Today is my final day at the Festival this year and I have had the chance to see the sell-out Greater Belfast at the Traverse – a poetic storytelling music gig which reminded me of Stu and his work at…
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Edfringe 2016 – 4th Post – sex, nudity, JRR Tolkein, and Singapore – must be Edinburgh
Blogs can be revealing, but not have as much as the two shows I attended yesterday morning back to back. I thought I’d take a stroll to catch up with the anarchic performance artist Monkey Poet with his new show Jason…
Edfringe 2016 – 3rd post – from chakra elephants to techno rom-com nightmares
A light day of shows yesterday gives me a moment to shout out about a couple of extra events I have heard about. But first a wonderful family/children’s show and a hilarious student/adult show. It was good to have a…
Edfringe 2016 – 2nd post – wonderful storytelling, flyering, and cabaret delights
Just had a lovely morning exploring how The Space operates, and exploring the ways forward for an emerging music producer. I keep being delighted to understand the welcoming way in which the organisers of Space invite and support the smallest…
Edfringe 2016 – 1st post – surgeries, grabbing opportunities, and love
Yesterday was my first full day at the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe – the largest networking, drinking and arts event in the world. I began with my first set of Surgeries – a chance to meet creative producers and artists…
Calais – Warehouse, Open Space principles & the right veg
I have just spent 3 days in and around the Jungle in Calais, and there are two preceding blogs circulating which look at the work of the Refugee Community Kitchen and Jungle Books. These are just two parts of an…
Calais – conversations enhance understanding and awareness for us all
This is my second in a series of 3 blogs following 3 days working around the Jungle and the Refugee Community Kitchen last week. Please read both/all and share. Thank you. Many hundreds of volunteers go to work in Calais,…
Calais Refugee Community Kitchen – many many carrots
For the last few days I have been in France peeling and chopping, mixing and moving, driving and carrying vegetables. I have been one of the 150+ volunteers working in and around a warehouse on the outskirts of Calais. This…
Revealing our bodies…
Last weekend I had the honour to facilitate a conference which grew from the broad theme of Clothing Optional Theatre under a working question of “How do we choose to reveal our bodies through life, performance, and art ?” It…
New book – The Anatomy of Your Creativity
There’s something strange that happens when you’ve been in a process for months, in this case preparing for a new e-book, and then you get an email to say it is published. A bit like awaking after months of preparing…