In this episode of OffScript, Dash Arts’ Artistic Director Josephine Burton is joined by journalist, writer, and Editor-in-Chief of Byline Times, Hardeep Matharu, for a wide-ranging conversation about the complex and overlooked stories shaping contemporary England. Drawing on her work leading an independent, reader-funded news outlet committed to investigative journalism and democratic accountability, Hardeep brings a sharp perspective on the narratives that dominate public life — and those that are too often ignored.

This podcast series sits within Dash Arts’ ongoing exploration of landscape and language, Albion,  from reimagining Middlemarch in 1980s Coventry to running speech-making workshops with over 700 people across the UK. Throughout these projects, we’ve been listening closely to how people express identity, voice, and place.

In 2026 Albion will culminate with our new touring theatre production, Our Public House. Get your tickets and to find out more on the Dash Arts website : https://www.dasharts.org.uk/our-public-house 

Our intro music is Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi

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Josephine reflects on three years of speech-making workshops with over 700 people across the country, from community centres, schools, working men’s groups to HMP Styal, and what she has learned about who we are, and who we could be. She talks about how those voices have shaped the play, and how 150 of the people who inspired it will step onto the stage alongside the professional cast.

She's joined by several guests including BSL Consultant Charly Arrowsmith, who talks about the work happening behind the scenes to build a production that speaks, in every sense, to everyone; by actor Lauren Moakes, who reflects on what it meant to meet inmates at HMP Styal and how that encounter will ground her performance; and by playwright Barney Norris, who takes us into the heart of a play about a community that has lost faith in politics and what happens when it finds its voice again.

Set in a struggling pub on election night, Our Public House is a play about Englishness: who we are, what we've lost, and what we might still become. It sits at the very heart of Albion.

Join us as we ask: what kind of future can we imagine together?

Our Public House tours England in 2026. Get your tickets and find out more on the Dash Arts website: https://www.dasharts.org.uk/our-public-house

Our intro music is Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi

You also hear a preview of Community by Jonathan Walton, arranged by Yaniv Fridel

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Jeremy and Josephine reflect on why Englishness remains so slippery to define; how popular culture, folk traditions, and street art reveal who we really are.

Dash Arts has been digging into landscape and language — from reimagining George Eliot’s Middlemarch in 1980s Coventry, to running speech-making workshops with more than 600 people across the country. We’ve been listening to who we are — and who we could be.

Join us as we ask: what does Englishness mean to you?

In 2026 Albion will culminate with our new touring theatre production, Our Public House. Get your tickets and to find out more on the Dash Arts website : https://www.dasharts.org.uk/our-public-house

Our intro music is Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi

This podcast is marked explicit for language only.

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In this episode of OffScript, Dash Arts’ Artistic Director Josephine Burton is joined by Caroline Lucas for a thoughtful and urgent conversation about Englishness - beyond flags and nostalgia.

Drawing on her book Another England, Caroline shares her thoughts on how land, belonging and identity shape our politics and our culture; how England’s stories have been constructed and contested; and why reclaiming a generous, complex vision of England matters now.

Since 2022, Dash Arts has been digging into landscape and language - from reimagining Middlemarch by George Eliot in 1980s Coventry, to running speech-making workshops with more than 600 people across the country. We’ve been listening to who we are — and who we could be.

Join us as we ask: what does Englishness mean to you?

Albion will culminate in 2026 with our new touring theatre production, Our Public House. Get your tickets and to find out more on the Dash Arts website : https://www.dasharts.org.uk/our-public-house 

Our intro music is Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi

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This episode of OffScript was recorded live at STEADY, the second event in Dash Arts’ We Are Free To Change The World series. Through live performance and conversation, the evening focused on staying; on staying open without burning out, staying yourself in dialogue without collapsing into agreement or disagreement and staying human amid pressure, speed and polarisation.

Hosted by Dash Arts’ Artistic Director Josephine Burton, with Natasha Walter, Liz Slade, Tasneim Zyada, and Mohammed Ali, the contributors shared perspectives rooted in activism, faith, art and lived experience. Together, they reflect on what it means to remain grounded while responding to a world in flux — and how steadiness itself can be a radical, collective practice.

Find out more about their work here:

Natasha Walter - www.natashawalter.co.uk

Liz Slade - www.elizabethslade.uk

Tasneim Zyada - www.instagram.com/tasneimzyada

Mohammed Ali - www.artofmohammedali.com

The live event was co-presented by Dash Arts, Arts Admin and Fete of Britain.

Get your tickets for the live events for We Are Free To Change The World by going to the Dash Arts website : https://www.dasharts.org.uk/we-are-free 

Our intro music is Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi 

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Lyndsey discusses Arendt's life, her impact on political philosophy, and her relevance in contemporary social movements. Exploring how her theories inspire artists and activists today, the conversation highlights Arendt's idea of politics as something we perform in public and the power of human resilience and action.

Get your tickets for the live events for We Are Free To Change The World by going to the Dash Arts website : https://www.dasharts.org.uk/we-are-free 

Our intro music is Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi

Photo of Lindsay Stonebridge by Ione Saizar.

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Headlines in the episode:

00:00 Introduction to OffScript

00:46 Exploring Freedom with Lyndsey Stonebridge 

02:56 Hannah Arendt's Life and Influence 

12:51 The Relevance of Arendt's Ideas Today

23:24 Art, Performance, and Political Action 

28:42 Navigating Dark Times with Hope 

40:22 Conclusion and Upcoming Events

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This episode of OffScript was recorded live at the opening event in Dash Arts’ We Are Free To Change The World series.

Through performance and conversation, the event explored the conditions that help artists and creative activists find their ground to listen, to make, to resist, and to come together.

Hosted by Dash Arts’ Artistic Director Josephine Burton, the conversation features Bishi Bhattacharya, Lehni Lamide Davies, Carole Cadwalladr, and Sam Lee, reflecting on readiness rooted in care, courage, and collective imagination.

Find out more about their work here:

https://www.bishi.co.uk/ 

https://www.lehnilamide.com/contact 

https://broligarchy.substack.com/about 

http://samleesong.co.uk/ 

Get your tickets for the live events for We Are Free To Change The World by going to the Dash Arts website : https://www.dasharts.org.uk/we-are-free 

Our intro music is Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi 

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Inspired by Hannah Arendt’s belief in our freedom to begin anew, Josephine and Peter examine how art becomes a form of political action—shifting public consciousness, exposing injustice, and giving shape to the possible futures.

They discuss the challenges of making radical work in increasingly authoritarian and fearful times, and why visual art still has the power to mobilise, unsettle, and inspire.

Peter shares stories from five decades on the frontlines of artistic dissent, reflecting on collaboration, solidarity, and the urgent need to make work now more than ever.

Get your tickets for the live events for We Are Free To Change The World by going to the Dash Arts website: https://www.dasharts.org.uk/we-are-free 

Our intro music is Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi 

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For Dash Arts’ 20th anniversary, OffScript host Josephine Burton is joined by one of the UK’s leading champions of justice, Baroness Helena Kennedy LT KC.

Helena and Josephine explore how the arts and the law shift public imagination, from movements for social justice to the urgent need for transitional justice in Ukraine and beyond.

She also reflects on her decades-long groundbreaking work in fighting for human rights, women’s rights, and miscarriages of justice—and why jury trials are essential to any healthy democracy.

Get your tickets for the live events for We Are Free To Change The World by going to the Dash Arts website : dasharts.org.uk/we-are-free 

Our intro music is Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi 

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From his House of Commons office, Clive Lewis discusses the struggle for freedom within contemporary politics. The conversation explores his belief that the "only real freedom we have is the freedom to... find out about the world around us," and his concerns about the "grim authoritarianism and a culture of fear" stifling creativity and genuine engagement in the Labour Party.

Join Josephine and Clive as they discuss the essential role of imagination and art in shaping political visions—from science fiction to the NHS, and the loss of social democratic parties’ ability to “dream big.” They also explore the difference between optimism and pragmatic hope as a driving force for political change, Clive’s experience as a participant in Dash Arts’ speechmaking workshops and the need for collaboration and solidarity to counter increasing polarisation and fear.

Get your tickets for the live events for We Are Free To Change The World by going to the Dash Arts website : https://www.dasharts.org.uk/we-are-free 

Our intro music is Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi 

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Join Josephine Burton as she sits down with musician and artist Ian Bruce and campaigner Clare Farrell to discuss creativity, activism, and the courage to imagine radical change. In this groundbreaking episode, hear how artists are transforming protest, challenging systemic barriers, and creating spaces for people to come together. 

From Extinction Rebellion to grassroots movements, discover how creative individuals are reimagining democracy, confronting climate crisis, and building solidarity. Provocative, inspiring, and deeply human, their conversation reveals how we can all play a role in changing the world. 

Recorded in the Bureau of Silly Ideas on the 7th anniversary of Clare co-founding Extinction Rebellion. 

Get your tickets for the live events for We Are Free To Change The World by going to the Dash Arts website : https://www.dasharts.org.uk/we-are-free 

Our intro music is Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi

This podcast is marked explicit for language only.

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Marina Pesenti, former Director of the Ukrainian Institute, looks back at how more than a decade of artistic research, events and productions deepened our understanding of the Ukrainian context and enriched the work. Similarly, playwright Barney Norris reflects on the challenges of continuing to navigate the shifting political and social landscape in the UK and its influence on Our Public House.

Go to the Dash Arts website for your tickets to We Are Free To Change The World; a new series of three Dash Cafés exploring how artists and creative activists respond to the urgency of our times. Through performance, film and conversation, each event will bring together creative voices to consider how we act and how we do this together. 

