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11/03/2026

Before turning to painting, spent many years working as an actor in theatre, television and documentaries 🎭

That background still shapes how he approaches the canvas today.

For Carraro, a painting is like a stage. Colours become costumes, shapes become actors, and the painter becomes the director guiding the performance.

Many of his works centre around faces and characters, often inspired by small moments observed in everyday life. A passing expression, a stranger on a bus, a fleeting encounter that lingers in memory.

These observations slowly transform into figures on the canvas, carrying fragments of story and emotion.

In this month’s Featured Artist, we explore Carraro’s approach to painting, his theatrical influences, and the ideas behind works like Maria Dolores.

Thank you to Siro for letting us share his amazing work!

You can read the full conversation now on our blog or in Beyond Borders, linked in our bio 🫶

11/03/2026

Craig on his classic Vespa, 1989 (?) just unearthed by his brother Dean. Huge thanks to my good friend and former bandmate Neil, who first shared it with me earlier today …We went through a lot together, us lot. Times riding on the back of this scooter … rediculously loud stereo … got stopped by the cops because of it … or something like that …

Seeing this now, decades later, is both beautiful and bittersweet. The timing is uncanny: I’ve recently come across the lost tapes from that year, our early experimental recordings. It’s strange and moving how the past keeps finding its way back to us.

Craig left us far too young, but his energy, ideas, and spirit are still alive in so much of what I do. Can it really be a quarter of a century ago that he left us all behind to journey onwards?! 🤯🌀…Even my own name ‘Boohai’ comes from those early bands and conversations—our talks about philosophy, psychology, journeys through the universe. The work we did then, niche and wild, still echoes today.

We’re now mixing this experimental material, soundscapes, snippets, whatever it is exactly and hope to have it released into the wild by the end of this year. I think Craig would be very proud that it’s finally going to be heard … cos as weird n niche as the recordings are it was very real and we wore no masks when making it 😬😭👌🏻🐦‍🔥

To anyone who’s lost a brother, a friend, or a kindred spirit: I’m thinking of you. #1989

09/03/2026

1990s confession from me, the Chief Visionary:

Back at Phoenix Festival, the flyer was insane—David Bowie, Public Enemy, Neil Young, Dodgy, Prodigy, Manic Street Preachers, the S*x Pistols… and Alanis Morissette. Wild times. Real, unrepeatable, people-on-the-bill-were-everywhere moments. I had… interesting encounters with some of them, Ice-T included—but that’s another story.

But here’s the confession: I didn’t skip my own show to hang out with Alanis. I stayed, I played, I survived the chaos. Björk was there too, naturally. And beyond that—what happens on tour stays on tour.

Why this post? I got an anonymous email saying they’d heard I used to be a circus performer—and wondered how that fits with running a micronation. I found it pretty funny, because yes, I spent years doing street theatre, performance art, festivals, all kinds of creative stuff. If that worries anyone about a micronation, they’ve completely missed the point. It’s all about creativity, expression, progress, and thinking outside the box—less about wild encounters and more about chilled, imaginative energy that’s actually much more forward-thinking.

Anyway… I’m looking forward to more of that kind of creative energy in the future. And Alanis—sorry I didn’t show up, I was busy doing my show. I promise, it wasn’t personal. 😉😎🌀

09/03/2026

Come to our pathways to citizenship event on Facebook If you’re interested in becoming a founding citizen and accessible some of our unique Micronation citizen services…. Or come along anyway…. There are many routes to citizenship

08/03/2026

Today we are super pleased to welcome Emily Wilkinson as the micronation’s ‘curator of precious sounds’

Emily joins the nation as an honorary citizen and will lead a new exploration into listening, landscape and the hidden music of the world around us.

A writer, walking artist, researcher and coach based in North Wales, Emily creates soundscapes, podcasts, books and interdisciplinary creative projects. Her work explores walking arts, therapeutic landscapes and the deep relationship between people, place and sound.

Emily is currently completing a PhD with Aberystwyth and Exeter Universities, researching walking arts and therapeutic landscapes, funded by the South West & Wales Doctoral Training Partnership.

