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- [Landscape of Silence](https://operacircusuk.com/landscape-of-silence/) - In 2023 and 2024 we created and performed three work-in-progress performances of a piece called ‘Stumbling Stones’ at the Unity Theatre and the Music Room of the RLPO, Liverpool. Extracts were read from Julia Nelki’s book, Villa Russo: A Jewish Story, which tells the history of Julia’s family, back to the 18th century, from being
- [The Edible Garden Projects](https://operacircusuk.com/the-edible-garden-projects/) - The security and longevity of this project could not have happened without the generosity of many funders, but the greatest and most imaginative of all has been The Ernest Hecht Foundation whose vision has enabled us to continue to support this work and all who collaborate together for the children and the schools they attend
- [Erasmus + Dorset Advisory Hub](https://operacircusuk.com/erasmus-dorset-advisory-hub/) - At the beginning of the year we approached friend and long term colleague Professor Stephanie Schwandners-Sievers, the Associate Dean of Global and Strategic Partnerships at Bournemouth University https://staffprofiles.bournemouth.ac.uk/display/sssievers . We asked her if she thought Bournemouth University would be interested in exploring ideas for an indepedent Advisory Hub for Erasmus + in Dorset. We had
- [The Complete Freedom of Truth – TCFT](https://operacircusuk.com/the-complete-freedom-of-truth-tcft/) - Opera Circus has nurtured the development of this long term international youth arts programme for 18 years. It’s longevity and success is down to the participation of over 2000 young people, over 30 artists, and many others who guided, advised, funded, promoted, fed and managed us during the process. Rory Newbery, joined TCFT as a participant
- [The Giufa Project](https://operacircusuk.com/the-giufa-project/) - Laura Fatini, Director, Writer, Teacher, Philosopher working with Opera Circus and the Creation Works, Par, Cornwall https://thecreationworks.com/about/f founded by long term friends and colleagues Alister O’Loughlin and Miranda Henderson at Prodigal/UPG on the future of The Giufa Project. https://thegiufaproject.com Three days of intense conversation and creation ending with a sharing of work from The Giufa
- [“The right to be”: Visit for cultural professionals to Ukraine](https://operacircusuk.com/the-right-to-be-visit-for-cultural-professionals-to-ukraine/) - “The right to be”I wanted to share this quote from one of the artists I’ve spoken with during this week in Ukraine. We were discussing the role for artists and for art in a troubled time like the one in which we live. Over the course of a week we had a chance of truly
- [It Takes A Town: Bridport : - West Dorset, UK.](https://operacircusuk.com/it-takes-a-town-bridport-west-dorset-uk/) - Bridport High Street and Old Town Hall with Clocktower. Art Youth and A Shared Peace: Ukraine and the UK – Stories and Thoughts: Below is a short statement about this project written for our Council of Europe pilot grant evaluation.• It is very clear and specific, and important to be so, when funding is involved.
- [Democracy and Kindness](https://operacircusuk.com/democracy-and-kindness/) - Robert Golden’s opening talk for Art Youth and A Shared PeaceJune 23 2025 We are delighted to see you here…it is no small thing you decided to come;it’s a sign of your curiosity and opennessand believe me, you are very welcome.I’m offering some ideas for these coming days….To begin with I will quote a mentor
- [Art, Youth, A Shared Peace - Experiences in Solidarity](https://operacircusuk.com/art-youth-a-shared-peace-experiences-in-solidarity/) - By Hayley Anderson On the 30th of June I had the great honour of joining the Art, Youth and a Shared Peace project for a day while its participants visited London. While my own participation was limited to only a few of the exchange’s myriad of events, the incredible work of Opera Circus and other
- [URGENT - GAZA - Drama Therapy Support for Children](https://operacircusuk.com/urgent-gaza-drama-therapy-support-for-children/) - “At the Child Smile camp, we travel with hope from one place to another, and carry in our hearts one message: every child deserves to smile. Between our mobile drama tents, we gather with children to live moments of happiness and warmth, to light up their world with fairy tales and timeless smiles. We left
- [Art, Youth and a Shared Peace - Ukraine/UK Youth](https://operacircusuk.com/art-youth-and-a-shared-peace-ukraine-uk-youth/) - Hosting 10 young people travelling from Ukraine, 10 young people from Ukraine living in Dorset and 10 young people from Dorset in a week long programme of arts and cultural activities – encouraging cross-cultural friendships, creative expression, and solidarity with the use of the creative arts for collective healing. The young Ukrainians will then travel
