Talks – François Matarasso

On not hanging around

Since the pandemic, and this lockdown life, I’ve been asked to speak in many webinars, for a wide range of

A few months ago, I had a call from Mohan Rana. His calls tend to come out of the blue:

The cultural dimension of places has become a common subject of policy, academic discourse and art projects. I don’t remember

The democratic urgency of dialogue in a diverse world Notes for a speech at the Nordic Dialogues conference, in Oslo (Norway) on

Last week, I participated in a round table discussion organised by the Cultural Value Scoping Project at Tate Modern. The

The view from 2003 Recent developments in my country, before and since the Referendum on 23 June 2016, have been very disturbing.

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

English arts policy has been preoccupied recently with how to increase people’s engagement in the arts. Since most people already

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

It’s been a while since I last added anything here, partly because I’ve been meeting artists whose work is supported