September 27, 2024
Tags: conservatoire, education, London
Sophie Hope talks to Sean Gregory and Jo Gibson about the new Guildhall De-Centre.
September 20, 2024
Tags: Cork, ireland, parade, street theatre
Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso talk with William Frode de la Foret, Art Director of Cork Community Art Link in Ireland.
September 13, 2024
Tags: drama, Essex, forum theatre, media awareness
Natalie Smith talks about her work with Arc Theatre and the role of listening in this work.
September 6, 2024
Tags: Bristol, symposium, Take A Part
Hannah Kemp-Welch and Sophie Hope talk to Kim Wide, CEO and artistic director of Take A Part, about the Social Making symposium that takes place in Bristol in October.
August 30, 2024
Tags: bees, citizen science, podcast, rewilding
This month we rebroadcast an episode of the Bees of Bensham podcast series in which Mattie interviews Barbara Keating, the lead artist on the project.
Sophie Hope talks to Barry Sykes about his current art project exploring permissable spaces for respite, refusal and reclining.
August 16, 2024
Tags: Canada, centre, indigenous, land
France Trépanier & Chris Creighton-Kelly talk about Primary Colours, an initiative to place Indigenous arts at the centre of Canadian arts.
August 9, 2024
Tags: expertise, permissions, practice, transcription, Zoom
Jorge Lucero discusses ‘Conceptual Art and Teaching’ and considers listening within critical pedagogy and as a daily practice.
August 2, 2024
Tags: cultural workers, election, government, labour
With a new UK Labour government, and the opportunities that may or may not bring, Owen Kelly talks to Susan Jones about possible futures.
July 26, 2024
Tags: lecture, Manchester, movement, performance lecture, Raymond Williams
Presenting a completely re-edited and remixed look at a session about cultural democracy held at the Raymond Williams Society in 2019.
July 19, 2024
Tags: art, authenticity, communication, differences, intention
Arlene Goldbard & François Matarasso turn their attention to some words used in discussions of cultural democracy and community-based arts.
July 12, 2024
Tags: collective organising, power dynamics, refusal, workshop practice
Alex Parry describes a collaborative project that intervenes in the structure of the seminar to disrupt the usual power dynamics.
July 5, 2024
Owen Kelly suggests that we should read A Guide for the Perplexed, the book that E. F. Schumaker wrote in 1977, but read it sceptically.
June 28, 2024
Tags: bees, biodiversity, Gateshead, rewilding
Sophie Hope talks to Ben Jones, founder of Dingy Butterflies about a recent citizen science and arts project called Bees of Bensham.
June 21, 2024
Tags: alternatives, collective ownership, inequality, new economy, solidarity
Arlene Goldbard & François Matarasso talk to Nati Linares, whose current focus lies in the solidarity economy for artists.
June 14, 2024
Tags: archeology, Brighton, Class Divide
Simon James reflects on the process of a recent project, and how listening played a central part throughout it.
Owen Kelly and Sophie Hope discuss Solidarity Not Charity, by Nati Linares and Caroline Woolard. As often, this leads to a wider discussion.
In 2024, when a month has 5 Fridays, we will find another podcast that excites us and spread the word. This month we look at an old episode of Free as in Freedom!
May 24, 2024
Tags: art, collaboration, economics, politics, reflection
Sophie Hope reports live from a meeting to acknowledge and celebrate the twelve years’ work of the Alternative School of Economics.
Arlene Goldbard & François Matarasso talk to James Thompson, founder In Place of War.
May 10, 2024
Tags: headphone verbatim, spoken word, theatre
Practitioner and researcher Sylvan Baker examines listening within applied theatre practices.
May 3, 2024
Tags: caldav, GTD, productivity, Todoist
Owen Kelly explains about Todoist, why you might host your own calendars, and how these relate to positive laziness and doing nothing.
April 26, 2024
Tags: community, disaster-proofing, Plymouth, transparent finance
Sophie Hope talks to Karen Pilkington about the origins of the Village Hub project in Plymouth, and what it has gone on to achieve.
April 19, 2024
Tags: austerity, authoritarianism, community
Arlene Goldbard & François Matarasso discuss the difficult conditions community-based artists & groups must work under as austerity bites.
April 12, 2024
Tags: photography, social work, spaces, under-resourcing
Marley Starskey Butler, a multidisciplinary artist and social worker, talks about workshops as spaces for listening.
