culture – François Matarasso

Light in the darkness

Last Friday evening, in the Liceu audience in Barcelona, I listened to a single cellist play a mournful melody from

A few days ago, I happened to see a media article from a senior cultural figure in which they wrote

It began with open workshops in community halls across County Durham, from ancient places sheltered in mountain valleys to younger

The last days of September in Orkney: weather fine and sunlit mirrors in Scapa Flow and Hoy Sound. The sky

Portraits from The Pinning Stones by Ray Smith On Thursday, the residents of Scotland decide whether to leave the United Kingdom

An experiment in brevity: I have had this question in my mind for a little while.

I have seen the future, brother, it is murder. Leonard Cohen, The Future, (1993) From the street corner where Gavrilo

There’s a lot of interest at the moment in the value of culture and cultural value (not the same thing),

As tribute records go, La Bande à Renaud, is not bad, but it is a little sad. There is a

Gravitas, the heavy tread of moral earnestness, becomes a bore if it is not accompanied by the light step of