I’m sitting in the Fun Palaces office amidst bunting, boxes, posters and general chaos, which can only mean one thing – the Fun Palaces weekend is almost upon us. This is your annual reminder that…
Ahead of the Fun Palaces Weekend in October 2024, the team behind Make and Chat Mondays Fun Palace invited our Director Amie Taylor to join their planning meeting at the Telegraph Hill Centre, Southeast London. It’s…
In 2023, the Centre for Cultural Value awarded Fun Palaces a grant from the Collaborate Fund to explore the radical potential that cultural participation might unlock wider civic activism. We want to know if finding…
Join us in welcoming Amie Taylor as the new Director of Fun Palaces! In this blog, she describes her journey from volunteer to leader. Amie reveals her passion for grassroots activism and her vision for…
It’s all change at Fun Palaces as we move into our next 10 years, and we announce that Co-Directors Kirsty Lothian and Makala Cheung are leaving Fun Palaces. Kirsty and Makala took on their Co-directorship…
At their Fun Palace this year, Eden Court in Inverness created a mini protest, in which people could make their own tiny placards and put them on display. The Fun Palaces team loved this idea,…
Fun Palaces are not: Doing your Job for Free on the weekend
At Fun Palaces there has always been a firm belief ‘Everyone an artist, everyone a scientist,’ however, the Fun Palaces invitation is never one for artists or scientists (or anyone) to do their job for…
This Guest Riot comes from Jaz Vorraso at the The Climate Coalition who host Great Big Green Week. “The climate crisis is affecting our lives already, and it’s only going to get worse for the…
A lot of people are striking at the moment. Maybe you are one of those people. Maybe you know and love one of those people. Or maybe you don’t but you want to show your…
Hello, I’m Amie, one of the Fun Palaces producers. I’ve been thinking for quite a while now about Creative Riots and the ways in which we can show our support to our own and other…
It’s not just about the Getting but the Giving: Contributive Justice in Arts and Culture
At Fun Palaces we are in the business of making Arts and Culture better, fairer and more fun, and think a lot about how it all works. Mark Banks is an academic working in the…
“So when you’re tired of your story – try singing, sing with a group so you can carry your tune together…” Voices are powerful things, especially when they join together in unison, which makes protest…
