Street art in Athens has boomed over the last years, transforming the fixed landscape of a city into a platform for negotiation and dialogue. As an art form, it is largely connected with the existing social conditions. A huge influx of immigrants/new citizens is transforming central areas and traditional notions of Athenian identity, giving birth to a new street-level language that has twisted, innovated and filled in the gaps of a culture’s hegemonic discourse. In this article, street art appears as a visual marker of the shifting, complex discourses of power struggles, marginality and counter-cultures that establish a new reality that must be seen and heard.

This paper focuses on several images and metaphors from an artist residency at the Evelina Children's Hospital and subsequent production at the Unicorn Theatre, For the Best. The intention is to consider how reflecting on an arts-based process with children on dialysis, and their school-mates can provide new ways of viewing performance outcomes. The narrative about a family's struggle to manage with a young boy's long-term chronic illness under the shadow of death is both strange and familiar. The paper, authored by the project's producer and a close collaborator on the project provides insight into Mark Storor's delicate processes as a means of understanding the ways participation, partnerships and learning through the project may be seen as examples of the 'uncanny'.

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This article considers youth co-production in the context of Global Challenges Research funded project, Changing the Story. The participatory project conceives of 'voice' as research data, turn of phrase, and character by engaging with the work produced by South African co-creator collective Ilizwi Lenyaniso Lomhlaba, who contribute to voicing issues related to land, stewardship and futures. Developing Linda Tuhiwai Smith's five dimensions of decolonial theorisation, the article considers 'voice' as a complex and dynamic formulation including regimes of power: funding, legacies of dispossession and ongoing marginalisation and highlighting the achievements of young people's formulation of the stories of their world.