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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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27 June 2012 Where we dream

Where We Dream: The Film

My friend Eugène van Erven been documenting community arts for many years, both in his native Netherlands and in other

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4 June 2012 Bread and Salt

Mapping the journeys

This is my favourite. This is the last one I did and it just works so well. You gave me

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28 May 2012 Where we dream

‘Where We Dream’ on BBC local radio

‘Where We Dream’ has just featured on Adrian Goldberg’s BBC WM Radio morning show. He interviewed Sarah Moors, one of

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19 May 2012 Bread and Salt

Bill Ming, journeys of change

Different doors Bill Ming is from Bermuda, that lovely group of islands in the North Atlantic that have been a staging

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30 April 2012 Where we dream

‘Where We Dream’ published

Everybody’s a dreamer… Almost a year ago, I began a series of conversations with people in West Bromwich about their

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18 April 2012 Where we dream

Overture and beginners

Birmingham, late November 2011, early evening. Along New Street and around the Town Hall, the Christmas Market offers glühwein and

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23 March 2012 Winter fires

Ways of being an old painter

At the National Portrait Gallery, in London, there is a photograph of two painters by David Dawson. Lucian Freud stands

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16 March 2012 Where we dream

Why write about people’s life in the arts?

Where we Dream is now with the designer. Before it went, I asked a few friends who work in the arts

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12 March 2012 Winter fires

Representing people

Work on the portraits for Winter Fires continues, alongside the meetings and conversations with older artists. The aim is to produce a

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26 February 2012 Bread and Salt / Winter fires

Conditional artists

The art world divides artists into two kinds. There are artists, by which it means the acceptable figures who conform

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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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