Traction – François Matarasso

‘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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Three days ago, anticipating the first performance of the Leiria prison opera, I wrote that I didn’t expect to see

In the dusty hall of a disused prison workshop, 30 people shuffle into a big circle. Silence falls. They draw

For decades, longer even, cultural policy in Europe has been imagined as a conflict between two ideas. The first is

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