Dear coordinators and colleagues I hope you are all keeping as well and safe as possible during these difficult times – a greeting we have all received and given many times over the past year!  I am writing to give you an update on Indra related events.  Despite the pandemic there has actually been a […]

The Northern Ireland/Nigeria collaboration, facilitated by Jerry Adesewo, Artistic Director of the Aroja Royal Theatre, Abuja, Nigeria and Dr Matt Jenniings of Ulster University, has been going from strength to strength. Recent graduates (including Indra alumni, Harry McCallum and Caoimhe McCarron) and current students from Ulster University are independently devising and recording original poems and […]

Indra update September 2020 A very warm welcome to new collaborators with Indra from New York and Cornwall, UK. Chris Vine and Helen White at City University New York (CUNY). Chris and Helen have both worked extensively in the field of applied theatre.  Chris was a founding member of the pioneering Peterborough Perspectives Theatre company […]

Dear all I hope you are keeping safe and well and coping with the impact of C-19 in your situation.  I know some of you, perhaps most, have been profoundly affected by the pandemic.  Our colleague in Brazil, Marina Henriques, is not only facing economic and employment insecurity but the stress of being a liberal […]

The latest news from Indra:  Newsletter Digital Congress gathering View this email in your browser 1.     The Indra Congress Newsletter June 2020  2019 was a quiet year for Indra but in January 2020 the network re-ignited with a renewed sense of purpose and ambition. In responding to the multiple crises we are facing the directors […]

Over the past few weeks I have engaged in a number of conversations with Indra coordinators in pairs and small groups to move the momentum forward in the build up to Lucknow 2021.   These conversations have been informative, stimulating and at times inspirational. Indra lockdown conversations Conversation 1. Marina Barham of Al Harah Theatre in […]

Things fall apart. It feels like things are falling apart.  The world will never be the same.  We have been awakening belatedly to the sobering reality of climate change only to be battered by the devastating and deadly pandemic of the coronavirus. Our young people look to their futures and, with good reason, are worried […]

The Art of Climate Conflict.  Jan 2020 Why use Climate Change as an umbrella theme for the Indra Congress? Scientific evidence shows that the world is facing an unprecedented, human induced climate crisis, which could lead to staggering levels of suffering, loss of life and irreparable damage to the planet.  This is a reality accepted […]

I moved down to SW England in 1980 and on arrival I made a point of identifying and contacting theatre companies working in the area. One unusual venue caught my interest. It was called Sterts and it operated in a rural area of Cornwall, providing opportunities for people in a relatively isolated part of the […]

Indra in Tunisia Seif Eddine Jlassi – Fanni Raghman Anni   A year or so ago I was privileged to be invited by our colleague Marina Barham, of Al Harah Theatre, to attend and speak at the first Palestinan Performing Arts Network (PPAN) conference in Ramallah. Whilst there Marina brought to my attention a young […]