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9 August 2022 Uncategorized

Virtual Realities, Part One

If you invite people to co-create a Virtual Reality opera no one has the first idea what you have in mind. 

14 June 2021 Regular Marvels II / Traction / Uncategorized

Learning the right lessons

Ten days ago, at home in France, I watched a live stream of a performance happening in Portugal. Nós. Vocês. Toda

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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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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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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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8 February 2015 Winter fires

Singing in the ambulance

Everything is Connected At the end of his hour long set in the Federation Hall last night, the singer introduced

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20 December 2014 Regular marvels / Where we dream

Oh yes it is!

Jeanie Finlay’s Pantomime The atmosphere at the Première of Jeanie Finlay’s lastest documentary, Pantomime, lived up to the film’s title.

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11 September 2014 Uncategorized

Sharing the stage

  Yesterday the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation hosted a conference about participatory art at the old Town Hall in Shoreditch (London).

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19 June 2014 The Light Ships

A painful edge to oral history

The Light Ships is proving to be a revelation. An exploration of the church’s place in a community’s artistic life,

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4 May 2014 The Light Ships

The Light Ships cast off

‘I feel quite moved that this is happening.’ Mary is the spirit behind ‘Handmade in Moulton’, her village’s arts and

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