Fun Palaces

Creative Voices, Activist Voices

Dec 17, 2024

Fun Palaces Director Amie Taylor and sociologist Dr Katy Pilcher from Aston University discuss a collaborative research project.

For 'Creative Voices, Activist Voices: Sensory Stories of Creative Communities', they investigated whether communities who make creative and cultural experiences for themselves also create...

Fun Palaces in Auchinleck

Nov 9, 2023

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...

The Library Special

Apr 26, 2022

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

Fun Palaces is an onging campaign for culural democracy and a weekend of action and celebration, taking place on the first weekend of October every year - during which...

Tiny Changes

Sep 9, 2021

Host Dan Vo explores Tiny Changes, one of the core aspeects of Fun Palaces.

He speaks 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

Fun Palaces is an onging...

Meet the new co-directors

Jul 27, 2021

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...