At a time of profound change for arts funding, we’re continuing our partnership up with philosopher Rachael Wiseman to create The Wunderbar Foundation. The Foundation explores the ethics of asking for and giving money by turning the interaction upside down. …
Gemma Paintin, Co-artistic Director of Action Hero, gives us a flavour for the upcoming Natural Selection performance with an account of a not-very-ordinary invitation to visit Jim (he’s the one pictured right, Rob is on his left with the pants …
Investigating new ways to raise funds for our projects is bringing rise to all sorts of ethical conundrums. Like: how much to charge audience members for ticketed events?hr As with all Wunderbar processes, setting a ticket price isn’t simple. The …
In preparation for a trip to Junction Arts Festival later this year, I’ve been doing some more thinking about saunas. Turkish Salad Bath, anyone? After closing the City Pool in 2013, Newcastle City Council has opened up to offers “to …
With the launch of Platypus, our new project working with teens, this is a reminder – for us as much as anyone reading – of our ethos for Wunderbairns. Following Haircuts by Children and the A SCHOOL projects plus two …
It’s not just jumping on the Scandi-wagon, the Wunderbiz idea-in-development Sauna Nation was inspired by an incredible sauna experience I had in Latvia… The Idea Could the natural mood enhancing nature of a sauna offer an alternative to more traditional medical or talking …
Donna William‘s, one of our Bristol Human Library books wrote a blog about her experience for The Limping Chicken – the UK’s independent deaf news and deaf blogs website. With their permission we’ve reproduced it here. Full blog, which has many interesting reader …