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A Restless Art

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    • Welcome words
    • Acknowledgements
    • Photography credits
    • Bibliography
  • Case studies
    • Fun Palaces
    • The Portland Inn Project
      • O Portland Inn Projeto – Um caso de estudo de arte participativa
    • ‘Men & Girls Dance’, Fevered Sleep
      • ‘Men & Girls Dance’, Um caso de estudo de arte participativa
    • Movimento de Expressão Fotográfica
      • Movimento de Expressão Fotográfica – Um caso de estudo de arte participativa
    • ‘We’re here because we’re here’
      • ‘We’re here because we’re here’ – Um caso de estudo de arte participativa
    • ‘Bed’, Entelechy Arts
      • ‘Bed’, Entelechy Arts – Um caso de estudo de arte participativa
    • Welfare State International
      • Welfare State International – Um caso de estudo de arte participativa
    • Festival de Música de Setúbal
      • Festival de Música de Setúbal – um caso de estudo de arte participativa
  • Projects
    • A Bao A Qu (Spain)
    • Project links
    • The Cabbage Field Opera (Lithuania)
    • Valleys Kids (Wales)
    • ‘I am the Museum’ (Bosnia Herzegovina)
    • El Colegio del Cuerpo (Colombia)
    • Multistory (UK)
    • Restoke (UK)
    • Toinen Koti (Finnish National Theatre)
    • Dotrščina Virtual Museum (Croatia)
    • The Lawnmowers Independent Theatre Company (UK)
    • Banlieues Bleues (France)
    • Mahatat for contemporary art (Egypt)
  • Resources
    • Community art in Britain
    • Community art in Ireland
    • Community art in Portugal
    • Community art in the Netherlands
    • Links
      • Arts education
      • Circus
      • Combined art
      • Dance
      • Literature
      • Music
      • Neighbourhood projects
      • Networks
      • New media
      • Other art forms
      • Theatre
      • Visual art
    • Reports and research
      • Guides and handbooks
      • Reflexive practice
      • Online journals
    • Community and participatory art beyond Europe
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Author: Francois Matarasso

I'm a community arts worker, writer and researcher based in the UK.
February 15, 2019 A Restless Art

The gift of close reading

Last month, at the launch of A Restless Art, the novelist and campaigner Stella Duffy spoke powerfully about how much

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February 8, 2019 Ideas

Other people’s books

Now that I don’t have to write, I’m rediscovering the pleasure of reading, especially around the subject that has occupied

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January 31, 2019 A Restless Art / Research

A Restless Art – TL;DR

Too long; didn’t read? Fair enough: so here’s a quick summary of the ground covered in the book: 80.000 words reduced to about 1,350

January 29, 2019 Film / Photography / Projects / Spain

A bao a qu (Catalonia)

A Bao A Qu is a small Catalan organisation, founded in 2004 by friends passionate about sharing their love of cinema,

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January 24, 2019 Art and young people / Book extracts / First Generation / Second generation / Third generation

Valleys Kids

Valleys Kids shows how close community art and community development can be, especially when work is rooted and sustained. The

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January 18, 2019 A Restless Art

Publication day

Thank you to all the artists, professional and non-professional, who have shared this journey and trusted me with your work.

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January 16, 2019 A Restless Art / Book extracts

Understanding participatory and community art (Part 3)

Community art is the creation of art as a human right, by professional and non-professional artists, co-operating as equals, for purposes and to standards they set together, and whose processes, products and outcomes cannot be known in advance.

January 9, 2019 A Restless Art / Book extracts

Understanding participatory and community art (Part 2)

Participatory art The term participatory art is used in the arts, policy and academia to signify a very wide range

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January 2, 2019 A Restless Art / Book extracts

Understanding participatory and community art (Part 1)

In the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, culture stands between participation and community. Those words express the concepts most widely used to describe art made collaboratively by professional and non-professional artists: participatory art and community art.

December 31, 2018 A Restless Art / Dance / Lithuania / Music / Opera / Projects / Theatre / Visual art

Work in progress

In the heart of midwinter, people in Kaunas shared their community opera as a work in progress, a 40 minute celebration of

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