Co-creation as if people mattered
A Restless Art describes the history, theory and practice of community art. Published in 2019, the book is free to download, along with case studies and other resources.
A Selfless Art is a companion to that book, a rebalancing, more personal and reflective; it is in its early stages.
Elsewhere on this site you can find the books in the Regular Marvels series, reports, essays, and other writing. There are also documents on the early history of the community arts movement.
My other work includes a European project on opera co-creation, publications on culture and international development and community heritage. My podcast with Arlene Goldbard is here.
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Ten years ago, give or take, I started this site as a working space to support what eventually became a book of the same name, published in 2019. I’ve added…
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Geoff Baker is a musician and academic specialising in the music of Latin America, with a particular focus on education, community music and questions of social impact. He has just published Musicking…
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Arlene Goldbard continue our monthly podcast, A Culture of Possibility, as part of MIAAW. NET. The latest episode is about the work of Restoke, which we featured 5 years ago.…
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My good friend Hugo Seabra sent me this photo of the Portuguese edition of A Restless Art at the Lisbon Book Fair. It is he, with Isabel Lucena, his erstwhile…
François Matarasso 