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30 October 2020 Community arts / Regular Marvels / Thinking / This changes everything

Art and love

Last night, in an effort to arrest a rapidly-rising Covid-19 infection rate, France returned to a strict lockdown. Until at

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13 October 2020 Thinking / This changes everything

Let’s create a thousand little Works Progress Administrations

Why not to set aside 1%, 5% even 10% of the new cash to get artists – the people who create the work but who were ineligible for the Cultural Recovery Fund – working again? What’s to prevent each organisation in receipt of new funding from setting up their own Works Progress Administration to help the creative workforce?

7 October 2020 Thinking / This changes everything

9 Fables of the Reconstruction

The existential crisis now facing artists, performers, technicians, educators and many other freelance workers in the cultural industries has been

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6 October 2020 Thinking / This changes everything

8 Where to now?

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

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5 October 2020 Thinking / This changes everything

7 What made public service employment successful – or not?

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

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4 October 2020 Thinking / This changes everything

6 The UK in the 1980s: MSC and the Community Programme

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

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3 October 2020 Thinking / This changes everything

5 The U.S. in the 1970s: CETA

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

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2 October 2020 Thinking / This changes everything

4 The U.K. in the 1940s: ENSA and CEMA

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

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1 October 2020 Thinking / This changes everything

3 The U.S. in the 1930s: The WPA

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

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30 September 2020 Thinking / This changes everything

2 What values shape our thinking?

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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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