Registration for the New Perspectives on Participatory Arts conference is now open! This FREE conference, organised by the AHRC Connected Communities programme, seeks to draw together the new knowledge and practice generated by and emerging from funded research projects across Connected Communities as well as more widely in the fields of community and participatory arts.... Continue Reading →
The conference takes place in the Elizabeth Fry building; our conference dinner is held in the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, also on campus Day 1: Tuesday 22nd May 9:00-9:45 Registration, coffee Foyer 9:45-10:00 Welcome and introduction Room 01.08 Dr Lucy Wright and... Continue Reading →
A blog by Dr Lucy Wright, Post Doctoral Researcher on the Participatory Arts & DIY Cultures project: It’s now more than six months since I took up the post of Senior Research Associate on the ‘Participatory Arts and DIY Cultures’ project at the University of East Anglia which seems like as good a time as any... Continue Reading →
Artist Development Bursary New Perspectives on Participatory Arts Conference University of East Anglia 22nd and 23rd May 2018 We are delighted to be able to offer a small number of Artist Development Bursaries to allow community artists to attend the New Perspectives on Participatory Arts Conference at the University of East Anglia on... Continue Reading →
By Prof George McKay I bought the Pistols Spunk bootleg from Ace Records on Lower Goat Lane, Norwich in 1977, the very best of any of the punk or later indie record shops in the city. (The other bootleg I remember getting from Colin, following one of those necessarily surreptitious conversations with his regular customers,... Continue Reading →
Our postdoctoral researcher Dr Lucy Wright is currently in Japan conducting research into Japanese Morris Dancing groups! You can read about her experiences on her project blog: https://morrisdancinginjapan.blogspot.co.uk/
She don’t want a baby that looks like that / I don’t want a baby that looks like me / Body—I’m not an animal / Body—I’m an abortion. Sex Pistols, “Bodies” (live version, 1978) Does punk rock in disability culture matter? Does punk matter (any more, decades later)? Curiously, I think, it has begun to speak more to me... Continue Reading →
By Dr Lucy Wright “I used to be an ethnomusicologist but I drifted.” That’s how I introduce myself at parties (sometimes). What I mean to say is that, despite an academic background in ethnomusicology—the social science concerned with the relationships between people, performance and place—much of my work no longer looks straightforwardly like scholarly research.... Continue Reading →
By Dr Lucy Wright In many ways, girls’ morris superficially bears little resemblance to the better-known ‘traditional’ morris performance of the English folk revival. Many first-time witnesses liken it to modern Irish stepdance, or mistake it for the American import, cheerleading, although girls’ morris dancing is (at least) several decades older. However, despite surface dissimilarities,... Continue Reading →
The deadline for submissions is: 1st March 2018 This FREE conference, organised by the AHRC Connected Communities programme, seeks to draw together the new knowledge and practice generated by and emerging from funded research projects across Connected Communities as well as more widely in the fields of community and participatory arts. One of the... Continue Reading →
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