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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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24 February 2021 Regular Marvels II / Wish You Were Here

Creative writing workshops over Zoom

Last night was the half-way point of ‘Wish You Were Here’, the creative writing project I’m doing in Boston (Lincolnshire).

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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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29 May 2019 Uncategorized

I Remember: Leicester

The books have arrived, and I’m making 12 parcels of authors’ copies and more for people who’ve helped along the

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4 May 2019 From My Life / I Remember: Leicester / Uncategorized

An unexpected revival

As I worked on it, I realised that it is another Regular Marvel,  the simplest, easiest but in some ways the most beautiful yet

25 July 2015 A Wider Horizon / Bread and Salt / Regular marvels / Winter fires

Summer’s lease

With the publication of A Wider Horizon ten days ago, this phase of the Regular Marvels idea draws to a

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