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Author: François Matarasso

I'm a community artist, writer and researcher, working in Europe. My latest book, 'A Restless Art' (London 2019), is about the history, theory and practice of participatory art.
February 20, 2021 A Culture of Possibility / A Restless Art / Cultural democracy / Podcasts / Third generation / USA / Visual art

A Culture of Possibility #2: The community murals of Amber Hansen and Reyna Hernandez

Amber Hansen and Reyna Hernandez live in Vermillion, South Dakota, a small city of about 10,000 people in the American Mid-West. Both women came

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February 2, 2021 A Restless Art / Music / Opera / Theatre

Rehearsing and performing co-created music remotely: Can you help?

The lockdowns and physical distancing measures introduced to contain the spread of Covid 19 have had a devastating impact on

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January 25, 2021 England / Guest contributions

Guest blog: Art as vaccination against the Covid misery

Tony Stacey is Chief Executive of South Yorkshire Housing Association, which provides over 4,000 homes in Sheffield and the wider region.

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January 22, 2021 A Restless Art / Podcasts

New year, new projects…

Today, the first of A Culture of Possibility podcast series is available in the usual places. As I explained earlier, this is

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January 20, 2021 Arts and mental health

250 and counting

Awareness of mental well-being has improved greatly during my lifetime, but there’s still a long way to go before people

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January 9, 2021 A Restless Art

A culture of possibility

Hope is a contraband Given how things are right now, it feels a bit uncomfortable (and late) to wish readers

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January 3, 2021 A Restless Art / Opera

Take pride

In October, I wrote about a community opera being created in County Durham that had been stopped just weeks before

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December 8, 2020 A Restless Art / Guest contributions

Guest blog – Evaluating arts programmes in health care

Many people have written about evaluating the outcomes of participation in the arts, especially in the past 20 years as

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December 4, 2020 Art in criminal justice / Dance

From Regular Marvels: ‘What we talk about when we talk about love’

‘You know, while doing this, going through this journey, it has changed me. And, yes, I had a spiritual inkling,

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November 13, 2020 England / Music / Northern Ireland / Opera / Research / Scotland / Wales

Understanding community music – can you help?

About five years ago, a group of musicians and academics set up an international research platform to foster understanding of the social

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