community arts – François Matarasso

Worlds within words

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

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

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

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

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

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

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