Sophie Hope talks to Sean Gregory and Jo Gibson about the new Guildhall De-Centre.
Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso talk with William Frode de la Foret, Art Director of Cork Community Art Link in Ireland.
Natalie Smith talks about her work with Arc Theatre and the role of listening in this work.
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.
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.
France Trépanier & Chris Creighton-Kelly talk about Primary Colours, an initiative to place Indigenous arts at the centre of Canadian arts.
Jorge Lucero discusses ‘Conceptual Art and Teaching’ and considers listening within critical pedagogy and as a daily practice.
With a new UK Labour government, and the opportunities that may or may not bring, Owen Kelly talks to Susan Jones about possible futures.
Presenting a completely re-edited and remixed look at a session about cultural democracy held at the Raymond Williams Society in 2019.
Arlene Goldbard & François Matarasso turn their attention to some words used in discussions of cultural democracy and community-based arts.
Alex Parry describes a collaborative project that intervenes in the structure of the seminar to disrupt the usual power dynamics.
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.
Sophie Hope talks to Ben Jones, founder of Dingy Butterflies about a recent citizen science and arts project called Bees of Bensham.
Arlene Goldbard & François Matarasso talk to Nati Linares, whose current focus lies in the solidarity economy for artists.
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!
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.
Practitioner and researcher Sylvan Baker examines listening within applied theatre practices.
Owen Kelly explains about Todoist, why you might host your own calendars, and how these relate to positive laziness and doing nothing.
Sophie Hope talks to Karen Pilkington about the origins of the Village Hub project in Plymouth, and what it has gone on to achieve.
Arlene Goldbard & François Matarasso discuss the difficult conditions community-based artists & groups must work under as austerity bites.
Marley Starskey Butler, a multidisciplinary artist and social worker, talks about workshops as spaces for listening.
Owen Kelly looks at some practical examples of changes we can make and tools we can use.
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.
Sophie Hope brings together 4 people connected to the MA Art and Social Practice run by the University of Highlands and Islands in Scotland.
Arlene Goldbard talks with Sebastian Ruth about how classical music can connect with community arts and cultural democracy.
Jody Wood talks about listening as a practice of care – where to care is not to cure.
Owen Kelly looks at the evidence for considering three different dimensions of the digital tools we use.
Sophie Hope and Fabiola Fiocco discuss a workshop they led in Rome in February.
Arlene Goldbard talks with David Francis about the Traditional Music Forum in Scotland, and much more.
Disabled artist and drag king Lady Kitt talks to host Hannah Kemp-Welch about their practice of ‘mess making as social glue’.
Owen Kelly suggests that we update our ideas about the web to reclaim its radical, collaborative nature.
Brendan Jackson talks about the finale of the Jubilee Archives programme and the structure of Laundry.
Arlene Goldbard and Owen Kelly discuss the secret (and not so secret) spirituality that fuels their work.
Sam Metz talks about listening beyond the aural, sharing examples from their work with non-verbal participants.
Owen Kelly suggests three approaches that we might usefully develop in the coming year.
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.
Arlene Goldbard talks with Judith Marcuse about the growth & hibernation of Canadian community engaged art.
Edwin Mingard explores social change through moving image. Here he talks about the need to turn off ‘broadcast mode’.
Sophie Hope and Owen Kelly talk with Susan Jones about visual arts, arts policy, structural flaws, and and artists’ livelihoods.
This month Owen Kelly talks with Zeynep Falay von Flittner about transitions design and systems thinking.
François Matarasso and Arlene Goldbard talk with Ralph Lister from Take Art, in rural Somerset, England.
Albert Potrony introduces his participatory arts practice, describing a recent project with young fathers in Gateshead.
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?
Owen Kelly reads extracts from The Careless Society to contextualise the arguments that John McKnight proposes.
Sophie Hope and Owen Kelly discuss whether Bill Willingham can put Fables into the public domain, and what it might mean for co-creation.
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.
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.
Caron Atlas discusses her work with Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts New York (NOCD-NY) and Arts & Democracy, and much, much more.
Ed Carroll discusses the Faro Convention, the role of a “framework convention”, and the work of the Faro Convention Network.
Owen Kelly looks at some of the implications of Cory Doctorow’s neologism “enshittification” and the discussions around it.
Will Weigler, community-engaged theatre maker, writer and storyteller, discusses his role as official rapporteur for the ICAF Festival.
Maribel Legarda & Beng Cabangon of the Philippines Educational Theater Association, founded in 1967, talk about PETA’s creative strategies.
Owen Kelly reads excerpts from Tools for Conviviality to make sense of the arguments that Illich proposes.
Sophie Hope recorded this live report on the final day of the Rural School of Economics summer camp in July 2023 in Lumsden, Aberdeenshire.
Owen Kelly talks with Kim Wide, the founder of Take A Part, based in Plymouth in the UK.
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…
Owen Kelly talks to Hannah Kemp-Welch about interfaces between feminism & ham radio, and the mysteries of ‘natural radio’.
Collective Encounters discuss their work and the provocations they created for The World Transformed in Liverpool in September 2022.
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.
Sophie Hope talks to Koh Hui Ling and Han Xuemei.
Arlene Goldbard & François Mattarasso talk with TEAM about A Proper Ordinary Miracle, and other recent projects from National Theatre Wales.
Andrew Gryf Paterson talks to Owen Kelly about Pixelache’s involvement with Wikimedia & auto-archiving as a core part of cultural activity.
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.
Arlene Goldbard and François Mattarasso talk with Ben Fink and Kate Fowler about Art in A Democracy, from Roadside Theater in Appalachia.
Owen Kelly talks to Russell Southwood about his recent book Africa 2.0.
Owen Kelly talks to Sophie Hope and Henry Mulhall about their plans for Cards on the Table.
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.
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.
Sophie and Owen meet at the end of ICAF to look back over what they experienced.
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.
Owen Kelly talks with three of the artists who participated in Topos 3: Siniša Ilić, Ahilan Ratnamohan, and Stanislav Shuripa.
A conversation between Dusica Drazic and Anna Titova.
A conversation between Siniša Ilić and Ahilan Ratnamohan
A Conversation between Zorka Wollny and Siniša Ilić.
A conversation between Zorka Wollny and Anna Titova.
A conversation between Ahilan Ratnamohan and Stanislav Shuripa.
Arlene Goldbard and François Mattarasso discuss what community-based art can do.
Sophie Hope contemplates the bedpan – “this embarrassing, awkward object” – from different angles.
Owen Kelly looks at the web of arguments put forward by Jason “Propaganda” Petty in his book Terraform: Building a Better World.
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.
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.
François Matarasso & Arlene Goldbard talk to Jasmina Ibrahimovic about Rotterdams Wijktheater & the International Community Arts Festival.
Owen Kelly & Tomas Träskman discuss micronations as experiments in living, as performance art, and as political activism.
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.