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Arlene Goldbard | Sophie Hope | Owen Kelly | François Matarasso

once a week audio essays, conversations and discussions about cultural democracy, community-based art, and the commons.

  1. Three Motivations for Fascists

    4 DAYS AGO

    Three Motivations for Fascists

    In this month’s episode of Parallel Streams we listen to an episode of THOUGHT SNACK, with Max Haiven and Sarah Stein Lubrano. THOUGHT SNACK is an occasional podcast from Sense & Solidarity where Sarah and Max explore the big ideas that make and break our world. PARALLEL STREAMS EPISODE 05 | MAY 8 | 2026   PARTICIPANTS Max Haiven | Owen Kelly | Sarah Stein Lubrano   COMMENTARY Max Haiven is an researcher and educator who uses writing, teaching, games, podcasts and other techniques for the radical imagination. He works as an associate professor and Canada Research Chair in the Radical Imagination at Lakehead University in Canada.  His latest book is Palm Oil: The Grease of Empire (2022). Sarah Stein Lubrano is a writer and researcher who specializes in the social psychology of politics. For many years she was the Head of Content at The School of Life in London, Currently she is Head of Research for the The Future Narratives Lab, whose work focuses on narratives about social and political change. She is the author of Don't Talk About Politics: How to Change 21st-Century Minds (2025). Together Max and Sarah founded and now organise Sense & Solidarity which offers a platform where people who want to radically change the world can learn together and build individual and collective capacity. This THOUGHT SNACK podcast was released under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence. The music in the podcast is by Dan Gouly. REFERENCES Three Motivations for Fascists on Soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/reimaginevalue/threefascistmotivations   THOUGHT SNACK on Soundcloud  https://soundcloud.com/reimaginevalue/sets/thoughtsnack   Sense and Solidarity https://senseandsolidarity.org/   Sarah Stein Lubrano https://www.sarahsteinlubrano.com   Max Haiven https://maxhaiven.com/

    1hr 5min
  2. Structures of Feelings

    1 MAY

    Structures of Feelings

    During a discussion about the possible meanings of cultural democracy Sophie Hope raised the concept of structures of feeling that Raymond Williams had developed.  In this episode we examine this concept in more detail.   Meanwhile in an Abandoned Warehouse   EPISODE 86 | MAY 1 | 2026    PARTICIPANTS Sophie Hope and Owen Kelly   COMMENTARY Owen Kelly and Sophie Hope dig out their copies of Marxism & Literature and discuss the cultural theory that Raymond Williams develops there. They reflect on Williams’ insistence on keeping in mind that we live our lives as processes, and that cultural theory needs to avoid turning these into finished products that we can dissect at our leisure. We examine some of the things that this might mean in practice, and what all this might mean for anyone interested in exploring ideas like cultural democracy. This continues an argument that we have been developing over the last few episodes and the argument will conclude in the next episode, when all the threads (cultural democracy as process, the subtle perils of AI, and the structure of feelings) will come together into a total something that will appear (slightly) greater than the sum of its parts. Note The file uploaded on May 1 had some serious audio glitches. Apologies. We uploaded a repaired file on Saturday May 2. Please enjoy this one!   References Oxford Reference online https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100538488 Sean Matthews on Structure & Feeling https://www.academia.edu/1196858/Change_and_theory_in_Raymond_Williamss_Structure_of_Feeling_2001_

    27 min
  3. PACE - Performance and Creative Enterprise

    24 APR

    PACE - Performance and Creative Enterprise

    In the fourth episode of Echoes and the Unsaid Jo and Sophie talk to a group of people involved in the BA Performance and Creative Enterprise (PACE) Programme that ran from 2015-2021 at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.  They discuss the background to the course, reflections on how it challenged the structures of the conservatoire and the generative community of practice that evolved between students and staff during the life of the programme.  Echoes and the Unsaid   EPISODE 04 | APRIL 24 | 2026   PARTICIPANTS Jo Gibson | Sophie Hope COMMENTARY   Jo Gibson and Sophie Hope talk to a group of people involved in the BA Performance and Creative Enterprise (PACE) Programme that ran from 2015-2021 at Guildhall School of Music and Drama.  We hear from student Georgia Dodsworth, the programme co-ordinator, Naomi Nathan, module leader for collaborative practice, Natasha Zielazinski, and lecturer Justin O'Shaughnessy.  They discuss the background to the course, reflections on how it challenged the structures of the conservatoire and the generative community of practice that evolved between students and staff during the life of the programme.   Thank you to the contributors of this podcast and all the staff and students who worked on the PACE programme.   REMINDER This is episode 4 in a special series for miaaw.net about social practice programmes and projects at Guildhall School of Music and Drama from the 1970s to the 2020s.  The series is hosted by Jo Gibson (Research Fellow, Institute for Social Justice, York St John University) and Sophie Hope (co-lead of the De-centre for socially engaged practice and research at Guildhall School of Music and Drama).   REFERENCES PACE alumni https://www.gsmd.ac.uk/study-with-guildhall/drama/performance-creative-enterprise-alumni Natasha Zielazinski https://natashazielazinski.com/   Georgia Dodsworth https://natashazielazinski.com/ Open school East https://openschooleast.org/ Shoreditch Festival https://www.ponystudio.co.uk/pictures/projects/shoreditch-festival/ Cultural Olympiad https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09548963.2013.798999 Barbican Creative Learning https://www.gsmd.ac.uk/about-guildhall/news/barbican-guildhall-creative-learning-marks-decade-of-transforming-lives Bedwyr Williams exhibition in the Curve Gallery (2016-17) https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2016/event/bedwyr-williams-the-gulch Islington Mill https://www.islingtonmill.com/ Ways of Seeing by John Berger https://www.ways-of-seeing.com/ Memorial to Kenny Mukendi https://www.wired4music.co.uk/2019/10/in-memory-of-kenny-mukendi-a-k-a-vulcan-mc/ Resistible Demise of Michael Jackson by Mark Fisher (2009) https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/The-Resistible-Demise-of-Michael-Jackson-by-Mark-Fisher/9781846943485?srsltid=AfmBOoom0-_--ptJKx839YJkarW0EBO9wEnQihlwCV8tHp1COIEDYdpi Books by bell hooks https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/collections/author-books-by-bell-hooks?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=20190430526&gbraid=0AAAAADZzAIA7QFIPekGdxZuNRNF3ENifr&gclid=CjwKCAjwspPOBhB9EiwATFbi5GtShIa91SaSwVKAGIA_ws9h3ekoXhEXu7Rz7nVV6SWrfTrcIQO41BoCZccQAvD_BwE

