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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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The Internet Archive, Copyright and AI | Un-herd: the Project Defy podcast | Citizens in Power | Say hello to Mr and Mrs Mickey Mouse