I have an idyllic life for a writer, with the man I love on a remote Cornish farm, so my fellowship seemed under-deserved. I likened the process of moving my writing base from Land’s End to Civitella to moving apartments in Heaven. What I hadn’t reckoned on was the...
My experience at Civitella was a good shot in the arm. As if being there alone was not already enough for me, meeting those people there, those Fellows there, those exchanges of points of views and those shared good moments was amazingly enriching. As I reflect now, I...
Written at Civitella, May/June 2008 DEJA VU 1 The young couple is visiting the Amusement Park. She wants to get into the Space Vehicle, a dark roller coaster that goes through the interstellar void at tremendous speed. He does not want to, he´s afraid. They quarrel...
One of the very special ways we can think about working and living at Civitella is the fact that very rarely, artists have the opportunity to experience deep reflection, meditation and producing work in an environment totally different from the one he/she is used to....