    59 min
  4. Live from ICAF: cultural policy & community arts

    17 APR

    Live from ICAF: cultural policy & community arts

    Episode 63 of A Culture of Possibility, Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso discuss cultural policy as it really is, and not as policy makers would like you to think of it.  The presentation was recorded live at a session at the International Community Arts Festival in Rotterdam a few weeks ago.   A CULTURE OF POSSIBILITY   EPISODE 63 | APRIL 17 | 2026   PARTICIPANTS Arlene Goldbard | François Matarasso COMMENTARY Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso have hosted the A Culture of Possibility podcast for over five years but they have never met face to face - until they finally met late last month at the ICAF Festival in Rotterdam. They had been invited to give two joint workshops: one on cultural policy and community arts, and one on ethics and community arts. In this episode, we listen to the first part of the first workshop - the initial presentation - exactly as it happened. At the actual event this was followed by an interactive feedback session. Here you are invited to conduct your own experiment at home. Please note that you may hear a few microphone problems at the beginning of the presentation, and some extraneous noise from time to time; but not very much, and certainly not enough to distract from what Arlene and François have to say. REFERENCES ICAF Rotterdam https://icafrotterdam.com/ François: A Restless Art https://arestlessart.com/ François: A Selfless Art https://aselflessart.com/ Arlene on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlene_Goldbard Arlene’s website https://arlenegoldbard.com/about-2/

    57 min
  5. Come on, feel the science!

    10 APR

    Come on, feel the science!

    In the fourth episode of Parallel Streams we listen to episode 52 of Ferment Radio, with Kirsty Hendry and Aga Pokrywka. Ferment Radio is “a podcast series that takes you deep into the fascinating world of microbes. Through fermentation and transformation, we develop new recipes for living on a broken planet”.  PARALLEL STREAMS EPISODE 04 | APRIL 10 | 2026   PARTICIPANTS Kirsty Hendry | Owen Kelly | Aga Pokrywka COMMENTARY Ferment Radio has produced more than 50 episodes “that takes you deep into the fascinating world of microbes. Through fermentation and transformation, we develop new recipes for living on a broken planet”.  They do this because, argue, “Pollution, drought, floods, deforestation, biodiversity loss, climate change... We are experiencing the consequences of human’s alterations of the Earth’s ecosystems. There is no pristine world. We are living on a broken planet”. They are Aga Pokrywka and her guests, and their starting points are more diverse than you can imagine, although they all link back to the process of fermentation. REFERENCES Ferment Radio https://fermentradio.com Super Eclectic https://supereclectic.team Super Eclectic shop https://holvi.com/shop/supereclectic/ Temporary Democracy: https://www.miaaw.net/e/temporary-democracy-in-a-cultural-space/ Sandor Katz: feminist and queer theories of fermentation https://www.miaaw.net/e/common-practice-ferment-radio/ Play that Fungi Music! https://www.miaaw.net/e/play-that-fungi-music/ Life on Mars https://www.miaaw.net/e/common-practice-life-on-mars/ Show me your kitchen https://www.miaaw.net/e/podcasting-ferment-radio/

