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Author: François Matarasso

Community artist, writer, researcher, trainer, consultant, policymaker – I’ve had many roles since I started work in community arts in 1980, but always in the hope of protecting human rights. I work independently, mostly in Europe, from my home in France. I always work with others, accompanying them, sometimes guiding, in the journeys they want to make. My latest book is about the history, theory and practice of community art: it’s free to download from www.arestlessart.com
1 January 2023 Uncategorized

More carpenters than jackasses

In this part of Northern Europe, midwinter skies are often bright and clear. The low sun floods in like stage

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9 August 2022 Uncategorized

Virtual Realities, Part One

If you invite people to co-create a Virtual Reality opera no one has the first idea what you have in mind. 

23 June 2022 Traction / Uncategorized

‘Write this down’

It was the end of a long day. We’d run out of time and the guards needed to get us

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16 June 2022 opera / Traction / Uncategorized

Building Capabilities: Rethinking the social value of culture

Today will see the third performance of O Tempo (Somos Nós) , “Time (It’s Us), this time at the Gulbenkian Concert

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6 June 2022 Traction

The meaning of risk in community art

Three days ago, anticipating the first performance of the Leiria prison opera, I wrote that I didn’t expect to see

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2 June 2022 opera / Regular Marvels II / Traction

This is special

In the dusty hall of a disused prison workshop, 30 people shuffle into a big circle. Silence falls. They draw

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6 April 2022 Regular Marvels I / Uncategorized / Where we dream

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

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20 March 2022 Traction / Uncategorized

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

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17 March 2022 Traction / Uncategorized

‘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

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6 March 2022 Traction

Building bridges

It’s just over two years since I met the people involved in the Traction co-creation opera projects, in Donostia, at

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