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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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18 July 2021 Traction

Still thinking about co-creation

In March, I posted a question on Twitter about co-creation.  What do artists mean by ‘co-creation’? I’m writing about the

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

Final proofs: Writing from Boston’s Lockdown

We’ve almost made a book. The final proofs went out to the writers of ‘Wish You Were Here’ on 1

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14 June 2021 Regular Marvels II / Traction / Uncategorized

Learning the right lessons

Ten days ago, at home in France, I watched a live stream of a performance happening in Portugal. Nós. Vocês. Toda

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21 May 2021 Regular Marvels II / Traction / Uncategorized

Using digital technology in co-creation workshops

The clue’s in the name: participatory art happens when people get to participate. The closure of cinemas, theatres and music

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11 May 2021 Regular Marvels II / Uncategorized / Wish You Were Here

When the art appears

There’s no moment quite so rewarding as this. Yesterday, I sent the draft of Wish You Were Here to the authors. It’s

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8 May 2021 Regular Marvels II / Uncategorized

The promise of a garden being fulfilled

While theatre makers and artists from the Performance Ensemble work to gather 5000 flowers for the production of ‘The Promise

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31 March 2021 Uncategorized / Wish You Were Here

Writing during lockdown, together

Last night, the tenth session brought the weekly creative writing workshops to a close with some new, powerful work. Indeed,

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24 March 2021 Regular Marvels II / Traction / Uncategorized

Leaning into this uncertainty

The pandemic has caused all sorts of trouble to the Traction project, as it has to everything and everyone, everywhere.

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24 February 2021 Regular Marvels II / Wish You Were Here

Creative writing workshops over Zoom

Last night was the half-way point of ‘Wish You Were Here’, the creative writing project I’m doing in Boston (Lincolnshire).

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20 February 2021 Regular Marvels II

A Culture of Possibility #2: Community murals with Amber Hansen and Reyna Hernandez

Amber Hansen and Reyna Hernandez live in Vermillion, South Dakota, a small city of about 10,000 people in the American Mid-West. Both women came

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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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