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It's easy to be daunted by the scale of social change required and to forget that a forest fire is often started with a single spark. All that are required are the right conditions. Indeed getting the initial conditions right is essential for any enterprise.

When I was 17 I worked with a team of tree surgeons. In those days, before these big chipping machines came into use we either took the wood we cut back with us or burnt it on site - that was often my task. Sometimes, particularly…

ARTErra - Rural Artistic Residences is a welcoming place for Artists and Artistic Projects. Set in a small village in the center of Portugal, favors the exchange of ideas, the experimentation of new concepts, multicultural exchanges and the artists and artworks’s mobility.

It offers a place for research and creation for all artistic disciplines and promotes interaction between them, providing the necessary production for Project’s (individual or collective) development and its…

Between the Seas Festival of Mediterranean Performing Arts in New York is accepting applications form performing artists until February 11th 2013. We welcome productions in the fields of dance, theater and music, fully realized or works in progress, short or full length, from artists of the Mediterranean diaspora or artists of any ethnicity whose work engages with contemporary Mediterranean culture/history/identity.

Also for the first time the festival invites script submissions to be…

Scholarship for dancers, actors, directors and choreographers from different countries 

International Physical Theatre Lab

May 27-31…

My work is about helping people use the arts for personal, organisational and community development. I'm keen to encourage more people to engage with their own creative potential as I think this can help us build more inclusive, creative and sustainable communities. I'd like to share some of my thoughts about this process here - and to hear your ideas too!

Starting a new year reminds me of just how central to any programme of creative development is the process of working out what you…

International Conference

"Fundraising for Arts and Cultural Organizations:

Strategies in the Changing World"

December 17 - 21, 2013

Leitring bei Leibnitz, Austria

The conference is inviting fundraisers, arts managers, arts consultants, arts entrepreneurs, grant writing consultants, producers, sponsorship managers, arts agents and talent managers working in various artistic…

ARTErra - Rural Artistic Residences is a welcoming place for Artists and Artistic Projects. Set in a small village in the center of Portugal, favors the exchange of ideas, the experimentation of new concepts, multicultural exchanges and the artists and artworks’s mobility.

It offers a place for research and creation for all artistic disciplines and promotes interaction between them, providing the necessary production for Project’s (individual or collective) development and its…

Make contacts with potential collaborators from different parts of the world - meet award-winning theatre, music, dance and arts management experts, versatile performers, dedicated performing arts researchers, academics…

International Physical Theatre Laboratory

December 14 - 21 - Austria

The Lab is open to performers from different creative genres and techniques inspired by Physical Theatre as a bold, vibrant and multidimensional approach to contemporary theatre…

Scalloped Fretboard Guitar Pioneer Matthew Montfort Makes 100 Greatest Acoustic Guitarists List

DigitalDreamDoor.com's 100 Greatest Acoustic Guitarists

DigitalDreamDoor.com is a website featuring Greatest 100 Music, Movie, and Book lists. On August 12, 2012, scalloped fretboard guitar pioneer…

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I've been nearly completely inactive in my social networks since mid-July or so. Not that I wouldn't have liked to participate, but I have been engrossed in the redaction of the above essay.

When I tackled the project, I thought it would take a few weeks at most, and that I would be able…

Celebrate the Art of Theatre and enjoy the fabulous Christmas Eve 

in the circle of theatre colleagues and potential collaborators from all over the world!…

The ARTErra is a rural art residency structure that support and encourage artistic creation and production.

Housed in a remarkably small rural village, you will find in ARTErra physical spaces and tools for the reception of the project / proposal of the artist or collective of different artistic disciplines.

In addition to a house with several recreational areas and facilities, the ARTErra has a "creation yard" area where are the work spaces (sound studio and booth capturing,…

ODOCU is a platform for visual and narrative arts. (by Nellie Stiny and Bernard Coops)

ODOCU provides you with the cross cultural creativity you need on a regular basis, including short and long documentary films, photography, art and creative writing.…

8^th May 2012

I attended the birth anniversary of Pujya Gurudev and was delighted to see a jam packed hall with honest, sincere and worthy practitioners and followers of his teachings.

The video had the best stills of his past talks in which were included a five minute meditation session. The hall was A/Ced, hence rendering it comfortable; there was hardly any disturbance in the crowd or distraction, so the subject was easily…

HOW WOULD YOU LIKE to embark on the most exciting, second to none experience that combines equal parts inspired learning, cultural adventure, and breathtaking nature?  Pack your bags and head north to the land of trolls, white nights, deep blue fjords, majestic peaks and bright green…