PODCASTS
1. Sophie Hope and Hannah Kemp-Welch talk with Kim Wide about the forthcoming Social Making symposium.
2. In Ways of Listening, Hannah Kemp-Welch presents the 11th episode.
3. Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso talk with William Frode de la Foret, Art Director of Cork Community Art Link.
4. Sophie Hope does or doesn’t talk to creative collective Spit Game UK.
ELSEWHERE
New Blog | Altruistic care | Drifts | Our World in Data
PODCASTS
1. Owen Kelly interviews Susan Jones about cultural democracy under the new British Labour government.
2. In Ways of Listening, Jorge Lucero joins Hannah Kemp-Welch for the tenth episode of Ways of Listening to consider listening within critical pedagogy and as a daily practice.
3. Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso talk with France Trépanier and Chris Creighton-Kelly, based in British Columbia.
4. Sophie Hope talks to creative collective Spit Game UK.
ELSEWHERE
Nicholas Serota | Peter Kennard | The Metaverse | UBI
PODCASTS
1. We return to the Abandoned Bookshelf for some summer reading, with A Guide for the Perplexed.
2. In Ways of Listening, Alex Parry questions – how can we accomodate non-participation? Could there be richness in refusal?
3. Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso turn their attention to some of the words commonly used in discussions of cultural democracy and community-based arts.
4. Sophie Hope has a second summer surprise.
ELSEWHERE
Fiskars Biennale update
PODCASTS
1. We return to the Abandoned Bookshelf for some summer reading, beginning with A Guide for the Perplexed.
2. In Ways of Listening, Simon James reflects on his recent project with young people in Whitehawk, initiated as part of the Class Divide campaign.
3. Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso interview James Thompson, Professor of Applied and Social Theatre at the University of Manchester.
4. Sophie Hope has a summer surprise.
ELSEWHERE
Conference Time Again! | Jail on Wheels | The Stuff of a (Well-lived) Life
PODCASTS
1. Owen Kelly explains about Todoist, hosting your own calendars, and how these relate to positive laziness and doing nothing.
2. Sylvan Baker talks to Hannah Kemp-Welch and describes a process of using ‘headphone verbatim’ to share testimonies with care-experienced young people.
3. Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso interview James Thompson, Professor of Applied and Social Theatre at the University of Manchester.
4. Sophie Hope reports live from a meeting to acknowledge and celebrate the twelve years’ work of the Alternative School of Economics.
ELSEWHERE
Social Theory, Politics and the Arts conference | Fighting Disinformation with Serifs | Our Friend the Computer | Fiskars
PODCASTS
1. Owen Kelly completes a mini-series that looks at whether or not we should feel concerned about the digital tools we use and the effects that they have on us.
2. Hannah Kemp-Welch talks to Marley Starskey Butler about workshops as spaces for listening.
3. Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso talk about the difficult conditions community-based artists and groups must work under as austerity measures.
4. Sophie Hope talks to Karen Pilkington about her inspiring work as a community activist in Plymouth.
ELSEWHERE
Ham Radio Archives | Richard Serra | Desire, Dopamine, and the Internet | Auriea Harvey: net art
PODCASTS
1. We continue a mini-series about tools we can trust in this episode, by asking how much effort we should make to learn new applications when we already have apps we are familiar with..
2. Jody Wood talks to Hannah Kemp-Welch about listening as a practice of care – where to care is not to cure. .
3. Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso talk with Sebastian Ruth, Founder & Artistic Director and Resident Musician at CommunityMusicworks in Providence, Rhode Island.
4. Sophie Hope brings together a group of people connected to the MA Art and Social Practice, run by the University of Highlands and Islands in Scotland.
5. Friday Number 5 begins a short survey of other podcasts you might like.
ELSEWHERE
Mini ICAF: Rotterdam & the web | Creative Bureaucrac | Helsinki Design Week | Fartographics
PODCASTS
1. We start a mini-series about tools we can trust in this episode, by explaining why we think we should care about what we use for email, and where we store our files.
2. In Building Listening into Everything, disabled artist and drag king Lady Kitt talks to host Hannah Kemp-Welch about their practice of ‘mess making as social glue’.
3. Arlene Goldbard talks with David Francis, Director of the Traditional Music Forum in Scotland, about its impressive network
4. Sophie Hope goes to Rome!
ELSEWHERE
A Black exploration of tech | Cold War Steve | Tante on AI | One Year! 1984 – 1985 | A quick quiz
PODCASTS
1. Owen Kelly discusses three approaches for advancing cultural democracy in the hostile environment that apparently constitutes 2024
2. Arlene Goldbard and Owen Kelly discuss the role of spirituality in cultural democracy, although whether they can agree on what they both mean by spirituality might also form an important part of the discussion.
