Recorded back in the Winter of ’98/’99. Timeless beauty created by a couple of losers with some lovely friends and a fiver between them for petrol.

Stan’s Cafe make a return to one of our favourite venues and cities. Tina Rasmussen, Artistic Director of World Stage 2015 and Head of Performance programming at The Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, talks about The Cardinals – performing from 12th – 15th February in the Studio Theatre, here at the Harbourfront.

The Cardinals are on a missionary tour of North America.

After proselytising to the good folks at The Public Theater, New York, (as part of the Under The Radar Festival), then visiting the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, as part of the Chicago International Puppet Festival, then performing at The Long Center, Lafayette IN, for the Three Stories Festival (for Purdue Convocations), we arrived this week in the State capital of Ohio – Columbus. Our venue, the Wexner Arts Center, is an impressive gathering of facilities on the enormous Ohio State University campus. The final Wexner performance will take place later today before we decamp for the fifth and final week of this North American leg of our world tour.

Next week we make a welcome return to World Stage 2015 at The Harbourfront, Toronto – a city that Stan’s Cafe have very fond memories of from our visits with The Cleansing of Constance Brown and Of All The People In All The World back in May 2009.

I’m currently directing a group of young makers in this project commissioned by the The New Optimists / Science Forward. The work, broadly titled ‘Narrativium’ is a response to the ‘Birmingham 2050 Scenarios’, a remarkable dossier which incorporates scenario-planning to understand how we can imagine and prepare for possible futures; asking big questions about resourcing and sustainability models. How can a City of a million people continue to feed itself in the face of resource depletion?, environmental change?, political unrest?, etc.

Jenny Lee, Kat Hannaford, Sipho Eric Dube and Carl Sealeaf make up the devising/performing team.

Food Futures is a work-in-progress performance designed to continue the conversation. It takes place in the Foyle Studio, mac, Birmingham at 7.30pm, 27th September 2014. The performance will be followed by a Question and Answer discussion, chaired by Kate Cooper of The New Optimists.

Bobbi Rage & Dave the Roadie avoid sunlight by hanging in the basement of Summerhall. In-between performances of The Furies, 8th August 2014