Do Your Own Thing with Richard Phoenix at Bookhaus
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A event held at Bookhaus on Wednesday 26th July. The event starts at 18:00.


Do Your Own Thing is a full-length work of non-fiction from artist and musician Richard Phoenix detailing his experiences of the best underground arts scene you’ve never heard of——Do Your Own Thing, a project run by learning disability arts organisation Heart n Soul.
Looking at the transformative potential of working to support creative young people make the music and art they want to, this book contributes essential new voices, reflections and considerations to the established ideas of ‘Do It Yourself’ culture. Phoenix’s book, written with a disarming and idiosyncratic
voice, asks what our often reductive understanding of DIY aesthetics might mean in light of questions about access, support and who gives permission to whom to make art, guiding us through the kind of project only spoken about in funding reports and transforming it into a polyphonic, collaborative and
joyful work of art.

Richard Phoenix is an artist working in London and the South East whose practice involves painting,
drawing, writing, music and learning about how these things support people to be together.

Tickets cost £5, which includes a glass of wine or a soft drink.

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