Experiences – François Matarasso

‘Write this down’

It was the end of a long day. We’d run out of time and the guards needed to get us

It has been a quiet joy to spend so much time in the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s facilities in the past

Between the Traction opera performances in the prison last week, and those that will take place in Lisbon at the

Three days ago, anticipating the first performance of the Leiria prison opera, I wrote that I didn’t expect to see

For decades, longer even, cultural policy in Europe has been imagined as a conflict between two ideas. The first is

In the new episode of A Culture of Possibility, out today, Arlene and I talk to Bill Ming, one of

In January 2021, for the first time in my life, I wrote a long, detailed outline for a community art

Theatre faces an existential crisis: doors closed, auditoriums empty, stages silent. That much is obvious. But theatre, like all the

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

A few years ago – before Brexit erased all other political conversation – Multistory worked with Magnum Photos on an