Description: The Baths Arts Workshop was a 1970s counterculture of creativity and enterprise. The associated book is an intimate and often hilarious account of how this arts movement exploded upon an 18th-century city.
— Mike Westbrook, jazz pianist and composer
But what was it exactly and what were the people involved trying to achieve? In this fascinating book, many of those involved tell their stories for the first time – how it came about and their struggles to keep it going.
Daring, irreverent and often hilarious, it created a space for everyone to get involved, young and old alike. At a time when people felt free to take risks, Bath Arts Workshop was a unique experiment, an everyday revolution that is still relevant today.