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Playful Activism, game mechanics and participation

Arts education researchers and friends of Coney Elvira Crois and Free De Backer write on Coney’s practice of social change through play.

The Tower Hamlets Six

Announcing the Tower Hamlets Six, a network of six brilliant local primary schools we’ll be working closely with for the next year.

A Series of Outdoor Adventures

To celebrate the return of spring, Coney is presenting three outdoor adventures inviting you to explore your locality in new and exciting ways.

The Incognito Society – Parwinder writes

Our fantastic Trainee Producer, Parwinder Kaur, takes you on an exploration of The Incognito Society, a project commissioned by UCL helping new students to foster connections within the isolation of the pandemic.

HOME/CARE – Parwinder writes

Over the last 6 months, Coney’s brilliant Trainee Producer, Parwinder Kaur, has been working across our programme on a wide range of projects. Here, Parwinder takes a deep-dive into our project in-development, HOME/CARE.

Interactive hour at the BMA: Phil Clark writes

Phil Clark – Head of Content and Audience at the British Medical Association (BMA), and a Trustee of Coney since the beginning of this year – reflects on an experience which Coney recently created for the BMA.

Bridging Youth Work and The Arts

Reflecting on three days in Belgium, full of practice exchange between artists making participatory work for, by, and with young people from Belgium, France, Denmark and the UK.

Meeting Makers: sharing, connecting, upskilling

After the After Life Experience

The Coney team reflect on being tasked to build an interactive companion piece to the National Theatre’s beautiful adaptation of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s film, After Life.