Sept 26th 25: 'Culture is Ordinary': space and place for the arts in radical lifelong learning’
- Raymond Williams Foundation
- Aug 19
- 2 min read
Updated: Sep 12
Centenary Commission on Adult Education
Research circle on fostering community, democracy and dialogue
2025 series: 'Culture is Ordinary': space and place for the arts in radical lifelong learning’
Thanks again for your support and interest in the work of the Centenary Commission and its research circle on ‘Fostering community, democracy and dialogue’.
This year, we are focusing on the roles and places of the arts in communities - in all their expansive forms-and relationships with adult education and lifelong learning. Our opening event, in May, featured Stoke-on-Trent and ‘Centenary thoughts: distress in a city, culture is ordinary and a democratic education in troubled worlds’.
Our focus, on 26 September, is on Wales.
Invitation for Friday 26 September. Link opens: 9.45-10.00 UK time
Event : 10.00-1.00 UK time
We are delighted to welcome a range of contributors who will critically engage with the power of activism, the arts and different forms of adult education and lifelong learning in Wales.
We hope you can join us. To book a place please reply to iain_jones@icloud.com by Friday 19 September.
Sharon Clancy is inviting you to the scheduled Zoom meeting on Friday 26 September
Topic: Research Circle Zoom link
Time: September 26, 2025 09:45 AM London UK time
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 839 1446 9499
Passcode: 026691
Join instructions
Why join us?
The event will feature and engage with different forms of community arts, adult education and lifelong learning in Wales.
The event includes
Coleg Harlech, the place and value of arts related interdisciplinary adult political education and poetry, photography and creative writing.
Raymond Williams Foundation and their work with Cwmni Bro and communities in Wales.
Film and The Valleys: ‘The Coal Beneath Our Feet, The Wind Above Our Heads — Documentary’
Follow up to May and a taster for 26 September
For those who were unable to attend our first event in May, focusing on Stoke, you may want to view this YouTube recording, now on the Raymond Williams Foundation website.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDNxaUAWF5U
As a taster for the second event on 26 September, we wanted to share with you the film by Sharon’s brother, Jeremy Clancy. His documentary ‘The Coal Beneath Our Feet, The Wind Above Our Heads’ will feature and Jeremy will be talking about how he made the film. https://youtu.be/oRdjPyMaxSA?si=fB33Ixt8sZb7YlxL
Please also copy this link into your browser- if it doesn’t open at first.
We hope you can join us, on 26 September, and look forward to your contributions to the event.
Best wishes
Dr Sharon Clancy and Dr Iain Jones
Co-convenors of the research circle on ‘Fostering community, democracy and dialogue’
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