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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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29 December 2021 Uncategorized

Life interrupted

Some personal news on my other site:  

10 December 2021 Traction

Without access, nothing is possible

For decades, longer even, cultural policy in Europe has been imagined as a conflict between two ideas. The first is

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5 October 2021 Traction / Uncategorized

Between Beckett and Homer: excellence in co-creation

There are moments in every good community art project when you watch, suspended between wonder and terror, as it takes

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20 September 2021 Uncategorized / Wish You Were Here

‘Wish You Were Here’ – Meeting at last

Yesterday, eight months after we first saw each other in the blurry haze of Zoom, the writers with whom I

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5 September 2021 Traction / Uncategorized

The difference between a professional and a non-professional artist – Part 2

What does ‘professional’ mean? Like many words, professional has changed its meaning over the course of history, adapting itself to society’s evolving

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3 September 2021 Traction

The difference between a professional and a non-professional artist – Part 1

This photograph of the artists working on Irish National Opera’s Out of the Ordinary project was taken on 20 August 2021, at

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21 August 2021 Regular Marvels II

Better together

Last night I sat in a Dublin B&B for watching a performance unfold in Leeds Playhouse through a laptop screen.

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20 August 2021 Regular Marvels II / Uncategorized

Livestream – Watch ‘The Promise of a Garden’ tonight

This week, Leeds Playhouse welcomes the public back to the theatre with ‘The Promise of a Garden’. This unusual production,

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5 August 2021 Regular Marvels II / Wish You Were Here

Trusting the process, again

In January 2021, for the first time in my life, I wrote a long, detailed outline for a community art

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25 July 2021 Regular Marvels II / Uncategorized / Wish You Were Here

‘Look! We have come through!’

‘Wish You Were Here’ – is here! Yesterday, a parcel of books was delivered to Sonya Hundal, the shadow writer

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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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