François Matarasso

Opening the Mozart Pavilion

Theatres tend to be beautiful spaces, created with all the skill that architects, carpenters, plasterers and painters can summon. And

In October, I wrote about a community opera being created in County Durham that had been stopped just weeks before

‘You know, while doing this, going through this journey, it has changed me. And, yes, I had a spiritual inkling,

‘Inis Meáin Island is where you’ll find a more authentic escape from the modern world. With a population of 200

Intellectual property rights have rarely been an issue during my life in community art. The projects I’ve worked consciously rejected

It began with open workshops in community halls across County Durham, from ancient places sheltered in mountain valleys to younger

Almost exactly five years ago. I filed into the Leiria youth prison, along with about 250 other outsiders—officials, funders and,

For the past four months, I have been working intensively with my colleagues in the Traction project – intensively but

Governments across the world have taken extraordinary measures to arrest the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. Since March, entire populations

When the Traction project was conceived, its broad aim of exploring how digital technology might reconnect opera with contemporary European