Two five-day movement, arts and culture intensives taking place on Ibiza from 9th – 13th & 16th – 20th October, 2023. Dear followers, I’m very happy to share with you news of my first ever exploratory arts intensive, taking place on Ibiza in mid-October 2023. Exploring Memories of Landscapes Forgotten is a collaboration between me, Joanna Hruby, Ibiza-based puppet-maker, storyteller and performance-maker, the South West England-based Butoh and somatic movement practitioner Gemma Mallol, and the Ibiza-based surrealist painter Romanie Sanchez. We are three women, and friends, who are passio ..read more

I’m thrilled to announce this new Theatre of the Ancients workshop for adults, happening on Saturday 3rd June, 11-14h, in Ibiza town…. *‘Bes’ the Snake-Catcher God:* *Make your own domestic talisman* A one-off, 3hr workshop for adults, taking place on Saturday 3rd June from 11am to 2pm (arrive at 10.45am for a prompt 11am start) at Filmótica Studio, central Ibiza town. The Phoenicians of ancient Iboshim would have decorated their living spaces with the iconography of the Egyptian god Bes, knowing him to be a protector of the home, children and mothers, and a valiant snake-catcher. Two millen ..read more

A short film screening and discussion about ritual performance, the rural traditions of Ibiza and the cultural significance of the island’s peasant bread. Friday, 26th May 2023, at Filmótica Studio, Avinguda d’Ignasi Wallis 8, Ibiza town: 1930h – presentation/discussion in Spanish 2100h – presentation/discussion in English Free entry, extremely limited capacity, advanced booking essential: studio@filmotica.com Dear followers, I am delighted to be teaming up with Enrique Villalonga, film-maker and founder of Filmótica Studio, to be offering an intimate screening of Festival of the Sun, Enrique ..read more

Theatre of the Ancients presents an immersive theatre happening taking place twice every evening from 9th – 12th December, 2021, in a spectacular and wild location in Northwest Ibiza. If we could fathom the message of the pomegranate, what would it tell us? If we could enter the myth of the pomegranate, where would it take us…? Join Theatre of the Ancients for their most intimate and immersive performance happening yet. In a wild and mythic North Ibizan setting, small groups will walk the Mystery journey – a raw and multi-sensory voyage via ritual theatre and mask rites, puppetry and pigment ..read more

On this Easter weekend, I ask for a pair of goat horns from Es Vedrà. On this Good Friday of Pascua, as the cloaked, sombre procession takes place on top of Tanit´s mount, D’alt Vila, I call out for a pair of goat horns from Es Vedrà. El Torre d’es Savinar Those who have climbed up through the juniper bushes to the old defense tower, el Torre d’es Savinar, and who keep climbing upwards over the rocks, find themselves at a point seemingly at the top of the world. Hurtling into the depths down below, the ancient Phoenician quarry Sa Pedrera reveals its strange inverse cuboid forms; up to the No ..read more

“…Ibiza, that strange and colourful island where people retreat to take off their masks, or don new ones…” “Nina”, Nina van Pallandt, 1973 Image: Ibiza….a dream? Tony Keeler, 1973 1. Masking During the 1960´s they began to come – the hippies, the foreigners, descending on a pine-clad island in the Mediterranean which, until that point, had an isolated, almost-medieval culture. Here, on red earth, the hippies roamed barefoot to the sounds of goat bells, and cicadas – sensing through the preserved, peasant traditions and folklore of Eivissa a strange, ancient magic. The foreigners used ..read more

Image: Sophie da Cunha This is the week that everything changes. This is the week that the fine line between art…and business…is drawn. This is the week that tests the possibly of doing things with commercial success – but also with heart. This is the week that love and devotion have to be measured, limited, reduced. This is the week that I must somehow define my ´price´. This is the week that I have to wrap one of my most treasured objects in cellophane and plaster of paris, not knowing for sure that I will ever actually be able to remove it. This is the week I become an almost-commercial po ..read more

In March 2017 I was asked to write a piece for the wonderful Dark Mountain Project exploring my use of a myth to creatively engage people with a place, a land, and its crisis. I wrote about Ibiza. Here is the article… This week we continue our series about the role of mythology in uncertain times. We’ve asked six writers who work with story – as teachers, storytellers, anthropologists, poets, performers, activists – to choose ‘a myth we live by’ and explore what a mythological response to an age of converging crises might look like. Today we bring you an exploration of the mythological un ..read more

“There was an old lady, from the “Cree” tribe, named “Eyes of Fire”, who prophesied that one day, because of the white mans’ or Yo-ne-gis’ greed, there would come a time, when the fish would die in the streams, the birds would fall from the air, the waters would be blackened, and the trees would no longer be, mankind as we would know it would all but cease to exist. There would come a time when the “keepers of the legend, stories, culture rituals, and myths, and all the Ancient Tribal Customs” would be needed to restore us to health. They would be mankind’s key to survival, they were the ‘Warr ..read more

“We are living in a strange time, right now absolutely anything – good or bad – is possible,” he said. It was mid December – that period of deep winter days when the world had recently received some shocking news, and it felt like a shadow of dread lay over everything. On a tiny Mediterranean island, day after day of heavy rain like nothing seen before. It just wouldn’t stop. Red ochre-tinted, sticky pools of water everywhere – like the red rivulets which first brought the Phoenician settlers to the hill where Ibiza’s D’alt Villa now stands – the flowing blood of the Goddess Tanit, they h ..read more