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A very powerful interjection by the Min of Ed from Portugal: "art does not need justifying, it's the place of complexity, time and deepness" (framed as an empathetic paradigm that makes populism obsolete) #CultureEducation

Wonderful Nar! Is there a recording?

Here we are in Huye, Rwanda watching 275 girls (aged 5-12) performing warrior dance and drumming Mobile Arts for Peace. Living culture and the power of arts running right through every fibre of these girls.

What a scream to be part of the #GentleGestures stream and share on fun-ing and found poetry via an ARTing workshop for Mobile Arts for Peace criticallegalthinking.com/2023/09/07/mid… Thank you.

In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political I must listen to the birds & in order to hear the birds the airplane must be silent Marwan Makhoul, trans. Zeina Hashem Beck

😉...just wait until these two somebodies unleash our findings together...and find ways to support others. So happy you are both connected! And Emily Dowdeswell thesis will be off the Richter!

Come join us on Friday! Contributions from Michael Croft Juhi Adhikari Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN) Prof David Stephens and many more! Link to register 👇

In an ARTing workshop listening to Ruby talk about her Mithila artworks "It is an emotion, it connects generation to generation". #EverdayPeacebuilding Mobile Arts for Peace

I remember writing about #volunteerism for the United Nations #youth report a few years back. The UK announcement today is riddled with values contradictions, you couldn't make it up. 0h, wait...

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"Culture is not an industry" J O'Connor manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526171269/ "it should be placed alongside health, education, and social welfare". Looking forward to this! I #hope it talks about living cultures: less pinned butterflies, more the air we breathe.

Appreciating your point, Wendy. Play is also intrinsically part of being human, for all ages. Behind fun, lies spontaneity, challenging culture and freedom.

Come and listen to Ananda Breed and @AidHoover at the Uni of Suffolk Childhood and Education Children and Childhoods Conference on 11 July👇 "The Warrior Girls of Rwanda: Challenging and calling forward alternative gender norms"

Love this, in all its crab and mole like ways.

Thoroughly enjoyed seeing simonpearsall's comic captures today Uni of Suffolk Childhood and Education #childhoods2024. Let's see how tomorrow unfolds!

Very much looking forward to participating in the New Area Studies Research Centre UEA Imagined Geographies symposium 2-3 Oct. Sharing on Mobile Arts for Peace #gender #performance and #poetry. Pls connect if you are also going, I'd love to hear more about your work.

We are delighted to share an article from Dr Sarah Huxley Sarah Huxley entitled: "Fun-ing: Applying a Playful and Embodied Pedagogical Approach to an Online Poetry Workshop in the Mobile Arts for Peace Project" ijcer.net/index.php/pub/… Does it resonate with your own work?

Come and join us! Learn about "fun-ing" in the context of #nonformal education and #creative pedagogies. Part of the Anthropology of #Play and Games series at the Royal Anthropological Institute Emily Dowdeswell @OU_ECYS RUMPUS research group Mobile Arts for Peace search.app/xPxaECRMdSTC25…

Artful Dialogue: Moving towards an alternative peace education pedagogy. Mobile Arts for Peace New open access article: cultureandvalues.org/index.php/JCV/…

Congratulations to all contributors and editors! If you're interested in the links between *gloss* (a translation term), poetry and impact testimonials check out my essay 👇 #artsbasedresearch