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This month in A Culture of Possibility Eugene van Erven discusses his adventures in international popular theatre: adventures that carried him on a journey that led to the founding of ICAF in Rotterdam.
A CULTURE OF POSSIBILITY
EPISODE 61 | FEBRUARY 20 | 2026
PARTICIPANTSEugene van Erven | Arlene Goldbard | François Matarasso
COMMENTARY
On episode 61 of A Culture of Possibility cohosts Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso ...
In the second episode of Parallel Streams Owen Kelly introduces and contextualises a recent episode from the weekly podcasts made by David Rovics. This one, which we repost here by kind permission of David Rovics, contains his personal analysis of the relationships between music, jobs and AI, and provides some practical examples.
PARALLEL STREAMS
EPISODE 02 | FEBRUARY 13 | 2026
PARTICIPANTSOwen Kelly | David Rovics
COMMENTARY...In November 2025 Sophie Hope gave a presentation at a conference called Collaborative Futures, organised in Dublin by Create. In this episode she talks with three participants to discuss the program, the outcomes, and the possibilities inherent in the idea of collaborative futures.
MEANWHILE IN AN ABANDONED WAREHOUSEEPISODE 83 | February 6 | 2026
PARTICIPANTS
Megan Atkinson | Sophie Hope | Silver Kezir | Damien McGlynn
COMM...
In the first episode of the year we embark on another journey through the golden age of radio, beginning with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce in The Reluctant Tobacconist.
Friday Number Five | Episode 20
January 30 | 2026
HOST Owen Kelly
COMMENTARY
On months that have a fifth Friday we break from our normal schedule and produce something else related tangentially to questions of cultural democracy. In 2026 we dive once more i...
Jo Gibson and Sophie Hope begin a new series examining the history of social practice programmes and projects at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.
Echoes and the Unsaid | Episode 01
January 23 | 2026 PARTICIPANTS
Jo Gibson | Sophie Hope
COMMENTARY This is the first episode in a nine-part series hosted by Jo Gibson (Research Fellow, Institute for Social Justice, York St John University) and Sophie Hope (co-lead of the De-ce...
Today A Culture of Possibility celebrates its fifth anniversary with an in-depth discussion with Griselda Goldsbrough about arts in hospitals. JANUARY 16 | SERIES 2026
A CULTURE OF POSSIBILITY | EPISODE 60
PARTICIPANTSArlene Goldbard | Griselda Goldsbrough | François Matarasso
COMMENTARYGriselda Goldsbrough is a visual artist and writer, and community educator. She has over 15 years’ experience in devising and curating crea...
The first in a new Miaaw series, in which we introduce and showcase other podcasts. In this episode the Irene Taylor Trust present Solidarity Tracks, a podcast about working with music in prisons.
PARALLEL STREAMS | EPISODE 01
JANUARY 9 | 2026
PARTICIPANTSSophie Hope | Sara Lee
COMMENTARYThe Irene Taylor Trust began in 1995 in memory of Irene Taylor who had a personal interest in both penal reform and music. While serving...
Sophie Hope and Owen Kelly talk to Su Jones about the reactions she has received to her paper Artists' lives: ecologies for resilience, and what she hopes happens next.
Meanwhile in an Abandoned Warehouse | Episode 82
January 2nd | 2026
PARTICIPANTS
Sophie Hope | Su Jones | Owen Kelly
COMMENTARYLast summer Su Jones finished writing <strong>Artists' lives: ecologies for resilience</strong>, a report formed around...
Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso talk about redemption: : the understanding that we can learn from experience and choose to realign some aspect of our lives to our deepest values.
How much do people believe positive change is possible? How much are people’s ideas of possibility constrained by a certainty that our pasts over-determine our future?
DECEMBER 9 | SERIES 2025
STREAM A CULTURE OF POSSIBILITY | EPISODE 59
PARTICI...
When Arlene Goldbard is not being a cultural activist or a consultant, she paints. When she is not painting she writes. She writes essays and novels. Her latest novel <em>The Intercessor</em> has just come out.