Our intro music is Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi 

And you can hear audio taken from Dash Arts’ production of The Reckoning at Arcola Theatre in May-June 2025

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In episode one, join Josephine Burton as she explores how artists and creative activists respond to the urgency of our times. Hear from storyteller Sophie Austin on our production of One Thousand and One Nights, which challenged preconceived notions of Arabic culture, and from musician Sasha Ilyukevich who performed in our Dash Arts Dachas, some of which were covertly visited by the Russian Embassy. 

Discovering how our mission to challenge the way we see the world is woven into our DNA, and how life and global politics have consistently broken down the walls into the theatre.

With music from Sasha Ilyukevich & The Highly Skilled Migrants entitled KOLYA - КОЛЯ.

Our intro music is Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi

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Josephine Burton acts as a guide across Dash Arts’ many musical projects, sharing stories and music from Dash’s multi-year seasons of artistic work. We hear about Dash’s journeys in the Arabic world, former Soviet States, Europe and its current season exploring Englishness, with Albion. This episode is an invitation to listen in on two decades of music that continues to challenge, delight, and change how we hear the world.

In the podcast, we hear from:

Josephine Burton - Artistic Director, Dash Arts 

Marie Horner - Podcast Producer, Dash Arts

We also hear from and celebrate these incredible artists:

• Sto Let - Iva Bittová and Vladimír Václavek
• My Show - Lyrical Alliance (Rabah Donquishoot (Algeria), Shadia Mansour (Palestine), Rayess Bek (Lebanon), Samm (Jordan), Tamer Nafar (Palestine) And DJ MK (UK))  
• Shadia + Johnny Juice for Lyrical Alliance
• Quata3et - Lyrical Alliance
• Amy Kakoura at a Dash Cafe at Warwick Arts Centre - February 2020  
• Maspindzeli Choir at a Dash Cafe at Rich Mix, July 2014
• Hilda Lansman & Tuomas Norvio - Vizardit
• Zugzwang - Langham Research Centre 
• Olesya Zdorovetska at a Dash Cafe at Rich Mix, January 2017  
• Song About a Friend - Vladimir Vysotsky
• Iryna Muha at a Dash Cafe at Rich Mix, April 2017
• The Renegade Orchestra (Evelina Petrova, Slava Guyvronsky, Matyakubov Shavkat, Misha Alperin, Reso Kiknadze, Zoltan Almashi, Natasha Pshenitschnikova, Vladimir Volkov, Kryukova Marina, Sergei Starostin and Petr Glavatskikh and composer Alexander Manotskov, playwright Natalia Vorozhbyt and director Galina Pyanova)
• Sasha Ilyukevich and the Highly Skilled Migrants at the Dash Arts Dacha at Latitude Festival July 2017
• One Hundred Moons from Dido’s Bar - (recorded by Samira Brahmia and Marouf Majidi with Hattie Naylor, Tuukka Leppänen, Riku Kantola and Josephine Burton).
• The cast and house band of Dido’s Bar (Gemma Barnett, Priscille Grace, Tuukka Leppänen, Lola May, Lahcen Razzougui, Georgina White, Marouf Majidi, Ben Sutcliffe and the Dido’s Bar House Band)  
• Songs for Babyn Yar - Music composed and arranged by Yuriy Gurzhy, Svetlana Kundish and Mariana Sadovska.
• Ey, Güzel Qırım sung by the cast from Crimea 5am.

Our intro music is Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi 

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In this episode we wanted to share with you some of the incredible voices and stories who joined us at Arcola in Dalston in calling for justice for Ukraine.

Written by Anastasiia Kosodii and Josephine Burton, and directed by Burton, The Reckoning is a vivid and powerful new play about war, survival and the fragile trust between those who uncover the truth and those who must live with it.

This is our last episode before we have a summer holiday so we’ll be back in September!

In the podcast, we hear from:

Josephine Burton - Artistic Director, Dash Arts 

Marie Horner - Podcast Producer, Dash Arts

Janine di Giovanni - Journalist and Executive Director of The Reckoning Project

And reflections and performances recorded live at the Arcola Theatre

Dr Olesya Khromeychuk - Writer and Director of Ukrainian Institute, London

Peter Pomerantsev - Journalist, Author and Executive Editor at The Reckoning Project

Tsvetelina van Benthem - Senior Legal Advisor at The Reckoning Project and Lecturer at Oxford University

Viv Groskop - Author and Journalist

Luke Harding - Journalist and Author

Olia Hercules - Chef, Food Writer and Author

Dr Yulia Ioffe - International Lawyer & Associate Professor of Humanitarian Law and Human Rights at University College London

Nataliya Gumenyuk - Journalist and CEO of Public Interest Journalism Lab

Tom Godwin - Actor, The Reckoning

Marianne Oldham - Actor, The Reckoning 

Olga Safronova - Actor, The Reckoning 

Our intro music is Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi 

Music from The Reckoning by Anton Baibakov 

We’d like to that the following supporters; The Reckoning Project, AHRC Impact Acceleration Account Award from the University of Cambridge, Public Interest Journalism Lab, Open Society Foundations, Nick Tranter in the name of 4Ukraine Humanitarian Aid, Fritt Ord Foundation, Goethe-Institut in Exile, Goethe-Institut London, SAV Group, Royal Victoria Hall Foundation, The Golsoncott Foundation, and the many individuals who have made this possible.

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Book your tickets for The Reckoning on the Arcola Theatre’s website.

Based on real events within The Reckoning Project’s verified archive of witness testimonies of the Russian war in Ukraine, The Reckoning is playful and unsettling, blending storytelling with movement, music and cooking.

As the performance ends, the conversation continues in Food for Thought. Audiences will be invited to hear reflections from expert speakers, journalists, lawyers, and those with lived experience of the conflict. 

Written by Anastasiia Kosodii and Josephine Burton, and directed by Burton.

In the podcast, we hear from:

Josephine Burton - Artistic Director, Dash Arts 

Tom Godwin - The Man from Stoyanka

Marianne Oldham - The Journalist

Olga Safronova - Olga / Echo 

Simeon Kylsyi - Sam / Echo

Marie Horner - Podcast Producer

Our intro music is Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi 

Music from The Reckoning by Anton Baibakov 

We’d like to that the following supporters; The Reckoning Project, Royal Victoria Hall Foundation, AHRC Impact Acceleration Account Award from the University of Cambridge, Public Interest Journalism Lab, Open Society Foundations, Nick Tranter in the name of 4Ukraine Humanitarian Aid, Fritt Ord Foundation, Goethe-Institut in Exile, Goethe-Institut London, SAV Group, The Golsoncott Foundation, and the many individuals who have made this possible.

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This month as protests take place across the world, we’ve been thinking of the long history between art and protest. Every day this month Georgians, Turks, Americans and Serbians are on the streets speaking out against the country’s ruling governments.

At Dash Arts we make art that challenges the world we all live in and this month we open our new theatre production, The Reckoning; based on witness testimonies from the Russian war in Ukraine.  

Join Dash’s Artistic Director, Josephine Burton, as she revisits our 2024 interview with critically acclaimed journalist Peter Pomerantsev and catch up with Georgian Artist and Activist Ana Riaboshenko on what it’s been like since the Georgian Dream party, widely seen as pro-Russian, maintained its majority in last year’s elections. Professor Alan Finlayson also shares his insights from his new book - Our Subversive Voice: The History and Politics of English Protest Songs, 1600–2020.

Book your tickets for The Reckoning on the Arcola Theatre’s website.

In the podcast, we hear from:

Josephine Burton - Artistic Director, Dash Arts 

Peter Pomerantsev - Journalist and Author

Ana Riaboshenko - Artist & one of the Initiators of Culture for Democracy

Professor Alan Finlayson - Professor of Political and Social Theory at the University of East Anglia

Our intro music is Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi 

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Dash’s new production, The Reckoning, is a vivid and powerful new play about war, survival and the fragile trust between those who uncover the truth and those who must live with it.

Co-writers Anastasiia Kosodii and Josephine Burton created the play from The Reckoning Project’s verified archive of witness testimonies of the Russian war in Ukraine. Find out why Olia’s insights and beautiful cooking is so vital to our staging of these experiences.

To book tickets or to read more about The Reckoning see the Dash Arts website.

If you haven’t already, you can hear the other episodes of this podcast mini-series on The Reckoning where we explore our process towards production, speaking to author and journalist Peter Pomerantsev on why he shared the testimonies with Dash as well as Rory Finnin, Professor of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Cambridge.

In the podcast, we hear from:

Josephine Burton - Artistic Director, Dash Arts 

Olia Hercules - Chef & The Reckoning Food Consultant

Zoë Hurwitz - The Reckoning Set Designer 

Our intro music is Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi and throughout you can hear Tykho feat Syoda by composer of The Reckoning, Anton Baibakov.

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"If a person who is at loggerheads with reality possesses an artistic gift... he can transform his phantasies into artistic creations instead of symptoms."

— Sigmund Freud, Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (1910)

In this episode of the Dash Arts Podcast, Artistic Director Josephine Burton dives into two powerful exhibitions that challenge how we understand women, art, and mental health:

🖼 Women & Freud: Patients, Pioneers, Artists – curated by Lisa Appignanesi and Bryony Davies

🎨 Charlotte Johnson Wahl: What It Felt Like – at Bethlem Museum of the Mind

Both exhibitions showcase art that reframes women’s stories and reclaims narratives of mental wellbeing.

