Start by valuing what’s already there
Last night, Arlene Goldbard and I recorded the next episode of our blog, ‘A Culture of Possibility’. Our guest was
Author: François Matarasso
I'm a community artist, writer and researcher, working in Europe. My latest book, 'A Restless Art' (London 2019), is about the history, theory and practice of participatory art.
Reflecting on ‘El Cabaret de la Gata’
A long journey needs resting points It is a surprise, in my sixties, to find myself working on opera, as
‘Cabaret de la Gata’– Traction takes off
As the pandemic recedes—or perhaps becomes normalised—it is becoming hard to recall the strangeness of those lockdown months, and the
Building bridges
It’s just over two years since I met the people involved in the Traction co-creation opera projects, in Donostia, at
Life interrupted
Some personal news on my other site:
Without access, nothing is possible
For decades, longer even, cultural policy in Europe has been imagined as a conflict between two ideas. The first is
Between Beckett and Homer: excellence in co-creation
There are moments in every good community art project when you watch, suspended between wonder and terror, as it takes
‘Wish You Were Here’ – Meeting at last
Yesterday, eight months after we first saw each other in the blurry haze of Zoom, the writers with whom I
The difference between a professional and a non-professional artist – Part 2
What does ‘professional’ mean? Like many words, professional has changed its meaning over the course of history, adapting itself to society’s evolving
The difference between a professional and a non-professional artist – Part 1
This photograph of the artists working on Irish National Opera’s Out of the Ordinary project was taken on 20 August 2021, at
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