Imagine a time capsule, to be buried deep in the ground; or sent out into deep space, perhaps. What would you put in it? A snatch of Mozart? A dash of the Blues? Japanese Koto? Children’s drawings? Photos of works of art or architecture? Scientific formulae? Poetry? A letter from Albert Einstein? A letter from […]

We live in a lovely town with parks and shops and very good schools. We have fathers who work hard as doctors and farmers and butchers, and we have pretty smiling mothers. Our school is School Number One – the biggest and best school in the town. We have a lovely big gymnasium – see […]

About two years ago I started looking up and thinking about home. Or rather, thinking about houses. Perhaps it was the planned demolition spectacle of the Red Road flats for the opening of the Commonwealth games in Glasgow, or the increasing level of disdain David Cameron was heaping on 60s and 70s social housing projects, […]

Beccy Smith, Darren East and baby J head to Lancashire for a weekend of top-notch puppetry Creating visual theatre events within their local community was where Horse and Bamboo, based in the rural East Lancs valley of Rossendale since 1978, began. Large scale processional work, fire displays, music and masks worked to bring communities out […]

Every year Horse + Bamboo organise a puppet festival at their base in Waterfoot, a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it town on the road to Bacup which is a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it town on the road to Todmorden. Put simply, the festival is a little gem and features indoor ticketed shows and free outdoor work. So the audience gets to see […]