François Matarasso

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Category: First Generation

January 24, 2019January 24, 2019 François Matarasso

Valleys Kids

November 13, 2018 François Matarasso

An elegy for ‘The Public’

October 18, 2018October 20, 2018 François Matarasso

Cultural democracy and the European Parliament

October 6, 2018 François Matarasso

One for the historians

September 29, 2018September 29, 2018 François Matarasso

Relieved of duty

September 25, 2018 François Matarasso

(Other people) thinking about cultural democracy

September 16, 2018October 3, 2018 François Matarasso

Restless Research: Confessions of a Confused Community Art Scholar

July 30, 2018September 2, 2018 François Matarasso

Why are there so few books about community art?

May 23, 2018September 22, 2018 François Matarasso

What cultural democracy meant in 1976

May 15, 2018May 28, 2018 François Matarasso

‘We want to be remembered.’

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