Free Radical Project to Improve Representation in Birmingham Heritage Institutions by Working with Young People Cleared for Delivery
Free Radical has been cleared to launch Stage 2 of Don’t Settle, a three-year project.
What Not To Do On A Listening Tour: Tips For Politicians
If you find yourself talking more than the people in the room, something is patently wrong.
How To Fake A Conspiracy Theory
Free Radical created Verve Is Fake, a mock conspiracy theory website accusing the organisers behind Verve Poetry Festival of trying to mind-control attendants.
Make Art, Make Change, Build What Makes You And Others Happy
Realisations and reflections from The Social Exchange: Utopia/Dystopia
Why You Should Be At The Social Exchange
We’re bringing together artists, activists, cultural organisations and young people so they can hear each other, connect, and share.
Free Radical announced as new National Portfolio Organisation
We’re humbled and excited to be one of the 183 new organisations that have been welcomed into the portfolio.
HOW TO EAT FIRE
At Coney Island Sideshow School, the teacher asks our group to forget about nutrition. “You do not really eat the flame,” she says. “You starve it of oxygen, then wait for the applause to fizzle.” Mary says, not good enough. She starts with plastic lighters – snacks which leave her hungry for more. She […]
DON’T BE ANNOYED IT’S YOUR FRIEND WHO SUGGESTED THIS RESTAURANT
What I meant is that Poland is exotic to us.
THERE IS NOTHING IN THIS CORNER (for Jee Kast)
There is nothing in this corner but this here heavy longing, brother. One heavy piece of longing. Heavy enough that one might, on a slow day build a soapbox derby car our of it, with two sets of training wheels for wheels and call it something silly. Paint red flames on the sides with pinstripes […]
MYSTERIOUS DRINKING INJURIES (for Emma Joliffe)
The floorplan of Westminster Abbey tattooed on the left shoulderblade. A missing tooth, replaced with the head of a lego pirate. A small depression in the shinbone, like a playdough thumbprint. Ears filed to points and autographed by Hugo Weaving. Six claw marks down the left forearm, six, count them, equidistant. […]