‘Write this down’
It was the end of a long day. We’d run out of time and the guards needed to get us
Community art
It was the end of a long day. We’d run out of time and the guards needed to get us
Today will see the third performance of O Tempo (Somos Nós) , “Time (It’s Us), this time at the Gulbenkian Concert
Three days ago, anticipating the first performance of the Leiria prison opera, I wrote that I didn’t expect to see
As the pandemic recedes—or perhaps becomes normalised—it is becoming hard to recall the strangeness of those lockdown months, and the
It’s just over two years since I met the people involved in the Traction co-creation opera projects, in Donostia, at
Some personal news on my other site:
For decades, longer even, cultural policy in Europe has been imagined as a conflict between two ideas. The first is
There are moments in every good community art project when you watch, suspended between wonder and terror, as it takes
Yesterday, eight months after we first saw each other in the blurry haze of Zoom, the writers with whom I
What does ‘professional’ mean? Like many words, professional has changed its meaning over the course of history, adapting itself to society’s evolving
This photograph of the artists working on Irish National Opera’s Out of the Ordinary project was taken on 20 August 2021, at
Last night I sat in a Dublin B&B for watching a performance unfold in Leeds Playhouse through a laptop screen.
This week, Leeds Playhouse welcomes the public back to the theatre with ‘The Promise of a Garden’. This unusual production,