- [MIMART 40](https://operacircusuk.com/mimart-40th/) - Dr Nela Antonovic and her theatre company Teater Mimart have been partners with Opera Circus and its work with young people since 2009. A highly respected and courageous company which has contributed greatly to the work of The Complete Freedom of Truth, (TCFT) the international youth arts programme founded in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. This
- [Talking to the Enemy at the Heart of Europe](https://operacircusuk.com/talking-to-the-enemy-at-the-heart-of-europe/) - By Laura Fatini (Texts from “Letters to a German Friend” by Camus 1943 -1944 adapted)Director/Lighting Design: Laura FatiniActor: Francesco PipparelliComposer/Sound Design/Musician: Luca MauceriProduction Manager: Redi AsabellaSet Design: Maura FastelliPhotographs: Robert Golden Performed to honour Europe Day 9 May 2024 in Sarteano, Italy. “I love my country too much to be a nationalist.” Camus This short play
- [Bratunac Youth Theater – “Pipi Dugočarapić (Longstocking):](https://operacircusuk.com/bratunac-youth-theater-pipi-dugocarapic-longstocking/) - Youth Centre, Srebrenica in 2015 (no longer functioning) Photo Robert Golden In 2008 we were invited to the Srebrenica region in Bosnia and Herzegovina to work with young people passionate about theatre and music for children. It has been a complete privilege to have been allowed to be part of the progress of some of the
- [Democracy and Belonging: A weekend of change](https://operacircusuk.com/democracy-and-belonging-a-weekend-of-change/) - The Complete Freedom of Truth, TCFT, founded in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2008 is in its 15th year. Founded by Opera Circus after an invitation to meet young artists in that town, this international youth arts programme has hosted over 2000 participants, 30 artists, 18 partners, many volunteers and communities who have made the
- [Belonging/Becoming](https://operacircusuk.com/belonging-becoming/) - BELONGING – BECOMING – a new documentary film at Bridport Arts Centre * “I absolutely feel represented.” From March 2022 through early August I photographed and filmed 4 different arts based pan-European projects involving young people from the age of eleven to the early thirties. As part of the process, I interviewed 35 people from,
- [European Youth Event!](https://operacircusuk.com/european-youth-event/) - Strasbourg, France June 8 – 11 2023 What is EYE? 8500 people between the ages of 16 and 30 travel to Strasbourg to spend 2 days taking over the city, the buses and trams, the European Parliament building and temporary village surrounding it. Almost unimaginable till you get there and see the queues. And getting
- [The Human Hive Podcast - 7](https://operacircusuk.com/the-human-hive-podcast-7/) - Robert Golden, photographed by Djordje Nikolic “The Human Hive Podcast is designed to help changemakers on their journey by offering advice, inspiration, and the tools to get started. Get inspired with stories from people actively making a difference across the world to globally solve the most pressing problems facing people and planet today! The Human
- [Nigel Osborne in Ukraine - blog 2](https://operacircusuk.com/nigel-osborne-in-ukraine-blog-2/) - Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh, Nigel Osborne, MBE, has been working in Ukraine since last Autumn. All those who have been his pupils, sung his sublime music, worked with him in the Summer Music Camps for children in the Western Balkans, explored the use of music and technology for disability, know his immense
- [Stumbling Stones](https://operacircusuk.com/stumbling-stones/) - Opera Circus was invited to help with the first research and development steps for Stumbling Stones, a work in progress theatre production with live music held at the Unity Theatre, Liverpool on April 10 and 11 2023. Julia Nelki: Writer and author of Villa Russo: A Jewish StoryI have always been interested in families and
- [The Human Hive - People, Places and Planet.](https://operacircusuk.com/the-human-hive-peopleplaces-planet/) - Two podcasts created for TCFT and Opera Circus by The Human Hive led by Darren Abrahams, artist, therapist and changemaker. The Human Hive is a CIC working with change making individuals and organisations to regenerate People Places and Planet. In 2022 Darren produced two Human Hive podcasts looking at certain aspects of the UN’s Sustainable
- [Ukraine - Music in the Community](https://operacircusuk.com/ukraine-music-in-the-community/) - Emeritus Professor of Music Nigel Osborne is one of the world’s experts in the use of music to tackle trauma as a result of war and conflict, in particular with children. We, along with many others, have worked with Nigel for over 20 years in the Western Balkans, UK and India using music to help
- [TCFT in 2022 and beyond](https://operacircusuk.com/tcft-in-2022-and-beyond/) - We don’t want to start with why things haven’t happened for over two years, but what is going to happen now, this year and in the future. This year, 2022, we have two Erasmus + projects running in parallel. One is called Freedom is Participation in Power: Youth Activism in times of political uncertainty with
