François Matarasso

This is what we’re working to protect

Everyone knows the theatres are closed, along with cinemas, concert halls, museums and galleries. Yesterday, the 2020 Edinburgh Festivals were

With everything that is happening to us, I’ve rather neglected this site recently, writing elsewhere about community opera and how

Many artists who work with people now find themselves with time on their hands as governments escalate measures to slow

The speed and depth of the events we are all now living through takes my breath away. Just a month

Yesterday I got an email from a research student called Chloé Bradwell who wanted to contact artists who had worked

Part of the adventure of the Traction project is working with people from very different disciplines to mine. I knew

Originally posted on Regular Marvels:
For better or worse, opera sits at the symbolic summit of European culture. Those who love…

Digital technology is changing our lives in such profound ways that it’s not easy to understand what kind of society

This is another unusual post. (I seem to be making a habit of that just now, but normal business will

Ten years ago, I made a website called, Regular Marvels, to support what became a series of five creative projects, but