April 5, 2024
Tags: ActivityPub, indieweb, web
Owen Kelly looks at some practical examples of changes we can make and tools we can use.
March 29, 2024
This year, if a month has five Fridays, we will find another podcast that excites us and spread the word. This month we look at episode 40 of Ferment Radio.
March 22, 2024
Tags: islands, online learning, research, Scotland, social practice
Sophie Hope brings together 4 people connected to the MA Art and Social Practice run by the University of Highlands and Islands in Scotland.
March 15, 2024
Tags: community, music, Rhode Island
Arlene Goldbard talks with Sebastian Ruth about how classical music can connect with community arts and cultural democracy.
March 8, 2024
Tags: attunement, expectations, opt-in, process
Jody Wood talks about listening as a practice of care – where to care is not to cure.
March 1, 2024
Tags: AI, cultural democracy, email, Illich, web
Owen Kelly looks at the evidence for considering three different dimensions of the digital tools we use.
February 23, 2024
Tags: barriers, conference, MACRO, rage, Rome
Sophie Hope and Fabiola Fiocco discuss a workshop they led in Rome in February.
February 16, 2024
Tags: cultural policy, education, preservation, reinvention, Scotland
Arlene Goldbard talks with David Francis about the Traditional Music Forum in Scotland, and much more.
February 9, 2024
Tags: Gateshead, knowing, listening, participatory
Disabled artist and drag king Lady Kitt talks to host Hannah Kemp-Welch about their practice of ‘mess making as social glue’.
February 2, 2024
Tags: blogrolls, blogs, social media, web, webrings
Owen Kelly suggests that we update our ideas about the web to reclaim its radical, collaborative nature.
January 26, 2024
Tags: archiving, documentation, generations, history, Jubilee Arts, Laundry, learning packs, local
Brendan Jackson talks about the finale of the Jubilee Archives programme and the structure of Laundry.
January 19, 2024
Tags: atheism, materialism, mystery, overconfidence, radical amazement, spirituality
Arlene Goldbard and Owen Kelly discuss the secret (and not so secret) spirituality that fuels their work.
January 12, 2024
Tags: comfort levels, listening, micro-cues, neurodivergent, touch
Sam Metz talks about listening beyond the aural, sharing examples from their work with non-verbal participants.
January 5, 2024
Tags: action, inclusive, optimism, resolution, small
Owen Kelly suggests three approaches that we might usefully develop in the coming year.
December 29, 2023
Tags: Marxism & Literature, process, Raymond Williams
This year Miaaw celebrates its fifth anniversary and so every time we find a fifth Friday in a month we will relive an episode from our history.
Sophie Hope talks with Raluca Voinea about a joint venture of a group of artists, curators, theorists, economists and others in Romania.
December 15, 2023
Tags: advocacy, Canada, dance, festivals, social change
Arlene Goldbard talks with Judith Marcuse about the growth & hibernation of Canadian community engaged art.
December 8, 2023
Tags: film, listening, moving image, Stoke, young people
Edwin Mingard explores social change through moving image. Here he talks about the need to turn off ‘broadcast mode’.
December 1, 2023
Tags: capitalism, infrastructure, payment, UBI, unions
Sophie Hope and Owen Kelly talk with Susan Jones about visual arts, arts policy, structural flaws, and and artists’ livelihoods.
November 24, 2023
Tags: general semantics, systems thinking, transition design
This month Owen Kelly talks with Zeynep Falay von Flittner about transitions design and systems thinking.
November 17, 2023
Tags: early childhood, Ed Berman, europe, Inner City Theatre, networking, rural
François Matarasso and Arlene Goldbard talk with Ralph Lister from Take Art, in rural Somerset, England.
November 10, 2023
Tags: Gateshead, knowing, listening, participatory
Albert Potrony introduces his participatory arts practice, describing a recent project with young fathers in Gateshead.
November 3, 2023
Tags: copyright, corporations, easyGroup, intellectual property, public domain, trademarks
Owen Kelly argues that corporations try to extend and merge the definitions of copyright and trademarks. This hurts creators, stifles creativity, and harms the public domain.
Sophie Hope talks with Sam Trotman from the Scottish Sculpture Workshop and asks her about SSW’s philosophy and practice.
Many people take democracy for granted, but what is it really: certainly more than majority rule and voting every once in a while?
October 13, 2023
Tags: ABCD, asset based, community, conviviality, Illich, review
Owen Kelly reads extracts from The Careless Society to contextualise the arguments that John McKnight proposes.
