February 21, 2025
Tags: communication, community, diversity, hope, intention
Arlene Goldbard & François Matarasso talk about key questions for the future.
CULTURE OF POSSIBILITY
Owen Kelly joins Arlene Goldbard to discuss a report entitled “State of Culture” from Culture Action Europe.
December 20, 2024
Tags: food, justice, land, Scotland, solidarity
Arlene Goldbard talks with Clementine Sandison, an artist who works with people in Scotland to build solidarity networks.
Arlene Goldbard talks with Libby Lenkinski, founder and president of albi.org about culture, Palestine and Israel.
October 18, 2024
Tags: communication, community, differences, intention
Arlene Goldbard & François Matarasso talk about words used in our fields of work. This time, they focus on community.
September 20, 2024
Tags: Cork, ireland, parade, street theatre
Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso talk with William Frode de la Foret, Art Director of Cork Community Art Link in Ireland.
August 16, 2024
Tags: Canada, centre, indigenous, land
France Trépanier & Chris Creighton-Kelly talk about Primary Colours, an initiative to place Indigenous arts at the centre of Canadian arts.
July 19, 2024
Tags: art, authenticity, communication, differences, intention
Arlene Goldbard & François Matarasso turn their attention to some words used in discussions of cultural democracy and community-based arts.
June 21, 2024
Tags: alternatives, collective ownership, inequality, new economy, solidarity
Arlene Goldbard & François Matarasso talk to Nati Linares, whose current focus lies in the solidarity economy for artists.
Arlene Goldbard & François Matarasso talk to James Thompson, founder In Place of War.
April 19, 2024
Tags: austerity, authoritarianism, community
Arlene Goldbard & François Matarasso discuss the difficult conditions community-based artists & groups must work under as austerity bites.
March 15, 2024
Tags: community, music, Rhode Island
Arlene Goldbard talks with Sebastian Ruth about how classical music can connect with community arts and cultural democracy.
February 16, 2024
Tags: cultural policy, education, preservation, reinvention, Scotland
Arlene Goldbard talks with David Francis about the Traditional Music Forum in Scotland, and much more.
January 19, 2024
Tags: atheism, materialism, mystery, overconfidence, radical amazement, spirituality
Arlene Goldbard and Owen Kelly discuss the secret (and not so secret) spirituality that fuels their work.
December 15, 2023
Tags: advocacy, Canada, dance, festivals, social change
Arlene Goldbard talks with Judith Marcuse about the growth & hibernation of Canadian community engaged art.
November 17, 2023
Tags: early childhood, Ed Berman, europe, Inner City Theatre, networking, rural
François Matarasso and Arlene Goldbard talk with Ralph Lister from Take Art, in rural Somerset, England.
Many people take democracy for granted, but what is it really: certainly more than majority rule and voting every once in a while?
September 15, 2023
Tags: arts, democracy, New York, participatory budgeting, trust-based funding
Caron Atlas discusses her work with Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts New York (NOCD-NY) and Arts & Democracy, and much, much more.
August 18, 2023
Tags: artist-teachers, PETA, Philippines, resilience
Maribel Legarda & Beng Cabangon of the Philippines Educational Theater Association, founded in 1967, talk about PETA’s creative strategies.
July 21, 2023
Tags: bravery, learning, reflection
François Matarasso and Arlene Goldbard talk about topics that are burning a hole in their brains: us vs. them; what cultural democracy means and why some people can’t get it; being a little braver…
June 16, 2023
Tags: participation, research, theatre, Wales
Arlene Goldbard & François Mattarasso talk with TEAM about A Proper Ordinary Miracle, and other recent projects from National Theatre Wales.
May 19, 2023
Tags: Appalachia, community art, history, theatre
Arlene Goldbard and François Mattarasso talk with Ben Fink and Kate Fowler about Art in A Democracy, from Roadside Theater in Appalachia.
March 17, 2023
Tags: challenges, co-creative, community art, generative
Arlene Goldbard and François Mattarasso discuss what community-based art can do.
Arlene Goldbard and François Mattarasso talk with Beverly Naidus about her life and work.
January 20, 2023
Tags: community art, festival, journey, Rotterdam
François Matarasso & Arlene Goldbard talk to Jasmina Ibrahimovic about Rotterdams Wijktheater & the International Community Arts Festival.
François Matarasso & Arlene Goldbard discuss Arlene’s forthcoming book, In The Camp of Angels of Freedom: What Does It Mean to Be Educated?
François Matarasso & Arlene Goldbard talk to Carol Bebelle, cofounder of Ashé Cultural Arts Center in New Orleans.
October 21, 2022
Tags: Bulgaria, change, institutions, power
Yuriy Vulkovsky talks about his decades of experience working with communities and institutions in Bulgaria and nearby states.