3. Sam Metz talks to Hannah Kemp-Welch about listening beyond the aural, sharing examples from their work with non-verbal participants.
4. Brendan Jackson explains about the 18 month long process to create a new digital library for the Jubilee Arts Archive 1974 – 94, from original materials held in the collections of Sandwell Archives.
ELSEWHERE
The Internet Archive, Copyright and AI | Un-herd: the Project Defy podcast | Citizens in Power | Say hello to Mr and Mrs Mickey Mouse
PODCASTS
1. Owen Kelly and Sophie Hope talk with Susan Jones about what she has termed the impossible arts infrastructure;
2. Disabled artist and drag king Lady Kitt talks to host Hannah Kemp-Welch about Building Listening into Everything;
3. François Matarasso and Arlene Goldbard talk with Judith Marcuse, founder and director of Judith Marcuse Dance Projects;
4. Sophie Hope talks with Raluca Voinea, member of The Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life;
5. We replay Episode 28, Structures of Feeling. Owen Kelly and Sophie Hope dig out their copies of Marxism & Literature and discuss the cultural theory that Raymond Williams develops there.
ELSEWHERE
Mini ICAF coming soon | The fake Poetry of real War | WCEF2024 | Culture and Development | The Last Tweet
PODCASTS
1. Clarifying copyright, differentiating it from trademarks, and discussing the tricks involved in merging them.
2. This month we start a brand new series. In the first episode of Ways of Listening, titled Listening and Not Knowing, Albert Potrony introduces his participatory arts practice, describing a recent project with young fathers in Gateshead and former members of an anti-sexist men’s group.
3. Ralph Lister, from Take Art in rural Somerset, discusses rural touring, projects in dance, theatre, and working with artists and community groups.
4. Heynep Falay von Flittner discusses the work of Falay Design, and her roles as the founder of Design Activists for Regenerative Futures, and as a member of the board of Systems Change Finland.
ELSEWHERE
Microplexes in the UK | Purple.space | Starhawk: stories shape our lives | Gandhi and the Dinosaur | Justice and Universalism
1. Owen Kelly and Sophie Hope discuss Fables, copyright and co-creation;
2. Owen Kelly discusses The Careless Society by John McKnight;
3. François Matarasso and Arlene Goldbard talk about democracy and the part culture plays in shaping it;
4. Sophie Hope talks with members of Scottish Sculpture Workshop about their work.
ELSEWHERE
The New Feudalism | Jolly Roger | Elon Musk tells lies | Justice for Neanderthals
PODCASTS
1. Owen Kelly and Sophie Hope discuss the process of enshittification;
2. Ed Carroll discusses the question of the Faro Convention;
3. François Matarasso and Arlene Goldbard talk with Caron Atlas;
4. Chris Baldwin & Steve Trow look back at cultural engagement in the West Midlands in the 1980s.
5. We look back at Miaaw 11: The Resurgence of Cultural Democracy.
ELSEWHERE
The BBC joins the Fediverse | Crypto, Art & Climate | Food Broken | Flash without Fear | Open Circuits
The low calorie summer edition | Change of plans | August listings
1. Sophie Hope talks with fellow participants of the Rural School of Economics Summer Camp;
2. Owen Kelly reflects on the continuing relevance of the writings of Ivan Illich;
3. François Matarasso and Arlene Goldbard talk with Maribel Legarda, artistic director, and Beng Cabangon, executive director of the Philippines Educational Theater Association;
4. Owen Kelly talks with Will Weigler, the official blogger and raconteur for the ICAF festival.
Podcasts
1. Sophie Hope talks to Annette Burghes, Aidan Jolly and Marianne Matusz of Collective Encounters;
2. Hannah Kemp-Welch joins Owen Kelly to discuss the question of the relationship between ham radio and feminism;
3. Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso talk about a set of topics that are currently burning a hole in their brains;
4. In an ICAF special, Sophie Hope talks to Sruti Bala about her two lectures on the perils of participation.
Elsewhere
Miaaw Live! | Biggles & the Elitists | Food on Paper | Single Sign In | Summer Somewhere
Podcasts
1. Sophie Hope and Owen Kelly talk about Owen’s new book Cultural Democracy Now;
2. Andrew Gryf Paterson talks about the history of Pixelache as an example of the need for a considered archival perspective among small, decentralised cultural projects;
3. Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso talk to Anastacia Ackers, Natasha Borton, and Naomi Chiffi, focusing on A Proper Ordinary Miracle and other TEAM projects from National Theatre Walesy;
