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Tiny Changes

Fun Palaces

Release Date: 09/09/2021

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Fun Palaces

This edition of the Fun Palaces podcast looks at the work of Fun Palaces veterans, the Auchinleck Community Development Initiative (ACDI), Scotland.  Ruari Gordon, Fun Palaces Ambassador at Eden Court Theatre in Inverness, and former resident of Auchinleck, visited the group earlier this year to find out how the organisation’s work with the community in this former mining village in East Ayrshire has affected the lives of the people who live there, and how they have engaged with Fun Palaces to bring everyday creativity to the fore.     Hailing from Auchinleck, Ruari was...

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Fun Palaces

In this podcast, we meet librarian Zoey Dixon who will tell you all about why Fun Palaces are so perfect suited to libraries.    About Fun Palaces Stella Duffy and Sarah-Jane Rawlings co-founded Fun Palaces in 2013 to create a celebration of Joan Littlewood's centenary on the 6th October 2014. As more communities, individuals and organisations across the UK asked if they could join in, it quickly became clear that it was never going to be a one-off.   Developed from Joan Littlewood and Cedric Price's never-built 1960s vision of one building for all arts and science, free to the...

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Fun Palaces

In this fifth podcast, host Dan Vo explores Tiny Changes, one of the core aspeects of Fun Palaces.

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Fun Palaces

Today it's a Fun Palaces conversation between Kirsty Lothian and Makala Cheung the new co-directors of Fun Palaces. It's a podcast that pairs with the episode with Stella Duffy and Sarah-Jane Rawlings, picking up where they left off and giving us an idea of their vision for the future. But still asking, "What would Stella and Sarah-Jane do?"! 

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Fun Palaces

Today it's a Fun Palaces conversation between Stella Duffy and Sarah-Jane Rawlings as they prepare to step down as co-directors and say farewell (although it's really not goodbye forever!). 

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Fun Palaces

In this second podcast, host Dan Vo explores Tiny Connections, one of the core aspeects of Fun Palaces.

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Fun Palaces

Fun Palaces co-director Stella Duffy tells you about Fun Palaces Weekend this coming October 3rd-4th, how the original idea came about, and how this year will be about having tiny ones.

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In this fifth podcast, host Dan Vo explores Tiny Changes, one of the core aspeects of Fun Palaces.
 
He'll speak with Carine Osmont in Farnham and Rizia Ali from the Boundary Estate in London about the tiny changes they've seen in their communities and in themselves in their time with Fun Palaces. 
 
About Fun Palaces
Stella Duffy and Sarah-Jane Rawlings co-founded Fun Palaces in 2013 to create a celebration of Joan Littlewood's centenary on the 6th October 2014. As more communities, individuals and organisations across the UK asked if they could join in, it quickly became clear that it was never going to be a one-off.
 
Developed from Joan Littlewood and Cedric Price's never-built 1960s vision of one building for all arts and science, free to the local community of the East End, the 21st century Fun Palaces is about reclaiming public space, encouraging cultural venues to throw open their doors, shining a light on unsung community activism and supporting local people to step up to co-create their own community events. Learning from the communities that take part every year, Fun Palaces has changed and grown, and is now as varied as the people who take part. 
 
This year the emphasis was on tiny Fun Palaces - safe, socially-distanced, with community connection at their heart - and how anyone can get involved - even now. 
 
Thanks for listening to the Fun Palaces podcast. If you like what you hear please do subscribe to it and also rate and review us. 
 
Credits: 
Find out more at: www.funpalaces.co.uk
Follow us on Twitter: @FunPalaces
Follow us on Instagram: @FunPalaces
Producer: Dan Vo 
Editor: Samuel Gunn
Guests: Rizia Ali and Carine Osmont