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• Executive Producer / Company of Others / North East

  24-01-2021 17:52
  Company of Others is a dance theatre company based in the North East of England, founded and led by Artistic Director and CEO Nadia Iftkhar. We collaborate with people who have experience of being...
  
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• I’m painting the amazing Galápagos wildlife – from my sitting room

  24-01-2021 08:00
  
  Can a virtual four-day art class come anywhere close to visiting the famous archipelago? Maybe not, but for our writer it turns out to offer something far more valuableThe creature comes into view quite slowly. It’s like staring into the bushes, realising there is something there, then picking out its parts, assembling the whole that, suddenly, magically, comes alive and steps gently forward. A giant tortoise. Mary-Anne, our guide, laughs: “A tortoise’s mouth always remind me o
  
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• By the homes of Degas and Renoir, Paris street artists face a lonely struggle

  24-01-2021 07:30
  
  A bustling Belle Epoque square has fallen silent, bringing hard times to today’s paintersIn normal times Paris’s famous Place du Tertre – the “artists’ square” – is packed with tourists and visiting out-of-towners, even on a chilly January afternoon. In the time of coronavirus, however, the square, home to painters, portraitists, caricaturists and silhouette artists, is almost entirely deserted.The cafes and brasseries are closed, their terrace chairs ch
  
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• Now for the nudes: thousands turn to online life drawing

  24-01-2021 07:15
  
  A diverse and growing crowd is finding solace in isolation through pencil, paper and a model on a screenSam Cowley, 41, had just come out of rehab for alcohol addiction when lockdown was imposed in March. He was sitting alone in a room in a dry house in Essex, contemplating how he’d lost his wife, children, job and house, when he came across a life-drawing class online. He decided to give it a go and hasn’t looked back.“I did my first class and I felt a warmth and excitement. F
  
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