On what basis should public funding to the arts be provided? The governing principle that declares that arts funding should be provided from the public purse can be traced to the rule in Roman law that stated: Quod omnes tangit, ab omnes approbari debet or ‘what concerns all, should be approved by all’. This can […]
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Perseverance
Perseverance A collection of observations on the virtue of Perseverance My personal favourite is … Fall seven times. Stand up eight. Japanese proverb Water, continually dripping, will wear a hard rock hollow. Plutarch It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. Albert Einstein I think and think for months […]
Interactive Engagement: The Role of Ritual in Event Theory
Interactive Engagement: The Role of Ritual in Event Theory (draft only) It’s Sunday and mid December, a time when things happen. Today is a rather special day in that our seven year old son is playing the Virgin Mary in his school nativity play to be staged during the chapel service. This will happen between […]
Sphoṭa ~ Random Theatre
Sphota I really love this concept and made a theatre work around this idea. Seemingly naturally, I called it Sphota despite the fact that, giving it a name at all, mitigated against the desire to celebrate randomness ~ but, conversely, this decisive act debilitated the idea that anything in the universe is random anyway and, […]
Space Wizard
Space Wizard This is one of those poems written written 38 years ago and rediscovered on Thursday, 13 January 2011. More to come … maybe … I should dedicate them all to then Constable Ian Snell who saved my life. Long gone Into the darkness of night You left us And the perils, the forest, […]
Brokeback Mountain (for girls) ~ Calgary Nights
For Chloe & Cushla & Shay (always Shay …) Coyote? Is that you out there? (your ghostly keen?) Or are you Wolf? Wolf? What is it that we fear in the night, children That might lurk here To revive those primal infant fears? Here (of all places, all people) Here In the Rockies Or at […]
Vision from Gaza
Vision from Gaza For Shannon (Shay) I met her On her road to Damascus So I thought Sun shone on the grit sand Glint owning shards of light Spreading them like a warm disease of the mind She wore her hair in unfashionable ringlets Screwtapes missing That was not all Something else was Not quite […]
Dreaming ~ Never Recant, Sin
Dreaming ~ Never Recant, Sin For Amy C Walujapi carved a snakelike track Along a cliff-face Planted an impression of her buttocks When she sat This was her camp This was the beginning The beginning that never ended (not yet anyway ~ big bang) The dream of me Rests That dream of you Lives Mists […]
Song for Shannon ~ No Hiding Place in Love
Song for Shannon ~ No Hiding Place in Love for Shay Time runs away on us We have to do the best we can While we can That day we met On the internet We talked to end the world To fix it girl (and fix us too) Knowing it would never end A friend […]
(sightless sting) in the beginning, the end
(sightless sting) in the beginning, the end for Shay ‘So for now, I will follow her advice. Let’s see how long it lasts. What do you think of that?’ That was the last you wrote You signed it ‘♥ME’ You wrote this on 09 October 2008 at 8:17am My time There are 16 hours and […]
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