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Category: This changes everything

18 June 2020 This changes everything

Why projects don’t work

Since the start of the pandemic, I have been preoccupied by its traumatic effects. Some of the losses are obvious,

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14 June 2020 Thinking / This changes everything

Captive minds

Call me naïve, but when I learned this week that the ushers working in a concert hall are on zero-hours

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11 June 2020 Thinking / This changes everything

Give ’em shelter

Honestly, how are you feeling? The adjectives that cycle through my contacts with people in the arts are increasingly consistent: tired,

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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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5 June 2020 Thinking / This changes everything

Talking in the dark

Last night, Arlene Goldbard hosted our second shared conversation about community art, for which we were joined by about a hundred

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2 June 2020 Thinking / This changes everything

The social justice case for diversity

The cultural sector has been crushed by the health protection measures imposed to contain the Covid-19 pandemic. It is not

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29 May 2020 policy / This changes everything

The 2020 Rome Charter

The right to participate fully and freely in cultural life is vital to our cities and communities The 2020 Rome

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26 May 2020 This changes everything

In solidarity with artists I don’t know

‘Hope is a virtue, not a mood’ Philip Pullman There’s a lot to feel sad about, right now. The suffering

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23 May 2020 Essays / Thinking / This changes everything

My good companions

At midnight on 27 March 2020, Bob Dylan (or his office) used Twitter to announce the release of a song

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21 May 2020 Thinking / This changes everything

The road to reconstruction

‘You Are Here’, Restoke Photo: Jenny Harper The Covid-19 pandemic is very far from over. Indeed, despite the optimistic declarations

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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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