Category Archives: Arts

CARVE coLAB are pleased to be celebrating World Parkinson’s Day 2021 with the release of a film of our recent presentation for the International Centre for Community Music as partContinue reading “World Parkinson’s Day 2021”

HerStory is an opera created with performers living with Parkinson’s during 2019, inspired by historical character Margaret Catchpole.  In 2020 our plans to perform the work at the Royal OperaContinue reading “HerStory: the Covid Chronicles”

Much hilarity was had by all this afternoon when participants from Suffolk and London met online to begin our remote creative project HerStory: The Covid Chronicles. We learned some librettoContinue reading “Sharing a drink at our first online workshop”

An article by HerStory cast member Jonathan Eckersley Am I dreaming? Or am I really singing in an opera? Yes, an opera! The relationship between me and this most grandioseContinue reading “Writing Home”

On 22.10.2019 the company came together for a group evaluation of the scratch performance of HerStory: The Catchpole Chronicles that had taken place in August. We watched video footage ofContinue reading “HerStory – evaluating our scratch performance”

Nicola Wydenbach 20th August 2019 had been looming in my diary. Although rehearsals had started, the piece, HerStory: The Catchpole Chronicles was still being composed by CoLab composer Amy Mallett.Continue reading “HerStory: a conductor’s perspective”

As part of our relationship with Snape Maltings during this stage of the project, we agreed to host a sharing of the work in progress. These sharing platforms at SnapeContinue reading “HerStory: audience feedback”

Yes, this may look like a pretty wild party, but is in fact an action shot of our first London workshop for HerStory: The Catchpole Chronicles. Around 20 people joinedContinue reading “Pour another drink…”