Category: Community & Collaboration

Small People, Big Protest: why bother?

A week today, Coney presents Small People, Big Protest at All Points East In The Neighbourhood. It’s a project made by Coney with families, to help small people respond to big ideas about the world. Georgina Bednar, an Associate of…

Pass It On, a legacy of play

  Tassos Stevens writes: Bernie ’Blue’ De Koven sadly passed in late March, to the great playground in the sky. I was lucky to spend time with him last summer in conversation and making A Game Of Legacy, as one…

"an exchange of good gifts between strangers"

Tassos Stevens writes: I was invited by Annie Rigby of Unfolding Theatre and Kylie Lloyd of Northern Stage to deliver a provocation in a symposium recently on participatory art and the question – how does this work impact and benefit…

A Salon on playing theatre at Camden People's Theatre

This was an open event curated and hosted by Coney at Camden People’s Theatre for our network. It sprang from a desire to advance the dialogue around making playing theatre aka interactive theatre. Provocations from Philipp Ehmann, Zoe Svendsen, and…

Kensington Palace: a happy marriage of arts and heritage ambition

This article was originally posted on The Guardian’s Culture Professionals Network. Kensington Palace: ‘Is there another way?’ Storytelling is key for Historic Royal Palaces (HRP). But to draw in the widest possible visitor base to our five historic sites, we…

SuperMe, Truth Specs, an award

Looking back over recent months there are a few projects we’ve meant to write about, but busyness has precluded those posts at the best of times. So here’s one post looking back at two related projects, both collaborations with Somethin’ Else in c…