4. In an ICAF special, Sophie Hope talks to Hui Ling from Drama Box from Singapore;
5. Friday Number 5 exhumes another classic Miaaw episode from our growing archives.
Elsewhere
Miaaw Live! | the Social Art Educators’ Forum | Defining “open” | More on International Dawn Chorus Day | Mesomeals | Glitchz | Libraries on Bihar
Podcasts
1. Sophie Hope and Owen Kelly talk to Henry Mulhall about Cards on the Table;
2. Owen Kelly talks to Russell Southwood about his recent book Africa 2,0;
3. Arlene Goldbard and François Mattarasso talk with Ben Fink and Kate Fowler about the new two-volume publication from Roadside Theater in Appalachia, Art in A Democracy;
4. In an ICAF special, Owen Kelly talks with Charlie Fox about the Marseilles River Project
Elsewhere
Miaaw Live! | the Social Art Educators’ Forum | International Dawn Chorus Day | Wikimedians in Residence | What do you think?
Podcasts
This month we focus on Miaaw at ICAF – the international community art festival in Rotterdam.
1. Sophie Hope and Owen Kelly look back at ICAF, discussing what they saw and how they felt about it;
2. Owen Kelly talks to Ed Carroll and Vita Gelūnienė about the Cabbage Field community opera;
3. Sophie Hope interviews Kerrie Schaeffer about documenting community art processes;
4. Owen Kelly talks with Bonface Beti about the role of sound in African creativity.
Elsewhere
Miaaw Live! | Photographic museum in Bengaluru | Vinyl sales | Sexting Chatbots | Empire Building | US Department of Arts & Culture | Smiling
Podcasts
1. A look at the arguments, metaphors, poems and stories laid out by Jason “Propaganda” Petty in his book Terraform: Building a Better World
2. Sophie Hope draws on her recent experience as an NHS patient to explore the histories, economics and significance of the bedpan
3. Arlene Goldbard and François Mattarasso discuss what community-based art can do,
4. Siniša Ilić, Ahilan Ratnamohan, and Stanislav Shuripa look back at their experiences at Topos 3 last year.
Elsewhere
Solein: protein made from air | Plant Portraits by Lucien Freud | Traction publish Co-creating Opera: Guidance from the Traction project | Miaaw Live! launches on Zoom
Podcasts
1. David Moscow on writing From Scratch: Adventures in Harvesting, Hunting, Fishing and Foraging on a Fragile Planet
2. Owen Kelly inquiries into the nature of apology in an age of instant opinion
3. Arlene Goldbard and Francois Mattarasso talk with Beverly Naidus
4. Sophie Hope talks to Marc Herbst about cultural movements
Elsewhere
Tapbot on the death of their app Tweetbot | a weekly newsletter called The Planet | the release of SFPC_Malware_Anthology.zip | John Hopkins at Neoscenes | Access Space launched Noises & Projections | PM Press published The Mohawk Warrior Society: A Handbook on Sovereignty and Survival.
Podcasts
1. François Matarasso presents the final audio essay in his current Old Word series
2. Owen Kelly and Tomas Träskman on micro-nations
3. François Matarasso and Arlene Goldbard talk to Jasmina Ibrahimovic about ICAF
4. Irina Mutt looks at the 20th anniversary celebrations of Pixelache in Helsinki
Elsewhere
Cory Doctorow on a better failure for social media | Evan Greer releases Automated Christmas Joy | A Library of Things | Brendan Jackson sent a Christmas card | Arlene and Owen’s books: an update
Podcasts
1. Approximate Projections by François Matarasso
2. Owen Kelly and Ken Worpole look at cults
3. François Matarasso and Arlene Goldbard talk about Arlene’s newly published book In The Camp of Angels of Freedom
4. A festive podcast: Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes investigating The Night Before Christmas.
5. Friday No 5 ends the year with A Twenty Two Rifle for Christmas.
Elsewhere
Vivaldi joins Mastodon | Project Defy | LM Sacasas and the Convivial Society | The Camp of Angels of Freedom
Podcasts
1. François Matarasso presents an audio essay about Orkney.
2. Owen Kelly on the continuing influence of Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar.
3. François Matarasso and Arlene Goldbard talk with Carol Bebelle.
4. Sophie Hope follows up her discussion with Ana Laura López de la Torre.
Elsewhere
Karim Douleb’s Noisy City map of Brussels | The Internet Archive launch Democracy’s Library | Open AI has made a preview of DALL·E 2 available | Nature’s Wild Ideas
Podcasts
1. François Matarasso presents an audio essay on the relationship between music and social change
2. Owen Kelly and Ken Worpole on experiments in social living
3. François Matarasso and Arlene Goldbard talk with Yuriy Vulkovsky
4. Sophie Hope talks with Ana Laura López de la Torre from the University of the Republic in Uraguay.
Elsewhere
Gathering for Rehearsing Hospitalities Autumn 2022 | Plymouth University’s Sustainability Hub | Defective By Design | Autumn White Eyes
