Public output by the wider network:

Tête à Tête Opera Company (2006)
A Shetland Odyssey (DVD)
The Shetland knitters in this work were identified through/or involved in OTE’s Maakin Lab project. A Shetland Odyssey DVD is a collaboration between Bill Bankes-Jones, artistic director of Tête à Tête and On the Edge. Part of this footage documents the process OTE engaged in with Tête à Tête, introducing the opera team to the network of knitters and their issues.

Subsequently the opera Odysseus Unwound (formally A Shetland Odyssey) toured in winter 2006, including London, Stavanger and the Shetland Isles. Publicity included: a programme booklet; an article about A Shetland Odyssey on HI-Arts web site, June 2005; an article about A Shetland Odyssey on Shetland News web site, May 2004. The production was accompanied by a extensive education programme led by Chroma - Shetland Odyssey Schools Projects 2006
http://www.chromaensemble.co.uk/odyssey/shetland/links.htm

The touring company of over 25 included 5 of the Shetland Islands leading knitters and spinners, and both the concept and production reinvigorated the debate about new opera and received critical acclaim and praise -
" “Plenty to admire"” The Times 2006 “
"The performance was excellent"” The Guardian 2006
(Extract from Tête à Tête web site)

This represents one of the key experiences of co development that has recently informed new OTE research into an ecology of the arts, currently under development.