Francois Matarasso

Trusting the process

We thought we were making a play, when we started this process a couple of years ago. Instead, we’ll present

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‘This week, faith leaders, unions and others called for 2020 to be the “decade of reconciliation…

The publication of A Restless Art, long-delayed, is now almost a year in the past. Time has flown, and the

What the world of podcasts shows, above all, is that anyone can make good radio, if they put their mind to it.

The democratic urgency of dialogue in a diverse world Notes for a speech at the Nordic Dialogues conference, in Oslo

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On Thursday evening and Friday morning I spent several hours talking about participatory art with two diverse groups in Berlin.

This site began in the summer of 2015, as I started work on the book it was intended to support.

For as long as I can remember, the accusation of instrumentalising art has been flung at community artists, as a

This is quite something. The European Commission has developed a tool to monitor and assess the performance of ‘Cultural and

A couple of days ago, I gave a lecture about art in criminal justice contexts. It’s not a field in