- [Art and our Humanity](https://operacircusuk.com/the-intangible-elusive-and-unquantifiable-art-and-our-humanity/) - Anthony Barnett, the renowned writer and journalist wrote this for Open Democracy this year.https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/author/anthony-barnett/ “In these dire times,” I concluded, “asking what you can do for others is the best way to reach out for yourself… to be a co-creator of society and never just a consumer. It means always using the power of your
- [Osman Bey and The Snails](https://operacircusuk.com/osman-bey-and-the-snails/) - Image: Robert Golden this year, 2022, he was given a life sentence in Turkey for crimes it is obvious to everyone, he didn’t commit, except the judges. This online opera was made in April 2020 and we have just changed the dates to acknowledge the length of time that Osman has been held. The fight goes
- [The Changing the Story Online International Film Festival 1 - 5 June 2020](https://operacircusuk.com/the-changing-the-story-online-international-film-festival-1-5-june-2020-2/) - Izazov! was first of all a research project created through Changing the Story. It involved partners from the UK and BiH including Opera Circus, Kings College London, Leeds and Bournemouth Universities, Humanity in Action BiH and Sarajevo School of Science and Technology Further information can be found on the Izazov! website. 8 young film makers met in Sarajevo and
- [Osman Bey and the Snails](https://operacircusuk.com/osman-bey-and-the-snails-launch-of-a-lockdown-mini-opera-for-turkeys-political-prisoner/) - Osman Kavala, Turkey’s best-known supporter of culture, philanthropy, human rights champion and bridge-builder, is approaching 1000 days in Turkey’s highest security prison on trumped-up charges.To keep him company in solitary confinement, he adopted two snails he found in his lunchtime prison salad.The snails are now free. Osman is still not.His friends in the Arts around
- [Opera Circus 2021 - 2022](https://operacircusuk.com/opera-circus-2021-2022/) - A quick note to let you know we are rebuilding this web site and we will launch the new site the first week of September 2021. Most of our work, other than planning and fundraising, has been moved to 2022 due to Covid and the multiple difficulties it has caused. Thank you all for your
- [What’s Been Good About 2020!](https://operacircusuk.com/whats-been-good-about-2020/) - Opera Circus home base Bridport and West Bay Dorset UK 2020 – Photo: Robert Golden Looking at what’s been good about 2020 and then moving on. We’ve all got stories to tell, pain to deal with and frustration. Time has distorted and for some, human relationships improved, perhaps we really see each other a bit
- [How Osman's Opera has moved the World](https://operacircusuk.com/how-osmans-opera-has-moved-the-world/) - Photo: Robert Golden We have received many powerful and supportive comments from around the world from people moved by the plight of Osman Kavala in prison. Many have also said how much they have enjoyed Osman’s opera and the way it has shared Osman’s story and that of his Snails.This morning we received the words
- [Where TCFT began - Srebrenica 2008](https://operacircusuk.com/where-tcft-began-srebrenica-2008/) - Photo: Filip Jokanovic They say if you go to Srebrenica you lose your heart to the town and its people.I would say you find it there.For many years in the 80’s and early 90’s I worked in London as a volunteer and fundraiser for Helen Bamber, human rights activist and founder of the Medical Foundation
- [THE GREAT PAUSE - sharing a title with many others!](https://operacircusuk.com/the-great-pause-sharing-a-title-with-many-others/) - Geese in Loznica, Serbia by Lorenzo Pipparelli Next year it is 30 years since Opera Circus first emerged out of the master classes and performances several of us created in London with the great buffo bass Federico Davia. (We have attached the only biography we could find.)What followed were nearly 10 years of touring with
- [Osman Bey and the Snails a "Lockdown Opera"](https://operacircusuk.com/osman-bey-and-the-snails-a-lockdown-opera/) - Most of us have been in self-imposed isolation for 30 days. On April 18 2020 Osman Kavala will have been in enforced isolation for 900 days in an Istanbul jail cell.Nine hundred days away from every friend, family member and colleague, without seeing even a tree or the horizon. During this time, we have not
- [Fedora Opera Prize and a New Vision](https://operacircusuk.com/fedora-opera-prize-and-a-new-vision/) - Good morning everyone…Francesco Pipparelli, social media campaign director, and Opera Circus have had a fascinating couple of weeks building our votes for Naciketa as part of our bid to win the Fedora Opera Prize. It has been a challenge but this is the start of a whole new social media identity for the company, Opera
