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Changing Cycles: February 2006
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An ongoing project exploring the use of the arts as a form of action to ensure the sustainability of the planet. and stuff. Thursday, February 09, 2006. Back in the saddle. Well, metaphorically anyway. After a warm and wonderful three months cycling around the country I'm back in cold, grey (but unusually rain-free) Manchester wondering how I'm going to turn the experience into a performance. I've been awarded a 6 month (well, 5 now I suppose! Residency at Contact theatre. So that's about where I'm up to...
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Changing Cycles: April 2006
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An ongoing project exploring the use of the arts as a form of action to ensure the sustainability of the planet. and stuff. Thursday, April 20, 2006. Where'd it all go? I genuinely can't believe it's been over 2 months since my last post on this blog. Could whoever's got their foot on the time accelerator pedal please ease off a bit? I'm happy with his voice now finally, and I hope that others will find him as entertaining as I do. I'll get to try out some of the new material in a couple of weeks whe...
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Changing Cycles: February 2007
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An ongoing project exploring the use of the arts as a form of action to ensure the sustainability of the planet. and stuff. Friday, February 09, 2007. Hmm I can feel a headache forming. My course in London is proving very stimulating anyway, particularly for asking, if not answering, these sorts of questions. This week we will be talking about a recent PLATFORM project 'And While London Burns'. A walking opera around London that you download onto an MP3 player. Posted by Benjamin Mellor @ 5:14 AM.
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Changing Cycles: January 2007
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An ongoing project exploring the use of the arts as a form of action to ensure the sustainability of the planet. and stuff. Tuesday, January 23, 2007. It's been a long, long time. Since I got you on my mind. But now I'm back, and I've got some funding! The good people at the Arts Council have granted me a bit of cash to research and develop the show from what it was at the summer into a full length, shiny, spangly production ready for touring in Autumn. I've made a new year's resolution to write this blo...
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Changing Cycles: May 2005
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An ongoing project exploring the use of the arts as a form of action to ensure the sustainability of the planet. and stuff. Monday, May 30, 2005. Despite riding a bike that weighs, fully laden, somewhere approximating a small car, I have safely arrived at my first destination: Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. Bit of a cushy one this, as my friend Leah lives at her parents' house here so I have a bed for the night. but here on in it's canvas all the way! See you all in blighty. Or not if I don't know you.
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Changing Cycles: June 2005
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An ongoing project exploring the use of the arts as a form of action to ensure the sustainability of the planet. and stuff. Monday, June 20, 2005. Day 2 of the G8 Bike ride and we've covered about 130 miles (taking my personal tally so far to over 600! Taken part in two protests (an anti-road protest in Linslade and an anti-airport expansion action here in Coventry) and held up lots of cars in good humoured fashion with flags, banners and a hefty sound system on wheels. And we've only got lost once!
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Changing Cycles: July 2006
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An ongoing project exploring the use of the arts as a form of action to ensure the sustainability of the planet. and stuff. Tuesday, July 11, 2006. Here's a few of the beautiful shots taken for me by my lovely (and talented) friend Elise McCave. Cheers Elise x. Posted by Benjamin Mellor @ 8:47 AM. Excellent show - thought provoking - great simple theatrical ideas - the show generating itself is great! Makes me want to get my bike out and get on the road. Well entertaining! Hmm, not sure about this one...
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What is UB :: Unfinished Business
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Unfinished Business are a London (UK) based performance company who make experimental theatre and live art across and the UK and internationally. We are Artistic Director Leo Kay, Producer Anna Smith and a shifting team of collaborators. Together we create original work that lives between performance and everyday interaction, with an emphasis on process, ritual, intimacy, socio-political engagement and unexpected interaction between artist and audience. Who is UB Company. He’s interested in autobio...
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Changing Cycles: June 2006
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An ongoing project exploring the use of the arts as a form of action to ensure the sustainability of the planet. and stuff. Wednesday, June 14, 2006. I have to be the rubbishest blogger in the world, ever! It's now nearly a week until my show starts, and I'm just about to start rehearsing, having finished the script ooh, about last week? I'm assured this is the way that all good theatre productions should work, but it still feels a bit hairy. Apart from all the people who drive to come and see it.).