October 6, 2023
Tags: co-creation, comic books, copyright, history
Sophie Hope and Owen Kelly discuss whether Bill Willingham can put Fables into the public domain, and what it might mean for co-creation.
September 29, 2023
Tags: cultural democracy, Cultural Policy Collective, Kings College, Malcolm Dickson, Sally Morgan
This year Miaaw celebrates its fifth anniversary and so every time we find a fifth Friday in a month we will relive an episode from our history.
September 22, 2023
Tags: climate change, distribution, lottery, optimism
Owen Kelly talks with Steve Trow and Chris Baldwin about the idea of cultural capital, and the issues it raises in the West Midlands and in Blugaria.
September 15, 2023
Tags: arts, democracy, New York, participatory budgeting, trust-based funding
Caron Atlas discusses her work with Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts New York (NOCD-NY) and Arts & Democracy, and much, much more.
September 8, 2023
Tags: convention, Council of Europe, FCN, network
Ed Carroll discusses the Faro Convention, the role of a “framework convention”, and the work of the Faro Convention Network.
September 1, 2023
Tags: enshittification, feudalism, platform capitalism, Tesla, Uber
Owen Kelly looks at some of the implications of Cory Doctorow’s neologism “enshittification” and the discussions around it.
August 25, 2023
Tags: atmosphere, documentation, family, storytelling
Will Weigler, community-engaged theatre maker, writer and storyteller, discusses his role as official rapporteur for the ICAF Festival.
August 18, 2023
Tags: artist-teachers, PETA, Philippines, resilience
Maribel Legarda & Beng Cabangon of the Philippines Educational Theater Association, founded in 1967, talk about PETA’s creative strategies.
August 11, 2023
Tags: conviviality, Illich, review
Owen Kelly reads excerpts from Tools for Conviviality to make sense of the arguments that Illich proposes.
August 4, 2023
Tags: energy, Myvillages, Scotland, Scottish Sculpture Workshop, social change, summer camp
Sophie Hope recorded this live report on the final day of the Rural School of Economics summer camp in July 2023 in Lumsden, Aberdeenshire.
July 28, 2023
Tags: archeology, co-creation, ICAF, India
Owen Kelly talks with Kim Wide, the founder of Take A Part, based in Plymouth in the UK.
July 21, 2023
Tags: bravery, learning, reflection
François Matarasso and Arlene Goldbard talk about topics that are burning a hole in their brains: us vs. them; what cultural democracy means and why some people can’t get it; being a little braver…
July 14, 2023
Tags: feminism, listening, radio, transmission, VLF
Owen Kelly talks to Hannah Kemp-Welch about interfaces between feminism & ham radio, and the mysteries of ‘natural radio’.
July 7, 2023
Tags: Liverpool, participatory theatre, social change, The World Tomorrow
Collective Encounters discuss their work and the provocations they created for The World Transformed in Liverpool in September 2022.
June 30, 2023
Tags: ACGB, Arts Council, community art, history, manifesto, Sheffield
This year Miaaw celebrates its fifth anniversary and so every time we find a fifth Friday in a month we will relive an episode from our history. This month we slide back in time to December 21, 2018.
June 23, 2023
Sophie Hope talks to Koh Hui Ling and Han Xuemei.
June 16, 2023
Tags: participation, research, theatre, Wales
Arlene Goldbard & François Mattarasso talk with TEAM about A Proper Ordinary Miracle, and other recent projects from National Theatre Wales.
June 9, 2023
Tags: archiving, open source, peer-support, wikimedia
Andrew Gryf Paterson talks to Owen Kelly about Pixelache’s involvement with Wikimedia & auto-archiving as a core part of cultural activity.
June 2, 2023
Tags: book, memes, personhood, Routledge
Sophie Hope talks to Owen Kelly about why he wrote Cultural Democracy Now, and what he hopes will result from its publication.
Owen Kelly & Charlie Fox discuss working with a non-human entity, the Marseilles River Project, and the work of les Collectif des Gammares.
May 19, 2023
Tags: Appalachia, community art, history, theatre
Arlene Goldbard and François Mattarasso talk with Ben Fink and Kate Fowler about Art in A Democracy, from Roadside Theater in Appalachia.
May 12, 2023
Tags: Africa, corruption, internet, politics, telecoms
Owen Kelly talks to Russell Southwood about his recent book Africa 2.0.