September 16, 2022
Tags: change, institutions, power, status quo
François Matarasso and Arlene Goldbard discuss power in the context of cultural institutions.
August 19, 2022
Tags: digital, history, storytelling
Joe Lambert talks with Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso about Storycenter.
July 15, 2022
Tags: co-creation, Portugal, prison, youth
Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso talk with David Ramy and Bruno Homem of SAMP in Portugal about co-creating original opera with incarcerated youth.
June 17, 2022
Tags: best practice, corporate models, evaluation
Arlene Goldbard and Francois Matarasso ask what has gone wrong with “best practices?” What role does risk aversion play in funding? What about the underlying class biases that shape funding?
May 20, 2022
Tags: murals, place, sacred objects
Arlene Goldbard and Francois Matarasso talk with Dave Loewenstein about the strength of the US mural movement, the centrality of place, the challenge of supporting the work, and much more.
April 14, 2022
Tags: cultural democracy, feminism, folk, gatekeeper
Arlene Goldbard and Francois Matarasso talk with Lucy Wright, a visual artist, artistic researcher, writer, and contemporary folk artist.
Arlene Goldbard, Owen Kelly Francois Matarasso talk policy for cultural democracy, taking off from the Porto Santo Charter
February 18, 2022
Tags: age, experience, theatre
David Slater and Alan Lyddiard talk with Arlene Goldbard & François Matarasso about Art With The Experience of Age.
January 21, 2022
Tags: art, immigration, trauma
Arlene Goldbard talks with California-based visual artist Cynthia Tom, creator of A Place of One’s Own.
December 17, 2021
Tags: cultural democracy, history, reflection
Co-host François Matarasso returns to talk with Arlene Goldbard about the first year of A Culture of Possibility.
November 19, 2021
Tags: cultural democracy, history, participation, performance
Jan Cohen-Cruz and Rad Pereira have curated stories from over 75 interviews and informal exchanges that offer insight into the field of Socially Engaged Performance in the United States over the past 55 years.
October 15, 2021
Tags: cultural democracy, dub morphology, mixing, sound, white cube
Arlene Goldbard talks with Gary Stewart, an artist and experimental sonic musician based in London.
September 17, 2021
Tags: cultural democracy, mobile, seeds, story, theatre
Arlene Goldbard talks with Meena Natarajan, Artistic and Executive Director of Pangea World Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Chrissie Orr, community artist and cofounder of Seed Broadcast in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
August 20, 2021
Tags: assemblage, Bermuda, collage, cultural democracy, story
Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso talk with Bermudian artist Bill Ming in his studio in Nottinghamshire, England. Bill’s work in sculpture, assemblage, painting, and collage draws on the whole of personal and collective history, from the racism he faced growing up in segregated schools to his reponse to the death of George Floyd, from childhood toys to the blues to the Middle Passage.
July 16, 2021
Tags: cultural democracy, story, truth, vulnerability
In the seventh episode of A Culture of Possibility, Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso talk about the explosion of story-based work in community and participatory arts and what it all means.
June 18, 2021
Tags: cultural democracy, feminism, organising, social justice, Torbay
In the sixth episode of A Culture of Possibility, Arlene Goldbard and Francois Matarasso interview Jade Campbell and Erin Walcon of Doorstep Arts in Torbay, England.
May 21, 2021
Tags: Baltimore, cultural democracy, organising, racial justice, strengths
In the fifth episode of A Culture of Possibility, Arlene Goldbard and Francois Matarasso interview Denise Griffin Johnson, a cultural organizer in West Baltimore on the east coast of the U.S. She talks about racial justice, building on community strengths instead of deficits, the “highway to nowhere” and more.
April 16, 2021
Tags: community art, cultural democracy, funding
In the fourth episode of A Culture of Possibility, Arlene Goldbard and Francois Matarasso compare U.S. and European funding systems for community arts.
March 19, 2021
Tags: community art, cultural democracy, Stoke, stories, UK
In the third episode of “A Culture of Possibility,” Francois Matarasso and Arlene Goldbard meet Clare Reynolds, one of the founders of Restoke, a group who make performances and events that tackle social issues affecting their communities.
February 19, 2021
Tags: community murals, cultural democracy, participatory, South Dakota
In the second episode of “A Culture of Possibility,” Francois Matarasso and Arlene Goldbard talk with Amber Hansen and Reyna Hernandez, community muralists in South Dakota, USA.
January 22, 2021
Tags: community artists, cultural democracy, dreaming, possibility
Hosted by Arlene Goldbard and Francois Matarasso, this monthly podcast explores people, projects, and topics that expand possibility and choice through cultural work.