As curator of precious sounds, Emily will begin shaping a living vault of precious sounds for the citizens of the micronation — a slowly growing archive of atmospheres, textures and moments gathered from the audible world.

Natural sound, distant sound, forgotten sound.
Sounds that calm. Sounds that provoke curiosity.
Sounds that seem to hold a memory of a place.

From this unfolding archive we’ll begin exploring what these sounds might become — listening journeys, creative resources, shared moments of stillness, or something we haven’t yet imagined.

07/03/2026

Its been a steep learning curve over the past 15 years of living offgrid and about 20 years of managing a woodland rewinding project. I’m super pleased to be able to offer free consultancy sessions to founding citizens, this can be offgrid support, low impact living tips, ecological advice or chatting about how we started from zero soil in many areas at Bron Yr Aur and managed to get up to 80% self supply of our fruit, vegetables and herbs etc … 🌱🐦‍🔥✌️

05/03/2026

Community Corner 🫂

The Great British Beauty Clean Up is back for another year, bringing together brands, retailers and beauty professionals working towards a more circular beauty industry 💄

Led by and the , the campaign encourages businesses and consumers to rethink beauty waste through refill schemes, recycling points and take-back initiatives for packaging that cannot normally be recycled at home.

It is a practical reminder that small changes across an entire industry can lead to real impact.

Community Corner exists to spotlight initiatives rooted in creativity, sustainability and wellbeing.

If you would like more stories like this, sign up for our Beyond Borders newsletter through the link in our bio.

And if there is something you think deserves a spotlight next month, tag , tell us why it matters and we'll include it 🐦‍🔥

03/03/2026

From the US to Wales ✈️

Last week, in one intense night, eight tracks were recorded inside Bron Yr Aur, the cottage that inspired Led Zeppelin, blending the warmth of the 1970s with modern digital precision.

In our micronation, creativity isn’t something we just talk about.

When citizens show up with work, we support it. We open the studio, we give it time & we uplift!

That is what this community is for ❤️

If this is something you'd love to be part of, reach out to us.

03/03/2026

Last week at Bron Yr Aur 😍

Recording artist Eddy Dyer travelled from the US to record a new album, becoming the first Founding Citizen to visit after joining the micronation.

He flew in from the East Coast during a severe snowstorm that disrupted thousands of flights across the region. Despite the conditions, he arrived just in time for an intensive recording session.

In a single night, eight tracks were recorded, blending the warmth of 1970s analogue equipment with modern digital tools.

The album is now in the final stages of mixing and mastering under the guidance of chief visionary Boohai and will be released soon.

You can explore Eddy’s music on Bandcamp and follow him on Instagram

Founding is not symbolic, it's participatory!

27/02/2026

What a cool moment welcoming one of our founding citizens for a recording session at Bron Yr Aur. Great songs, performances and vibe — and an album completed in a day —- epic , exhausting and oldschool 👌🏻✌️…

25/02/2026

The first tryout proper of our incredible little reel to reel recorder tomorrow — mixing 1970’s tech with modern and more importantly capturing the frequency of Bron Yr Aur 👌🏻🐦‍🔥 despite epic snow Bomb storms across the east coast - USA we are looking forward to recording with founding citizen 🔥✌️

24/02/2026

Beyond Borders is our monthly newsletter 🌱🌍

Bringing together the different strands of Bron Yr Aur Micronation in one calm place. Inside each edition, you will find:

• Micronation updates on what is unfolding across our global community
• The Off Grid Edit with reflections from life at the Bron Yr Aur cottage and practical ideas you can take into your own life
• A Featured Artist spotlight celebrating creatives whose work reflects the spirit and values of the micronation
• Ruby’s Recipe - free downloadable veggie recipe
• Conversations with founders and citizens sharing stories of belonging and building something meaningful
• Community Corner highlighting people and projects that uplift across creativity, sustainability, and wellbeing
• Cultural recommendations, including books, films, and television
• Invitations to take part, along with information about becoming a citizen and joining our growing global micronation

It is designed to feel like a thoughtful, meaningful read rather than another stream of noise.

You can read and join via the link in our bio.

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