It has been fascinating using zoom over the last 4 years to lead Diplomas and short courses for Creative Producers from around the world. But now I’m being encouraged to move away from the confines and opportunities of Zoom and…
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Theatre around the world
After only a year of welcoming producing students to the CGO Institute, I am proud that we have become members of the ITI/UNESCO Network for Higher Education in the Performing Arts. In May 2018 I met the leader of the…
Doing things differently
If the last 16 months have taught us one thing, it is that we have to think differently and work differently. As I prepare to welcome back the 2nd cohort of the Diploma in Creative Producing, and to start interviewing…
Launching a career….
On 6th August last year I had an enquiry from a young aspiring producer to do the DipCP with the CGO Institute. Liam McIntosh had not been to University or grown up in a theatre based family, but his knowledge…
The essential A in STEAM – arts in education
My creative week has encompassed meetings with a playwright exploring 6 new projects which are each in commercial development, an inspiring concert with 4 cabaret bands and over 40 performers offering their celebration of contemporary music, a showcase of a…
Spotlight on arts and young people
I read an article on Wed 18th in the Evening Standard where Christine Lagarde, head of the IMF, talked at Davos of the “crisis of the middle class”. Exploring where current Brexit and populism-fueled politics were squeezing out the middle…
Creativity and the Curious Mind
“Non creative behavior is learned”, so started a lecture last night on Creativity and the Curious Mind by director/teacher Matthew Smith to a packed audience of post-graduate students at Mountview. We begin lives infinitely curious and use creativity to express…
What can you teach creatives ?….
I’ve just come from a board meeting for Metta Theatre where one of my colleagues has just done the leadership course with the Clore Foundation. Yesterday I finished work with the now defunct, but previously highly regarded, MA in Arts…