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14 June 2021 Regular Marvels II / Traction / Uncategorized

Learning the right lessons

Ten days ago, at home in France, I watched a live stream of a performance happening in Portugal. Nós. Vocês. Toda

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21 May 2021 Regular Marvels II / Traction / Uncategorized

Using digital technology in co-creation workshops

The clue’s in the name: participatory art happens when people get to participate. The closure of cinemas, theatres and music

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11 May 2021 Regular Marvels II / Uncategorized / Wish You Were Here

When the art appears

There’s no moment quite so rewarding as this. Yesterday, I sent the draft of Wish You Were Here to the authors. It’s

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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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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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