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Monday, October 13th, 2008 | The Evidence Engine | 4 Comments

I’ve been working in arts participation throughout my professional life - which is beginning to amount to just a little longer than I can remember - and, especially when I consider the gains made since the early nineties, I see enormous value in the increasing prevalence and centrality of arts participation, of all stripes, in classrooms and at the heart of artist/creative organisation delivery across the UK. Yet, while celebrating its apparent rude health, I’ve long been concerned about the lack of critical reflection within the field; the understanding of political context, and the knowledge that we’re still a way off from being able to have unguarded, honest, warts-and-all exchanges, between ‘ourselves’ and beyond, that we need to in order to see clear, truly value in what participation in the arts can achieve. › Continue reading