We are in final discussions with the British Council, The Choir of Hope and Inspiration, SuperDeluxe, Syndey Biennale and Macquarie Group Foundation to tour to Australia in June 2010. The tour would be similar to that in Japan in 2009 where we presented My Secret Heart and worked with groups in the region. In Tokyo [...]
By matt | February 18, 2010
Thanks to everyone at the Discovery Museum, Northern Stage and Nemo in Paris for programming the installation. My Secret Heart was presented in the wonderful Great Hall at Newcastle’s Discovery Museum and was part of Northern Stage’s 40th anniversary celebrations (Northern Stages). In Paris the installation appeared at the Nemo Festival at Centquatre which is [...]
By matt | December 2, 2009
Mira Calix, the composer who wrote Streetwise Opera’s current work, My Secret Heart has won a British Composer Award. The award was presented at an event in London hosted by BASCA (The British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors), the Performing Rights Society and BBC Radio 3. Listen to a programme broadcast on Radio 3 about the awards here. The award panel described My [...]
By matt | November 2, 2009
We’re very much looking forward to taking My Secret Heart to the Taliesin Arts Centre in Swansea on 20 November. Taliesin will also be hosting a conference on homelessness before the public screening of the installation where arts and homelessness organisations together with funders and policy-makers are gathering to discuss the kind of work Streetwise [...]
By matt | September 10, 2009
We’ve now been touring My Secret Heart for 10 months and everywhere we have gone, organisers and audiences have been amazing. We have just arrived back from a British Council-supported tour of Japan. Together with presentations of the installation at Yokohama’s 150-year celebration festival and Creative Cities Symposium we also screened the 7-minute film at Super Deluxe in Tokyo with [...]
My Secret Heart has just picked up a Royal Philharmonic Society Award which are the most prestigious awards in the classical music sector. The award is for Audience Development in association with Classic FM. Congratulations to everyone involved.
By matt | February 18, 2009
Hi everyone – well the tour has started with a bang! We began with a screening of the 7-minute version in Middlesbrough on the BBC Big Screen on 29th Jan. It was FREEZING! But thanks so much to the Wellington St gang who came out in force to perform some numbers for the premiere. The piece [...]
By matt | December 8, 2008
A massive, huge, heart-felt thank you to everyone involved in the premiere of My Secret Heart last week at the Royal Festival Hall. The two days seemed to go so quickly and there was barely enough time to take in the enormity of what we have all achieved. There are so many people to congratulate [...]
By matt | November 28, 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/nov/28/mira-calix-streetwise-opera Lovely article – hope you like it everyone!
By matt | November 13, 2008
Wow – thank you so much for you lovely messages (there are lots that have appeared under the ‘intensive weeks…’ blog. It is an honour working with such a billiant, committed and caring group of performers. Can’t wait for the premiere in December! The taster video has had around 9,000 viewings in about 2 weeks! The December [...]
