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You Had To Be There – available to buy

we’ve made our You Had To Be There ‘director’s commentaries’ available for university/higher education libraries to buy on our website here. Its a collection of 11 videos celebrating 15 yrs of Action Hero’s practice available as an MP4 download and/or
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Blog / 22 Apr 21

You Had To Be There

2020 is Action Hero’s 15 yr anniversary so to celebrate we’re putting together a series of ‘director’s commentaries’ of all the shows we’ve made since 2005. They’ll be broadcast live on youtube and then available for a week after online.
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Blog / 17 Nov 20

Action Hero are looking for new board members and a chair

Action Hero is looking for new board members and a Chair. Action Hero make artworks that are unusual, unclassifiable and that sit between artform boundaries. We’ve toured our work to nearly 40 countries across 5 continents and in 2018 became
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Blog / 28 Sep 20

RadiOh Europa Switzerland

For 3 days we’ve been collecting love songs in Nyon, Switzerland in a covid-adapted way and over the next few days we’ll be sharing the songs we’ve collected as well as other love songs from around Europe that we’ve recorded
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Blog / 17 Aug 20

Future Perfect billboard in Calgary

our first iteration of new project Future Perfect was just installed at The New Gallery in Calgary, Canada. We’ve been collaborating with Canadian duo Mia and Eric for a while now on this project and we’re really happy its finally
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Blog / 16 Aug 20

2020 Fellowship

We’re really happy to announce that the recipients of the 2020 Action Hero fellowships are Rachael Young and Figs in Wigs! Action Hero became an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation back in April 2018, and one of our commitments
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Blog / 04 Feb 20

Oh Europa on Radio 4

You can hear this 10 minute programme about Oh Europa on BBC Radio 4 by following this link https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000c4y1 we’re at 12.38  

Blog / 16 Dec 19

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