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COLLABORATORS THEATRE COMPANY
Puppets and players: enchanting across cultures
Collaborators Theatre Company, was co- founded in 1992 by
Deborah Maurice and Dominique Grandmougin.
As collaborators we bring together artists from many parts
of the world and diverse genres. We value creative and experimental processes involving puppetry, choreography, and storytelling
to develop skills, performance and people.
Our performances use a collaboration of puppets, actors,
sounds and visuals in transforming sets. They have been described as "visual poems ; light and dark like the best of fairy
tales" entertaining adults and children alike. We frequently perform at international festivals and engage in sporadic bursts
of small to mid scale touring shows across the UK, Europe and beyond: look out for us in unusual spaces!
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British Insects: the Families of Hymenoptera |
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L. Watson and M. J. Dallwitz
This data set is generated from a DELTA database (Dallwitz 1980; Dallwitz, Paine, and Zurcher 1993). The
original intention of the ‘British Entomology’ suite of packages, of which it forms part, was primarily to present
scans of the fine hand-coloured engravings of insects in John Curtis’s British Insects: illustrations and descriptions
of the genera of insects found in Great Britain and Ireland (1824–1840), of which the first 12 volumes (up
to 1835) are available to us.
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The Governess
Most of the songs here are variations on ballad form. They aim for a lo-fi, simple sound, although the lyrics tend towards
the ornate. Musically, every melody should ideally be lifted from an ancient sounding popular song - 'Greensleeves', 'Waltzing
Mathilda', that kind of thing. They bring a yellowing, 'museum of childhood' feel with them. Also, its kind of like The Residents
once kind of said 'there are too many tunes out there, and I don't want to add to them...'. Popular music is always about
repetition. We do not play live, liking the anonymity of folk music. Our tin-pot baroque jettisons many of folk's more familiar
contemporary elements (the appeal to authenticity, the craftsmanship, the strong-armed pleasantness), but the idea of it scuppering
notions of the certainty of the authorial voice, like the appeals to the Gothic and the notion of repetition, are bits that
we are happy to work with.
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ReadySteadyBook
ReadySteadyBook is an independent book review website, working in association with
The Book Depository, which is devoted to reviewing the very best books in literary fiction, poetry, history and philosophy.
It was described by the popular and prolific author Christopher Fowler as having "a professionalism ... that would
put most broadsheets to shame."
One of the Guardian Unlimited Books' top 10 literary blogs ("a home-grown treasure, this one, with smart, serious analysis") and recently described as "fast becoming Britain's premier literary website", ReadySteadyBook was called "unfailingly
resourceful and informative ... day after lively day" by award-winnning Irish poet Dennis O'Driscoll. Publisher and writer
Dennis Loy Johnson (of Moby Lives and Melville House books) said it is "one of Great Britain's truly great blogs" and the writer Anthony Rudolf
called RSB "a significant contribution to serious writing about serious writing."
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The British Puppet and Model Theatre Guild
The British Puppet and Model Theatre Guild was founded as a result of the
publication of W.H.Whanslaw's book 'Everybody's Theatre'.
Through correspondence with Gerald Morice and Seymour Marks concerning
the book, the first meeting was held in a hired room in Rupert Street near Piccadilly, London, on the 29th April 1925.
Interest in Puppetry, in addition to Model Theatre began to grow
within the membership of the Guild, and subsequently the British Model Theatre Guild became the British Puppet and Model Theatre
Guild of Today.
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Notes from a small cavy
Ramblings from a small guinea pig lover bewildered by a big world.
The story so far..... A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, guinea pig lover and general freak, Nick Mazonowicz, fled
the imperial forces of reality to take refuge in a small corner of North West Poland called Bydgoszcz. Here, he ekes out a
meagre living trying to instill the value of the past perfect continuous into Polish teens who would much rather hear his
impression of Phil Oakey of the Human League. Now read on to see the continuing story. Now, returning from Bydgoszcz to Cheltenham,
the rebel alliance fights valiantly to prove that he is a worthwhile member of society deserving of receiving money.
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Bristol's Only Regular Book Fair
'People genuinely seemed to be enjoying themselves'. - Bookdealer Magazine
A long established, friendly, popular event, featuring the stock
of more than 30 dealers covering the fields of:
Children's Literature
Illustrated Books
Local History and Rural Life
Military History
Modern Firsts
Natural History
The Arts
Transport
Postcards Records CDs
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Marc Silva
Revisionist Historian
A Confession
On occasion, I feel the need to take the various themes that I am developing in my paintings
and weave them neatly together under a single all-encompassing rubric. However, I was not having much success with my latest
attempts at a "Grand Unification Artist's Statement" and was even considering the possibility of adopting an additional personality
to take credit -- or perhaps defend -- those stubborn dangling tangents that refused to fit neatly into the "nutshell" I was
attempting to craft.
Then recently I had an epiphany, triggered by a very unexpected source. This source, a voice
I usually associate with mangled syntax and fugitive meaning, managed to lift my prolonged mind fog with just two words:
"revisionist history." And yes, while thrilled that I have finally discovered a unifying principle to integrate my seemingly disparate
interests, I do find the circumstances leading to my breakthrough a bit embarrassing. I mean, should I credit the master of
this voice for bringing order to my world, this man who, along with his entourage, seems exceedingly gifted at mucking things
up? (Perhaps they are like the trickster gods of mythology, slapping us all repeatedly in the face until we wake up…or
die from severe head trauma).
The exciting part is that this breakthrough requires me to adopt a new identity, one that
may be more relevant than that of painter. So please allow me to introduce myself: my name is Marc Silva, and I am
a Revisionist Historian. Welcome to my web home. And visit often, because things, you know, change.
Marc Silva - September 7, 2003
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