Community arts – Page 2 – François Matarasso

People and places

The cultural dimension of places has become a common subject of policy, academic discourse and art projects. I don’t remember

Ten years ago, I made a website called, Regular Marvels, to support what became a series of five creative projects,

‘This week, faith leaders, unions and others called for 2020 to be the “decade of reconciliation and reconnection”. Creating cultural

Today, I turn sixty. Such anniversaries are foreseeable, and this one’s long presence on my personal horizon was a reason

Last year I spent some time looking at the work of Tandem, a partnership between the European Cultural Foundation and MitOst

Yesterday two short conversations reminded me of the pitfalls that make words so elusive, so fascinating and so important. The

It’s a genuine shock when the soprano hits her first note. The contrast between the purity of the sound and

The most potent contribution that this new field of arts practice can make is the revelation of just how creative

Jubilee Arts was a pioneering community arts project founded in 1974, in West Bromwich, an industrial town west of

‘I’m certainly not doing this for some high-flown reason. I don’t consider myself to be a reformer, and I don’t