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Museum of Unrest community arts collection

Owen Kelly talks to Belinda Kidd and John Phillips about the Museum of Unrest’s third collection called Community Arts. They discuss how they gathered the material, and what material they gathered.


Episode 041     May 23, 2025
Contributors    Owen Kelly     |   Belinda Kidd     |   John Phillips    

We interviewed John Phillips about The Museum of Unrest on December 6, 2024, at the time it launched its second collection, Good Design. You can listen to that discussion again if you
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Next month, in the middle of June 2025, the Museum of Unrest will launch its third collection, called Community Arts. This collection has been co-curated by John and Belinda Kidd, who has had a long and varied career in community arts, arts research, and evaluation. Currently her work focuses where it began: in Hackney, at Hoxton Hall and Four Corners centre for film and photography.

In this episode Owen Kelly talks to John Phillips and Belinda Kidd about the way they have assembled the collection, the range of content in the collection, and where they hope their efforts might all lead, both online and offline.