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1 May 2021 For itself / Thinking

A question of identity

Like most people with a mixed heritage, I expect, I’ve had to think a good deal about identity—my own and

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16 April 2021 Community arts / Guest posts / Thinking

Funding community arts – this month’s episode of ‘A Culture of Possibility’

In the fourth episode of our monthly podcast Arlene Goldbard and I talk about how community art is funded in

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1 January 2021 For itself / Thinking

Because I am involved in humankind

A little over 30 years ago—in May 1989 to be exact—the Communist authorities in Hungary began to dismantle the barbed

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27 August 2018 For itself / Thinking

Holding on to democracy

Yesterday I was asked why I accept the result of the 2016 referendum in which a majority of English and

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23 October 2014 Thinking

Why we need parliaments

Yesterday, Canada’s Parliament was attacked by an armed man. Twenty years ago, the philosopher Isaiah Berlin was awarded an Honorary

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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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30 June 2014 Thinking

Human diversity is

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

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28 May 2014 For itself

On the value of not putting things into words

It’s uncomfortable for a writer to admit, but sometimes words fail us. They seem to have done so both before

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6 April 2014 Thinking

In search of gravitas

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

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5 April 2014 For itself

The Budapest Observatory

  There’s has been a great increase in cultural policy data, research and commentary in recent years, reflecting culture’s greater importance in the

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  • Old Words #11 – ‘All in this together’6 January 2023
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  • Guest post: Arlene Goldbard on her new book16 December 2022
  • Old Words #10 – ‘Approximate Visions’2 December 2022
  • There exists a genuine mystery at the heart28 November 2022
  • Radical Hope: Carol Bebelle on Belonging, Becoming, and Healing18 November 2022
  • A museum is a strange place13 November 2022
  • Watch the making of ‘La Gata Perduda’6 November 2022
  • Old Words #9 – ‘Another Angle of Vision’4 November 2022
  • A time of endings28 October 2022
  • Culture and community development in Bulgaria21 October 2022
  • Old Words #8: Music and Social Change7 October 2022

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    1. François Matarasso on Radical Hope: Carol Bebelle on Belonging, Becoming, and Healing21 November 2022

      I’m so glad you enjoyed it. Fx

    2. fionahope on Radical Hope: Carol Bebelle on Belonging, Becoming, and Healing20 November 2022

      Thank you Francoise for this inspiring talk of Carol's Fiona and Mark xxxx

    3. anthonysargent0 on Watch the making of ‘La Gata Perduda’6 November 2022

      What a beautifully made film - it really captures the dynamic of this kind of intense journey ...

    4. Rebecca Manson Jones on A time of endings31 October 2022

      Thank you for all the work you share here. Wishing you well. Pondering the Twitter deletion. Haven’t been there much…

    5. François Matarasso on A time of endings28 October 2022

      Yes, of course - no change of plan 🙂

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