Applaud and Appreciate: Culture
There is something so refreshing about community arts – arts for arts sake if you will. What it brings is a genuine enjoyment and appreciation without labels, expectations, without – in the main –...
View ArticleConstraint Is A Condition of Creativity: The Coward’s Tale
Doris Sommer in her article “Art and Accountability” (which investigates, among other things, cultural agency), declares that Constraint is a condition of creativity, not a nemesis. In this, a time of...
View ArticleLooking Forward: World Book Day and Night 2013
I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately, from the moving and touching (John Banville Ancient Light) to the darkly humorous (Kevin Barry Dark Lies the Island) to the thoughtful (Orhan Pamuk The Naive...
View ArticleCommunity Engagement 5th October: A Date for Your Diary!
I have posted before on Cultivate Celbridge, a community group which I am involved with. While my own interest is in the arts, specifically reading and writing in the wider community (hence World Book...
View ArticleCollaboration & Community: Artists & Writers
I was delighted to be asked to participate in preparatory creative writing workshops with Clogh Writers as part of their collaborative project Handling Fossils with visual artist Sarah Lincoln (Sarah,...
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