“We think that part of our job is not only to produce the journalism but also to be the media. Our experience of trying to...

“What we’ve been doing over the past few months is going to community centres and libraries through Gateshead, and not...

"In an art project it’s much more easy to involve different people with different ideologies, economic conditions and...

"One of the biggest reasons people don’t come to poetry is because they can’t see how it’s relevant to them, so by...

"A realisation that actually everybody is quite creative in a variety of ways, but might not call it art or culture –...

"We work in enabling homeless people to go into arts venues, to perform, to take part in workshops, to go on theatre...

“We act upon the conviction that artistic expression is civic engagement and that access to a creative forum is essential...

"In our culture there is no such thing really as visual art or dance or theatre or music – they’re all elements of...

"Bringing about change does not necessarily happen through direct action in this kind of work, but by unlocking...

“The challenge that we've set ourselves is to take that first principle of being somewhere that everybody can access...

"I’ve moved away from talking about us as an arts organisation: I talk about it as being part of the live, work...

"The Fun Palace idea that it is whatever you want to do can be really liberating for people like us – people who are...

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