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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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22 March 2015 Experiences / Talks

Theatre and community

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

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29 September 2014 Experiences / Talks

Another Angle of Vision

The last days of September in Orkney: weather fine and sunlit mirrors in Scapa Flow and Hoy Sound. The sky

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30 April 2014 Talks

Music as an adventure playground

Music: What is it good for? In the 1970s, at a time when we were less anxious about many things

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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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