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Category: Experiences

23 June 2022 Evaluation / 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

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19 June 2022 Experiences / For itself / Thinking

Building with humanism

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

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13 June 2022 Community arts / Experiences / Regular Marvels / Thinking

‘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

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5 June 2022 Community arts / Experiences / Regular Marvels / Thinking

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

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10 December 2021 Experiences / Regular Marvels / Thinking

Blinkered by my privilege

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

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20 August 2021 Experiences / Guest posts / Thinking

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

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5 August 2021 Community arts / Experiences / Regular Marvels

Trusting the process, again

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

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7 April 2021 Experiences / Thinking / This changes everything

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

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10 November 2020 Essays / Experiences / Research / Thinking

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)

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25 October 2019 Experiences / Research

People at work

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

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François Matarasso

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.

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