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28 January 2021 Regular Marvels in Theory / Uncategorized

‘There must be a transmutation of good will into action’

Maxine Greene (1917-2014) was an American philosopher with a special concern for education, art and social change. I’ve only recently

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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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1 July 2020 Regular Marvels II / Traction / Uncategorized

Traction goes live

For the past four months, I have been working intensively with my colleagues in the Traction project – intensively but

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6 June 2020 opera / Regular Marvels II / Traction / Uncategorized

Opera in a pandemic

When the Traction project was conceived, its broad aim of exploring how digital technology might reconnect opera with contemporary European

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1 May 2020 opera / Regular Marvels II / Traction / Uncategorized

Opera during lockdown

The public health measures taken to slow down the Covid-19 pandemic have had a devastating effect on millions of businesses

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13 April 2020 Traction / Uncategorized

The power of art

Last night, Streetwise Opera replayed the film of their 2016 production, The Passion, on YouTube, for a world in the

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21 March 2020 Traction / Uncategorized

'The Cabbage Field': a community opera in the making

In June 2018, I spent a week in Kaunas (Lithuania) for a community art summer school organised by Ed Carroll

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9 March 2020 opera / Regular Marvels II / Traction / Uncategorized

Is opera exclusive?

For better or worse, opera sits at the symbolic summit of European culture. Those who love it see it as

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10 September 2019 I Remember: Leicester / Regular marvels / Uncategorized

I Remember Leicester: Catching up, Part 2

7 June 2019 – Community art is improvisation One Tuesday afternoon towards the end of January, I arrived at Attenborough arts

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10 September 2019 I Remember: Leicester / Regular marvels / Uncategorized

I Remember Leicester: Catching up, Part 1

‘I Remember Leicester’ did not start out as a Regular Marvel, largely because I didn’t know at the beginning that

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