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Tag: community art

2 February 2021 This changes everything

Rehearsing and performing co-created music remotely: Can you help?

The lockdowns and physical distancing measures introduced to contain the spread of Covid 19 have had a devastating impact on

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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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4 January 2020 Community arts / policy / Thinking

Culture is a right, not a solution

‘This week, faith leaders, unions and others called for 2020 to be the “decade of reconciliation and reconnection”. Creating cultural

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5 September 2016 Essays / Talks

Making nothing happen: art and civil society in troubled times

This is the text of a talk given on 3 September 2016 in Berlin at an event to mark the fifth

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8 November 2015 Thinking

The parliament of invisible people

You see them sometimes, late at night, cleaning offices for people they never meet; or unloading vans from empty bus

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23 May 2015 Community arts / Experiences

Optimism is a valuable resource

  Jubilee Arts was a pioneering community arts project founded in 1974, in West Bromwich, an industrial town west of

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18 February 2015 For itself / Thinking

Sing out your bile

In Finland when a lot of people start complaining they might be called a ‘valituskuoro’, or a Complaints Choir. Two

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6 January 2015 Experiences

Power, promises and participatory arts

Circuit is a four year programme, led by Tate and the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, that aims to connect young people

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11 July 2014 Experiences / For itself

Art across borders

Migranland It is in the nature of artistic work to reach beyond the boundaries of language, culture and context. You

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29 May 2014 For itself

What a cultural moment can mean to a city

Thirty years ago, at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, two young ice skaters from Nottingham won the Ice Dance Gold

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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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