From music to drama, from individual performers to ensembles, this is the home of stories about the Performing Arts, which form an important part of our Community life.

  • Performing Arts Findhorn News Jan 1973

Findhorn News – Performing Arts (1973)

|2026-02-24T07:14:15+00:00February 17th, 2026|Categories: Performing Arts|Tags: , , , |

Of the many bridges that are being built between Findhorn and the world around us, perhaps the most immediate and concrete is our new theatre...it provides a stable and somewhat permanent vehicle for the direct transmission of energies between performing artists from within the community and our audience, which consists to a large extent, of people from outside the community.

  • Ed and the cast of The Genial Muse, a play he wrote and directed in 1971. He’s the first person standing to the right of the two guitarists. Left to right of all the players, Mary Hilton, Joan Degan, Toby , Milenko Mata

Ed Maxcy: The Genial Muse and the early days of the performing arts

|2026-09-18T18:06:28+01:00November 18th, 2025|Categories: People, Performing Arts|Tags: , , , , |

Findhorn Foundation Community performing arts pioneer Ed Maxcy, stage name Alexis, not only wrote, produced and directed the community’s first full-length musical The Genial Muse in 1971, but embodied the very essence of that Muse every hour of his community life.

  • Stewart Friendship Barrel photo Alex Wright

Our Findhorn Barrel #23 – Cooking in Cluny Hill

|2025-08-03T17:14:56+01:00August 3rd, 2025|Categories: Community Culture, Community Places, Findhorn Journeys, Performing Arts|Tags: , , , |

I first came to the Findhorn Foundation's Cluny Hill College 25 years ago and spent most of my time working in the kitchen. Having grown up with the Panto tradition I brought that with me and have written and directed many pantomimes in the Community.

Hans Poulsen songs

|2025-07-17T21:32:23+01:00July 14th, 2025|Categories: Community Culture, Performing Arts|Tags: , , , |

Hans Poulsen (1945–2023) was an Australian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work in the late 1960s and early ’70s pop scene. Drawn by the Park Ecovillage Findhorn community's emphasis on inner listening, co-creation with nature, and service, Poulsen contributed significantly to its cultural and musical life.

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