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Tag: ageing

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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2 December 2013 Asides

Men to boys

I was in my teens when Morecambe and Wise were in their BBC glory days, each Christmas Special more keenly

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28 June 2013 Essays

Late flowering

Art and wellbeing in old age [This is the English text of a chapter I contributed to a book on

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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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