Josephine is joined by writer and long-term Dash Arts collaborator Hattie Naylor to discuss these themes in the context of their latest project, The Degenerates—a new production that will explore the overlooked female artists of Dr. Hans Prinzhorn’s groundbreaking collection.

From 1919 to 1922, Prinzhorn gathered extraordinary artworks from psychiatric patients across Europe, publishing The Artistry of the Mentally Ill—a book that profoundly influenced 20th-century art. But while his collection celebrated creativity beyond the bounds of convention, many female artists were left out of the story. The Degenerates seeks to set the record straight.

Listen as we uncover hidden histories, challenge perceptions, and explore the intersection of art, mental health, and power.

See pictures from the two exhibitions on the Dash Arts podcast page. And you can follow our research towards The Degenerates on the Dash Arts blog: https://www.dasharts.org.uk/blog/our-artistic-director-on-research-for-a-new-dash-production 

In this episode we hear from:

Josephine Burton - Artistic Director of Dash Arts

Hattie Naylor - Writer & Visual Artist

Lisa Appignanesi - Writer and Curator 

Colin Gale - Director of Bethlam Museum of the Mind

Rebecca Raybone - Collections and Exhibitions Officer Bethlam Museum of the Mind

Marie Horner - Podcast Producer of Dash Arts

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Songs of Solidarity (the current working title for Dash Arts and Projekt Europa’s new project) brings together artists, researchers, and refugees to co-create a powerful music-theatre performance.

In this episode we look at what makes epics, epic. We explore ancient epics like Kalevala, Gilgamesh, and the Odyssey with academics and then, with migrant artists, asylum seekers and refugees, investigate how we can create new ones rooted in solidarity, displacement, and friendship across time.

You can see more in our short film and there’s more to come throughout 2025. 

In this episode we hear from:

Josephine Burton - Artistic Director of Dash Arts

Professor Fiona Macintosh - Emeritus Professor of Classical Reception, University of Oxford

Maria Aberg - Artistic Director of PROJEKT EUROPA

Marouf Majidi - composer and musician

Sabrina Mahfouz - writer and poet  

Luca Macchi - actor and musician 

Namvula Rennie - actor and musician

Chen Xu - actor and musician 

Natalia Kakarkina - actor and musician

Surya Chandra - actor and musician

Songs of Solidarity is a PROJEKT EUROPA and Dash Arts co-production. This first phase of R&D was co-produced with the Cultural Programme at Oxford University, in partnership with the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at Oxford University, Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland, and Asylum Welcome. We're particularly grateful to Fiona Macintosh for her support and encouragement.

Our gratitude goes to all the wonderful international artists, academics and participants who enriched our project.

Find out more at:

www.projekteuropa.org

www.dasharts.org.uk

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In December 2024, we were part of a fantastic live discussion at the RSA (Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) discussing how the arts can unlock unheard voices. This podcast brings you some highlights from the event with some extra insights and updates from our Dash Arts Artistic Director Josephine Burton.

Hosted by Tom Stratton (Chief of Staff at RSA), our Artistic Director and Chief Executive Josephine Burton was joined on stage by Alan Finlayson (Professor of Political & Social Theory, University of East Anglia), Alecky Blythe (Playwright), and Dawid Konotey-Ahulu (co-founder of Redington, Mallowstreet, and 10,000 Interns). Sue Agyakwa whom we met in a speech-making workshop in Newham earlier in 2024, also, kindly, shared her speech live.

Josephine and Alan shared what they've learnt from their 18 month long speech making workshop programme across the country that will culminate in Dash Arts’ 'state of the nation' theatre production, Our Public House, in 2026.

Our Public House is funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Arts Council England, The Thistle Trust, Three Monkies Trust, and individual giving.

You can watch the full event by visiting the RSA’s website or their YouTube Channel.

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In the fourth episode on the journey towards our production, The Reckoning, Dash’s Artistic Director, Josephine Burton is in conversation with Author and Playwright Gillian Slovo discussing the power of theatre and the responsibilities involved in bringing real people’s stories to the stage. As Dash Arts prepares to produce a theatre production rooted in the testimonies of survivors of the war in Ukraine, Josephine searches for insights into how to create powerful drama whilst doing justice to the people who have lent their stories. Gillian shares her experiences of listening to the survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017 and looking after their words as she crafted the verbatim drama, Grenfell: In the Words of Survivors for the National Theatre. 

Support this year’s Big Give: Help Bring The Reckoning to Life and Double Your Impact!

Help Dash Arts bring Reckoning to life, a powerful documentary-style production based on Ukrainian testimonies. Premiering in 2025 and marking three years of war, Reckoning will spark vital conversations on the impact of war and possibility of restorative justice. Your donation will be doubled during the Big Give Christmas Challenge which is live from Tuesday 3 to Tuesday 10 December. Please help us reach our £5,000 goal!

Follow this link for more information and to donate from 3 December Reckoning - a new, groundbreaking work of theatre

If you haven’t already, you can hear the other episodes of this podcast mini-series on The Reckoning where we explore our process towards production, speaking to author and journalist Peter Pomerantsev on why he shared the testimonies with Dash as well as hear from Rory Finnin, Professor of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Cambridge.

In the podcast, we hear from:

Josephine Burton - Artistic Director, Dash Arts 

Gillian Slovo - Author and Playwright

Our intro music is Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi

Thank you to Jonathan Levy and Gabrielle Rifkind for hosting our live conversation.

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Support this year’s Big Give: Help Bring Reckoning to Life and Double Your Impact!

Help Dash Arts bring The Reckoning to life, a powerful documentary-style production based on Ukrainian testimonies. Premiering in 2025 and marking three years of war, The Reckoning will spark vital conversations on the impact of war and possibility of restorative justice. Your donation will be doubled during the Big Give Christmas Challenge which is live from Tuesday 3 to Tuesday 10 December. Please help us reach our £5,000 goal!

Follow this link for more information and to donate from 3 December The Reckoning - a new, groundbreaking work of theatre

If you haven’t already, you can hear episodes one and two from this podcast mini-series on The Reckoning where we explore the beginnings of the piece and later speak to author and journalist Peter Pomerantsev on why he shared the testimonies with Dash.

Thank you to our partners and funders Cambridge Festival, Cambridge Junction, the Ukrainian Studies Department at the University of Cambridge, Open Society Foundations, the Fritt Ord Foundation, Goethe-Institut in Exile, Goethe-Institut in London and individual giving.

In the podcast, we hear from:

Josephine Burton - Artistic Director, Dash Arts 

Rory Finnin - Professor of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Cambridge

Sam Kyslyi - Performer

Mark Quartley - Performer

Underscore and sound design by Anton Baibakov

Our intro music is Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi

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As part of Dash Arts’ exploration into protest and the public voice, Josephine Burton speaks to three Georgian artist activists who are uniting artists from across the sector, shouting for democracy and pushing for change.

In this episode you will hear from:

Josephine Burton - Artistic Director, Dash Arts

Thomas De Waal - Journalist, author & specialist in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus region

Ana Riaboshenko - Artist & one of the Initiators of Culture for Democracy

Paata Tsikolia - Theatre Director and Playwright

Levan Mindiashvilii - Artist

Thanks to Mariam Uberi and musician Aleksandre Kharanauli. Hear his work on Spotify.

To hear more podcasts on protest, art and activism by visiting the Dash website.

Levani’s art - https://levanm.com/ 

More information (in Georgian) on Culture for Democracy: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556194792093 

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Join Dash’s Artistic Director, Josephine Burton as she travels to the Arvo Pärt Centre in Laulasmaa, Estonia to investigate the mystical musical relationship between nature and the people of Estonia

From the Arvo Pärt Centre Josephine wanders the forest, swims in the sea and explores Helikula, ‘the village of sound’, where musicians from the Union of Composers were given summer houses during Soviet Times.

We started collaborating in October 2020 during the pandemic with a widely celebrated online event with the Arvo Pärt Centre combining a pre-recorded concert and a conversation with musicians Andres Kaljuste, Sophia Rahman and Arvo’s son Michael Pärt. You can hear this previous episode here.

For more on the trip you can read Josephine’s blog and see more photographs of the incredible Estonian landscape on the Dash Arts website.

In the podcast, we hear from:

Josephine Burton - Artistic Director, Dash Arts 

Michael Pärt - Music Editor and Chairman of the Arvo Pärt Centre

Sophia Rahman - Pianist

Andres Kaljuste - Violinist

Rein Lang - Former Minister of Culture of Estonia

Liisa Hirsch - Composer 

Kristina Norman - Artist

Title music by Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi

Compositions by Arvo Pärt played by Sophia Rahman and Andres Kaljuste:

Fratres 

Für Alina

Spiegel im Spiegel

With thanks to the Estonian Ministry of Culture and Estonian Cultural Counsellor in London for enabling Josephine’s trip. 

Artwork: A PHOTO JOSEPHINE’S TRIP

Reference to the previous episode (Jan 2021) - https://open.spotify.com/episode/7pN6oLyNmgxVEqjNjZW8Dg?si=34666bcd1c984ba6 

Blog link - https://www.dasharts.org.uk/blog/arvo-prts-inspiration-discovering-the-magic-of-estonias-forests-and-sounds

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To find out more about our plans for the theatre production go to www.dasharts.org.uk/our-public-house 

Our Public House is funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Arts Council England, National Theatre’s Generate Programme, Three Monkies Trust, The Thistle Trust, and individual giving.

