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28 November 2022 Regular Marvels

There exists a genuine mystery at the heart

“I believe that there exists a genuine mystery at the heart of songwriting. Certain lines can appear at the time

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6 November 2022 Community arts / Regular Marvels

Watch the making of ‘La Gata Perduda’

Reading about ‘La Gata Perduda‘ in these posts must be a somewhat frustrating experience. After all, it has often been

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5 October 2022 Regular Marvels / Thinking

The night of the première

Nature doesn’t have a sense of humour, so it’s just coincidence that I’ve caught my first dose of Covid-19 in

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25 September 2022 Regular Marvels / Thinking

Virtual Realities (Part Three)

But for the first two hundred years of its life spectacle, associated in particular with stage technology – referred to

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12 September 2022 Community arts / Thinking

Virtual realities (Part Two)

If you go to experience Out of the Ordinary/As an nGnách at the Dublin Fringe Festival today, you’ll be greeted

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7 September 2022 Community arts / Thinking

Four years to get here, four weeks to go

Exactly a month from now, on 7 October 2022, the second and final performance of La Gata Perduda will happen

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15 July 2022 Experiences / Guest posts

A Podcast about “O Tempo (Somos Nós)”

Last week, I sat down with my friend Arlene Goldbard to record the latest episode of our podcast, “A Culture

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23 June 2022 Evaluation / Experiences

‘Write this down’

It was the end of a long day. We’d run out of time and the guards needed to get us

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16 June 2022 Community arts / Talks / Thinking

Building Capabilities: Rethinking the social value of culture

Today will see the third performance of O Tempo (Somos Nós) , “Time (It’s Us), this time at the Gulbenkian

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13 June 2022 Community arts / Experiences / Regular Marvels / Thinking

‘From little things, big things grow’

Between the Traction opera performances in the prison last week, and those that will take place in Lisbon at the

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    1. François Matarasso on Radical Hope: Carol Bebelle on Belonging, Becoming, and Healing21 November 2022

      I’m so glad you enjoyed it. Fx

    2. fionahope on Radical Hope: Carol Bebelle on Belonging, Becoming, and Healing20 November 2022

      Thank you Francoise for this inspiring talk of Carol's Fiona and Mark xxxx

    3. anthonysargent0 on Watch the making of ‘La Gata Perduda’6 November 2022

      What a beautifully made film - it really captures the dynamic of this kind of intense journey ...

    4. Rebecca Manson Jones on A time of endings31 October 2022

      Thank you for all the work you share here. Wishing you well. Pondering the Twitter deletion. Haven’t been there much…

    5. François Matarasso on A time of endings28 October 2022

      Yes, of course - no change of plan 🙂

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