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8 January 2021 Traction

Opening the Mozart Pavilion

Theatres tend to be beautiful spaces, created with all the skill that architects, carpenters, plasterers and painters can summon. And

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3 January 2021 Traction

Take pride

In October, I wrote about a community opera being created in County Durham that had been stopped just weeks before

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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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8 January 2021 Traction

Opening the Mozart Pavilion

Theatres tend to be beautiful spaces, created with all the skill that architects, carpenters, plasterers and painters can summon. And

Continue reading

3 January 2021 Traction

Take pride

In October, I wrote about a community opera being created in County Durham that had been stopped just weeks before

Continue reading

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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28 October 2020 Community opera / Traction

Whose (community) opera is it anyway?

Intellectual property rights have rarely been an issue during my life in community art. The projects I’ve worked consciously rejected

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15 October 2020 Traction

How the internet saved a community opera

It began with open workshops in community halls across County Durham, from ancient places sheltered in mountain valleys to younger

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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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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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23 June 2020 opera / Regular Marvels II / Traction

Osman and the snails

Governments across the world have taken extraordinary measures to arrest the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. Since March, entire populations

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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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I’m a community artist, writer and researcher, working mostly in Europe. My latest book, 'A Restless Art', describes the history, theory and practice of participatory art.

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