Culture, Democracy and the Right to Make Art

Alison Jeffers is a Lecturer in Applied Theatre and Contemporary Performance at the University of Manchester, UK. Her publications include the monograph Refugees, Theatre and Crisis: Performing Global Identities (2010). She worked as a community artist for ten years before moving into education. Gerri Moriarty is an independent arts consultant. She was one of the artists who marched on the Arts Council demanding more funding and support for community arts in the 1960s. She has continued to work in community arts as well as being an arts consultant, trainer and writer in the UK, Ireland and beyond.

Notes on Contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction, by Alison Jeffers (University of Manchester, UK)
Part 1
Chapter 2: The British Arts Movement 196801986, by Alison Jeffers
Chapter 3: Community Arts - a forty-year apprenticeship: A view from England, by Gerri Moriarty (artist)
Chapter 4: Craigmillar Festival, the Scottish Community Arts Movement of the 1970s and 1980s and its impact: A view from Scotland, by Andrew Crummy (artist)
Chapter 5:.The Pioneers and the Welsh Community Arts Movement: A view from Wales, by Nick Clements (artist)
Chapter 6: Grown from shattered glass: A view from Northern Ireland, by Gerri Moriarty
Part 2
Chapter 7: Memories, Dreams, Reflections: Community Arts as Cultural Policy: the 1970s, by Oliver Bennett (University of Warwick, UK)
Chapter 8: Training and Education for Artists: The impact of ideas in the 1970s and 1980s on the training of artists today, by Mark Webster and Janet Hetherington (Staffordshire University, UK)
Chapter 9: From Community Arts to the Socially Engaged Arts Commission, by Sophie Hope (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
Chapter 10: Cultural Democracy, Developing Technologies and Dividuality, by Owen Kelly (Arcada University, Finland)
Chapter 11: Conclusion, by Alison Jeffers and Gerri Moriarty
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index