5Rights and the Power of Real-Life Gathering

MANIFESTO: A NEW ROLE FOR THE ARTIST 65. T Coult and B Kershaw (Editors), Engineers of the Imagination – Welfare State Handbook (1983); and

John Fox, Eyes on Stalks (2002)

CREATIVE CITIZENS TOGETHER - BUILDING HOPE IN LOCAL COMMUNITIES 66. See: https://www.theguardian.com/global/commentisfree/2017/nov/10/never-stop-brexit-trumpaddress-anger-impeachment-second-referendum 67. See: http://www.rema-online.org.uk/ 68. See: https://www.facebook.com/LoveisLouderRotherham/ 69. See: https://www.facebook.com/theretuneproject/ 70. See: http://friendsoftheflyover.org.uk/

SHIFTING CULTURE 71. Peter Block, Walter Brueggemann, John McKnight, An Other Kingdom - Departing the Consumer Culture (2016) 72. See: https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Coalition_for_the_Cultural_Commons

Authors

David Bryan

David is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of Voluntary Arts and is Director of Xtend UK Ltd, a management consultancy working in organisational change, leadership development and diversity.

Dr Peter Doran

Peter is a lecturer in sustainable development and governance at the School of Law, Queens University Belfast. His book, A Political Economy of Attention, Mindfulness and Consumerism: Reclaiming the Mindful Commons, was published by Routledge in June 2017.

Karin Eyben

Karin is Development Lead for the Garvagh People’s Forest Project. Prior to that, she was Multidisciplinary Programme Worker with the Corrymeela Community in Northern Ireland.

John Fox MBE

John has a world-wide reputation for creating celebratory participatory art with communities. Artist, printmaker, published poet, film-maker, lecturer, cultural provocateur and occasional musician, he founded Welfare State International (1968-2006) with Sue Gill and others.

David Francis

David is a musician and dance caller, with wide experience of traditional music in Scotland. He is part of the management team at TRACS and has been involved in the Traditional Music Forum since it started as an ad hoc advisory group for the old Scottish Arts Council.

Jamie Gahlon

Jamie Gahlon is a cultural organiser, producer, and theatre-maker. She is the Senior Creative Producer and a CoFounder of HowlRound, a knowledge commons created by and for the theatre community based at Emerson College in Boston.

Dr Abigail Gilmore

Abigail is Senior Lecturer in Arts Management and Cultural Policy and Head of the Institute for Cultural Practices at University of Manchester, leading postgraduate programmes in these interdisciplinary subject areas.

Niamh Goggin

Niamh has worked in social enterprise and community economic development in the UK, Central America and Europe. She currently works with Big Local, is Expert Advisor to Barclays Credit Union Support Programme, and is developing a capitalisation strategy for arts organisations in Northern Ireland.

Tom Jones

Following forty-years employment in adult, access, further, higher and post-graduate education in Art and Design, Tom is now on his second, largely voluntary career devising and organising arts activities with citizens in Birmingham.

Baroness Beeban Kidron OBE

Beeban is a British filmmaker best known for directing Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) and the Baftawinning miniseries Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1989), adapted from the Jeannette Winterson novel. In 2006, she founded FILMCLUB with journalist and film critic Lindsay Mackie.

Andrew Kim

As Handmade Parade founder and artistic director, Andrew has created puppet and mask plays, parades and pageants for over 25 years. He is the codirector of Thingumajig Theatre which creates and tours puppet plays and interactive giant puppets.

Robert Livingstone

Robert has been actively engaged across the arts and across Scotland for many years, working for organisations such as BBC Scotland, Dundee Rep, the Third Eye Centre, the Crawford Centre for the Arts, Edinburgh Printmakers, and the Scottish Arts Council. He joined Regional Screen Scotland as part-time CEO in July 2015.

Kevin Murphy

A musician, cultural leader and creative citizen Kevin has worked on cultural projects for over 30 years. His early professional life was as a musician in London before moving back to Northern Ireland and embarking on a series of leadership roles in arts organisations and networks. He has been the Chief Officer of Voluntary Arts Ireland since 2010.

Dr Mairi McFadyen

A creative ethnologist, writer, researcher and teacher at the University of Edinburgh, Mairi’s interests centre on the role and value of the traditional arts of music, song and storytelling. She has worked with TRACS in a freelance capacity since 2012.

Liam Murphy

Liam Murphy is a Civic Entrepreneur and Writer who has worked as a gardener, picture framer, artist, book seller - and run an art gallery in Great Yarmouth! He’s currently transferring his LTD company into a shared art and framing workshop using common stock and facilities and writing a book about the cultural industries.

Dr Nat O’Connor

Nat is currently Political Director for the Labour Party in Ireland. Prior to that,

he worked with the independent Irish think-tank, Towards a Flourishing Society (TASC), in various roles, followed by several years as a Lecturer in Public Policy and Public Management at Ulster University.

Robin Simpson

Robin is Chief Executive of Voluntary Arts. Before joining Voluntary Arts in 2005, he was Deputy Chief Executive of Making Music – the national umbrella body for amateur music making, supporting over 2,000 amateur music groups throughout the UK, including choirs, orchestras, and music promoters.

Daria Stenina

The wonderfully elusive Daria, the Scarlet Pimpernel of Cardboardia. She has so many personas created in cardboard that we were unsure which one she would prefer to be known as. She was last seen working as Project Manager of Cardboardia….. we would love to know more….. answers on a postcard please.

Dr Denis Stewart

Denis has been Voluntary Arts Ireland Chair and a Trustee of Voluntary Arts since January 2015. An active member of the International Futures Forum, he is currently in his ‘post-professional’ stage of life, pursuing his interests in ‘life-wide’ learning and connecting with other people. There is always an extraordinary debt of gratitude owed to those who have been prepared to join you on a journey of discovery and in a creative act. The shared commitment to seek the truth of an idea is something very rare. Our Cultural Commons has not only been a significant part of my working life over the past few years, but a passion which went well beyond the work day, shifting and expanding my perspective irrevocably. So this is somewhat of a quiet personal thanks to all of these brilliant folk who have contributed here, to those in the wider commons movement who have sought to encourage me, my ever supportive family and in particular to my co-conspirators Robin, Damien and Denis. There are no words that can sufficiently describe my admiration and thanks....other than lets continue on this path together.

Kevin Murphy

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