mostly in Europe. My latest book, 'A Restless Art', describes the history, theory and practice of participatory art.

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