- [Get Close to Opera](https://operacircusuk.com/get-close-to-opera/) - Opera Circus were one of the 5 partners invited to take part in an Erasmus + (KA2) research project called Get Close to Opera. The project lasted two years, finishing in September 2019 and was impressively well managed and led by Matera Hub. GCTO was recently awarded the title of Erasmus + Best Practice Project
- [SILENT CITY - notes from Matera 2019 - 6th November](https://operacircusuk.com/silent-city-notes-from-matera-2019-6th-november/) - Matera Today on the 4th November is the first day of rehearsals for Silent City. The sun is shining in this beautiful city as we take a small bus to the dance studio and disco which will be our creative home for one month.Performances are on the 29th and 30th November and 1st December. See
- [IZAZOV! (provocation) with TCFT- Bridport, Dorset 29 Oct - 1 Nov](https://operacircusuk.com/izazov-provocation-with-tcft-bridport-dorset-29-oct-1-nov/) - Working on the films in Sarajevo’s Film Academy. Photo: Robert Golden The TCFT Team (as part of Opera Circus) are producing 4 days of art, conversation, forum theatre and the first International Youth Short Film Festival in Bridport.There will be more information shortly on the TCFT and Opera Circus web sites/social media.Led by young people
- [Notes from A Conversation on Portland with Get Close to Opera](https://operacircusuk.com/notes-from-a-conversation-on-portland-with-get-close-to-opera/) - This is the second year of our work on the Erasmus + partnership project Get Close to Opera, run by the highly efficient Matera Hub in the region of Basilicata Italy. Excellent partners in European Network of Migrant Women, ESART, RESEO, University of Patras, Compagnie Teatrale L’Albero and us, where we have met in Brussels,
- [IZAZOV! Change is a Creative Moment](https://operacircusuk.com/izazov-change-is-a-creative-moment/) - How to interview on film We are working in a light white space in the Gymnasium (academic high school) of Sarajevo’s School of Science and Technology and linked to their Film Academy. The weather has been stifling and airless. Yesterday the thunderstorm broke the atmosphere and today it’s fresher, although still hot.In the room there
- [APPLY NOW Storytelling in Film and Youth Activism - Changing the Story](https://operacircusuk.com/apply-now-storytelling-in-film-and-youth-activism-changing-the-story/) - Notting Hill Riots 1976 photo: Robert Golden If you are a young aspiring film maker, aged between 18 and 26, live in Bosnia and consider yourself an activist, or would like to be, please apply.The first workshops will take place from 2 – 6 July 2019, followed by two months of mentored creation of your
- [Light to the Darkness](https://operacircusuk.com/light-to-the-darkness/) - Opera Circus has raised funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund for this collaborative project reflecting on WW1 through song, music, film and dance. We are waiting for our permission to start to arrive and then the project will run from this month to March 2019. Bridport Youth Dance, Home in Bridport, David Powell, Bridport Town
- [Social Inclusion or Cohesion? What's in a word?](https://operacircusuk.com/social-inclusion-or-cohesion-whats-in-a-word/) - Photograph: Robert Golden For the last 5 months Opera Circus has been involved in a process called Structured Dialogue through the Voices of Culture project led by The Goethe Institute in Brussels and the European Commission.The question really was how can the EU combat the Nationalism and Fascism that is rising in Europe and can
- [Passion, Participation, Immersion, Reflection, the Art of it and then there is the funding](https://operacircusuk.com/passion-participation-immersion-reflection-the-art-of-it-and-then-there-is-the-funding/) - The photograph describes the many ages of the people who take part in the TCFT process, the care of mentoring and support of the young people by generous and experienced artists and the multiplicity of cultures with whom we work. You can see the photographic gallery and comments about this process with Glyndebourne, Crisis Classroom
- [The Giufa Project out of TCFT August 2018](https://operacircusuk.com/the-giufa-project-out-of-tcft-august-2018/) - Omar Shahryar composer At the moment we are part of a very special company of people being hosted by Battle Abbey School in the grounds of the ruins of the glorious Battle Abbey in Battle, East Sussex. For those who aren’t aware, this is the site of the Battle of Hastings in 1066 where England
- [The busiest of years and Opera Circus place in European Arts](https://operacircusuk.com/the-busiest-of-years-and-opera-circus-place-in-european-arts/) - TCFT thinking Dorset – Pressure/Oppression February 2018 The last two years can only be described as exquisite pain, that place you strive for when creating art that drowns you in a pit of despair and then makes you realise that you have understood something intangible, it might be small, but your life changes.We have worked
