Audacious art rising – remembering Tiananmen Square
Only art could bring two people together from across the world, one living in Taiwan the other in Paradise Valley. We are the unlikeliest of creative couples, now surrounded by an incredible cast, director, writer and composer to bring to life, and music, one of the globe’s most important moments in the past 50 years: the stirring protests of 1989 and subsequent tragedy in Beijing’s Tiananm[...]
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Facing up to Facebook comments
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