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October 12, 2018 A Restless Art / Cultural democracy / Democratisation of culture / England / Europe / France / Germany / Ireland / Lithuania / Netherlands / Northern Ireland / Portugal / Professional artists / social change / Third generation / Where do you stand?

Is there a community arts movement once more?

ICAF (the International Community Arts Festival in Rotterdam) has just published a photo book of the 2017 edition, and an

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September 25, 2018 A Restless Art / Cultural democracy / England / First Generation / Northern Ireland / Research / Scotland / Wales

(Other people) thinking about cultural democracy

This is a quick post to let people know that Alison Jeffers’ and Gerri Moriarty’s book about the first 20

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May 29, 2018 Case studies / England / Northern Ireland / Professional artists / Scotland / Second generation / Theatre / Visual art / Wales

‘I hope it was a slight jolt for the public.’

We’re here Choked by this #Somme100 commemoration. At a time when being British makes little sense, just beautiful. #wearehere Tweet

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Francois Matarasso

I'm a community arts worker, writer and researcher based in the UK.

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