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ARTS RESPONDING TO THE CHALLENGE

ARTS RESPONDING TO THE CHALLENGE By Norman Warwick Live performances would have been the natural culmination of the second edition of the Festival de Teatro Escolar de Lanzarote, an initiative promoted by the area of Culture of the Cabildo…
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DRAMA STUDENTS SHOWCASE SKILLS ON LINE

THEATRE SCHOOL SHOWCASED ON LINE Live performances would have been the natural culmination of the second edition of the Festival de Teatro Escolar de Lanzarote, an initiative promoted by the area of Culture of the Cabildo of Lanzarote and…
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FREAKS, FROLICS AND FADING BLUES by Michael Higgins

FREAKS, FROLICS AND FADING BLUES by Michael Higgins Norman Warwick’s recent article on the University Of Leeds dialect survey  (Sidetracks and Detours 30 April 2020) and his brief mention of my role (chairman) in the Edwin Waugh…
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SUNBIRD SINGS of good news from Kimmie Rhodes

SUNBIRD SINGS of good news from Kimmie Rhodes Not only have our Cabildo (government) seemed to handle the coronavirus situation over here pretty well but so, too, have the citizens of Lanzarote who have stayed away from the beaches and the…
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LIKE TEENAGERS IN LOVE ! Romeo and Juliet come calling

LIKE TEENAGERS IN LOVE ! Romeo and Juliet come calling There’s a bit of history between me and Romeo, to be honest, as this youth has let me down on more than one occasion. Seventeen years ago, back in the UK when I was a fifty year…
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MULTI-DISCIPLINE TRIBUTE TO MANRIQUE: review by Norman Warwick

César Manrique; Rojo, Negro, Blanco. Teatro Tias, March 2020 Review. On the evening  Friday of 6th March 2020 we had decided that over this weekend, we would visit the first two of several performance we had previewed in a short…

SWAN LAKE AT THE LOWRY UNTIL 7TH MARCH

SWAN LAKE AT THE LOWRY UNTIL 7TH MARCH I was working with SpiralDance a few years ago, as creative writing facilitator on a project with disaffected and disengaged children in what was then a deprived area of Rochdale MBC. It had been…
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CONCIERTO ´SOUVENIR ROMÁNTICO’

MAKING NEW FRIENDS THROUGH MUSIC A review. We tend to ignore the first minute of any phone calls from Maigret Marguerita as she is usually so excited we can´t follow a word she is saying, but after a while the story unfolded. She had…
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AND THE PICKIN´ DOWN THE LINE

Guitarras en Haria Festival Internacional; review There were no signs at 4.00 pm that this was yet the case, and with the gala concert not scheduled to start until 7.00 pm we had time to dip into Arietta for omelette and chips and a coffee. Later,…
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ARTS: BETWEEN COMMUNITY & DIVISION

ARTS: BETWEEN COMMUNITY & DIVISION The story turned about to be about a travelling production of a play called Trojan Horse that was playing at the time at Oldham Coliseum Theatre as part of a national tour. Two years ago the play had…