- [Opera Circus film archive - Robert Golden](https://operacircusuk.com/opera-circus-film-archive-robert-golden/) - First ever live opera performance in the Cultural Centre, Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bertie Rice and Lore Lixenberg with Will Conway, Andy Morton, Mandy McCormack and the Hebrides Ensemble. Differences in Demolitions, the Sevdah Opera composer Nigel Osborne and text by Goran Simic King Stag directed by David Glass from Il Re Cervo by Carlo
- [2016 - TCFT, Naciketa and Home in Bridport](https://operacircusuk.com/2016-tcft-naciketa-and-home-in-bridport/) - Domino Network outside Bato’s in Srebrenica, January 2016 Opera Circus 25th year: In 2016, Opera Circus will have been active in some form or another for 25 years. We will find a way to celebrate this as part of TCFT at the University of Bournemouth this summer, from 1 – 14th August. Billy Alwen, from
- [Always more….and next year](https://operacircusuk.com/always-more-and-next-year/) - There are some smaller discussions and partnerships in development, including an invitation to participate in a bid from the city of Timisoara for Cultural Capital City in Romania in 2021 and a possible Italian process involving Matera and maybe Bari. Along with Ravenna and Sarteano, Italy seems to be a favourite destination of ours at
- [Opera Europa - Conference in Bucharest](https://operacircusuk.com/opera-europa-conference-in-bucharest/) - I have just returned from a special week in Bucharest, invited to attend the Opera Europa conference, 18 – 21st November. Our meeting rooms were in the magnificent opera house in the city and our hosts welcoming as you would expect from this deeply cultured country.There were 246 people from 32 countries, many of the
- [Naciketa update December 2015](https://operacircusuk.com/naciketa-update-december-2015/) - Naciketa, a new contemporary opera with music by Nigel Osborne and libretto by Ariel Dorfman, is now planned to premiere in 2017. We can’t give a complete picture of the premiere and performances as yet, but will look to provide as much information as we can in the early spring.A simple page of description is
- [Opera Circus 25th Year 2016](https://operacircusuk.com/opera-circus-25th-year-2016/) - In 2016, Opera Circus will have been active in some form or another for 25 years. We will find a way to celebrate this as part of TCFT in Bournemouth this summer, from 1 – 14th August. Billy Alwen, from Cirque Bijou, will lead the facilitation and help to create an explosive final performance for
- [Updating the blog and information on Opera Circus](https://operacircusuk.com/updating-the-blog-and-information-on-opera-circus/) - At the youth centre in Srebrenica – our host venue where breakfast, debates and performances were held. So much to write about and so much progress. The Complete Freedom of Truth project’s first year in Srebrenica was transformative for nearly everyone that attended, be they partners, Ambassadors, professional established artists or emerging young artists and
- [The Complete Freedom of Truth Planning Meeting Srebrenica 15 - 18 May 2015](https://operacircusuk.com/the-complete-freedom-of-truth-planning-meeting-srebrenica-15-18-may-2015/) - From the final performance in Dorset in 2014, a section directed by Nela Antonovic of Teater Mimart, Belgrade Serbia. Photograph: Robert Golden A five year International Youth Culture and Arts programme of events and activities: In August 2014, 56 young people and 16 artists and youth workers came together for a pilot arts and cultural
- [David Glass Workshop Bridport 21 - 22 March 2015](https://operacircusuk.com/david-glass-workshop-bridport-21-22-march-2015/) - David Glass Weekend Workshop DORSET https://davidglassensemble.co.uk/ Saturday and Sunday, 21 and 22 March 2015 / 10 – 6 / Lunch 1 – 2.30Venue: The Allsop Gallery,Bridport Arts Centre, South Street, Bridport, Dorset. http://www.bridport-arts.comMaximum number: 20Cost: £90 Workshop – Creative Practice Developed over a number of years working in creative development, Creative practice looks in detail
- [Bosnia trip with Education IPOW](https://operacircusuk.com/bosnia-trip-with-education-ipow/) - Photographs and more information to be added, but I wanted to get some of this information up on the blog today. Please forgive any typos, they’ll be corrected later today. The photograph above is exactly what Srebrenica looked like when we arrived. Beautiful. 24 January – 2 February 2015 It is again a very snowy
- [This new website](https://operacircusuk.com/this-new-website/) - We are working as hard as we can to get as much information up on this web site as quickly as possible. In the meantime if you have any questions or queries email us. If you need information about The Complete Freedom of Truth click on the name for the web site for this project.
