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  • ‘It’s not a fixed or ready-made thing’

    Multistory is a small art organisation based in Sandwell, an urban borough west of Birmingham that was once a cradle of the industrial revolution. Today it is a multicultural patchwork of towns, hardworking and proud but which also has substantial economic and social problems. Multistory was established in 2006, but its core team,  Emma Chetcuti…

  • Movimento de Expressão Fotográfica

    The development of a visual aesthetic culture in all its conceptual dimensions and its accessibility to EVERYONE is fundamental to who we are. Producing narratives and visual memories is thus an act of integration. Luís Rocha Recognition A young man walks out of prison with a homemade camera to search the city for a view…

  • Curtain

    When we met on Friday morning, there was a cheerful determination to get on with what was still to be done. For the performers, that was fairly straightforward, because it meant rehearsing the opening scenes of the community opera they’d been developing. We’d talked about commitment in performance, looking at a film by Streetwise Opera…

  • Things get tough

    Well. Today was a challenging day. First of all, I had to dance, or at least move in roughly the same direction as everyone else, at roughly the same time. I’d managed to avoid Antonio’s workshops up to now, even though they are fantastic as the delight expressed by everyone who does them testifies. But…

  • Finding our voice

    The last post was about trusting the process. I didn’t expect things to happen so quickly, but a morning’s work was enough to clear the mists. Working with actor and director, Ramūnas Šimukauskas, the group literally found its voice. The opening scene happens in a market and strong performance ideas are starting to emerge from…

  • Community art is a high wire act

    This is often the trickiest stage of a workshop – somewhere towards the end of the first half.  The novelty has gone. People, places and situations you barely knew before start to seem familiar. The group is acquiring patterns. It’s less about discovery now, more making something worthwhile with what’s been discovered. You find yourself…