In the podcast we’re grateful to hear from:

Kate, Max, Devika and Jonathan - Workshop Participants

Josephine Burton - Artistic Director, Dash Arts

Professor Alan Finlayson - Professor of Political and Social Theory at the University of East Anglia

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Hear from Artistic Director Josephine Burton and playwright Barney Norris on how our play weaves together the ideas and speeches of over 150 voices from across England and the ever shifting political landscape. Plus catch us in the rehearsal room at Theatre Royal Stratford East, performing some of the draft script and songs on stage at HOME in Manchester and in a speech-making workshop with Manchester Deaf Centre as we reflect on the long research and development process behind a Dash Arts production. 

Our Public House is funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Arts Council England, The Thistle Trust, Three Monkies Trust, and individual giving.

In the podcast we’re grateful to hear from:

Josephine Burton - Artistic Director, Dash Arts

Barney Norris - Writer, Our Public House

Professor Alan Finlayson - Professor of Political and Social Theory at the University of East Anglia

Cristina Catalina - Senior Producer, Dash Arts

Jonathan Walton - composer and musician

Nick Pynn - composer and musician

Mina Anwar - actor & singer

Matt Hill - composer and musician

And the participants from the speech-making workshops around the country. 

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Artistic Director Josephine Burton treads lightly in the footsteps of a historic partnership between the nightingale and humans. The BBC’s first ever live outside broadcast was recorded exactly 100 years ago in May 1924 as cellist Beatrice Harrison played alongside a nightingale. Our episode is the start of a new series of Dash Arts podcasts exploring the relationship between art and nature, and part of Dash's current season, Albion; an investigation of modern Englishness in all its complexity. Join us as we travel across landscape and language, digging deep into folk and written histories, oral traditions, music, storytelling, theatre and performance. 

Visit the Singing With Nightingales website to find out more about Sam’s work and to join him on such a magical evening in the woods. 

In the podcast we’re grateful to hear from:

Josephine Burton - Artistic Director of Dash Arts

Sam Lee - Musician and Conservationist

Jack Durtnall - Musician

Audience members from Singing with Nightingales

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It’s been over 25 years since two students ran into each other on a street corner in Oxford and decided to set up a band. Oi Va Voi, rooted in Jewish and Eastern European musical traditions, would eventually reach hundreds and thousands of people across the world. 

Dash’s Artistic Director Josephine Burton and Jonathan Walton, also known as Lemez Lovas, knew they needed more people and more instruments. Soon after Sophie Solomon, Steve Levi, Leo Bryant, Nik Ammar and Josh Breslaw joined the band and they began fusing together klezmer, jazz, funk and drum and bass.

Last summer, their breakout album, Laughter Through Tears, turned 20 and the band marked it with a celebratory reunion gig at EartH in Hackney. In this episode we hear from the original members of the band and moments from last summer’s reunion.

As with all enduring families - there have been many moments when both life inside and outside the band got really tough, but Oi Va Voi lives on and this podcast celebrates these stories, the music and the people who made it. Josephine also shares why Dash Arts delayed releasing this episode back in October 2023.

In the podcast, we hear from:

Josephine Burton - Artistic Director, Dash Arts and former Singer, Oi Va Voi

Jonathan Walton/Lemez Lovas - former Trumpeter, Oi Va Voi

Josh Breslaw - Drummer, Oi Va Voi

Leo Bryant - former Bassist, Oi Va Voi

Sophie Solomon - former Violinist, Oi Va Voi

Nik Ammar - former Guitarist, Oi Va Voi

Steve Levi - Clarinetist, Oi Va Voi

KT Tunstall - former Singer, Oi Va Voi

Music:

Recorded live at EartH, Hackney on 22nd July 2023. Used with permission of Oi Va Voi.

Intro: Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi

Artwork:

Album Cover taken from an early ep, Odessa, recorded in early 2000. Photo credit lost in the mists of time!

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Peter and Josephine explore the relationship between the lawyers, journalists and witnesses, and how this has influenced Dash’s production. We also hear from Peter’s colleagues at The Reckoning Project, Nataliya Gumenyuk and Kostiantyn Korobov, on what has changed since the war began two years ago and what justice could look like for the people they speak to.

Peter joined us while he was in London to promote his new book, How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler. To find out more visit Faber’s website.

Josephine will be sharing more about the production in Cambridge on Wednesday 20th March alongside Rory Finnin, Professor of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Cambridge. Get your tickets here.

In the podcast, we hear from:

Josephine Burton - Artistic Director, Dash Arts 

Peter Pomerantsev - Journalist and Author

Nataliya Gumenyuk - Journalist

Kostiantyn Korobov - Archivist

Marie Horner - Podcast Producer

Music by Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi

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Our Public House is funded by the National Theatre's Generate Programme, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Arts Council England, Three Monkies Trust, and individual giving.

In the podcast we’re grateful to hear from:

Josephine Burton - Artistic Director, Dash Arts

Marie Horner - Podcast Producer, Dash Arts

Barney Norris - Writer, Our Public House

Actors Alex Austin, Ed Gaughan, Syreeta Kumar, Mark Quartley, Saroja-Lily Ratnavel, and Sophie Stone Musician - Nick Pynn

And the participants from the speech-making workshops around the country.

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This year Dash Arts is developing a new theatre production, The Reckoning; based on personal accounts of survivors of the Russian war in Ukraine from the vast testimony archive shared by The Reckoning Project, who has been gathering testimony from survivors of detentions, torture and shelling. Journalists are working with lawyers and analysts to collect these stories that can be submitted as evidence in court.

Josephine will be in Cambridge on Wednesday 20th March to share excerpts from the latest version of the production and will be speaking with Rory Finnin, Professor of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Cambridge, about our research on the war in Ukraine for The Reckoning. Get your tickets here.

In the podcast, we hear from:

Josephine Burton - Artistic Director, Dash Arts 

Anastasiia Kosodii - Playwright 

Lou Platt - Psychotherapist and Artist Wellbeing practitioner

Cristina Catalina - Senior Producer, Dash Arts 

Cristina Catalina, Vadym Golovko, Sam Kyslyi, Yulia Litvinenko, Mark Quartley and Olga Safronova - Cast of The Reckoning Research and Development Week (December 2023)

Music from The Reckoning by Anton Baibakov

Outro music : Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi

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In the podcast we hear from:

Josephine Burton - Artistic Director, Dash Arts

Marie Horner - Podcast Producer, Dash Arts

Maria Romanenko - Journalist and Performer in Crimea 5am

Boris Dralyuk - Poet and Translator

Anastasiia Kosodii - Playwright and Director

Professor Alan Finlayson - Professor of Political and Social Theory at the University of East Anglia

Henriette van der Blom - Reader in Ancient History at the University of Birmingham

Cristina Catalina - Senior Producer, Dash Arts

Kayley - Participant and Speech Writer

Michael - Participant and Speech Writer

Intro music : Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi

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Artistic Director, Josephine Burton and Podcast Producer, Marie Horner regroup in the studio to reflect on a series of live events in Manchester and London that were the 2023 culmination of this year’s Public House project. We heard from speechwriters, activists and academics as we explored the ingredients of a great speech, the power of activism and words, and their ability to change people’s minds and lives, along with passionate speeches given directly by some of our extraordinary cohort of individuals from communities across England.

Coming in 2024, we’ll be creating Our Public House, a state-of-the-nation theatre production, inspired by the speeches and writing of participants from across the country.

Our HUGE thanks to all the participants from Underground Lights, Coventry; St Hilda’s Community Centre, Tower Hamlets; HMP Styal; The Writers' Block, Redruth; Citizens UK, Brighton; Arbourthorne Men’s Social Club, Sheffield; Manchester Deaf Centre and Deaf Explorer; Banbury and Bicester College, Bicester; individuals through Theatre Royal Stratford East, Newham, St Hilda’s Community Centre in Tower Hamlets, and residents of Mile Cross, through The Common Lot, Norwich.

Our Public House is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Arts Council England, Three Monkies Trust, and individual giving.

In the podcast we’re grateful to hear from:

Kayleigh Roach - Participant and Speech Writer

Maral Mamaghanizadeh - Participant and Speech Writer

Charlie Caine- Participant and Speech Writer

Edith Hall - Professor of Classics, University of Durham

Rinkoo Barpaga - Artist and Stand-up comedian 

Zara Manoehoetoe - Youth worker and community activist

Josephine Burton - Artistic Director, Dash Arts

Marie Horner - Podcast Producer, Dash Arts

Alan Finlayson - Professor of Political and Social Theory at the University of East Anglia

Cristina Catalina - Senior Producer. Dash Arts

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What do you want to change? What do you want politicians to understand?

We’ve travelled over 3000 miles and asked these questions to over 120 people during speech writing workshops across the country. The creative team at Dash Arts and our academic partners gather to reflect on what we’ve learnt and what’s surprised us, and to listen back to some of the incredible speeches from participants who took part in Our Public House.

To hear more, book your tickets for Speak Out! - a series of live evening events in Manchester; on Tuesday 21 November we discuss the ingredients of great speech with classicist and cultural historian Edith Hall, and former speechwriter to David Cameron, Jessica Cunniffe. Plus academic Henriette van der Blom and Artistic Director of Dash Arts, Josephine Burton. 

On Wednesday 22 November we’ll explore activism and how we speak out, with artist and stand-up comedian Rinkoo Barpaga, alongside journalist and academic Alan Finalyson and Josephine Burton. This event will be BSL interpreted by Winston Denerley and Samantha Vanterpool. 

Then we travel to London on Thursday 23 November where you can hear behind-the-scenes insights into the world of politics and speechwriting with Philip Collins, former chief speechwriter to Tony Blair, and Shareefa Energy, poet and activist. They will be joined by journalist and academic Alan Finlayson, and Josephine Burton.