- [Social Enterprise Training with the University of Manchester](https://operacircusuk.com/social-enterprise-training-with-the-university-of-manchester/) - The Youth Centre Srebrenica with the project Like a Film in My Mind 2013 In Place of War’s Cultural Entrepreneur Training Programme * January 26 – 30 2015 Srebrenica, Bosnia - Supported by the University of Manchester, UK. (* Pilot) This five day training programme will train a number of people in the Srebrenica region
- [This new web site and 2014](https://operacircusuk.com/this-new-web-site-and-2014/) - This web site will slowly develop over the next few months. We finally had to abandon our old WordPress site as a rather nasty Malware virus refused to budge and BT seemed incapable of dealing with it. 2014 has been a year of new partners, new projects, ideas and energy. A new humility at the
- [Cultural Spaces in areas of Conflict and Post Conflict](https://operacircusuk.com/cultural-spaces-in-areas-of-conflict-and-post-conflict/) - On the 25th November, an informal EU supported workshop seminar was held in Brussels and supported by the EU’s Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace (IcSP). Other organisations represented were the Salzburg Global Seminars, More Europe, Council of Europe and UNESCO with other different departments from the EU. This workshop was primarily concerned with the
- [Get Close to Opera - Erasmus+ project](https://operacircusuk.com/get-close-to-opera-erasmus-project/) - What is Get Close to Opera about? The GET CLOSE TO OPERA project will develop and promote inclusive and multicultural arts education and training programmes seeking to support best practice in migrant and refugee contexts. The training methodology will use Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence Theory and focus on Opera as the delivery artform.GET CLOSE TO
- [Opera Circus and the future](https://operacircusuk.com/opera-circus-and-the-future/) - Sarvar Sabri, tabla player, work in progress for Naciketa composed by Nigel Osborne with text by Ariel Dorfman 2013 – Performances London in 2020 Southbank, Lighthouse and more. We are waiting on the results of a series of funding applications to transform the way Opera Circus works, new directions, new visions and new work. The
- [Changing the Story - Kosovo, Cambodia, South Africa, Rwanda and Columbia](https://operacircusuk.com/changing-the-story-kosovo-cambodia-south-africa-rwanda-and-columbia/) - Opera Circus is partnering with Bournemouth University on this 4 year Arts and Humanities Research Council Project called Changing the Story. Please see the web site for this fascinating research project. Our work will be part of the Kosovo process because of our history of engagement in the Balkan region in particular with Bosnia and
- [Erasmus Conference Leeds 8th November](https://operacircusuk.com/erasmus-conference-leeds-8th-november/) - Geoffrey Brown, Director of Euclid, an organisation which offers a wide variety of assistance and advice on EU funding, partners and much besides, is organising a seminar on November 8th. www.euclid.infoIn the last 10 years, the EU’s Erasmus+ programme (and its predecessors) have provided over £20m to UK partners in projects involving the arts, culture,
- ["Get Close to Opera" Belgium Spain Greece Italy and the UK](https://operacircusuk.com/get-close-to-opera-belgium-spain-greece-italy-and-the-uk/) - On October 26th and 27th we are in Brussels for the first meeting of this new Erasmus project led by Matera Hub and Teatro l’Albero, Matera, Italy.This is a two year project which looks at the possible ways that the variety of art forms within opera could be used to create tools that can help
- [A Global Spirit of Solidarity for Osman Bey and the Snails](https://operacircusuk.com/a-global-spirit-of-solidarity-for-osman-bey-and-the-snails/) - Reacting to the opera, Anuradha Rajivan from Chennai, India, made this painting of snails for Osman.“It has been cloudy and raining with slugs and snails calmly sauntering around. That’s when I saw Osman and the Snails you shared. And I made the painting inspired by it! – Acrylic on Canvas, 16X20 inches.” On June 23rd
- [New work, New visions, New Web site and most of all new Art - the next 5 years](https://operacircusuk.com/new-work-new-visions-new-web-site-and-most-of-all-new-art-the-next-5-years/) - Improvised dancing, Dylan’s Bar, Bournemouth University, the last night August 2016 – Photo Robert Golden We haven’t spent as much time as we should have done on this web site and apologise for the lack of updated information but………Opera Circus is about to transform itself.The good reason is that we have been so successful in
- [September 29th, 2017](https://operacircusuk.com/september-29th-2017/) - Sarteano’s beautiful theatre 96% of artists who took part in the Referendum to leave or remain as part of the European Union, voted to stay.Europe is our culture, our history, our arts and our future. It is a fact that the EU needs change. EU bureaucracy, corruption, values and an insistence that the main purpose
- [Finally an update May 2017](https://operacircusuk.com/finally-an-update-may-2017/) - February was our last post. The next three months we led the delivery of the final phase of an extraordinary International Youth Arts programme of work The Complete Freedom of Truth, which was part funded by an Erasmus + grant. One of our 11 partners, the Comune di Sarteano, hosted and helped to organise this
- [Opera Circus in 2017](https://operacircusuk.com/opera-circus-in-2017/) - Updated information coming shortly.

