Artful Retreats

Artful Retreats

Artful Retreats, the international art therapy retreat organiser, has hosted over the past six years, arttherapy retreats for people investing in their mental health and wellness in beautiful surroundings inGreece, Switzerland and Singapore. As lockdowns, quarantines...
Unpacking: Madam Butterfly

Unpacking: Madam Butterfly

The plot: The plot is nothing we haven’t seen before. Despite being skillfully crafted by Puccini back in 1904, the story is extremely relatable. A young (too young) woman falls in love with a man, marries him and gets the ultimate betrayal when said man goes...
Hello, 2022!

Hello, 2022!

Did it just stop raining for five seconds? Rose here, everyone. I am writing this post on what feels (but isn’t) like the first Sunday of the year with a little ray of sunshine. We have just gone on a little walk to Insole Court and we are looking at the new...
Our favourite woman of the week…

Our favourite woman of the week…

This week we are reading about Edith Rigby by Beverley Adams. According to Adams, Rigby was “charismatic, passionate, ruthless and thoroughly unpredictable. She was someone who rejected the accepted notion of what a woman of her class should be the way she...
Woman of the week

Woman of the week

This week we had a chat with the brilliant Celine Hispiche, a London-based writer and performer with a monthly show on Soho Radio that celebrates diverse writing and performance. Celine spent three years in New York, performing stand-up comedy, returning to the UK to...