Essays – François Matarasso

Prisoners of Love, Amateurs and Professionals (Old Words #3)

This essay is a slightly revised version of a chapter in Where We Dream, West Bromwich Operatic Society and the

This essay was originally written in 2016, and revisited in the darker year of 2022 Download a PDF of this essay here On

For the past 18 month or so, I have been working with the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC)

At midnight on 27 March 2020, Bob Dylan (or his office) used Twitter to announce the release of a song

Georgina Barney is captivated by farming, in theory, art and practice. Today she publishes GB Farming: An Island Journey, a book

This is the text of a talk given on 3 September 2016 in Berlin at an event to mark the fifth

Both Sides of the Coin: The Distinctive Value of Art in Health Care A text commissioned by artsandhealth.ie, an Irish arts

One lovely evening this summer, I stood waiting in the lobby of the Market Theatre in the Herefordshire town of

For much of the British media, 2014 began with a panic about the opening of the UK’s borders to people

The McMaster Review Fashions sometimes change quickly in the arts, and in arts policy too. In July 2007, the then