Coming in 2024, writer Jude Christian and director Josephine Burton will create Our Public House, a state-of-the-nation theatre production, inspired by the speeches and writing of our national participants.

Our Public House is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Arts Council England, Three Monkies Trust, and individual giving.

In the podcast we’re grateful to hear from:

Participants from Underground Lights, Coventry; St Hilda’s Community Centre, Tower Hamlets; HMP Styal; The Writers' Block, Redruth; Citizens UK, Brighton; Arbourthorne Men’s Social Club, Sheffield; Manchester Deaf Centre and Deaf Explorer; Banbury and Bicester College, Bicester; individuals through Theatre Royal Stratford East, Newham and residents of Mile Cross, through The Common Lot, Norwich. 

Josephine Burton - Artistic Director of Dash Arts

Professor Alan Finlayson - Professor of Political and Social Theory at the University of East Anglia

Henriette van der Blom - Reader in Ancient History at the University of Birmingham

Cristina Catalina - Senior Producer of Dash Arts

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Robust public debate and the freedom to make arguments and counterarguments are essential to democracy. Today, however, political dispute is ever more sectarian and angry, fears of misinformation are widespread and political discussion is often confined to groups of the like-minded talking to each other online.

Together with our partners at the Universities of Birmingham and East Anglia, we’ve been exploring this 'crisis of rhetoric' throughout the year with a series of workshops exploring persuasive speaking across diverse communities in England. Our research will eventually lead to Our Public House, a state-of-the-nation theatre production, inspired by the speeches and writing of our national participants, from writer Jude Christian and director Josephine Burton.

Book your tickets for Speak Out! - a series of live events in Manchester (21 & 22 November) and London (23 November), where we’re bringing together participants from our workshops, speechwriters, activists, politicians and academics to explore speech making's ability to provoke, persuade and empower.  

In the podcast we’re grateful to hear from:

Participants from Underground Lights, Coventry, St Hilda’s Community Centre, Tower Hamlets, HMP Styal, The Writers' Block, Redruth, Arbourthorne Men’s Social Club, Sheffield, Manchester Deaf Centre and Citizens UK, Brighton. 

Josephine Burton - Artistic Director of Dash Arts

Professor Alan Finlayson - Professor of Political and Social Theory at the University of East Anglia

Henriette van der Blom - Reader in Ancient History at the University of Birmingham

Cristina Catalina - Senior Producer

Marie Horner - Podcast Producer

Jude Christian - Writer and Director 

Our Public House is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Arts Council England, Three Monkies Trust, and individual giving.

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This episode catches up with Josephine as she gathers together artists, writers, composers and translators to venture into Babel’s turbulent life and rich writings. We uncover how having a coffee with the artist and performer, Golda Amirova, sparked the beginnings of a music theatre production about this prolific writer Babel, born in today’s Ukraine. 

Translator of Babel’s Odessa Stories, Boris Dralyuk, shares Babel’s brutal and beautiful Odesa as well as the contemporary resonance of a violent era of early Soviet history through his translation of Red Cavalry. Plus we eavesdrop on the rehearsal room as Josephine pulls apart the imagery and possibilities that can be found in  Babel’s work with composer Jonathan Walton and playwright Mark Rosenblatt. 

We don’t know exactly how this will end, but this episode uncovers how we’ve begun.

In the podcast we’re grateful to hear from:

Boris Dralyuk - Poet and Translator

Golda Amirova - Artist

Jonathan Walton - Composer

Mark Rosenblatt - Director, Playwright and Screenwriter

Music : Леонид Утесов – Ты одессит, Мишка // Leonid Utyosov - You are from Odessa, Mishka

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Through personal stories and testimonies of love and struggle in Crimea today, and combining victim and activist interviews, Crimea 5am highlights the stories of 10 political prisoners and their families. The piece celebrates the sheer determination and activism within this oppressed community, the bravery of the prisoners in documenting abuses, and its defiant women holding the ravaged community together.

Since  2014, civil activists and in particular representatives of the indigenous people of the Crimean peninsula, Crimean Tatars, have been persecuted by Russian occupying forces. Obscured by a news blackout, we know little of these events, little of the prisoners themselves, their families  and life in Crimea under occupation. 

In this episode, our Artistic Director Josephine Burton and Podcast Producer Marie Horner listen to archive clips of the performance as well as journalists, academics, activists and the cast. We hear from:

• Dr Rory Finnin, Associate Professor of Ukrainian Studies, University of Cambridge
• Maria Romanenko, Ukrainian journalist and Crimea 5am cast member
• Anastasiia Kosodii, playwright and co-writer of Crimea 5am
• Natalya Gumenyuk, Ukrainian journalist and filmmaker 
• Alexandra Hall Hall, former British Ambassador to Georgia and Crimea 5am cast member 

Music: Ey, Güzel Qırım sung by the cast from Crimea 5am

Crimea 5am was produced at The Kiln in January 2023 as part of the British Council and the  Ukrainian Institute UK/Ukraine Season of Culture. The original production of Crimea 5аm was initiated by the Ukrainian Institute and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine as part of the Crimea Platform. The original performance was directed by Dmytro Kostiumynskyi and produced by Dollmen.

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This podcast marks a new season of work for Dash Arts. We’re exploring what it means to be English today, searching through workshops, performances, events and podcasts for a way to talk about who we are as a people and as a country, and who we want to be. 

In this episode, our Artistic Director Josephine Burton and Podcast Producer Rachael Head discover the myths of Albion with guests:

Carrolyne Larrington, an author and professor of Medieval English Language and Literature who has featured on the BBC Sounds series ‘The Lore of the Land’ about British Folklore. 

Stephe Harrop, an academic writer and performer who loves telling “English and Scottish fairytales, the fiery folklore of the Anglo-Scottish Borders, and salvaged stories from England’s historic and mythic pasts.”

Professor Jason Whittaker, who has written extensively on William Blake. His most recent book published in 2022 is titled Jerusalem: Blake, Parry, and the Fight for Englishness.

Intro music: Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi

Image: William Blake Milton poem Plate 33 copy B 1811 Huntington

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Music Credit:

• Intro music: Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi

Image Credit:

• Ali Wright

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We've brought some of these young people into the world of Dido's Bar through our podcast. Dash Producer Cristina Catalina and Podcast Producer Rachael Head worked in the studio with our participants, talking through the universal themes of Dido's Bar and exploring how those themes have affected their lives.

Music Credits:

• Intro music: Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi
• Artwork and music made by Community Links participants 

Script excerpts read out are from Hattie Naylor's Dido's Bar.

Hosted by Rachael Head, featuring a short conversation with producer Cristina Catalina.

With thanks to Amanda Brown, the whole Community Links team and the Royal Docks Team

Dido’s Bar is produced by Dash Arts with imPOSSIBLE Producing.

Dido's Bar is co-produced with the Royal Docks Team, OCM (Oxford Contemporary Music), and Journeys Festival International and co-commissioned by OCM, with additional support from Arts Council England, Backstage Trust, The Foyle Foundation, Projekt, Cockayne – Grants for the Arts, The London Community Foundation, Genesis Foundation, Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland, The Marchus Trust, TINFO – Theatre Info Finland, Austin and Hope Pilkington, Royal Victoria Hall Foundation, The Leche Trust and individual donors.

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Featuring interviews with Dido’s Bar Director and Dash Arts Artistic Director Josephine Burton, and Playwright Hattie Naylor. 

Music Credits:

• Intro music: Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi
• Music from the Dido’s Bar Rehearsal room: Rivers and Tides, Panic Boats

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Featuring interviews with Dash Arts Artistic director Josephine Burton; stand up storyteller Alys Torrance; drag artist Len Blanco and Dido’s Bar cast member Lola May and some sneaky preview of some of the music from the rehearsal room!

Music Credits

Intro music: Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi

Music from the Dido’s Bar Rehearsal room: Smokey Nights, 100 Moons, I Know This Heart

Please note this episode is explicit.

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Delve into the narrative of these epics as we investigate why and how these stories are compelling in their contemporary renditions, as well as how oral storytelling traditions have shaped how we interpret them.

Featuring interviews with Dash Arts artistic director Josephine Burton; Kurdish Iranian musician Marouf Majidi; director and former Dash Arts co-artistic director Tim Supple; writer and lecturer Tajinder Hayer; writer and performer Tristan Bernays; and storyteller Clare Murphy.

Music Credits

Intro music: Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi

Music from Dido’s Bar

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In the final episode of our Protest Songs mini-series, we discuss the history and ongoing significance of the Italian protest song ‘Bella Ciao’.

Josephine Burton speaks to Professor Philip Cooke about the origins of the song and how its history has been gendered throughout time. Italian singer and songwriter, Virginia Sirolli, speaks of her personal connection to the song and its adaptations, and Composer Orlando Gough discusses how he used it in a recent production at The Globe and its powerful adaptability across multiple cultures and countries.

Music Credits

Intro music: Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi

Bella Ciao Acoustic, Virginia Sirolli

Bella Ciao - Royalty Free Italian Music, Casa De Papel Gemaf

Bella Ciao, Grégoire Lourme/abr Título de Música: Bella Ciao (Epic Cover)

Bella Ciao in Punjabi, written, performed and produced by Poojan Sahil

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Listen to director Josephine Burton chat to actors Aimee Powell and Ryan Van Champion and podcast producer Rachael Head about the realities of modernising Middlemarch, Otherness and much more.   

