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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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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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24 February 2020 Community opera / opera / Regular Marvels II / Traction

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

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23 February 2020 Regular marvels

Returning to Regular Marvels

Regular Marvels has been hibernating since 2015, when the last of the books created under that title was published. The

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22 February 2020 A Dead Good Life

Trusting the process

We thought we were making a play, when we started this process a couple of years ago. Instead, we’ll present

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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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5 June 2019 Uncategorized

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

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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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