Intercultural Dialogue and Education

Play: serious business for Aracaladanza Yesterday I saw the premiere of the new show by Aracaladanza at Madrid’s Teatros del Canal. The...

Meeting up: old contact, new technology I was leaving school today and colleagues were setting up a display for an event tomorrow. Nothin...

Lourdes Perez Sierra is an expert arts administrator based in Madrid, Spain. I have attended numerous concerts which she has organized,...

Earlier this year I saw a show by The Liverpool Band, not in Liverpool but in Denia in Spain. It turns out these four incredible mus...

Sense of Occasion by Harold Prince: review Going to the theatre should always be an occasion, something special, different, say, from ...

Andrew Lloyd Webber: Unmasked review I have still have a worn and well used copy of the songs from Jesus Christ Superstar from the 70´s,...

The real title of this book is Washing up is good for you and it is published by Aster, a division of the Octopus Publishing Group. I was ha...

“Wonderment & joy are maintained and the heartaches & nightmares are left out”  – this is how writer L Frank Baum compared his ...

It was my friend Michael who first alerted me to Joni Mitchell’s   health   problems earlier this year. It is clear from his Facebook...

One of the nice surprises in   Denia   this year was to hear a concert of string quartet music in a relaxed atmosphere with views ov...

The show Fairy Tales & Nightmares started before it began: the playback tango music set the scene while the 5 actor/dancer/musicians...

I often tell my students that if they enjoy my lessons they should thank the rulers of the former Soviet Union. When they start to laugh I ...

Last night´s concert by the Sahra Halgan Trio at the   Korzo    Theatre in The Hague raises lots of questions.  It all added up to a fascin...

First off: I bought a paper copy of this book in a specialist book shop because I was browsing through the Philosophy section and it jumped...

There I was, huffing and puffing my way along the luxury 2 metre wide cycle path  (Boris please take note, that´s how it should be do...

All countries have heroes. I suppose we all want to have people to look up to: those larger than life figures who have conquered far away...

Last weekend I had the great good  fortune to stay at the Spaander Art Hotel in   Volendam , Netherlands.  You can fi...

It´s always a pleasure to go to the Nieuwe Kerk in The Hague for a concert. The original 17 th century architecture has been beautifully r...