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Category: This changes everything

30 September 2020 Thinking / This changes everything

2 What values shape our thinking?

This post is part of a series of conversations I held with Arlene Goldbard about public employment programmes and the

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29 September 2020 Thinking / This changes everything

1 Who cares about an old employment programme?

Gentlemen, he said […] Eden is burning, either brace yourself for elimination / Or else your hearts must have the

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25 September 2020 Thinking / This changes everything

A conversation about public employment programmes and the arts

During the summer, Arlene Goldbard and I have been talking regularly about shared concerns, including the catastrophic effect of the

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15 September 2020 This changes everything

The importance of community, Part 2

It’s a rare thing, but I have been in a cinema when the audience has applauded as the credits roll.

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6 September 2020 Community arts / Thinking / This changes everything

The Importance of Community, Part 1

It’s been almost two months since the last post on this site, a silence that may be accounted for by

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19 July 2020 Thinking / This changes everything

A Citizens’ Assembly on Culture

[Everyone] has something to say about how they experience culture and what they now expect of it. There is an

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13 July 2020 Community arts / Thinking / This changes everything

Clinging on in a tsunami: the arts and mental health

Since the beginning of 2020, the Baring Foundation has focused its arts support on the needs of people with metal

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6 July 2020 This changes everything

What do you do with £1.57 billion for culture?

It took a while, and a lot of concerted pressure, but the British government has decided not to be remembered

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1 July 2020 This changes everything

‘Don’t be too severe upon yourself, or underrate yourself, but do yourself justice’ (Sydney Smith)

Several weeks ago, I wrote a post called ‘Right now, kindness might be more important than creativity’. I regretted the

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21 June 2020 Thinking / This changes everything

Untold losses

History is what happened. Historians interpret – yesterday’s hero, recast as today’s pariah – but they can only work with what is

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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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