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19 January 2013 Talks / Thinking

Where angels might fear to tread

Diversity has become an increasingly frequent subject in arts management during my working life. It is a focus of conferences,

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6 January 2013 Thinking

For the good of the others

‘Inform, educate and entertain’ This week, Radio 4 has been broadcasting a series of 45-minute programmes by Melvyn Bragg under the title The

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27 November 2012 Essays / Thinking

Drawing together

A couple of years ago Deborah Aguirre Jones  began a project working with women experiencing mental health problems in Bristol, where

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1 November 2012 Thinking

Dementia Friendly Arts

Dementia seems to be replacing cancer as the unmentionable disease. Until quite recently, people were reluctant even to use the

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16 July 2012 Evaluation

A Different Heartbeat (MCV 3)

The gold standard in evaluation Twenty years ago, when I began thinking about how to improve the evaluation of community

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19 April 2012 Thinking

‘Billy, Me & You’

Last autumn Nicola Streeten published her first comic book. Billy, Me & You is about a couple coming to terms

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12 February 2012 Essays

Culture and the crisis

It’s nearly five years since bank defaults burst the neoliberal economic bubble and the world – or at least the

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23 January 2012 Research

Stories and Fables: Culture in Orkney

Download the report Stories and Fables – Culture in Orkney 2012 Orkney is an archipelago set in the wild seas of the

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14 January 2012 Essays / Thinking

The art of uncertainty

The effects of the 2008 banking crash continue to spiral, despite the initial confidence of politicians and business people that

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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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