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Art, devolution and economic justice

admin-poor — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 12:31:53 +0000

Post by Jenny Hughes Here are the notes from a short talk I did at the Art and Devolution event organised by Abigail Gilmore at the Old Granada Studios in Manchester (UK) last week. The ‘Poor Theatres’ project explored the relationships between theatre, poverty and economic justice. The first phase of […]

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The Kattaikkuttu Gurukulam: A theatre commons in action?

admin-poor — Mon, 25 May 2015 16:33:21 +0000

We are very pleased to include this guest blog post from Hebe Reilly – MA Applied Theatre student at the University of Manchester. The post arises from her MA research on theatre commons in India and the UK. When reading Jenny Hughes’ posts on the theatre commons I began contemplating my […]

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Making theatre in the midst of austerity – SYMPOSIUM

admin-poor — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 10:20:17 +0000

A symposium on theatre, poverty and inequality Wednesday 4th November 2015 Martin Harris Centre of Music and Drama, University of Manchester (UK) Including the premiere of The House, a solo performance by Carran Waterfield, Triangle Theatre Call for contributions Deepening economic inequality has been identified as one of the most […]

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A list of resources useful for beginning to think about a theatre commons

admin-poor — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:50:40 +0000

This is the final of 4 blog posts on the theatre commons, written by Jenny Hughes. This one is a list of resources … Commons on the net David Bollier’s blog The Commoner On the Commons Howlaround – a commons by and for people who make performance International Association for the […]

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8 steps towards a theatre commons: 5 to 8

admin-poor — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:48:09 +0000

This is the third of 4 blog posts on the theatre commons – written by Jenny Hughes Here’s the next post about a ‘theatre commons’ – ‘8 steps towards a theatre commons: 5 to 8’. See ‘Towards a theatre commons’ and ‘8 steps towards a theatre commons: 1 to 4′ for the first two. 5. […]

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8 steps towards a theatre commons: 1 to 4

admin-poor — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 08:17:20 +0000

This is the second of 4 blog posts on the theatre commons – written by Jenny Hughes Here’s a second post about a ‘theatre commons’ – ‘8 steps towards a theatre commons’. I am posting the first 4 steps only here and 4 more will follow soon. See ‘Towards a theatre […]

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Towards a theatre commons

admin-poor — Mon, 12 Jan 2015 09:15:55 +0000

This is the first of 4 blog posts on the theatre commons – by Jenny Hughes ‘The commons’ is a term that describes things that are organised in ways that hold them open and make them available for common use. Commons can be material (places, people, things), social (relationships, networks), cultural (values, […]

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