François Matarasso

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  • Trusting the process

    We thought we were making a play, when we started this process a couple of years ago. Instead, we’ll present a film this afternoon, at The Lawnmowers Arts Centre in Gateshead. A Dead Good Life is a 30 minute drama about growing older with learning difficulties. It was devised and performed by five artists with…

  • Culture is a right, not a solution

  • Next steps for ‘A Restless Art’

    The publication of A Restless Art, long-delayed, is now almost a year in the past. Time has flown, and the book has taken flight. For better or worse, it is finding its way without me (I’ve just seen it listed as a ‘bestseller’ on Central Books, which is very exciting). Occasionally, I hear some feedback…

  • In praise of podcasts

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

  • Feeling at home

    The democratic urgency of dialogue in a diverse world Notes for a speech at the Nordic Dialogues conference, in Oslo (Norway) on 2 December 2019. The talk was filmed so if you were there or see the video online, you’ll notice differences between these notes and what I said, but the outline of the argument…

  • Thinking about the purpose of conversation

    On Thursday evening and Friday morning I spent several hours talking about participatory art with two diverse groups in Berlin. The first were mostly friends from MitOst, a valuable civil society and culture organisation I’ve worked with before; the second were arts managers (the term covers a huge range of roles and practice) from all…