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Category: For itself

28 October 2022 For itself

A time of endings

This morning’s news bulletin led with the takeover of Twitter by Elon Musk, so I’ve deleted my account. I’d kept

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11 September 2022 Community arts / For itself / Thinking

‘The MIAAW Monthly’, a cultural democracy email

For the last couple of years, I’ve been doing a podcast with Arlene Goldbard, in which we talk with like-minded

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4 September 2022 Community arts / For itself

Access ≠ Democracy

When I began in community art, the photocopier was new technology. In the printshop where I was an apprentice, we

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23 August 2022 For itself

The best of us

When I was young, I often heard it said that if Shakespeare were alive, he’d be writing for TV. Today,

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19 August 2022 For itself / Thinking / This changes everything

Will someone in government please take responsibility?

On my websites, and Twitter, I try to share stories about community art that are honest, but encouraging. Fortunately, the

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16 August 2022 For itself / Thinking

Feelings are not reality

On his appointment to the US Supreme Court in 1939 Justice William O. Douglas was told by the then Chief Justice, Charles Evans

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4 August 2022 For itself

Let’s make bus travel free!

The most disheartening thing about politics today is the lack of ideas about how to make people’s lives better. That’s

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25 July 2022 For itself / Thinking

Burning bridges

The latest spasm of anti-French hostility, provoked by border delays at Dover over the weekend, is so depressing because it’s

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19 July 2022 Community arts / For itself / Thinking

Can you teach community art?

TL;DR? No. In the 1980s, when the first generation of community artists had been around for long enough to feel

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19 June 2022 Experiences / For itself / Thinking

Building with humanism

It has been a quiet joy to spend so much time in the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s facilities in the past

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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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