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4 December 2020 Regular Marvels II / Traction / Uncategorized

What we talk about when we talk about love

‘You know, while doing this, going through this journey, it has changed me. And, yes, I had a spiritual inkling,

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24 March 2015 Regular marvels

Flowers for Kazuo Ohno (and Leonard Cohen)

Is artistic excellence really incompatible with social purpose? It’s an argument I’ve heard throughout my working life but it has

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26 January 2014 Winter fires

Dancing down the years

The pleasures of one generation are often incomprehensible to another. I first heard the phrase ‘Old Time and Sequence Dancing’

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6 February 2013 Bread and Salt

45 years of hope

Be Like Water – Hetain Patel The ruler has already been a language teacher’s cane and a samurai sword dancing

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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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5 January 2012 Winter fires

Standing exactly at that place

(Photo © Simon Richardson) ‘I’m standing exactly at that place in terms of working with older people in this country.

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4 January 2012 Winter fires

Colin McLean

Finding better ways to connect visual language with words is one of the central ideas behind Regular Marvels. Each project

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4 January 2012 Where we dream

Where we dream

Where we dream is a story about West Bromwich Operatic Society, founded in 1938 and which has outlasted seven theatres so far,

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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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