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Category: Regular Marvels II

8 May 2021 Regular Marvels II / Uncategorized

The promise of a garden being fulfilled

While theatre makers and artists from the Performance Ensemble work to gather 5000 flowers for the production of ‘The Promise

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31 March 2021 Uncategorized / Wish You Were Here

Writing during lockdown, together

Last night, the tenth session brought the weekly creative writing workshops to a close with some new, powerful work. Indeed,

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24 March 2021 Regular Marvels II / Traction / Uncategorized

Leaning into this uncertainty

The pandemic has caused all sorts of trouble to the Traction project, as it has to everything and everyone, everywhere.

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24 February 2021 Regular Marvels II / Wish You Were Here

Creative writing workshops over Zoom

Last night was the half-way point of ‘Wish You Were Here’, the creative writing project I’m doing in Boston (Lincolnshire).

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20 February 2021 Regular Marvels II

A Culture of Possibility #2: Community murals with Amber Hansen and Reyna Hernandez

Amber Hansen and Reyna Hernandez live in Vermillion, South Dakota, a small city of about 10,000 people in the American Mid-West. Both women came

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5 February 2021 Regular Marvels II

The Promise of a Garden

What sport shall we devise here in this garden, To drive away the heavy thought of care? William Shakespeare, Richard

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2 February 2021 Regular Marvels II / Traction

Rehearsing and performing co-created music remotely: Can you help?

The lockdowns and physical distancing measures introduced to contain the spread of Covid 19 have had a devastating impact on

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4 December 2020 Regular Marvels II / Traction / Uncategorized

What we talk about when we talk about love

‘You know, while doing this, going through this journey, it has changed me. And, yes, I had a spiritual inkling,

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7 November 2020 opera / Regular Marvels II / Traction

Remote is the new normal

‘Inis Meáin Island is where you’ll find a more authentic escape from the modern world. With a population of 200

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24 September 2020 Regular Marvels II / Traction

Jakson and Fabio

Almost exactly five years ago. I filed into the Leiria youth prison, along with about 250 other outsiders—officials, funders and,

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