MIAAW.net
Miaaw.net: four monthly series, one a week, audio essays, conversations and discussions about cultural democracy and the commons.
Week 1: Meanwhile in an Abandoned Warehouse
Week 2: Genuine Inquiry
Week 3: A Culture of Possibility
Week 4: Common Practice
What is cultural democracy? How can we move towards it? How likely are we to achieve it? What does it have to do with "the arts"? What does it have to do with a post-digital future? What does it have to do with the commons?
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 37 minutes
- Episodes
- 284
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
PETA: 1967 to now and beyond!
On Culture of Possibility podcast #31, François Matarasso and Arlene Goldbard talk with Maribel Legarda, artistic director, and Beng Cabangon, executive director of the Philippines Educational Theate…
Tools for Conviviality
Born in Vienna in 1926, Ivan Illich acted as a Roman Catholic priest, a theologian, a philosopher, and a radical social critic. He died in December 2002.
His 1971 book Deschooling Society criticises…
Rural School of Economics at Scottish Sculpture Workshop
Sophie Hope recorded this live report on the final day of the Rural School of Economics summer camp, organised by Kathrin Böhm and Wapke Feenstra of Myvillages, and the Scottish Sculpture Workshop. T…
Take A Part
Continuing the special Miaaw at ICAF series, Owen Kelly talks with Kim Wide, the founder of Take A Part, based in Plymouth in the UK. He asks about Kim's personal journey, the work of Take A Part, an…
Arlene & François reflect
On Culture of Possibility podcast #30, François Matarasso and Arlene Goldbard reflect on topics that are currently burning a hole in their brains:
Topics such as:
us vs. them;
what cultural democra…
Feminist Acts of Ham Radio
Hannah Kemp-Welch is a sound artist with a social practice. She creates works collaboratively and in community settings, often responding to social issues. Recent projects include ‘The Right to Recor…
Collective Encounters: provocations
According to the front page of their website, “Collective Encounters is a professional arts organisation specialising in theatre for social change through collaborative practice. We use theatre to en…
Revisiting Miaaw 06 (from December 21, 2018)
We have come to the second month of 2023 with five Fridays in it, and so we look back at another memorable episode from our short history. This time we listen in to Owen and Sophie grappling for the …
Theatre Box in Singapore
In this episode, Sophie Hope talks to Koh Hui Ling and Han Xuemei, co-artistic directors of the socially-engaged theatre company Drama Box in Singapore. "Founded in 1990, by Kok Heng Leun, Drama Box …
TEAM in Wales
On Culture of Possibility podcast #29, listen to François Matarasso and Arlene Goldbard interview members of TEAM from National Theatre Wales.
We talk with Natasha Borton, Anastacia Ackers, and Naom…
Wikimedians & auto-archiving
In early 2005, Pixelache Festival co-directors Juha Huuskonen & Petri Lievonen invited a representative of the young Wikimedia Foundation — Florence Devouard, from Paris, France — who came to present…
Cultural Democracy Now: a conversation
Owen Kelly has written a new book called <em>Cultural Democracy Now</em>, and Routledge published it at the start of the year. According to the blurb, while positioning “cultural democracy in a histo…
The Marseille River Project
Charlie Fox and Chloé Mazzani presented a project that they are currently working on at a session at ICAF that looked at four of the practical outcomes of the Faro Convention. The project springs fro…
Art in a Democracy
In Episode 28 of A Culture of Possibility, François Matarasso and Arlene Goldbard talk with Ben Fink and Kate Fowler about the new two-volume publication from Roadside Theater in Appalachia, Art in A…
Africa 2.0
Russell Southwood worked as a journalist before becoming one of the three founders of Comedia. He later founded the consultancy and research practice, Balancing Act, which has focused on telecoms, in…
Cards on the Table
In 2016 five cultural workers felt frustrated by collaborative working. They wanted a tool to openly and critically talk about process. From an initial spark of inspiration they created <em>Cards on …
An African Theatre of the Oppressed
The website of the WHEAT Institute in Manitoba, Canada, describes Bonface Beti like this. “Bonface Njeresa Beti is an international artist-peacebuilder and educator who applies theatre-based interven…
The whys of documenting
In the third special report on topics addressed at the ICAF Festival in Rotterdam in March and April 2023, Sophie Hope and Owen Kelly talk to Kerrie Schaeffer, who gave two presentations on documenti…
The Cabbage Field
In the second special report from ICAF, the international community arts festival in Rotterdam, Owen Kelly talks with Ed Carroll and Vita Gelūnienė about <em>The Cabbage Field</em> community opera, d…