Acting partners Cooper Braun and Rachel Ann Harding started Stories With Spirit in 2014 to share their acting and storytelling with adult audiences. When the pandemic hit, they took their performances to Zoom, gaining a wider fan base from the U.S., Canada, Singapore, Australia and India. Over eight performances, they brought in around $9,000 in sales an unprecedented success for the duo.
“We adopted a pay-what-it’s-worth model for our online shows,” Braun explains. “Tickets are free, but registration is required. After the show, I ask that folks consider what an hour and a half of art was worth to them and to express that if they can.”
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Founded: 1995, by Liz Weir (later Bennett), Mark Constantine, Mo Constantine, Rowena Bird, Helen Ambrosen, Paul Greeves. Poole’s globally famous maker of cosmetics and smellies was born from the ashes of another company, the mail order supplier Cosmetics To Go. Its founders had previously worked together in Constantine & Weir, which had supplied many products to the Body Shop. The business has a devoted following for its cruelty-free and environmental credentials, its savvy with digital marketing, the distinctive smell and style of its shops, and its willingness to take a stance on issues such as Brexit, fracking and fox hunting.
TRUE STORIES, personal stories, fanciful stories, tall tales, and tales fantastic, some from the heart and some from the top of the head will be heard at the 2021 Moth & Butterfly Festival.
New campaign to get Kilkenny reading during Covid
A new website www.irelandreads.ie has been set up
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sam.matthews@kilkennypeople.ie
Kilkenny County Council Library Service have teamed up with libraries nationwide, publishers, booksellers, authors and others for the campaign );
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Ireland Reads is a new campaign to get the whole country reading this month in the lead up to a national day of reading on Thursday, February.
Kilkenny County Council Library Service have teamed up with libraries nationwide, publishers, booksellers, authors and others for the campaign, which is part of the government’s Keep Well initiative and aims to celebrate reading and all the benefits it can have for wellbeing and enjoyment. The campaign is asking everyone to ‘squeeze in a read’ on Ireland Reads Day, Thursday, February 25.
Look at history of Belfast blues music among events planned at Linen Hall Library Linen Hall Library in Belfast 28 January, 2021 01:00
Authors Noel McLaughlin and Joanna Braniff, who wrote How Belfast Got The Blues: A Cultural History of Popular Music in the 1960s, are involved in the online event
A LOOK at the history of Belfast blues music and how it was central to politics in Northern Ireland is among the topics for discussion at an event run by the Linen Hall Library.
Authors Noel McLaughlin and Joanna Braniff, a former Irish News features editor, are involved in the online event next month, when they will explore the key issues emerging from their new book, How Belfast Got The Blues: A Cultural History of Popular Music in the 1960s.