Singing in the ambulance
Everything is Connected At the end of his hour long set in the Federation Hall last night, the singer introduced
Tag: ageing
A painful edge to oral history
The Light Ships is proving to be a revelation. An exploration of the church’s place in a community’s artistic life,
‘Every day in life is beautiful’
‘Music is in the first place of art. It brings us on an island with peace, beauty and love. Music
Dancing down the years
The pleasures of one generation are often incomprehensible to another. I first heard the phrase ‘Old Time and Sequence Dancing’
Bringing one’s self into the lab
An ethnographer’s perspective on drawing A few weeks after the publication of Winter Fires, I was contacted by the editor
Late flowering
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Jean, flautist with Fred’s Folks Ceilidh Band Art and wellbeing in old age [This is the…
You’ve got to laugh
It’s an old-fashioned ladies hairdressers’, on a down-at-heel high road in the West Midlands. The owner – let’s call her
‘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
‘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
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
