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16 June 2022 Community arts / Talks / Thinking

Building Capabilities: Rethinking the social value of culture

Today will see the third performance of O Tempo (Somos Nós) , “Time (It’s Us), this time at the Gulbenkian

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24 March 2021 Asides / Talks / Thinking

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

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27 February 2021 For itself / Talks

Mohan Rana: Cartographer of the Space Between

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

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5 March 2020 Community arts / Talks / Thinking

People and places

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

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3 December 2019 Talks / Thinking

Feeling at home

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

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12 February 2017 Evaluation / Talks / Thinking

Some thoughts on monitoring, evaluating and researching culture

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

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8 October 2016 Talks / Thinking

Please don’t close the shutters

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

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5 September 2016 Essays / Talks

Making nothing happen: art and civil society in troubled times

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

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16 July 2015 Regular Marvels / Talks

Making ‘arts engagement’ a reality

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

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9 July 2015 Experiences / Talks / Thinking

Dancing in a shared world

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

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    1. François Matarasso on Radical Hope: Carol Bebelle on Belonging, Becoming, and Healing21 November 2022

      I’m so glad you enjoyed it. Fx

    2. fionahope on Radical Hope: Carol Bebelle on Belonging, Becoming, and Healing20 November 2022

      Thank you Francoise for this inspiring talk of Carol's Fiona and Mark xxxx

    3. anthonysargent0 on Watch the making of ‘La Gata Perduda’6 November 2022

      What a beautifully made film - it really captures the dynamic of this kind of intense journey ...

    4. Rebecca Manson Jones on A time of endings31 October 2022

      Thank you for all the work you share here. Wishing you well. Pondering the Twitter deletion. Haven’t been there much…

    5. François Matarasso on A time of endings28 October 2022

      Yes, of course - no change of plan 🙂

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