Owen Kelly talks to Arlene about how this specific burst of writing began, how the novel grew from the initial writing, and what she hopes the published book might achieve. DECEMBER 5 | SERIES 2025
STREAM Meanw...
Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso interview Laura Raicovich about Fall of Freedom, which begins on the day this podcast drops. NOVEMBER 21 | SERIES 2025
STREAM A CULTURE OF POSSIBILITY | EPISODE 58
PARTICIPANTSArlene Goldbard | François Matarasso | Laura Raicovich
COMMENTARYOn episode 58 of A Culture of Possibility, Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso talk with writer and curator Laura Raicovich, one of the initiato...
This month Owen Kelly looks at some of the deeper meanings of Katie Lam’s recent remarks on cultural coherence.
NOVEMBER 7 | SERIES 2025
STREAM Meanwhile in an Abandoned Warehouse | EPISODE 80
PARTICIPANTOwen Kelly
COMMENTARYIn this episode Owen Kelly looks into the idea of cultural coherence, something that bubbled to the surface after Katie Lam, a member of parliament for the Conservative Party used it in an interview wi...
In this episode we explore Faircamp again, trying to find something to celebrate halloween. Then we take a peep at what we can find at Tribe of Noise. OCTOBER 31 | SERIES 2025
STREAM Friday Number Five | EPISODE 19
HOSTOwen Kelly
COMMENTARYToday (or tonight, depending on where you are) we have the final Friday Number Five of 2025. At the end of January we started another irregular series of Radio Miaaw: podcasts of music i...
Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso interview Betsy Damon whose work with water has had a healing impact across the globe. She talks about her work from early projects in China to her current undertakings. OCTOBER 17 | SERIES 2025
STREAM A CULTURE OF POSSIBILITY | EPISODE 57
PARTICIPANTS
Betsy Damon | Arlene Goldbard | François Matarasso
COMMENTARYBetsy Damon is an internationally-recognized artist whose public work and ...
Susan Jones works as an independent arts researcher and writer who holds specialist knowledge and insight about the social and political environment for artists and contemporary visual arts.
She has just completed her independent qualitative and longitudinal study Artists' lives: ecologies for resilience, formed around case studies of 14 visual artists from three English regions. She has been working on it for the last two years.
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On episode 56 of A Culture of Possibility, Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso offer their third podcast in a series about censorship and related issues, following on episode 54 with writer Jeff Chang and episode 55 with muralists Amber Hansen and Reyna Hernandez.
Arlene and François talk about their own direct experiences with these issues, including times community artists had to chose which aspects of a project to share or n...
According to Wikipedia, Jon Savage “is an English writer, broadcaster and music journalist, best known for his book about the Sex Pistols and punk music, England's Dreaming”.
He has also written a lengthy and very detailed book called Teenage: the creation of youth 1875 - 1945, and in this episode Owen Kelly looks at that, and points to some of the many interesting and useful connections and examples that Savage has dug up.
The blu...
Oh look its the fifth Friday of August. That must mean its time for another episode of Friday Number 5!
At the end of January we started another irregular series of Radio Miaaw: podcasts of music issued under Creative Commons licences; a theme we last explored four years ago.
This month we have another unexpected surprise. We have found Faircamp, which aims to achieve something similar to Bandcamp, without any corporate shennanigan...
On episode 55 of A Culture of Possibility, Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso host muralists Amber Hansen and Reyna Hernandez, who were the first interviewees on the podcast!
Following on Episode 54, in which Jeff Chang detailed the censorship of his book by the US Department of Defense, Amber and Reyna talked about the more local or subtle forms of pressure to censor or self-censor, such as agencies that commission communit...
Miriam Toews is a Canadian author, and Fight Night is her seventh novel. It tells the story of a grandmother, a pregnant mother, and her young daughter who find themselves living together as an intergenerational family while having to cope with life-changing situations.
It reads as a comedy and a commentary. It feels hilarious and deeply moving.
Owen Kelly suggests reasons why you should find a copy and add it to your holiday readi...
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