Stella Duffy on presenting Fun Palaces at Tate Liverpool on a panel of architects to a room of architecture students : Last week at Tate Liverpool, I presented a paper in response to the Claude…

To all the Fun Palaces makers and participants – to those who signed up right at the start, to those who joined in a month before the weekend, to those who popped along to their…

Rachel Parish, the Maker behind All Change: An International Fun Palace, fills us in on the process of creating a Fun Palace simultaneously in five locations across the globe.  It’s 8:57pm EST, I’m on a plane…

As we reach the home straight, Fun Palaces Co-Directors Stella Duffy and Sarah-Jane Rawlings on how Fun Palace Makers are changing the world. Often, when we set out to change the world, the world we’re…

Today our online home, Everyone an Artist, Everyone a Scientist, launches. We have been working with The Space, a new online platform for digital arts supported by Arts Council England and the BBC, to bring the…

A while back I put into my diary the item “blog about a selection of great digital/digitally influenced stuff that people are doing”. Back then, it seemed like a totally reasonable thing to do, right now,…

Not all Fun Palaces are physical. Fuel, producers of fresh work for adventurous people by inspiring artists, are joining the celebrations with an online Fun Palace. Phenomenal People is a project which was conceived by…

In the 1960s a radical theatre director Joan Littlewood and architect Cedric Price imagined a place called a Fun Palace. A place of radical learning, a ‘university of the streets’ a place of making, play,…

With just nineteen days to go, Fun Palaces Co-Directors Stella Duffy and Sarah-Jane Rawlings took some time out in the Albany garden to reflect on what they are planning for Saturday 4 & Sunday 5…

Orla Nicholls of Luton Fun Palace fills us in on her experience of Fun Palaces so far. What inspired you to create your Fun Palace? I became interested in Stella Duffy’s tweets about Fun palaces…

I was brought up by someone who worked in health and social care, my mum now has 40 year’s experience in working in health and social care with older people and people with disabilities –…

With a little over a month to go until the Fun Palaces weekend, it still isn’t too late to join in with making your own Fun Palace, however large or small. Joanne Bartley, Maker of Whitstable…

Part of my role as Digital Champion has been (and continues to be) supporting the Fun Palaces around the country to fold the digital (and digital culture) into their activities and practices. Not digital as…

YOU are invited to join the Fun Palaces HQ team at Ovalhouse in South London on Thursday the 28th August, from 6pm. By popular demand, following our whistlestop dash round England in July, we are…

Fun Palaces 2014 is a fantastic reflection of the creativity of British communities, and there has rarely been a better opportunity to highlight this to the decision makers that define the UK’s cultural landscape. We’re…

PLEASE CAN YOU HELP US?DOESN’T MATTER IF YOU ARE MAKING A FUN PALACE OR NOT – WE WANT YOU ALL! We are collecting SHORT videos of Fun Palace makers and members of the public about their…

EDIT – the instructions here before referred to an admin-panel view of the site which isn’t what most users will see. This is now the totally right version of what most users will see, and…