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Nordic Family Kitchen: Seasonal Home Cooking

Catherine Flutsch

Oct 6, 20215 min read

Nordic Family Kitchen: Seasonal Home Cooking

★★★ Book Review: Nordic Family Kitchen: Seasonal Home Cooking by Mikkel Karstad with photography by Anders Schonnemann. To be published...

Ich Habe Genug: Instruments of Time and Truth

Catherine Flutsch

Jul 16, 20214 min read

Ich Habe Genug: Instruments of Time and Truth

★★★★★ Review: Instruments of Time and Truth Summer Concert Series, from 8 July - 12 August 2021. Tickets available here. Free tickets...

Takashi Sakai

Apr 21, 20212 min read

The Tokyo Olympics

The Olympics is supposed to go ahead on 23 July. In a country where less than 1% of people have been fully vaccinated and just over 1%...

Moving Beautifully Through 2021: Interesting Exercises You Might Enjoy*

Catherine Flutsch

Apr 14, 20217 min read

Moving Beautifully Through 2021: Interesting Exercises You Might Enjoy*

Almost every ailment can be improved through movement and exercise. Movement truly is medicine. In that spirit, I work out almost every...

Bach and The Beyond: A Rare Misstep for the Australian Chamber Orchestra

Catherine Flutsch

Apr 1, 20213 min read

Bach and The Beyond: A Rare Misstep for the Australian Chamber Orchestra

★★★ Review: ACO StudioCast online concert, premiered on 31 March, then on demand until 31 December 2021. Tickets available here....

OaxaCalifornia: The Museum of Latin American Art, California.

Catherine Flutsch

Mar 19, 20213 min read

OaxaCalifornia: The Museum of Latin American Art, California.

★★★★★ Review: OaxaCalifornia: Through the Experience of the Duo Tlacolulokos, Museum of Latin American Art, Online Exhibition. The Museum...

Catherine Flutsch

Mar 16, 20214 min read

The Picture of Dorian Gray

★★★★ Review: The Picture of Dorian Gray, co-produced by The Oxford Playhouse, streaming from Tuesday 16 March until Wednesday 31 March...

Catherine Flutsch

Mar 15, 20215 min read

Pro Wrestling as Contemporary Dance

I have always been intrigued by pro wrestling – it seems to me to have so many parallels with modern contemporary dance, circus and...

La Fenice Opera House: Live Concerts for Comfort and Hope

Catherine Flutsch

Mar 1, 20213 min read

La Fenice Opera House: Live Concerts for Comfort and Hope

La Fenice Opera House in Venice has been quietly creating an exquisite revolution in the delivery of live music to a locked down world.

The Australian Chamber Orchestra: Rapture & Revolution

Catherine Flutsch

Feb 19, 20214 min read

The Australian Chamber Orchestra: Rapture & Revolution

★★★★★ Review: ACO StudioCast online concert, premiere on17 February then on demand until 31 December 2021. Tickets available here....

Edvard Munch and Tracey Emin: (Un)likely Bedfellows

Catherine Flutsch

Feb 9, 20213 min read

Edvard Munch and Tracey Emin: (Un)likely Bedfellows

[Warning: The exhibition and, therefore, this review, contain explicit content.] ★★★★★ Review: The Loneliness of the Soul, The Royal...

Grimm Tales for Fragile Times & Broken People

Catherine Flutsch

Feb 4, 20213 min read

Grimm Tales for Fragile Times & Broken People

★★★★★ Review: Creation Theatre, via live Zoom call, 28 January – 14 February 2021, book here. [Disclosure of Interest: I am thrilled to...

Netflix Series, Blown Away, Elliot Walker's new glass art show.

Catherine Flutsch

Feb 1, 20214 min read

Netflix Series, Blown Away, Elliot Walker's new glass art show.

★★★★★ [Spoiler Alert] Review: Elliot Walker, contemporary glass art show, Plenty, as shown via Zoom call hosted by Johnny Messum on...

Catherine Flutsch

Jan 27, 20217 min read

Conductor: The First African American

Dr Anne Lundy is one of the first African American women to conduct a major American symphony orchestra. She has been pushing boundaries...

Catherine Flutsch

Jan 19, 20213 min read

Heaven and Hell: A Thought Experiment

Helping teams have fun being successful is part of my day job. It seems to me that so many people have had to suppress who they are to...

Meditation for those who can’t meditate....

Catherine Flutsch

Jan 11, 20213 min read

Meditation for those who can’t meditate....

The idea of mediation has always appealed to me. The reality of meditation has not. When meditation gurus tell me to start meditating by...

Human Remains, Shrunken Heads and the Pitt Rivers Museum

Catherine Flutsch

Jan 6, 20213 min read

Human Remains, Shrunken Heads and the Pitt Rivers Museum

The Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford is a museum about people. It holds over half a million objects used by humans across the ages including...

Catherine Flutsch

Jan 2, 20215 min read

Veganuary 2021

Veganuary 2021 is here! I’ve read that over half a million people will sign up to do veganuary in 2021. I went vegan just over one year...

Catherine Flutsch

Dec 29, 20202 min read

New Year's Resolutions: The Case For

Like almost everyone, I’ve read the research on new year’s resolutions – the overwhelming majority fail. So, rather than making a list...

New Year's Resolutions: The Case Against

Dr Rana Traboulsi

Dec 29, 20202 min read

New Year's Resolutions: The Case Against

A couple of days and we will be rid of 2020. New Year’s Eve will be another compromised occasion spent in solitude or digital company. ...