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8 February 2015 Winter fires

Singing in the ambulance

Everything is Connected At the end of his hour long set in the Federation Hall last night, the singer introduced

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20 February 2014 From My Life

Music matters

A quick post to highlight a radio programme called The Folklorist, about Izzy Young, who was central to the Greenwich Village

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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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4 November 2013 Regular Marvels in Theory / Winter fires

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

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16 August 2013 Winter fires

Late flowering

Originally posted on François Matarasso:
Jean, flautist with Fred’s Folks Ceilidh Band Art and wellbeing in old age [This is the…

12 June 2013 Winter fires

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

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24 March 2013 Winter fires

A conversation about drawing

Each project in the ‘Regular Marvels’ series is a collaboration between me and an artist whose work I value. Although

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24 January 2013 Winter fires

‘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

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27 November 2012 Winter fires

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

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24 November 2012 Winter fires

Mik Godley’s portraits of older artists

Here are Mik Godley’s final portraits, which are reproduced in Winter Fires. They start with photographs I made, in discussion with the

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