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François Matarasso

François Matarasso has a background as a community arts practitioner in Britain before moving into research in the 1990s and becoming one of Europe’s most influential community art consultants.

Eugène van Erven

Eugène van Erven has been researching theatre and social change since1980. He is a senior lecturer/researcher at Utrecht University.

Dragan teaches arts and cultural policies at Leiden University. Educated in Belgrade and at Yale, he held professorships in Belgrade, Amsterdam and the U.S., led the Dutch Theatre Insitute, co-founded the European Theater Quarterly Euromaske, and led European cultural networks ENICPA and EFAH.

Tim Prentki

Tim Prentki is Professor of Theatre for Development at the University of Winchester where he is Programme Director of the MA in Theatre and Media for Development.

Rustom Bharucha

Rustom Bharucha is an independent writer, director and cultural critic based in Kolkata, India.

Nelly van der Geest

Nelly van der Geest is director of the Centre for Intercultural Studies at the Utrecht School of the Arts.

Grant Kester

Grant Kester is an associate professor of art history at the University of California, San Diego.

Sandra Trienekens

Sandra is affiliated with the Faculty of Art and History, Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands and as ‘Lector Culturele en Maatschappelijke Vorming’ with the Amsterdam Polytechnic.

François Matarasso

Eugène van Erven

Dragan Klaic

Tim Prentki

Rustom Bharucha

Nelly van der Geest

Grant Kester

Sandra Trienekens

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