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You Can Be My Wingman – Apply for our Artist’s retreat

Do you want to spend some ‘unproductive’ time on a retreat with us? Apply with an artist you want to hang out with by 2nd Dec The retreat is hosted by us, with mentor/guide Maiko Yamamoto, in Dartington Hall. YOU
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Blog / 19 Oct 19

Worldwide press for Oh Europa

A big driving force behind the Oh Europa project has been our desire to try and collectively re-think, or complicate or even re-write certain narratives around Europe and although its on the ground, meeting people on the road and face
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Blog / 26 Sep 19

21st Century Performance Reader

We are featured in the Routledge published 21st Century Performance Reader – The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader combines extracts from over 70 international practitioners, companies, collectives and makers from the fields of Dance, Theatre, Music, Live and Performance Art, and
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Blog / 08 Aug 19
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RadiOh Europa short video

Video / 04 Jul 19

RadiOh Europa

Lots of people have been asking us over the last year what we’re going to do with all the love songs we’ve collected on our journey around Europe. They are all, of course, playing on the 42 beacons we’ve placed
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Blog / 07 Jun 19
A Guardian Music journalist met with Gemma in Leeds and had a chat about Oh Europa. Have a read.
Guardian Article
Status Update / 27 Apr 19
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Short Film made in Athens

Video / 14 Mar 19

Oh Europa in Leeds

Last year for 6 months we drove 33,000km around Europe and asked the people we met to sing us love songs. We gathered 20 hrs worth of songs and this year we’ll be driving through the UK and Europe sharing
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Blog / 01 Feb 19

Announcing Katherine Hall as our first fellowship recipient!

We’re really happy to announce that the recipient of our first Action Hero fellowship is Katherine Hall! Katherine is an artist based in Bristol, creating performance and dance. Her work involves exploring the interplay of movement and voice, and involves
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Blog / 28 Jan 19
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Final Oh Europa video postcard

Video / 05 Nov 18
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A short video from Groningen

Video / 25 Oct 18
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Oh Europa video postcard #5

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Hear the love songs

We’ve now placed 39 beacons broadcasting all the love songs (over 500!) that people have sung to us so far on our journey across Europe. Download the app to navigate to your nearest one where you can tune into the
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Blog / 22 Sep 18
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Oh Europa video postcard #4

Video / 20 Sep 18

Oh Europa podcasts

As part of our Oh Europa project we’ve collected hundreds of love songs so far. The way to hear them is to download the Oh Europa app (iOS and android) which will direct you to one of many micro-radio stations
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Blog / 25 Aug 18
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Oh Europa video postcard #3

Video / 22 Aug 18
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Oh Europa video postcard #2

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BBC Radio 3 Late Junction featured some songs we've recorded as part of our Oh Europa project!
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Status Update / 27 Jun 18
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Oh Europa Video Postcard #1

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Oh Europa website

We’re setting off on our 30,000km 6 month long journey collecting love songs on Thursday. Its taken us nearly 3 years to make this project a reality and we can’t believe its finally happening. To follow the journey, find out
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Blog / 16 Apr 18