Opening the Mozart Pavilion
Theatres tend to be beautiful spaces, created with all the skill that architects, carpenters, plasterers and painters can summon. And
Opera during lockdown
The public health measures taken to slow down the Covid-19 pandemic have had a devastating effect on millions of businesses
The power of art
Last night, Streetwise Opera replayed the film of their 2016 production, The Passion, on YouTube, for a world in the
'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
Is opera exclusive?
For better or worse, opera sits at the symbolic summit of European culture. Those who love it see it as
Tell me about community opera…
One reason I was attracted to the TRACTION project was the feeling of exploring new territory. I really don’t know
Returning to Regular Marvels
Regular Marvels has been hibernating since 2015, when the last of the books created under that title was published. The
Trusting the process
We thought we were making a play, when we started this process a couple of years ago. Instead, we’ll present
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
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
I Remember: Leicester – Opening pages
I Remember: Leicester (the colon is important) was published on Monday evening with a beautiful reading by members of the
