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Our features explore the connection between the arts and social change. We amplify voices too often silenced, commissioning and covering stories from communities at the forefront of sustainable and inclusive development to highlight the creative endeavours bettering our world. Our online archive is free and open to all, showcasing a range of features excerpted from our print publications as well as specially curated digital pieces that further these conversations, highlighting creativity’s role in shaping a positive future for all.

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· Equity & Voice, Humanity & Health

Tettey’s walks with women

When I was little, Joe, my father, was at sea. I was at home in a sea of amazing women: one head girl in charge, Dede, my big sister; two cheerleaders, Adei and Kai, my little sisters; and my first true love, Lena, my mother.

Art, Design
· Environment & Place, Equity & Voice

Elliott’s

Exploring the cross-section of food and creativity through the lens of Scotland, Jess Dennison and Philippa Henley explore the authenticity, imperfection, cross-disciplinary thinking and debate at play as two sectors collide

Lola Villa’s Forest Bathing Playlist

"Nurturing a deeper understanding of our habitat and the ways in which we can protect and care for it become vital to a sustainable future."

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· Equity & Voice, Humanity & Health

boom saloon’s Dementia Friendly global galleries

Incentivising citizens to be co-creators in their own neighbourhoods, how important is the art of city making?

We Built This City

Incentivising citizens to be co-creators in their own neighbourhoods, how important is the art of city making?

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· Humanity & Health

Willy Gilder’s Aural Stimulus

“I used to work as a journalist, and have a bit of a magpie brain that scavenges bits of information from all over the place. From somewhere or other I had heard of the idea that personally meaningful music can help people with dementia – that is, the music you grew up with, that you were listening to in your teens and twenties.‶

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· Humanity & Health

From Gerry

Proving the power of poetry to unlock talent, Gerald King shares a selection of poetry written as part of our work to rewrite the story of dementia

Art
· Equity & Voice

Freedom Writer

Torture, absolution and an ongoing search for peace pore from the poetry of Ghazi Hussein

Art
· Environment & Place

Take One Action’s Films of Resistance

From occupied Palestine to the Brazilian Amazon, the following films are expansive calls to listen to Indigenous communities as they imagine a world beyond and in spite of colonialism and fossil fuel capitalism; where resistance, like the unruly earth, grows through gaps in concrete.

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· Equity & Voice

Where are we going?

By highlighting the Superstar Curators collectively driving towards positive and just change in the art world, Akworkor Thomspon begins to unpick the narratives of repatriation, power and decolonisation at play