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Category: For itself

7 June 2020 For itself / Thinking / This changes everything

Thinking about white privilege

My father, Robert, was born in Salonica (Thessaloniki, in Northern Greece) in 1927. His father, Isaac, was a doctor, while

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8 May 2020 For itself / Thinking

Talking Until Nightfall

‘I have confidence in life, which I love. I have confidence in my own body, far more intelligent than us

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27 April 2020 For itself / This changes everything

Worn-out shoes

In the autumn of 1945, in the broken months after the end of the Second World War, Natalia Ginzburg was

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31 March 2020 For itself / Thinking / This changes everything

Invisible city

The window in front of my desk looks onto a bank with a hedge of hazel, ash and hawthorn. At

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14 March 2020 For itself / Thinking

This changes everything

Sometimes, change is extraordinarily sudden. The first case of coronavirus appeared in China on 19 November 2019. It reached Italy

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7 February 2020 For itself / Thinking

The continuing validity of community development

In preparation for a visit to meet Northern Heartlands in County Durham, I’ve been reading about their community projects and artists’ residencies,

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31 January 2020 For itself / Thinking

My European home

What a sad day. Not just for me, but for millions of people across this complicated continent – British people who

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27 January 2020 For itself / Thinking

Remembering the liberation of Auschwitz

On this day, 75 years ago, Soviet forces reached the Nazi incarceration and extermination complex at Auschwitz. What they found

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31 December 2019 For itself

Happy new year

Chaque génération, sans doute, se croit vouée à refaire le monde. La mienne sait pourtant qu’elle ne le refera pas.

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14 December 2019 For itself / Thinking

Monologues above a million solitudes

The 2019 Parliamentary Election will surely be a turning point in the UK’s history, but how much has the country

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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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