Music Credits

Intro music: Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi

Wes Finch: https://wesfinch.bandcamp.com

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Listen to cast members Tom Gordon, Amanda Hurwitz and Ryan Van Champion discussing their characters’ fears of change, and how those opinions are realised in the show. 

Featuring clips of some of the actors reading lines in the rehearsal room and snippets of the show’s sound design.

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Delve into the inspirations behind this adaptation and the creator’s theatrical visions. Uncover the real life stories from Coventry locals and how they will be woven into the show.

Featuring a conversation between creator and director Josephine Burton and co-writer and researcher Ruth Livesey, interspersed with clips from our community workshops in Coventry.

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In the first episode of our Protest Songs series, we explore the history of 'The Internationale' and how it continues to inspire social change.

Josephine Burton speaks to singer-songwriter Billy Bragg, who was motivated by the collapse of communism to rewrite the song and devote an album to it in 1990. Other speakers include historian Robert Service who gives an overview of the history of the song and its many adaptations, including its role as the first national anthem for the Soviet Union and Professor John Street, who discusses his new online resource devoted to English protest songs ‘Our Subversive Voice’, and how music can change the world.

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In this podcast episode, the three artists involved and its director reflect on this climactic performance, and the emotional and creative journey it took to get there. Ukrainian musicians Yuriy Gurzhy, Svetlana Kundish and Mariana Sadovska, alongside director Josephine Burton, discuss their experiences of performing such a raw, personal and emotionally demanding work in their country of origin, to an audience who live in the long shadows of the Babyn Yar massacres. The musicians explore their shared grief, its catharsis, the impact the production has had on audiences worldwide, and the questions it has raised.

Songs featured: 'Lullaby for Babyn Yar', 'Mipney Ma', 'Live' and 'Vald' from Songs for Babyn Yar 

All music was created and recorded in the rehearsal room with Yuriy Gurzhy, Svetlana Kundish and Mariana Sadovska for Dash Arts

Intro music: Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi

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Hear about how director Josephine Burton, playwright Hattie Naylor and composer Marouf Majidi crossed paths and came to collaborate on this project, and how our recent music and creative writing workshops with communities in London and Oxford have inspired and fed into the production.

Dido’s Bar is an immersive multi-lingual gig theatre production that reimagines Virgil's Aeneid planned for Autumn 2022 in London, exploring this timeless tale of migration through the lens of the current migrant crisis.

Music credits

Intro music: Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi

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This month, Dash Arts marks this anniversary by premiering a new music theatre production, Songs for Babyn Yar, in London and Ukraine with a work-in-progress sharing in Berlin. This performance sees three Ukrainian musicians explore the legacy of these massacres, drawing on survivors' testimonies, traditional Yiddish and Ukrainian folk songs, poetry and storytelling, and asking how we can move forward.

This podcast episode reveals the story of the making of the show, its vision and the creative journey we have experienced as we explore how to commemorate atrocity through the medium of performance. Featuring interviews with the show's director Josephine Burton; musicians Yuriy Gurzhy, Svetlana Kundish and Mariana Sadovska; and Dr Uilleam Blacker, Associate Professor of Comparative Russian and East European Culture at UCL.

Music credits

Songs featured: Mipney Ma and Rabbi Yuriy's Dance from Songs for Babyn Yar

All the music was created and recorded in the rehearsal room with Yuriy Gurzhy, Svetlana Kundish and Mariana Sadovska for Dash Arts

Intro music: Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi

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Dido's Bar is an immersive site-specific gig theatre production set in a cabaret bar on the borders of Europe that reimagines Virgil's Aeneid, exploring this timeless tale of migration through the lens of Europe today.

In this podcast episode, discover the myth of Aeneas, his dramatic flight from Troy, his doomed love affair with Dido and his founding of Rome, and how the myth has retained so much resonance and significance in the context of the questions facing society today. Delve into the inspirations behind the production itself, its origin story and its theatrical vision.

Featuring interviews with Josephine Burton, Dido's Bar creator and director; Shadi Bartsch, Guggenheim Laureate and award-winning translator of Penguin Random House's edition of The Aeneid; Liv Albert, creator, host and producer of popular Greek and Roman mythology podcast Let's Talk About Myths, Baby!; and Kurdish Iranian musician Marouf Majidi, Dido's Bar composer whose migration story partly inspired the production. 

Music credits

Music from Dido's Bar

Lyrics by Hattie Naylor

Music was created and recorded in the rehearsal room with Marouf Majidi, Samira Brahmia, Tuukka Leppänen, Riku Kantola and Josephine Burton at Meidän Festivaali with Globe Art Point for Dash Arts.

Songs featured: Love Spell; Sour Cherries

Intro music: Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi

Link notes

The Aeneid, translated by Shadi Bartsch: https://shadibartsch.com/books/the-aeneid/

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This podcast series forms part of EUTOPIA, our multi-year project that emerged as a direct response to the 2016 EU Referendum; as the UK voted to leave the EU, we felt the need to explore what it means to be European.

Speakers include Maria Alberg, founder and director of theatre company Projekt Europa, which makes work by migrant theatre makers in the UK; author and academic Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies at the University of Oxford; and David Furlong, theatre director and Artistic Director of Exchange Theatre, who presents an excerpt from his monologue Un-Settled.

Links

Find out more about and participate in European Moments: https://europeanmoments.com/moments

Music credits

Alger Alger, by Samira Brahmia (before David's Un-Settled monologue)

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Hosted by Josephine Burton, a range of artists and historians discuss the tensions leading up to the collapse and its heartbreaking aftermath. Together, we explore how this shaped the artists born out of it and changed the artistic output of a nation, what Yugoslavia meant to its artists and how that spirit endures today. 

Speakers include Milena Dragićević Šešić; professor of cultural policy and cultural management and former president of the University of Arts, Belgrade; Alma Ferovic Fazlic, a Bosnian singer and music producer; Maja Milatovic-Ovadia, a theatre director from former Yugoslavia and PhD researcher on devised comedy theatre in the context of post-war reconciliation; and Albanian-born Rigels Hallili, a lecturer in modern history and Balkans culture at Warsaw University's Centre for East European Studies.

Music credits

Srebrenica by Fun-Da-Mental, featuring Alma Ferovic Fazlic

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Speaking to experts and artists from a range of backgrounds, we discuss topics including the legacy of empire, the impact of colonisation, how different cultures and nationalities have shaped British music, and the power of music to shape identity and express displacement.

Speakers include Sathnam Sanghera, journalist and best-selling author of Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain; Lloyd Bradley, one of the UK's leading black music experts and cultural commentators; and Samira Brahmia, a French-Algerian musician.

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Born in Lithuania, Milosz survived the Nazi occupation of Poland, became a member of the Polish Foreign Service under the communist regime, and was then exiled for being a strong critic of communism. His famous collection of essays, The Captive Mind, reveals his struggle with his own sense of identity and belonging as an artist under a communist regime and became symbolic of the Baltic-Eastern European cultural, national and geopolitical ‘borderlands’. 

We also explore other artists who were affected by the shifting of national boundaries during the first decades of the 20th century.

Speakers include British singer-songwriter Katy Carr, known for her songs about Polish history; Katia Denysova, a researcher on the influence of socio-political factors on Ukrainian art in the early 20th century; Professor Clare Cavanagh, specialist in modern Russian, Polish and Anglo-American poetry and a biographer of Milosz; and Rigels Halili, lecturer in modern history and Balkans culture at Centre for East European Studies at Warsaw University.

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Audiences enjoyed excerpts from the film and conversation from speakers including Estonian TV journalist and Disco and Atomic War co-producer and co-screenwriter Kiur Aarma; Soviet-born British journalist and author Peter Pomerantsev; former ambassador of Finland to Estonia Kirsti Narinen; and political analyst and Counterpoint director Catherine Fieschi.

Playful and provocative documentary Disco and Atomic War (Winner of Best Documentary at Warsaw International Film Festival) by Jaak Kilmi recounts the Soviet Union's repressive grip of Estonia in the 80s. Much of Soviet power derived from its ability to censor cultural life. Rock and roll was but a rumour and the only television shows on the air were dreary propaganda – until one day, a few miles across the border in Finland, a huge television antenna was built broadcasting Western signals into the heart of Tallinn, the Estonian capital.

With thanks to the Embassy of Estonia in London and the Finnish Institute in the UK and Ireland for their support of the live event featured in this episode. Part of Dash Arts' EUTOPIA series, investigating what it means to be European.

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Artistic Director Josephine Burton speaks to arts consultant Manick Govinda, who co-founded Brexit Creatives, about what he sees as the art world's censorship or 'cancelling' of pro-Brexit views; Samuel Beckett scholar Dr Jackie Blackman on Beckett's use of silence in his plays as a form of self-censorship; journalist Mayssa Issa, about the silencing of artists during the coronavirus pandemic with arts being considered 'non-essential'; and Turkey's 'standing man' Erdem Gündüz, whose 2013 silent protest against the Turkish government went viral.

Through conversations with a range of acclaimed speakers across a range of disciplines, Breaking Silence explores ways in which voices, stories and cultures have been silenced both in current times and recent history, when silence can be a positive force for change, and what role the arts can play in breaking silences.

Links

Watch the music video for Danser Encore: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyBEMRyt6Qg

Buy Beckett and Ethics: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/1605839840_beckett-and-ethics/9781441151179 

Find out more about Brexit Creatives on their Twitter @brexitcreatives

Photo credit

Erdem Gündüz, standing in Istanbul's Taksim Square in June 2013 as a silent protest against the Turkish government.

