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The art of hospitality

Posted on February 23, 2016 by alison jeffers

Over the last year Alison has been working on a research project with three refugee organisations in Bristol – Bristol Hospitality Network, Dignity of Asylum Seekers and Barton Hill Walled Garden. Alison, Emily Cuming from the University of Leeds and … Continue reading →

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The Right to Make Art

Posted on December 9, 2015 by gerrimoriarty

  We’re really pleased to post this short film, ‘The Right to Make Art’   – thanks very much to Annie Woodson, the film-maker, who has made sense of our complex brief to her and edited  hours of footage of the … Continue reading →

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Participation and community plays

Posted on November 3, 2015 by alison jeffers

Part of the reason for setting up this blog was to post about academic research to an audience who might not otherwise read it – academic books are expensive and articles are often only accessible to those in academic institutions … Continue reading →

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Making Change Happen

Posted on July 14, 2015 by gerrimoriarty

Well, I had a brilliant (if exhausting!) day on July 9th, at the University of Manchester. I once told my mother that I wanted to change the world. With typical common sense, she pointed out that there was an awful … Continue reading →

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Is community arts practice still relevant?

Posted on June 19, 2015 by gerrimoriarty

On Thursday, July 9th, 2015, we’ll be exploring this question in an intriguing way. With the help of a small grant from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, we’ve created an event which brings together community artists who began working in the … Continue reading →

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It was thirty years ago…

Posted on December 8, 2014 by alison jeffers

It was thirty years ago… In November 2014 Cartwheel Arts in Rochdale celebrated thirty years of its existence as a community arts organisation. Cartwheel Community Arts (as it was then) was set up in 1984 through a collaborative partnership between … Continue reading →

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Social Archiving: a legacy of community arts?

Posted on September 12, 2014 by alison jeffers

One of the reasons for starting this blog was to make our research into community arts more accessible. Academic research isn’t always the most transparent medium; sometimes the style of writing can be really obscure or just dull; sometimes too … Continue reading →

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Room for risk?

Posted on June 24, 2014 by alison jeffers

In April of this year, Gerri Moriarty facilitated an ArtsLab for postgraduate students from Goldsmiths, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. This was organised by the Barbican as part of its … Continue reading →

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Who are we exactly?

Posted on June 11, 2014 by alison jeffers

Alison Jeffers is a full-time lecturer in Drama at the University of Manchester where she started teaching in 2009 after gaining a PhD there in 2008. Alison’s research interests include theatre and migration, performances of citizenship, questions of culture and … Continue reading →

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Dipping our toes in the blogging waters

Posted on March 24, 2014 by alison jeffers

We want to share our thoughts, ideas and research on the community arts movement with you. We hope you will forgive any occasional glitches as we navigate our way through this exercise and climb onto the shores of blogging competence.

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