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In the eighth episode of A Culture of Possibility, Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso talk with Bermudian artist Bill Ming in his studio in Nottinghamshire, England. 

Bill’s work in sculpture, as…

Owen Kelly has held a number of workshops in Helsinki exploring ways of making industrialised products at home. He has made face creams and oat milk. This year he turned his attention to vegan cheese…

Most months have four Fridays, and we know what to do with them. We put out a podcast: a different but related one for each Friday in the month.

Sometimes, however, a month has five Fridays, and then…

A year or so ago we talked to Monika Dutta and Jake Harries about A Little Piece of Land. Today their project seems even more relevant than it did then, and so this week we revisit that discussion to…

In the seventh episode of A Culture of Possibility, Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso talk about the explosion of story-based work in community and participatory arts and what it all means. 

Ant…

The ideas about cultural democracy that community artists in Britain began to talk about in the 1980s had a long pre-history. One of the important strands that fed into these ideas began in about 191…

As summer 2021 approaches we take stock of some of the core ideas fuelling the MIAAW podcasts. 

In this first of two linked episodes we look again at the ideas behind cultural democracy, and the ways…

Sophie Hope and Owen Kelly talk with Steven Hadley about his latest book, called Audience Development and Cultural Policy, published by Palgrave MacMillan.

They discuss the ways in which audience de…

For the last year Owen Kelly has worked with a group of educators from across the Nordic and Baltic regions to develop the VAKEN project. This has begun developing a rapid learning process to enable …

Sophie Hope and Henry Mulhall have begun work on a project within a project. They have begun creating an evaluation framework for a European Union funded project called Beyond Participation - a title…

Icelandic culture offers many surprises for an alert visitor: not least in the sheer amount and quality of it.

In this episode Owen Kelly talks with Hafdís Björg Hjálmarsdóttir and Vera K Vestmann Kr…

In the fifth episode of A Culture of Possibility, Arlene Goldbard and Francois Matarasso interview Denise Griffin Johnson, a cultural organizer in West Baltimore on the east coast of the U.S. She tal…

This episode continues a trilogy of audio essays concerned with the work of Marshall McLuhan and its continuing relevance in the digital age. In this episode Owen Kelly looks at what McLuhan means by…

In this episode Owen Kelly sits back while Sophie Hope shares some of her thoughts on participation and democracy. 

She gives examples, some personal, of the ways in which participation can extend ov…

Most months have four Fridays, and we know what to do with them. We put out a podcast: a different but related one for each Friday in the month.

Sometimes, however, a month has five fridays, and then…

According to their website “RESHAPE is a research and development project that brings together arts organisations from the Europe and the South Mediterranean to jointly create innovative organisation…

In the fourth episode of A Culture of Possibility, Arlene Goldbard and Francois Matarasso compare U.S. and European funding systems for community arts. In this discussion they are not interested in w…