Playing the game
Retirement is an old fashioned word for an increasingly old fashioned idea. It evokes Victorian widows moving to the country
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.
Filming ‘The Production’
The second rough cut of Ben Wigley‘s film for Where we dream is done. It follows some of the company
Standing exactly at that place
(Photo © Simon Richardson) ‘I’m standing exactly at that place in terms of working with older people in this country.
Producing ‘The Producers’
The Producers is a musical about people making a musical. When I heard this was West Bromwich Operatic Society’s next
Colin McLean
Finding better ways to connect visual language with words is one of the central ideas behind Regular Marvels. Each project
Winter fires
‘In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied. A
Where we dream
Where we dream is a story about West Bromwich Operatic Society, founded in 1938 and which has outlasted seven theatres so far,
Wooden shoes
‘Part of how I learned Dutch, was I bought wooden shoes, a very typical Dutch thing. Part of me was
Bread and Salt
Bread and Salt is structured around a series of meetings with people who have moved to different European countries from other
Regular Marvels 