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Tag: community arts

11 July 2015 Community arts / Experiences / Thinking

Worlds within words

Yesterday two short conversations reminded me of the pitfalls that make words so elusive, so fascinating and so important. The

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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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16 May 2015 Community arts / Thinking

Serious stories

‘I’m certainly not doing this for some high-flown reason. I don’t consider myself to be a reformer, and I don’t

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16 April 2015 Experiences / Research

Traditional culture and community art

There was a time when I dismissed traditional art as a medium for socially engaged practice. As a young community

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22 March 2015 Experiences / Talks

Theatre and community

It’s been a while since I last added anything here, partly because I’ve been meeting artists whose work is supported

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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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28 February 2014 Experiences / Thinking

Streetwise in Seville

There was a spontaneous peal of applause in the Teatro Central at the end of this film yesterday, where I

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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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