Episode 63 of A Culture of Possibility, Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso discuss cultural policy as it really is, and not as policy makers would like you to think of it. 

The presentation was recorded live at a session at the International Community Arts Festival in Rotterdam a few weeks ago.

EPISODE 63 | APRIL 17 | 2026

Arlene Goldbard | François Matarasso

Arlene Goldbard and François Matarasso have hosted the A Culture of Possibility podcast for over five years but they have never met face to face - until they finally met late last month at the ICAF Festival in Rotterdam. They had been invited to give two joint workshops: one on cultural policy and community arts, and one on ethics and community arts.

In this episode, we listen to the first part of the first workshop - the initial presentation - exactly as it happened. At the actual event this was followed by an interactive feedback session. Here you are invited to conduct your own experiment at home.

Please note that you may hear a few microphone problems at the beginning of the presentation, and some extraneous noise from time to time; but not very much, and certainly not enough to distract from what Arlene and François have to say.

François: A Restless Art https://arestlessart.com/

François: A Selfless Art https://aselflessart.com/

Arlene on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlene_Goldbard

Arlene’s website https://arlenegoldbard.com/about-2/