Jack Morrison is one of the two Fun Palaces Ambassadors for Cornwall. Jack works with FEAST and Chloe Hughes with Cornwall Museums Partnership and they share the Ambassador role, working within and from their own…

We’re very clear that a Fun Palace is not (or shouldn’t be!) yet another Open Day or fete. It’s about a lot more than simply sharing what your venue or organisation or community does –…

Fun Palaces is a two-pronged approach to community engagement in culture – by which we mean tech, digital, crafts, arts and science. We are both a campaign for everyday creativity in all its forms at…

– Jack Morrison is one of two Fun Palaces Ambassadors based in Cornwall. He also works as Project Manager at FEAST Cornwall –  I have been tasked with thinking about something by the Fun Palaces team.​ Thinking is ok, it’s pretty much what I do best. ​ Conclusions, resolutions and actions I have a little more difficulty with but these are early days and perhaps something will come out of the mist if I sit here long enough.​ Here are the questions, I will try to answer from my perspective, today, this morning.​ Where are we now?​ I am sitting at the FEAST desk in a converted 1970’s classroom. From here I can see the flats across the road in the converted 1890’s Maternity Hospital I was born in. I can see Carn Brea, unusually green against the blue sky. ​ It is truly beautiful.​ This is one of the most deprived places in Cornwall. Cornwall is one of the most deprived places in Britain.​I work part time here and am a single parent when I am not at the desk, my colleague works part time here and is a Farmer when she is not at the desk.​…

A New Year’s provocation from Fun Palaces’ Co-Director Stella Duffy I’m the youngest of seven children born in a council estate in south London. Both of my parents left school at 14, my siblings left…

You’ve been brave. You’ve taken on the challenge of making a Fun Palace. You’ve signed up to put community at the heart of culture and culture at the heart of your community – great. At…

I’m delighted (and very surprised) to have been awarded an OBE for Services to the Arts in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List this weekend. I got my Equity card in 1981, my first novel was…

Fun Palaces Co-Director Stella Duffy will receive an OBE for services to the Arts in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2016. STELLA DUFFY TO RECEIVE OBE IN QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY HONOURS LIST FOR SERVICES TO THE…

Write Science – Where Science and Fiction Unite Fun Palaces are about arts and sciences, crafts and technologies, community and culture; we believe in everyone an artist, everyone a scientist. Last year we created a…

Find out how anyone, anywhere can make a Fun Palace, where everyone is an artist and everyone a scientist. We are so pleased to announce that we are partnering with the Wellcome Trust this year to bring…