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Artistic Director Josephine Burton speaks to theatre-maker Krzysztof Czyzewski, whose Borderlands project aims to revive the multicultural heritage of Poland’s Sejny region in the aftermath of war; Kurdish singer Nawroz Oramari, who was forced to flee his homeland of Iraq for his politically-charged music and eventually seek asylum in Europe; and theatre director Athina Kasiou about the Cypriot endeavour to claim authorship of its own identity and how her work and that of her fellow artists navigates this.

Through conversations with a range of acclaimed speakers across a range of disciplines, Breaking Silence explores ways in which voices, stories and cultures have been silenced both in current times and recent history, when silence can be a positive force for change, and what role the arts can play in breaking silences.

Links

Citizens of the Word Choir: https://www.citizensoftheworldchoir.org/ 

Photo credit

Cast members in Borderland Foundation's 2008 production The Sejny Chronicles at La MaMa Experimental Theater Club in New York as part of the Borderlanders: Finding Their Voice festival. Photography by Jonathan Slaff.

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Dash Arts' Artistic Director Josephine Burton speaks to theatre-maker Lucy Dear (All in Your Head); screenwriter and playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Ida; Her Naked Skin); theatre director Athina Kasiou (A Thousand Ships); and art therapist Diane Waller. Topics range from hidden stories of domestic abuse and coercive control, to the forgotten experiences of suffragettes, to the marginalised women of classical literature, to the power of theatre to give voice to those that have been silenced. 

Through conversations with a range of acclaimed speakers across a range of disciplines, Breaking Silence explores ways in which voices, stories and cultures have been silenced both in current times and recent history, when silence can be a positive force for change, and what role the arts can play in breaking silences. Don't forget to rate, review and subscribe to help boost us in the charts!

Content warning: this episode contains conversation about domestic abuse and mention of suicide, so please take care while listening.

Links

Lucy Dear’s play All In Your Head: http://www.lucydear.com/#all-in-your-head 

Project Sezon, Athina Kasiou’s theatre company: https://www.project-season.org/ 

Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s film Ida: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/ida-a-film-masterpiece 

Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s play Her Naked Skin: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/theatreblog/2008/aug/08/hernakedskinagutreaction

Music credits

Intro music: Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi

Outro music: On the Edge of your Spring by Sasha Ilyukevich

Photo credit

A still taken from the 2013 film Ida, co-written by Rebecca Lenkiewicz.

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Dash Arts' Artistic Director Josephine Burton speaks to filmmakers Almudena Carracedo and Robert Bahar about their multi-award-winning documentary The Silence of Others, Executive Produced by Pedro Almodóvar, which reveals the struggle of Spanish activists to organise a groundbreaking international lawsuit.

Speakers also include film director Manuel Huerga, whose film Salvador is based on the life and death of Salvador Puig Antich – the last person to be executed by garrote under Franco's regime; and author Aaron Shulman, whose book The Age of Disenchantments brings to life the regime's devastating impact through the eyes of one family and the works of poetry and art that they lived by.

Through conversations with a range of internationally-renowned speakers, Breaking Silence explores ways in which voices, stories and cultures have been silenced both in current times and recent history, when silence can be a positive force for change, and what role the arts can play in breaking silences. Don't forget to rate, review and subscribe to help boost us in the charts!

Supported by Foundation for FutureLondon and City of London.

Links

The Silence of Others: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/silenceofothers

The Age of Disenchantments – The Epic Story of Spain’s Most Notorious Literary Family and the Long Shadow of the Spanish Civil War: https://aaronshulman.com/the-book/

El Mirador De La Memoria: https://zm.lavilladusoleil.com/11056-el-mirador-de-la-memoria-the-monument-to-the-victims.html

Manuel Huerga: http://manuelhuerga.com/salvador/

Music credits

Intro music: Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi

Outro music: On the Edge of your Spring by Sasha Ilyukevich

Photo credit

Almudena Carracedo © Semilla Verde Productions, from documentary The Silence of Others. Description: María Martín sits by the road which covers the mass grave containing her mother’s remains.

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A spiritual and communal home to thousands over the centuries; 59 Brick Lane was born as a Huguenot church, later becoming a Methodist church, then a synagogue, and is now home to the Brick Lane Mosque.

To get to grips with this building’s huge legacy, host and Dash Arts Artistic Director Josephine Burton is joined by the Vice Chair of the Brick Lane Mosque Harmuz Ali, author Rachel Lichtenstein, who researched the building as part of her book On Brick Lane, architect and co-curator of the UK’s architectural pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale Shahed Saleem, architect Dan Leon (who worked with Shahed on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday multi-faith architectural project), director of the Swadhinata Trust Ansar Ahmed Ullah, academic and curator Rosalind Parker, who has written about faith in the public space, and Rebekah Coffman, an American academic at NYU whose research focuses on architectural reuse.

Supported by Foundation for FutureLondon and City of London.

See Rachel Lichtenstein's online project A Memory Map of the Jewish East End here

To buy Rachel Lichtenstein’s book On Brick Lane click here

Find out more about the Friday, Saturday and Sunday multi-faith architectural project here

Find out about the Swadhinata Trust here

See the Brick Lane Mosque website here

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Music credits:

Umbra Sumus - Jah Wobble

Pagamenska - Oi Va Voi

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Due to popular demand, we’ve turned the event into a podcast, with some new, bonus content for our listeners. We were joined by son of the composer and Chairman of the Arvo Pärt Centre, Michael Pärt, violinist Andres Kaljuste and pianist Sophia Rahman to listen to Pärt’s music and discuss his life and work. Hosted by Josephine Burton, hear snippets of Spiegel im Spiegel, Fratres, Für Alina and Estonian Lullaby played at the Arvo Pärt Centre in Laulasmaa, Estonia, with brand new questions posed to our guests.

With thanks to the following organisations and individuals for supporting this event: Riin Eensalu and the Arvo Pärt Centre; Kersti Kirs, Kadri-Liis Turton and the Estonian Embassy in London (principal funders), Tammo Sumera, Kaupo Kikkas, Rebecca Dawson, Universal Edition and Deirdre Bates at MDS / Schott Music.


Compositions by Arvo Pärt played by Sophia Rahman and Andres Kaljuste:


Fratres 

Für Alina 

Spiegel im Spiegel


Estonian Lullaby

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We were joined by Bojana Janković from theatre collective There There, a performance company which is 50% Romanian and 50% Serbian, Victor Pãtrãşcan, a comedian originally from Romania, and theatre maker Miriam Sherwood, whose cabaret Rendezvous in Bratislava is inspired by her Slovak grandfather.

We discussed the impact of the EU referendum on their work, how art can cross cultural divides and help heal the fractures caused by Brexit, with some very lively audience discussion on the differences between an expat and an immigrant and whether or not offensive comedy is worth the laughter.

A huge thank you to all of our listeners this year and to all of 2020's guests, who kindly contributed their time to bring the Dash Arts Podcast to life. Despite the loss of our live events, it was a pleasure to engage with our audiences through 16 incredible podcasts that we loved making.

You can listen back to all of the Dash Arts Podcasts by searching DASH ARTS on all major podcasting platforms, or on our website here

Song Credits:

Valentina by Dynamite Island

Is the Party Nearly Over? by Dynamite Island

Hear more tracks from Rendezvous in Bratislava here

Find our more about Miriam Sherwood and her company Dynamite Island here

Find out more about Victor Pãtrãşcan's comedy here

Find out more about Bojana Janković and ThereThere here. Also discover Bojana's latest project Temporary Works here

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Hosted by Artistic Director Josephine Burton, with award-winning filmmaker Mark Rosenblatt, twice Booker-nominated Nigerian writer Chigozie Obiama, theatre director Maja Milatović-Ovadia (originally from former Yugoslavia, now based in the UK), Russian actress and filmstar Oksana Mysina, Berlin-based Argentinian artist Silvina Der Meguerditchian, poet Stephen Watts, clinical psychologist Dr Sarah Lack and William Peterfield Trent Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University Marianne Hirsch.

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Watch the trailer for Mark Rosenblatt's short film GANEF here. The film is currently available to watch online at:

Norwich Film Festival (online) until November 29th 

https://watch.norwichfilmfestival.co.uk/film/ganef/

Flickers' Roving Eye International Film Festival on November 30th, alongside many other films exploring issues raised by this podcast. 

http://www.film-festival.org/RovingEye_JewishExperienceFALL2020.php

Music credits:

Intro music: Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi

Outro music: On the Edge of your Spring by Sasha Ilyukevich

Listen to more episodes of the podcast at www.dasharts.org.uk/podcast

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In this episode we return to our February Dash Café on George Eliot, hosted at Warwick Arts Centre by Artistic Director Josephine Burton with collaborator Professor Ruth Livesey and guests Martina Hall, producer of 2019 BBC Arena documentary Everything Is Connected – George Eliot’s Life, artist Redell Olsen, and writer Anna Lawrence, with an update from Josephine and Ruth on how our production was born and how it’s progressed since this event.

We explore what happened when Europe and Middle England’s philosophies and ideas met, how Eliot brought this to life in her novels, and why her radical work is still important today.

Listen to The Choir Invisible by Amy Kakoura here

Read Anna Lawrence's short story Quarry here

Read more about The Great Middlemarch Mystery here

Listen to more episodes of the podcast here

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In many ways, we’ve done one better with this podcast. Not only did we get all of these fantastic guests, but we also got Felix himself, theatre director Ernestine Comvalius and artist Neske Beks alongside Charl and playwrights Jude Christian, Gable Roelofson and Enver Husicic, making for a jam-packed episode.