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- [Landing Page - new](https://operacircusuk.com/) - “They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” Andy Warhol 2026 started with a commitment to remove more levels of bureaucracy, the inhibitor to the imagination, use technology more efficiently, or not at all, sometimes, waste less time and take action more directly, and with speed.Slow decisions seem to
- [Past Work](https://operacircusuk.com/past-work/) - Past Work The Complete Freedom of Truth The Complete Freedom of Truth, our long term youth arts programme, which began in 2008 in Srebrenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and is incredibly vital to all of our work; this statement on the TCFT web site was written by a young participant. It works just as well for
- [Global Work](https://operacircusuk.com/global-work/) - Global Work Art, Youth and A Shared Peace In Lviv, western Ukraine, circling out of this ancient Galician city, our taxi driver slammed his breaks to avoid hitting the car in front which had done the same. My wife and I and our two young compatriots lurched, unsettled. Other cars around us stopped. The driver
- [What We Do](https://operacircusuk.com/what-we-do/) - What We Do In 1990 we were a group of singers, who had been studying with the great buffo bass Federico Davia in London. After a sold-out series of opera scenes at the Theatre Museum’s theatre (destroyed in 2007 from lack of funding/developers), directed by Federico, Opera Circus was born. David Pearl, Janet Mooney, Don
- [Who We Are](https://operacircusuk.com/who-we-are/) - Who We Are Opera Circus is an artist led performing arts company founded in 1991. We commission, produce and tour new works of chamber opera and music theatre nationally and internationally. We devise projects with children and young people using creative and cultural activities to explore issues of Equality, Inclusion and Child and Human Rights.We
- [Local](https://operacircusuk.com/local-work/) - Local Work Care Leavers Co-Creating Futures Children and young people who end up in care often do so as a result of abuse and trauma. All of them have experienced significant attachment disruption, even those whose care order has been for bereavement of their carer. Then at age 18, care by the state stops and
- [Home](https://operacircusuk.com/home/) - Opera Circus Opera Circus is a music theatre and chamber opera company which works locally and globally. Our work covers new music theatre and chamber opera productions and performances. We work with long term youth arts programmes in the UK and Wider Europe, projects exploring the use of Music for Health and Well Being, and
- [Landing Page](https://operacircusuk.com/landing-page/) - Hope is a Discipline 2025/2026 ….a phrase from the IETM Whose Creative Europe? Meeting at Bradford’s City of Culture Event October 2025…this sums up the intense work that culminated in a year of one of the most joyful and intense art and cultural projects we’ve developed through The Complete Freedom of Truth (TCFT); the international
- [Page-2](https://operacircusuk.com/blog/page-2/) - News & Articles MIMART 40 May 28, 2024 Dr Nela Antonovic and her theatre company Teater Mimart have been partners with Opera Circus and its work with young people since 2009. A highly respected and courageous company Read ⟶ Talking to the Enemy at the Heart of Europe May 28, 2024 By Laura Fatini (Texts
- [Contact us](https://operacircusuk.com/contact-us/) - Contact Us Information Charity Number: 1051954Company no: 2716451VAT registered. 524467443 Accountants: BlackdotAuditors: Breckman and Company, London Board Members:Darren AbrahamsSusan BisattRosie Russell ChairRobert GoldenTina Ellen LeeFiona Whytehead Web/Company Design: Zova Autentic SRL, Romania Other Contact Methods Opera CircusThree Chimneys, Pymore LaneDottery, Dorset, Bridport, UKDT65PS admin@operacircus.co.uk M: 0044 (0) 7785 774 909 Social Media admin@operacircus.co.uk operacircusuk opera-circus Information Charity Number: 1051954Company
- [Art, Youth and A Shared Peace](https://operacircusuk.com/global-work/lviv-ukraines-youth-capital-for-2025/) - We made our journey to Lviv in Ukraine on the 2nd April. We were invited to the launch of their European Youth Capital 2025, a brilliant and beautifully organised series of events with hundreds of young people participating with energy and activism. This is the start of our collaboration with the team that runs the
- [Care Leavers](https://operacircusuk.com/local-work/care-leavers/) - Care Leavers Co-Creating Futures Dorset October 2024 – February 2025 Eileen Haste and Angela Kennedy presenting the project with Alani Cook Children and young people who end up in care often do so as a result of abuse and trauma. All of them have experienced significant attachment disruption, even those whose care order has been
