Principles of co-creation?

Three years after it began, the Traction project is finally complete. A review meeting with the European Commission two weeks … More

Co-creating Opera: Presenting the learning from the Traction project

Regular visitors to this site (and its retiring companions) will know that I have spent much of the past three … More

There is another way

A guest post by Richard Willacy, General Director, Birmingham Opera Company I’m arriving at a foyer buzzing with excitement; youth, … More

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 … More

Traction – an EU research project

An article by Emanuela Barbiroglio published in Horizon, The EU Research and Innovation Magazine,10 August 2022 A prison opera and digital … More

Virtual Realities, Part One

Early in 2020, Irish National Opera (INO) began work on an unusual community project—a new VR opera, co-created with people from three … More

‘Write this down’

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

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 Concert … More

The meaning of risk in community art

Three days ago, anticipating the first performance of the Leiria prison opera, I wrote that I didn’t expect to see … More

This is special

In the dusty hall of a disused prison workshop, 30 people shuffle into a big circle. Silence falls. They draw … More