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18 November 2022 Guest posts

Radical Hope: Carol Bebelle on Belonging, Becoming, and Healing

This post from Arlene introduces the new episode of our monthly podcast, ‘A Culture of Possibility’, which is available from

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28 July 2022 Community arts

There is always an alternative. Always.

On Tuesday, I facilitated a talk for the Scottish Culture Collective by my friend Heba El Cheikh. She spoke about

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23 June 2022 Evaluation / Experiences

‘Write this down’

It was the end of a long day. We’d run out of time and the guards needed to get us

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13 June 2022 Community arts / Experiences / Regular Marvels / Thinking

‘From little things, big things grow’

Between the Traction opera performances in the prison last week, and those that will take place in Lisbon at the

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24 May 2022 Community arts / Evaluation

This is not a level playing field

Evaluation has become a dominant preoccupation in participatory art in the past generation. It’s a fascinating field, and I’ve played

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10 April 2022 Community arts / Thinking / This changes everything

‘If not pure, then at least useful.’

Read this book. It is probably the most important book about art that will be published this year. Or about

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2 October 2021 Community arts / For itself / Thinking

Other People’s Books: some recommendations

Over past year or two, I’ve had a series of conversations with people about books they’ve been working on. Some

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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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25 July 2015 Experiences

Dancing about migration

It’s been said that writing about music is like dancing about architecture. I’ve never been convinced. Human beings are not

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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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  • Radical Hope: Carol Bebelle on Belonging, Becoming, and Healing18 November 2022
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  • Watch the making of ‘La Gata Perduda’6 November 2022
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  • Culture and community development in Bulgaria21 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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