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Category: This changes everything

10 April 2022 Community arts / Thinking / This changes everything

‘If not pure, then at least useful.’

Read this book. It is probably the most important book about art that will be published this year. Or about

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7 April 2021 Experiences / Thinking / This changes everything

In a New Light – European theatre in lockdown

Theatre faces an existential crisis: doors closed, auditoriums empty, stages silent. That much is obvious. But theatre, like all the

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17 March 2021 Thinking / This changes everything

Talking with playwrights about theatre

This photo was taken in Vienna, after a long and fascinating walk around Rotes Wien, the living fabric of 20th

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7 March 2021 This changes everything

Artistic Possibilists: Pandemic Responses #3

This is the third in a series about how arts and cultural institutions have responded to the pandemic. It draws

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14 February 2021 Thinking / This changes everything

Rehearsals for retirement

The days grow longer for smaller prizes I feel a stranger to all surprises You can have them I don’t

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10 February 2021 Thinking / This changes everything

Notes for What Next UK

Here are the notes I prepared to speak at this morning’s meeting of What’s Next UK Preliminary No criticism: this

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2 February 2021 This changes everything

Rehearsing and performing co-created music remotely: Can you help?

The lockdowns and physical distancing measures introduced to contain the spread of Covid 19 have had a devastating impact on

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30 January 2021 Thinking / This changes everything

Into the digital world: Pandemic Responses #2

In March 2020, unable to use their theatres, concert halls, galleries and museums, cultural organisations went online like a buffalo stampede. The mood in those early days seemed to be excited and febrile, characteristic of how people respond in a crisis.

24 January 2021 Thinking / This changes everything

How arts and cultural institutions have responded to the pandemic #1

Surviving to do what? The Covid 19 pandemic and the public health measures imposed to limit infections have been devastating

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22 November 2020 This changes everything

Silence

We know each other but there is nobody here to translate for us. We’ve talked before. Now we pretend to

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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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