- [TCFT & Bridport](https://operacircusuk.com/local-work/tcft-bridport/) - TCFT & Bridport Opera Circus continues to work voluntarily with local partnerships to support different initiatives including the Edible Garden Project with HOME in Bridport new report for 2021 -2022 in progress and Transition Town Bridport. Read more here Opera Circus began visiting Bosnia through Nigel Osborne and the opera, Differences in Demolition inspired by the
- [Music and Conversation](https://operacircusuk.com/local-work/music-and-conversation/) - Music and Conversations The Opera Circus band supporting Let Music Unite on Portland, Dorset It was during our time in the Island of Portland providing music for a gig called Let Music Unite and support when such was useful and needed, that the Bibby Stockholm barge docked not far from Portland while the men on
- [Terms & Conditions](https://operacircusuk.com/terms-and-conditions/) - Terms & Conditions Welcome to Opera Circus! These terms and conditions outline the rules and regulations for the use of opera circus’s Website, located at https://www.operacircusuk.com/. By accessing this website we assume you accept these terms and conditions. Do not continue to use Opera Circus if you do not agree to take all of the
- [Privacy Policy](https://operacircusuk.com/privacy-policy/) - Privacy Policy At Opera Circus, accessible from https://www.operacircusuk.com, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Opera Circus and how we use it. If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate
- [The Naciketa Project](https://operacircusuk.com/global-work/the-naciketa-project/) - Naciketa is a very beautiful chamber opera written by composer Nigel Osborne with a libretto by writer Ariel Dorfman. Both men are international artists and human rights activists, and the opera is riven with stories that resonate from their lived experiences. It has been on a very, very long journey, as many operas do, and
- [The Complete Freedom of Truth](https://operacircusuk.com/global-work/the-complete-freedom-of-truth/) - Dancing in the Street in Bratunac, Bosnia and Herzegovina August 2022 (TCFT/Take P-Art Erasmus +) This is Opera Circus’ long term international youth arts programme which began in Srebrenica in 2008. See the TCFT website for further information. We have come to a natural pause in the work due to the loss of the funding from Erasmus
- [Page-8](https://operacircusuk.com/blog/page-8/) - News & Articles Get Close to Opera – Erasmus+ project December 12, 2017 What is Get Close to Opera about? The GET CLOSE TO OPERA project will develop and promote inclusive and multicultural arts education and training programmes seeking to support best Read ⟶ Opera Circus and the future December 12, 2017 Sarvar Sabri, tabla
- [Page-7](https://operacircusuk.com/blog/page-7/) - News & Articles Light to the Darkness October 18, 2018 Opera Circus has raised funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund for this collaborative project reflecting on WW1 through song, music, film and dance. We are waiting for our permission Read ⟶ Social Inclusion or Cohesion? What’s in a word? October 10, 2018 Photograph: Robert Golden
- [Page-6](https://operacircusuk.com/blog/page-6/) - News & Articles Get Close to Opera January 9, 2020 Opera Circus were one of the 5 partners invited to take part in an Erasmus + (KA2) research project called Get Close to Opera. The project lasted two years, Read ⟶ SILENT CITY – notes from Matera 2019 – 6th November November 4, 2019 Matera
- [Page-5](https://operacircusuk.com/blog/page-5/) - News & Articles How Osman’s Opera has moved the World June 28, 2020 Photo: Robert Golden We have received many powerful and supportive comments from around the world from people moved by the plight of Osman Kavala in prison. Many have also Read ⟶ Osman Bey and The Snails June 13, 2020 Image: Robert Golden
- [Page-3](https://operacircusuk.com/blog/page-3/) - News & Articles Nigel Osborne in Ukraine – blog 2 May 29, 2023 Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh, Nigel Osborne, MBE, has been working in Ukraine since last Autumn. All those who have been his pupils, sung his sublime music, Read ⟶ The Human Hive Podcast – 7 May 27, 2023 Robert Golden,
- [Page-4](https://operacircusuk.com/blog/page-4/) - News & Articles TCFT in 2022 and beyond April 4, 2022 We don’t want to start with why things haven’t happened for over two years, but what is going to happen now, this year and in the future. This year, Read ⟶ Osman Bey and the Snails December 9, 2021 Osman Kavala, Turkey’s best-known supporter
- [Music Mind and Body](https://operacircusuk.com/global-work/music-mind-and-body/) - X-SYSTEM Emeritus Professor of Music Nigel Osborne, composer, inventor and aid worker, along with linguist and musician is one of the world’s great animateurs in the use of music to help children with trauma from war and conflict, and those with disabilities. x-system, which Nigel co-invented with Professor Paul Robinson, some 13 years ago, is

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