Arts Educators required for international participatory arts project
The Charlotte Miller Art Project – CMAP are currently seeking experienced and energetic arts practitioners working within the arts, who have relevant experience and skills to develop art participatory workshops in Latin America. The Charlotte Miller Art Project has been running since 2002 in partnership with ICYE UK (Intercultural Youth exchange UK), offering creative experiences [...]
Latest In Our Times blog
An update on the exciting developments with In Our Times. Read it here on our ning…
Musings on music…
The time for satire is ended. Nothing can be satirized in the authoritarian state. It is culture reduced to playing the spoons. The stockbroker laughs, and the satirist plays the spoons. The authoritarian art form is the musical. The accountant is the new censor.
Howard Barker, Fourtynine asides for a tragic theatre
It may be the ‘tits and teeth’ school performances which first inspired my love for theatre; or that music has provided an evocative soundtrack through my life: I’m not sure, but whatever the reason I’m a true believer in the power of music. To move, uplift, transport, enrapture. To speak viscerally, make you smile, tap [...]
In Our Times preview at Light Night
You can catch previews of In Our Times by our homeless performers at The Brink as part of the city’s Light Night Festival on 18th May 2012. For In Our Times the performers, who all attend The Whitechapel Centre, have worked with professional musicians to create an original and thought provoking song – Seize the [...]
Tickets released for In Our Times
Today, Collective Encounters released tickets for the In Our Times event at The Casa Bar, 29 Hope Street, Liverpool on the evening of 13th June. Collectively created over 6 months by Collective Encounters’ community programme participants, the general public and a team of professional artists the In Our Times event promises to be an evening [...]
Collective Encounters at Royal Opera House
We are excited to announce our homeless group, the Kabin Krew, are included in the programe for the ROH/Streetwise Opera 2012 Cultural Olympiad event, With One Voice on 2nd July. The With One Voice event will be the first time in history that homeless people have been given an official platform in celebrations of an [...]
A sad week
We’re very sorry to bring the sad news that John McGuirk has passed away. John was one of our very first participants and a vocal supporter of Collective Encounters. He’s pictured here receiving an Open College Network certification for participation in our first project Living Place, from Artistic Director Sarah Thornton. John saw Collective Encounters’ [...]
Sad loss of valued member
Everyone at Collective Encounters was very sorry to hear the sad news that one of our long-term participants died recently. Alistair Campbell is pictured above (far left) with Liam Tobin, Denise Kennedy, Emma Folan and Andy Frizzell. Alistair was a core member of the Kabin Krew a small company of actors with experience of homelessness. [...]
Community Play Project seeks a Creative Researcher
For over 100 years the Cottage Homes have been a fascinating Fazakerley landmark. The 26 cottages and associated buildings have been a treasure trove of lives and stories, with deep roots into the local community both past and present. Built to provide a home for over 700 orphans and pauper children, the buildings have subsequently [...]
New research pages
Have a look at the new Research Lab pages sharing podcasts, papers and provocations. Podcasts include David Clegg and Karen Hayes speaking about arts and dementia and reading some of their wonderful work; and Artsitic Director Sarah Thornton challenging the arts community to put up or shut up with regards engaging communities. Papers include some [...]
