Taste of Pompey: Call for participants
From Portsmouth to Salford (and back again) Call for Participants for ‘Taste of Pompey’ Young People Are you a young […]
Eat the Archives – documentary now available
Today, we premiere a film directed by Jonny Randall which documents and reflects on ‘Eat the Archives’, a series of unique dinner parties hosted in people’s homes animating the remarkable stories of Jewish Mancunians through taste.
Table for one: Commensality Anxiety
What effects might the coronavirus crisis have on eating with strangers?
A taste of ‘Good Appetite’
Last night, Manchester Art Gallery’s café played host to the premiere of Good Appetite as part of Manchester Jewish Museum’s […]
Learning together
This post may be slightly overdue as it is an account of a fantastic afternoon some three weeks ago at […]
Calling Leeds migrants
with bread Call for participants We are currently looking for participants to join the cast of a performance taking place […]
6 things I learned from not writing
Six things I learned from a brief writing dry spell…
From theatre chef to… curator of food? First steps at Manchester Jewish Museum
From theatre chef to… curator of food? An introduction to the first steps of a long-term project exploring food at Manchester Jewish Museum
Call for proposals: Food Intervention
For the next few months, Manchester Jewish Museum is working in collaboration with artist Leo Burtin to develop a participatory […]
On reflection
Over the next six months, I have promised myself to experiment with diverse methods for engaging in and marking the process of reflection.
Calling Teesside migrants
We are currently looking for participants to join the cast of a new performance taking place at ARC, Stockton Arts Centre on 20th March 2019
Making (with) bread
Dear stranger, dear friend, I love how it seems the long gaps in this blog happen at the busiest of […]
The Common Kitchen: On Reflection
LESS and the Lancaster Guardian published a column of my reflections from my time at King Street Studios. You can […]
Day 9 – LESS Column in the Lancaster Guardian
We are very pleased that the project is featured in our local paper, the Lancaster Guardian today thanks to Anna […]
Day 8 – Common
For the last few days, something has felt different in the Common Kitchen. To say we have established a routine […]
Day 4 – The Theatre of Eating Together
This is a slightly belated update as we had our largest open space lunch yet and were preparing for the […]
Day 3 – On Routes/On Roots/En Route
Alisa Tanaka-King, a collaborator joining me from her home in Australia is en route to Lancaster. At least, I hope so, as […]
Day 2 – On Eating the Weather
There is a courgette, coriander and lemon soup on the hob. I’ve turned the heat right off, so by the […]
Day 1 – On Leftovers
It’s been an unusual kind of Monday so far. For the last few years, I’ve built up the habit of […]
Transformative Taste-Encounters
I am very proud to have my performance The Midnight Soup be featured in the latest issue of Performance Research in […]
Of Care and Attention: A Letter to Katherina Radeva
This post is a response to Katherina Radeva’s latest blog post. Dear Kat, I hope that you won’t mind that […]
New website under construction
Hello everyone… There was a bit of dusting to do around here, especially on this much-neglected blog section… We’re not […]
Finale – A workshop
Hello, Plans are now well underway in the devising of Rajni Shah Project’s Finale. We invite you to join us […]
In conversation with Dinis Machado
At the end of last year, I was invited by Dance 4 to take part in an online conversation with artist […]
Resolutions (volume 1)
Following suit on last week’s commitment, you can download a little PDF with some writing from this week. There are […]
It Happened One Night
A response to The Midnight Soup by Emma Geraghty. Disclaimers: This piece of writing was commissioned by the company. However, […]
In Good Company
This month, I find myself in really good company as last Friday marked the start of my very final residency […]
Dear Stranger, Dear Friend
I am currently sat in Sun Square, in Lancaster, and the place has never deserved its name more. The weather […]
On doing it
This time, I’m not writing from the train, though, I basically just got off it and walked up the road […]
From the train
The Midnight Soup is very much a train show. I think most of my work so far, has been train […]
Midweek Bites
I am going to guess that if you are here, you probably know that Arts Council England’s round logo will […]
Speech Act
This post is completely, utterly, profoundly personal. In the same way that I may have told the story of the […]