Described as “a source for all black arts in the Netherlands”, Felix’s work has been pivotal in reframing the narrative of Dutch identity - particularly the Netherlands’ relationship with its colonial history - and the legacy of the slave trade. Despite all this, chances are you haven’t heard of Felix de Rooy. Join Dash Arts Artistic Director Josephine Burton to explore why, going on a journey through Felix's work and exploring the lasting impact of racism and colonialism in the Netherlands and in the shaping of the European cultural narrative.

Hear Ernestine Comvalius’ State of Theatre poem Level Up! (which she performed at the opening of Nederlands Theater Festival in September 2020) on our website here

Music Credits:

Piauw Piauw by Max Woiski (2014)

Find out how to support Dash Arts here

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Taking a journey through Bergman’s life, we look at how her strength, determination and Swedishness made her into one of the world’s most famous movie stars. In the face of sexism, scandals and tragedy, Bergman’s strident independence and ambition saw her carve out a career led by passion and creativity.

We speak to Swedish actor Anna Lindgren, writers and academics Dr Ellen Wright and Dr Hannah Yelin and Stig Björkman, director of the brilliant documentary Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (2015), which features Ingrid's own home footage, appearances from Isabella Rossellini and a voiceover by Alicia Vikander.

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Watch Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (2015) on MUBI here or rent it on Netflix here

Watch test shots of Ingrid for Intermezzo, as mentioned by Stig and Ellen, here

Pre-order Hannah Yelin’s book Celebrity Memoir: from Ghostwriting to Gender Politics here

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Music Credits and notes:

A Song of Pompei by Renzo Rossellini and featured in the film a Journey to Italy which is a truly exceptional film and captures the subtle brilliance of Bergman’s skills.

Movie Magic by Eddie Waltman, from the album And the Oscar Goes To: Award Ceremonies & Red Carpet Music.

As Time Goes By written by Herman Hupfeld and performed by Dooley Wilson in the film. Dooley was actually a drummer so the piano was overdubbed by pianist Jean Plummer. This song has perhaps become as iconic as the film's stars.

Ingrid Bergman lyrics by Woody Guthrie and performed by Billy Bragg and Wilco. Apparently Woody Guthrie had a huge crush on Bergman and wrote this steamy song just for her. He never recorded it and Bragg found the lyrics in the Guthrie archive. 

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Through music and poetry, we examine the similarities and differences between the UK’s Windrush scandal and Germany’s treatment of Turkish ‘gastarbeiter’ and the huge cultural legacy by these migrant workers.

Hosted by Artistic Director Josephine Burton, we were joined by poet Hannah Lowe, Artistic Director of ‘WINDRUSH70 - Brent’s Pioneering Windrush Generation’ Zerritha Brown, German-Turkish novelist Imran Ayata and artist, director and composer Bülent Kullukçu, co-curators of ‘Songs of Gastarbeiter Vol. 1’, which features music by guest workers and pays tribute to the cultural contribution made by the first wave of migrants to Germany.

Thanks to support from the Goethe Institute and to Rich Mix London for hosting the original event. 

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Hear more episodes on our website here

Check out Hannah Lowe's poetry here

See images and info from WINDRUSH70 here

Listen to Songs of the Migrant Worker Vol. 1 here

Listen to Cem Karaca’s Es haben Menschen an here

www.dasharts.org.uk 

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We reflected on the actual borders that existed for our speakers growing up on the edges of the Iron Curtain and today’s visible and invisible borders with Berlin-based author, composer and editor-in-chief of Flaneur Magazine Fabian Saul, visual artist Mariana Gordan (originally from Romania), Norwegian-born economist and Financial Times columnist Martin Sandbu and live music from Slovakian vocalist Lori Secanska and Greek-Cypriot guitarist Iakovos Loukas.

For more information and episodes, head to our website here

Get Mariana Gordan's book State Property here

Fabian Saul's project Traces of Resistance here

Get Martin Sandbu's new book The Economics of Belonging: A Radical Plan to Win Back the Left Behind and Achieve Prosperity for All here

We are taking a much-needed Summer break from the podcast in August. In the meantime, we wish listeners a sunshine-filled August and we'll be back in September with more audio delights! Don't forget to rate, review and subscribe to the podcast to help boost us in the charts!

Originally recorded March 2019 at Rich Mix London, with support from Goethe-Institut London. Podcast artwork by Mariana Gordan.

Dash Arts is a small charity that bridges divides between communities, cultures, borders and languages by creating incredible artistic experiences. Our work brings together international artists, nurtures new talent and tells powerful stories. Click here to find out more about how you can support our work.

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Cook borsch with Artistic Director Josephine Burton and chef Olia Hercules, whose beautiful new book of recipes Summer Kitchen has just been published by Bloomsbury, discover Ukrainian history and politics with prolific writer Oksana Zabuzhko, who has just released a book of fabulous short stories Your Ad Could Go Here, get some insight from the outgoing director of the Ukrainian Institute in London, journalist Marina Pesenti, and listen to the music and stories of musician Mariana Sadovska.

Download the borsch recipe here to cook along with the podcast.

Head to our website here to see images of us making borsch, our guests and their books.

Buy Olia Hercules' book Summer Kitchen

Buy Oksana Zabushko's book Your Ad Could Go Here 

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The photographer and artist’s radical work strikingly depicts the anxieties of interwar Europe and the internal horrors of the mind. Yet Maar was often overlooked, her role as Picasso’s lover and ‘weeping woman’ dominating world view, until now.

In January 2020 a major exhibition of her work travelled from the Centre Pompidou to the Tate Modern, introducing many to her work for the first time.

In this episode Dash Arts Artistic Director Josephine Burton talks to the exhibition's curators Damarice Amao and Karolina Lewandowska, along with discussion and performances from poet Victoria Adukwei Bulley and Finnish musician Marouf Majidi.

With Poet in the City and support from TelepART and Institut Francais

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With a host of international musicians performing entirely new music for the podcast, we look at the life of the Roma musician who survived personal tragedy and World War II to become a leading figure in 20th century jazz.

Hosted by our Artistic Director Josephine Burton, this episode features authors Michael Dregni and Garth Cartwright, Roma activist Mania Malik, theatre director Alessandra Davison and musicians Dave Kelbie, Joe Townsend, Aurore Voilique, Tcha Limberger, Don Vappie and Dario Napoli.

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FULL SONG CREDITS HERE

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We look at the city's troubling history with colonialism, explore the impact of the European Union HQ on its inhabitants and architecture, and hear from artists living and creating change in the city.

Hosted by our Artistic Director Josephine Burton, this episode features prominent academic and activist Eric Corijn, poet Elisabeth Severino Fernandes (aka Miss Elli) and writer and journalist Owen Hatherley.

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Hear from Dr Eurovision (aka Paul Jordan, who did his PhD on the subject) performance artist Richard DeDomenici, our Artistic Director Josephine Burton and our audience, plus BRAND NEW interviews with Tom Taylor of the celebrity-clad Isolation Song Contest and an update from Richard DeDomenici on his new virtual event, the Coronavision Song Contest.

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LINKS:

Head to our website to see images and videos of the Eurovision moments mentioned in this episode at: http://www.dasharts.org.uk/podcast

Hear Richard DeDomenici's Eurovision Talk: https://youtu.be/uhfSib_NU8U

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Kantor made work under extraordinarily challenging times. Under the Nazi occupation of Poland, he founded the Independent Underground Theatre, and later carried on creating work throughout Poland’s communist regime. Dash Arts Artistic Director Josephine Burton investigates how he navigated the politics and continued to create, and what we can take from Kantor during our own challenging times.

We speak to Natalia Zarzecka, Director of Cricoteka (Centre for Documentation of the Art of Tadeusz Kantor) in Krakow, Puppeteer Nenagh Watson, filmmaker Duncan Ward and producer and director David Gothard, all of whom worked with Kantor, as well as Dr Mischa Twitchin, who teaches Polish Theatre at Goldsmiths University.

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Speakers included Tereza Nvotová, Zuzana Kepplová, Ondřej Štindl and diplomat Monika MacDonagh-Pajerova, who discussed the impact of this legacy on their work and whether it continues to have an impact today.

This event was created in partnership with the Czech Centre and The Embassy of Slovak Republic, part of events celebrating the 30th anniversary of 1989.

The night featured insightful conversation about the countries who revolted and joined the EU, just as we face leaving it.

Edited by Martina Šimkovičová, Radio Slovakia International.

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In February 2020 we were joined by theatre director and Dash Associate Artist Sophie Austin, Dr Michele Aaron (Screening Rights Film Festival)and Co-founders of Birmingham-based collective MAIA Group Amahra Spence and Amber Caldwell to delve into the challenges of activism through art, and look at the tension between art for art’s sake and art as a means to an end.

This event was also accompanied by music from Ukrainian singer-songwriter Iryna Muha, which you can listen to here: https://irynamuha.co.uk

Recorded at Warwick Arts Centre. Live event commissioned by Warwick Arts Centre.

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What does it mean to be European? And what does Europe mean for those who were born outside of it? We premiered short films by the phenomenal Swedish actress and filmmaker Bahar Pars and our Artistic Director, Josephine Burton, hosted a panel discussion with Bahar, alongside Nanna Blondell, who stars in one of Bahar's shorts; actor, writer and translator Houda Echouafni; and Tom Green of Counterpoints Arts.Recorded at Rich Mix.

Live event supported by the Embassy of Sweden in London, and Rich Mix.

Head to our website to watch Bahar Pars' films and find out more: http://www.dasharts.org.uk/podcast

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