Community opera – Regular Marvels

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

A long journey needs resting points It is a surprise, in my sixties, to find myself working on opera, as

As the pandemic recedes—or perhaps becomes normalised—it is becoming hard to recall the strangeness of those lockdown months, and the

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

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

In October, I wrote about a community opera being created in County Durham that had been stopped just weeks before

‘Inis Meáin Island is where you’ll find a more authentic escape from the modern world. With a population of 200

Intellectual property rights have rarely been an issue during my life in community art. The projects I’ve worked consciously rejected

It began with open workshops in community halls across County Durham, from ancient places sheltered in mountain valleys to younger

Almost exactly five years ago. I filed into the Leiria youth prison, along with about 250 other outsiders—officials, funders and,