A Podcast about “O Tempo (Somos Nós)”
Last week, I sat down with my friend Arlene Goldbard to record the latest episode of our podcast, “A Culture
Category: Experiences
‘Write this down’
It was the end of a long day. We’d run out of time and the guards needed to get us
Building with humanism
It has been a quiet joy to spend so much time in the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s facilities in the past
‘From little things, big things grow’
Between the Traction opera performances in the prison last week, and those that will take place in Lisbon at the
The meaning of risk in community art
Three days ago, anticipating the first performance of the Leiria prison opera, I wrote that I didn’t expect to see
Blinkered by my privilege
For decades, longer even, cultural policy in Europe has been imagined as a conflict between two ideas. The first is
A conversation with Bill Ming
In the new episode of A Culture of Possibility, out today, Arlene and I talk to Bill Ming, one of
Trusting the process, again
In January 2021, for the first time in my life, I wrote a long, detailed outline for a community art
In a New Light – European theatre in lockdown
Theatre faces an existential crisis: doors closed, auditoriums empty, stages silent. That much is obvious. But theatre, like all the
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)
François Matarasso 