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Category: Asides

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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28 October 2019 Asides / Thinking

Changing the culture

My Twitter feed glows today with pictures of cultural activities and places, as people celebrate 25 years of National Lottery

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12 May 2017 Asides / Experiences / Thinking

Álvaro Restrepo: ‘Education is useless’

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

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20 February 2014 Asides / Thinking

It’s the end of the world as we know it

There’s been a lot of talk in recent years about the arts (and culture) being in crisis. There will be

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7 February 2014 Asides / Thinking

Beyond control

 I want the heart, I want the soul, I want control right now Badlands (1978) Bruce Springsteen ‘Shackled and Drawn’ During

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2 December 2013 Asides

Men to boys

I was in my teens when Morecambe and Wise were in their BBC glory days, each Christmas Special more keenly

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12 July 2013 Asides

Artists (still) teaching art

Many people read the post about the problems faced by artists teaching in Further Education recently, which described the threat

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21 May 2013 Asides / Thinking

Artists teaching art

Mik Godley, the artist with whom I worked on Winter Fires, is threatened with redundancy from his part-time teaching post

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13 May 2013 Asides

Artful scientists

The relationship between art and science has been fractious since the Enlightenment, when practices that had often been seen as

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9 April 2013 Asides / Thinking

A child’s view of the Miners’ Strike

Yesterday morning, Margaret Thatcher died. Her death has been followed by an explosion of polemic, encomium and vitriol, about what

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  • Old Words #11 – ‘All in this together’6 January 2023
  • More carpenters than jackasses1 January 2023
  • Guest post: Arlene Goldbard on her new book16 December 2022
  • Old Words #10 – ‘Approximate Visions’2 December 2022
  • There exists a genuine mystery at the heart28 November 2022
  • Radical Hope: Carol Bebelle on Belonging, Becoming, and Healing18 November 2022
  • A museum is a strange place13 November 2022
  • Watch the making of ‘La Gata Perduda’6 November 2022
  • Old Words #9 – ‘Another Angle of Vision’4 November 2022
  • A time of endings28 October 2022
  • Culture and community development in Bulgaria21 October 2022
  • Old Words #8: Music and Social Change7 October 2022

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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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