May 5, 2023
Tags: cards, collaboration, conversation, evaluation, gamification
Owen Kelly talks to Sophie Hope and Henry Mulhall about their plans for Cards on the Table.
April 28, 2023
Tags: Augusto Boal, festival, ICAF, Kenya, Rotterdam, theatre of the oppressed
In a 4th report from the ICAF Festival, Owen Kelly talks to Bonface Beti, about his workshop Music is at the heart of African creativity.
April 21, 2023
Tags: collaboration, community art, documentation, festival, ICAF, ownership, points of view, Rotterdam
Sophie Hope & Owen Kelly talk to Kerrie Schaeffer about her presentations at ICAF on documenting community performance processes.
Owen Kelly talks with Ed Carroll and Vita Gelūnienė about The Cabbage Field community opera and the work of Zemuju Sanciu Bendruomene.
April 7, 2023
Tags: community art, festival, ICAF, Rotterdam
Sophie and Owen meet at the end of ICAF to look back over what they experienced.
March 31, 2023
Tags: 64 Million Artists, ACE, history, participation, response, therapy
This year Miaaw celebrates its fifth anniversary and so every time a month has five Fridays we will take the opportunity to look back at some memorable episodes from our short history.
March 24, 2023
Tags: Antwerp, learning, reflections, wp-zimmer
Owen Kelly talks with three of the artists who participated in Topos 3: Siniša Ilić, Ahilan Ratnamohan, and Stanislav Shuripa.
March 22, 2023
Tags: artists, conversation, Topos 3, wp-zimmer
A conversation between Dusica Drazic and Anna Titova.
March 21, 2023
Tags: artists, conversation, Topos 3, wp-zimmer
A conversation between Siniša Ilić and Ahilan Ratnamohan
March 20, 2023
Tags: artists, conversation, Topos 3, wp-zimmer
A Conversation between Zorka Wollny and Siniša Ilić.
March 19, 2023
Tags: artists, conversation, Topos 3, wp-zimmer
A conversation between Zorka Wollny and Anna Titova.
March 18, 2023
Tags: artists, conversation, Topos 3, wp-zimmer
A conversation between Ahilan Ratnamohan and Stanislav Shuripa.
March 17, 2023
Tags: challenges, co-creative, community art, generative
Arlene Goldbard and François Mattarasso discuss what community-based art can do.
March 10, 2023
Tags: health, humiliation, well-being
Sophie Hope contemplates the bedpan – “this embarrassing, awkward object” – from different angles.
March 3, 2023
Tags: activism, Black Panthers, history, rap, story
Owen Kelly looks at the web of arguments put forward by Jason “Propaganda” Petty in his book Terraform: Building a Better World.
February 24, 2023
Tags: art workers, children, migrants, refugees, Saxony
Sophie Hope and Marc Herbst discuss cultural movements and their crossover with political movements
Arlene Goldbard and François Mattarasso talk with Beverly Naidus about her life and work.
February 10, 2023
Tags: performance, philosophy, politics
Owen Kelly inquiries into the nature of apology in an age of instant opinion and social media.
David Moscow talks to Owen Kelly about how he moved from Bernie Sanders’ 2016 media campaign to the television series & book From Scratch.
Owen Kelly and Irina Mutt look at the 20th anniversary celebrations through the words of Antti Ahonen, one of the founding members.
January 20, 2023
Tags: community art, festival, journey, Rotterdam
François Matarasso & Arlene Goldbard talk to Jasmina Ibrahimovic about Rotterdams Wijktheater & the International Community Arts Festival.
January 13, 2023
Tags: activism, Geneva Convention, performance, statehood
Owen Kelly & Tomas Träskman discuss micronations as experiments in living, as performance art, and as political activism.
January 6, 2023
Tags: culture, industrialisation, Old Words, policy
François Matarasso presents an audio essay examining the depoliticisation of community art in Britain between 1970 and 2011.
December 22, 1949. An episode of the police procedural series Dragnet. A boy goes missing, along with the rifle he was due to get for Xmas.
This episode occurs one or two days before the annual Christmas celebrations and so we opted for a festive podcast starring Sherlock Holmes.
François Matarasso & Arlene Goldbard discuss Arlene’s forthcoming book, In The Camp of Angels of Freedom: What Does It Mean to Be Educated?
Owen Kelly & Ken Worpole look at cults and sects: at how we can define these, why they spread, and what this means for cultural democracy.