WAKE UP
EU Cultural Partnership Project SIMPLY HUMAN
A Youth Cultural Exchange, Bridport and Srebrenica
24 April – 3 May 2012

From Filip Jokanovic (17) Srebrenica
“The week in England was a movie that will be in my head for ever. The experience, energy, knowledge and ideas we all got are something special and [...]

As part of the EU Cultural Partnership Programme “Wake Up”, a group of 20 people from Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina will be visiting Bridport for a cultural exchange programme from 24 April to the 2 May 2012.  The group includes 15 young cultural leaders from Srebrenica, Suceska, Bratunac and Zvornik.

We are also delighted to welcome [...]

Photo: Robert Golden

Nadine Mortimer Smith, soprano, at the work in progress rehearsal at Opera North, Leeds, Autumn 2010.

In January a small team from Opera Circus will visit India in January 2012.  These are the first steps in developing a real collaboration between artists from the UK and from India to create this new chamber [...]

July Summer Music Camp for Children with Special Needs – Mostar and Brijuni.

Nigel Osborne led this year’s summer music camp in Blagaj near Mostar with the Los Rosales orphange and as guests of the Ulysses Theatre on the indescribably beautiful island of Veliki Brijuni with the Centre for Children with Special needs in Pula.

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“‘Opera North is thrilled to be involved in the development of this important and vital new work”

Dominic Gray, Director of Projects, Opera North.

Montage: Seamus Conlan/Robert Golden

With affiliated partners Opera North and collaborating with the Hebrides Ensemble, Opera Circus presents four work in progress [...]

There is a new web site , live this week, which soon will have all the arts and cultural activity in the county listed.  Do go have a look.  Naciketa, our new musical epic/opera, will be at Bridport Arts Centre on the 4th October 2010 at 7pm.  This is a work in progress performance of [...]

Two young artists Haris Alic and Djordje Sarcevic wrote a rap song called We Are All The Same for their band DnK Crew based in Potocari, Srebrenica.  The band has four members, two Bosniak Muslims and two Serbians. The song lyrics were read out at a concert in Alkmaar in the Netherlands called Songs to [...]

We are raising funding for the work that is being carried out in Srebrenica to support the Children’s Music Theatre and its activities.  There is a young team who are being trained to run music and theatre workshops and to create theatre projects with children.  These young people see the arts and culture as the [...]

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In January Ariel Dorfman, the great Chilean/American writer, and Nigel Osborne, the eminent Scottish composer came to London to work on our new opera or musical epic, Naciketa.  Here is a short piece of film about the birth of the work.  We are raising funding in [...]