Author: Regina

We had an amazing time this weekend at Voidspace Live 2026 at Theatre Deli in London UK.

Many shows, durational performances and experiences, games and playable art throughout the day. We worked at the caffè area absorbing the wonderful vibe that surrounded the entire building filled with incredible creatives. 

Tom, Anne, Néa, Arthur, Ruth, Laura, Teri, Ben, Alistair, Amy, Charlotte, George, Alex, Chris, Bill, Mog and Jessica joined us and we made 29 dolls together. 

‘It was wonderful to make a doll with dreams. Connect with my hands and pour love into something physical.’ 

‘The meditative task was really nice to join in amongst the chaos of a larger festival. I only wish I could take my doll home but I’m excited to see what journey it goes on beyond me.’ 

‘A moment to slow down. Building a small piece of something much larger. A task that feels impossible but intrinsically valuable. Meditative and reflective.’ 

‘ Building, creating and seeing your dreams take shape. The struggle is part of the process, it forms you, it makes you who you are. Thank you for providing the space to build a dream with heart and soul.’ 

‘I found this to be a beautiful experience. A lovely meditative and thoughtful way to begin a day and make something g filled with dreams.’

‘Maybe the whole point is that we are simply making with our hands and chatting – maybe the ‘point’ is actually very simple. A beautiful project, thank you!’

‘People underestimate how much dreams their bodies can hold.’  

Thank you so much all lovely makers for sitting with me to make dolls and chat beautiful stories. Thank you Charlotte for donating three pillows for the project that George brought on Sunday. And I am SO grateful to Katy for inviting us, it was a privilege to contribute to Voidspace festival and share the space with such wonderful people, Thank You! 

I am extremely grateful for Compagnia di Arti e Mestieri in Pordenone and Biblioteca Villa Dora in San Giorgio di Nogaro for invited us to run workshops with their communities.

Our makers were Matteo, Giuseppe, Alberto, Daniele, Greta, Irene, Sobdra, Klaudio, Ritą, Filippo, Anastasia, Maria, Marco, Viviana, Ricardo, Chiara, Valentina, Denis, Massimo, Costantina, Sandrine, Donatella, Matteo, Eduardo, Serena, Ludovico, Loris, Massimo, Nadia, Noemi, Axel, Tanisha, Alexia, Serafina, Angelica, Alessandro, Rebecca, Ilary, Dario, Monica, Manuela, Rosa, Francesco, Chantana, Katia, Tomas, Cristina, Clara, Laila and Agata.

We made 37 dolls together. It was really cool to reconnect with some makers I met last November.

A special thank you for Filippo and his amazing groups of creatives, for Sandrine and Pordenone’s community and for Agata and the library team and all the families and kids of San Giorgio who joined us.

We had a great time creating together and I’m already missing all of you. Thank you so much for sharing your energy, time and love.

I love you. I love Italy!

Our last workshop in this tour to Friuli-Venezia Giulia region in north Italy.

We spent a sunny afternoon at Villa Dora library, in a beautiful ample room, running a workshop for kids and families from San Giorgio di Nogaro.

We made 20 dolls. Some kids during the meditation couldn’t stop laughing, it didn’t disturb the concentration of others though, they remained focused on meditating.

I am really grateful for all makers and for Agata and the library team who organised our beautiful session.

Grazie mile per tutto!

We run a workshop open for Pordenone’s community and eight people came up, six adults and two children. The organisers were afraid that there wasn’t a lot of people but it didn’t matter at all as we had a lovely time creating our dolls. We made seven. 

Thank you so much for being present and sharing your time, energy and care, I really appreciate the time we spent together. A huge thank you for Sandrine and Compagnia di Arti e Mestieri who invited us and organised everything. Thank you!

One of Fillipo’s groups had already made dolls before so we run a handwriting workshop having the relationship with the dolls as their inspiration for the main character of the play.

We were working in a theatre school so I called it playwriting but actually it can be called creative writing as any style of writing is welcome – novel, poetry, playwriting, memoir – any style that you are inspired to write by the doll. 

They worked individually, in couples and in group, in relationship with their chosen dolls, through observation and body movements. They took notes the entire session and at the end they wrote a short story/play which could be the beginning of something bigger developed later at home.

‘These dolls made our imagination soar. It was precisely my doll’s imperfections that made it unique and let my mind flies. If one of my ‘Armando’s’ legs hadn’t been a little longer than the other I would never invented the short story about a farmer with a passion for dancing. I also loved interacting with my classmates, with our final dance circle we joined our souls with those of our dolls. Thank you Regina for this moving experience.’ 

‘Yesterday was beautiful. Choosing the initial doll marked the beginning of an incredible introspective journey. The meditation combined with inner reflection helped me understand myself and the bond with my little doll. In the end, the text reflects our most intimate inner sides and also allowed me to better understand my companions. I recommend experiencing this with Regina at least once in a life time.’ 

‘I loved all my friends’ stories. Time flew extremely fast and I had so much fun. We shared our thoughts and dreams, the pure parte of ourselves, it was emotional. I noticed that we all wrote about love, friendship, human and animal rights.’ 

‘I did enjoy to write a story and, above all, the moment when we shared our stories and stayed together. It was also interesting to see how everyone reacted differently to the same stimulus. Thank you very much for this beautiful evening and for the activity.’ 

‘Engaging, stimulating, creative, relaxing and though-provoking. I enjoyed when at the end we read our stories to Regina.’ 

I feel that working with a doll made by other makers gives us the chance to connect with them. Somehow our words can reveal something about them as much as about us.

The words coming out of our hands are magical exactly like the dolls are. 

Some beautiful profound stories were created and shared within the group. I am glad the dolls helped to unlock such precious words/worlds.

Thank you for being so open for the experience and a big thank you to Filippo for sharing his group with us once more. Thank you all!

I was really happy to be invited again by Compagnia di Arti e Mestieri to run workshops at their theatre school. We run a doll- making session with one of Filippo’s groups.

It was a great pleasure to meet this new group. I am grateful to all for collaborating to the project and a huge thank you to Filippo who shared his group with me, we had a lovely time together.

Thank you!