François Matarasso

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  • Valleys Kids

    Valleys Kids shows how close community art and community development can be, especially when work is rooted and sustained. The organisation began life in 1977 as Penygraig Community Project and has grown to be an important resource for several post-industrial towns north of Cardiff. Its programme spans youth work, training, family support and local regeneration,…

  • Publication day

    Thank you to all the artists, professional and non-professional, who have shared this journey and trusted me with your work. Thank you to those who have helped in so many ways, making connections and opening doors. Thank you to the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation for your support and confidence. Thank you to the friends and family…

  • 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.

  • 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 of activities. This is confusing and it causes problems if people think they mean the same thing when they actually have different ideas, beliefs and assumptions. So here is a simple definition: Participatory art is…

  • 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.

  • 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