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Author: Francois Matarasso

I'm a community arts worker, writer and researcher based in the UK.
April 17, 2018 A Restless Art / Music / Case studies / Portugal

Festival de Música de Setúbal – um caso de estudo de arte participativa

Click here for the English text of this case study O ensino do insucesso Aprendeu a tocar um instrumento musical

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April 4, 2018 A Restless Art

News about ‘A Restless Art’

For the past three years, I’ve been researching a book about community art and participatory art, with the support of the

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March 17, 2018 A Restless Art / Case studies / Croatia / Ethics / Projects / Third generation / Visual art / Where do you stand?

Between light and dark

People are standing on the wooded slopes of Dotrščina park, their faces turned up towards the late September sunshine. Some

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March 8, 2018 A Restless Art

A (very short) history of the British community arts movement

The British community arts movement was a loose grouping of artists who began their professional lives during the 1960s and

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March 2, 2018 A Restless Art / Case studies / Reflexive practice / Theatre / Third generation

The Syrian Civil War in a theatre workshop – and how we got over it

Jussi Lehtonen, Finnish National Theatre Introduction The Finnish National Theatre in Helsinki is involved in a range of work with

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February 24, 2018 A Restless Art / Craft / Ideas / Scotland / Traditional art

Cultural heritage and participation

There was a time when I thought that community art had to be rooted in contemporary forms of art. I

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February 20, 2018 First Generation / Projects

Understanding the resilience of community art

Working in community art often feels precarious, certainly in comparison to more institutionalised areas of the arts sector. Funding tends

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February 6, 2018 A Restless Art / Disability art / England / Projects / Theatre

Who is changed by participatory art?

‘I think people with learning difficulties have had quite a bad deal in life and I think this is finally

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January 19, 2018 A Restless Art

The social impact of participation in the arts (revisited)

The Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the UK House of Commons has just announced an inquiry into the social

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January 10, 2018 A Restless Art

Some hard questions about participatory theatre

‘None of this is to say that a drama workshop should not be a space where people feel comfortable opening

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