    27 min
  6. AGI, Claude & creativity

    3 APR

    AGI, Claude & creativity

    Rebekah Cupitt and Owen Kelly discuss the possibility of artificial general intelligence; the nature of Claude, and the relationship (if any) between artificial intelligence and creativity.  They also discuss the meaning of the word excode.   Meanwhile in an Abandoned Warehouse   APRIL 3 | 2026 | EPISODE 85   PARTICIPANTS Rebekah Cupitt | Owen Kelly COMMENTARY Rebekah Cupitt has a BA (University of Queensland, Australia) and an MA in Social Anthropology (Stockholm University, Sweden) and holds a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction specialising in Mediated Communication. Rebekah's research focuses on the people who use technology in their everyday lives and the socio-cultural aspects of technology relevant to its design.  More specifically, Rebekah examines the ways in which technology influences communication in Swedish Sign Language and how it then becomes an active participant in performances of deaf (and hearing) identity in technology and media-rich organisational contexts.  Rebekah's research takes a post-human and anti-normative approach to techno-utopias which often haunt human-computer interactions and therefore have implications for design.  In this episode she talks with Owen Kelly about a series of topics she discussed recently at a lecture she gave in the BIDA+ Critical AI series at Birkbeck, University of London. Her talk was entitled Piercing the veil of authority in techno-utopian and AGI-driven futures, although the discussion heads in slightly different directions. REFERENCES Anthropic’s blog post about Claude wanting to blog https://www.anthropic.com/research/deprecation-updates-opus-3 The Register’s comment on this https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/26/anthropic_claude_opus_3_blog/ Claude’s Corner on Substack https://substack.com/@claudeopus3 Bringjord, S. and Ferucci, D 1999 Artificial Intelligence and Literary Creativity: Inside the Mind of Brutus, A Storytelling Machine. Psychology Press. https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BDJ5AgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false Buolamwini, J. 2024 Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines. Random House  Chan, A.S. 2013 Networking Peripheries. Technological Future and the Myth of Digital Universalism. The MIT Press. Shane Legg, co-founder of DeepMind (now GoogleDeepMind) on AGI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3u_FAv33G0

    32 min
  7. The Institute

    27 MAR

    The Institute

    This is episode 3 in a special series for miaaw.net about social practice programmes and projects at Guildhall School of Music and Drama from the 1970s-2020s.  The series is hosted by Jo Gibson (Research Fellow, Institute for Social Justice, York St John University) and Sophie Hope (co-lead of the De-centre for socially engaged practice and research at Guildhall School of Music and Drama).   Echoes and the Unsaid    EPISODE 03 | MARCH 27 | 2026   PARTICIPANTS Jo Gibson | Sophie Hope COMMENTARY In this episode we meet John Sloboda (Emeritus Professor at Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Director of the Institute), Imogen Flower (researcher and evaluator), Toby Young (Professor of Composition at Guildhall School) and Maia Mackney (Public Engagement and Evaluation Manager at Guildhall School).  We talk about their involvement in The Institute for Social Impact Research in the Performing Arts at Guildhall School which ran from 2019-2023. We find out more about how and why it started, its framing within the Research Excellence Framework, critical insights into debates about social impact, evidence and impact agendas and the burgeoning role of practice-research at Guildhall School.   Thanks go to all our podcast contributors and to Rachel Kellet who couldn’t join us for this episode and everyone else who was part of Institute’s work.   REFERENCES Music for Social Impact research project https://www.gsmd.ac.uk/research-engagement-services/research/externally-funded-research/music-for-social-impact SIMM platform https://www.simm-platform.eu/ COMA – contemporary music for all https://www.coma.org/ Embracing the Messiness: A Creative Approach to Participatory Arts Evaluation article by Maia Mackney and Toby Young (2021) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09548963.2021.2000330  Whose social impact is it anyway? Directionality and the potential of affect in community music article by Impogen Flower (2024) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09548963.2024.2424580 Karen Wise and Cressida Lindsey music therapy evaluation in schools ResearchWorks event https://www.gsmd.ac.uk/whats-on/researchworks-evaluating-music-therapy-designing-meaningful-and-flexible-protocol-for Strengthening Music in Society conference report (2021) https://www.gsmd.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2022-04/Strengthening_Music_in_Society_-_conference_report_April_2022.pdf   Introducing the De-Centre podcast on Miaaw.net https://www.miaaw.net/e/introducing-the-de-centre/

    59 min
  8. Co-creation

    20 MAR

    Co-creation

    On Episode 62 of A Culture of Possibility, Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso begin a conversation about co-creation.  They both believe that co-creation is integral to community-based arts work. But what does it mean? What are its pitfalls? Why does it matter?   A CULTURE OF POSSIBILITY    EPISODE 62 | FEBRUARY 20 | 2026   PARTICIPANTS Arlene Goldbard | François Matarasso COMMENTARY On Episode 62 of A Culture of Possibility, Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso talk about co-creation.  Co-creation is integral to community-based arts work. What does it mean? What are its pitfalls?  Why does it matter?  REFERENCES ICAF Rotterdam https://icafrotterdam.com/ A Restless Art https://arestlessart.com/ A Selfless Art https://aselflessart.com/ Traction Opera Project https://arestlessart.com/co-creation/traction/

    1hr 1min
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once a week audio essays, conversations and discussions about cultural democracy, community-based art, and the commons.

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  • Creator
    Arlene Goldbard | Sophie Hope | Owen Kelly | François Matarasso
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2026
  • Episodes
    100
  • Rating
    Explicit
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