At our final launch event, performers took people on a journey through their food history - exploring issues of power, accountability, connection and trust through different senses.
Tag: art
“We are here”: art to bring the PACT to life
Artist Rebecca Strickson has created a response to the civil society PACT through four beautiful banners that bring it, and people’s voices, to life.
Civil society for fun
It is important that we manage to retain the balance between civil society in response to need, and civil society for fun: civil society is not only good for society, but also good for the people who take part.
Anger and hope in Penzance
“There’s a huge amount of active, pissed off, determined people who are trying to deliver all sorts of change within Cornwall. So I think that’s where the hope is”
What’s Pointless about Epsom? Reclaiming heritage for a contemporary sense of place
If you’ve seen the TV game show Pointless, you’ll know that – like in civil society – common assumptions are often a veneer. The most illuminating way to understand a community is to seek out the Pointless answers...
Both May and Bazalgette are wrong: Their idea of creativity won’t solve Britain’s social and economic problems
Creativity has been in the news quite a bit over the last week. There’s been Theresa May calling for a more ‘creative’ approach to the Brexit disaster. There’s also been a major policy report on the Creative Industries. The latter has been part of the government’s industrial strategy, one of nine industrial activities targeted for …
Civil society and public grief, rituals, ceremony and silence
In the public unfolding of grief in the last terrible few months a number of things stand out. The first is of course, the helpers.
Podcast: Josie Long’s guide to setting up your own charity
In 2011, the comedian and broadcaster Josie Long was worried that austerity would exclude working class young people from the arts. And so, with a friend, she founded the group Arts Emergency. After loads of boring meetings, it’s now a thriving charity with a cornucopia of projects, helping creative young people across the country. Civil …
How civil society remade British politics
How community groups organised behind parties’ backs to redraw Britain’s electoral map. The conductor of National Health Singers, a Londoner named Rishi Dhir, was fuming as we spoke at the South West Surrey town of Farnham’s summer fayre two weeks ago. After performing just two songs, the 15-strong group of NHS workers, NHS supporters and …
Building a user-generated museum: a conversation with Alistair Hudson
Can the museum be reimagined as a place that actually works for its constituents, rather than for the art market? Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima) director Alistair Hudson seeks to create a ‘useful museum’ that is the true manifestation of its community. What brought you to the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima)? I’ve …