Floating Spaces for vibraphone and computer: the sheer joy of the beauty of the sound of the vibraphone, and this in interaction with the sound capabilities of the computer! Misty, floating landscapes are conjured up consisting of crystalline order and calm gaseous envelopment, interrupted by fragments of twirling chaotic tension. The virtuoso Danish percussionist Henrik Larsen premiered René Mogensen’sContinue reading “Floating Spaces: Henrik Larsen”
Category Archives: What we’re doing
New release of 1990s jazz for summer listening
Focus: The trio with René Mogensen on Tenor Saxophone, Jim Labita on piano and Terry Newman on bass was active in various venues in the New York City area in the mid- and late-1990s. This new release is a 2026 remastering of archived recordings from 1996. If you like Focus you may also like otherContinue reading “New release of 1990s jazz for summer listening”
A Thousand Stories Conference July 2026
Megaphone Writers Community Interest Company is organising the Thousand Stories Conference in Birmingham, UK, on July 11, 2026. It is a day for people of colour who create books for children. Speakers include authors Serena Patel, Mayo Agard-Olubo, Abena Eyeson, Shireen Lalji, G M Linton, Ashley Thorpe, Anika Hussain, and Eva Wong Nava. Speakers alsoContinue reading “A Thousand Stories Conference July 2026”
Diversity in the Arts
Public investment in more cultural diversity in the arts results in the development of cultural infrastructure which is a necessary condition for a humanely focused social development. Such cultural infrastructure is an important defence against the very destructive ‘us vs. them’ narrative that seems to be growing again in the West, and is echoing theContinue reading “Diversity in the Arts”
Changes at Wassard Elea
We are developing our focus towards events and other cultural activities, and are in the process of selling the apartment we called “The Artist”, aka Nr. 41, to better enable our other plans. After almost 20 years of ownership, we are passing this apartment on to good hands.
Spring repairs!
We are carrying out repairs and upgrades on the apartments this week.
Wassard Elea Revista
Back issues (Volumes I to VII) of Wassard Elea Revista, the journal for arts and scholarship, are now available for perusal and download from the activities page on our web site. Pages with information about the Wassard Elea Symposium are also under construction.
New photos of 18A ‘The Philosopher’ added
We’ve added more photos of our artist, scholar and creative retreat spaces in Ascea, south Italy. Check the website to see them.
New photos of 18B ‘The Poet’ added
We’ve added new photos of our apartment 18B ‘The Poet’.
Gardening leave
Gardening, lemons, weed-stop in an artist retreat in south Italy.