Because I am involved in humankind
A little over 30 years ago—in May 1989 to be exact—the Communist authorities in Hungary began to dismantle the barbed
Author: François Matarasso
I'm a community artist, writer and researcher, working in Europe. My latest book, 'A Restless Art' (London 2019), is about the history, theory and practice of participatory art.
Silence
We know each other but there is nobody here to translate for us. We’ve talked before. Now we pretend to
Reflecting on culture and development
For the past 18 month or so, I have been working with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)
Art and love
Last night, in an effort to arrest a rapidly-rising Covid-19 infection rate, France returned to a strict lockdown. Until at
How the internet saved a community opera
It began with open workshops in community halls across County Durham, from ancient places sheltered in mountain valleys to younger
Let’s create a thousand little Works Progress Administrations
Why not to set aside 1%, 5% even 10% of the new cash to get artists – the people who create the work but who were ineligible for the Cultural Recovery Fund – working again? What’s to prevent each organisation in receipt of new funding from setting up their own Works Progress Administration to help the creative workforce?
9 Fables of the Reconstruction
The existential crisis now facing artists, performers, technicians, educators and many other freelance workers in the cultural industries has been
8 Where to now?
This post is the last of a series of conversations I held with Arlene Goldbard about public employment programmes and
7 What made public service employment successful – or not?
This post is part of a series of conversations I held with Arlene Goldbard about public employment programmes and the
6 The UK in the 1980s: MSC and the Community Programme
This post is part of a series of conversations I held with Arlene Goldbard about public employment programmes and the
