Experiences – François Matarasso

Trusting the process, again

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

‘If education does not strengthen us, if it does not reveal us our vocation, our inner voice, and if it

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

It’s been said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture. I’ve never been convinced. Human beings are not

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

The 2015 daCi World Congress is taking place this week in Copenhagen, bringing together over 700 young dancers for an

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