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Articulation is a network of people and organisations working across areas of Outdoor Arts, Circus and Spectacle in Scotland. Explore our current members or find out more about how you can get involved.

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Chrissie Ardill

Performer

Individual • Glasgow • Acrobatics, Aerial, Circus, Dance, Physical Performance

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Chrissie Ardill

Individual • Glasgow • Acrobatics, Aerial, Circus, Dance, Physical Performance

Performer

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Caitlin Miller

Producing Company

Organisation • Digital, Installation, Other

Scotland Re:Design (SRD) champions Scottish fashion, textiles, and interiors. We exist to connect designers, communities, and industries through innovative events, collaborations, and advocacy. Originally founded as the Glasgow Design Collective in 2005, SRD has evolved…
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Caitlin Miller

Organisation • Digital, Installation, Other

Producing Company

Scotland Re:Design (SRD) champions Scottish fashion, textiles, and interiors. We exist to connect designers, communities, and industries through innovative events, collaborations, and advocacy.

Originally founded as the Glasgow Design Collective in 2005, SRD has evolved into a national social enterprise, delivering impactful showcases, pop-ups, and festivals both locally and internationally.

At its heart, SRD strives to create meaningful opportunities for Scotland’s creative professionals, enabling them to present their work in fresh, unexpected ways. SRD’s runway shows, exhibitions, and pop-ups bring design into the public sphere, supporting a thriving creative community that animates Scotland’s cultural narrative.

As a CIC, SRD is driven by a dedication to supporting Scottish creatives through collaboration, fundraising, and resource-sharing. Through partnerships with designers, venues, and cultural institutions, SRD addresses industry gaps and creates platforms for growth in an often under-resourced sector. Recent projects include our Scottish Fashion Festival, the Royal Highland Show, and major brand launches, showcasing the breadth of Scottish talent to diverse audiences.

Rooted in community action and collective innovation, SRD shares the belief in the power of creative experiences to inspire and transform.

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Johanna Reid

Performer

Individual • Perth & Kinross • Aerial, Circus

I run the youth program and perform with adventure circus.
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Johanna Reid

Individual • Perth & Kinross • Aerial, Circus

Performer

I run the youth program and perform with adventure circus.

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Imogen Michel

Other

Individual • Glasgow • Aerial, Circus, Digital

Aerial Performance Rigger and IRATA L3 Rope Access Supervisor
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Imogen Michel

Individual • Glasgow • Aerial, Circus, Digital

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Aerial Performance Rigger and IRATA L3 Rope Access Supervisor

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Frodo McDaniel

Producer

Individual • Edinburgh • Circus, Clowning, Dance, Physical Performance, Street Theatre, Walkabout, Other

Frodo is an award-winning Producer, Playwright, and Director. He has over 20 years of experience working across the genres of theatre and circus in the UK and internationally. As a Producer, he has led projects…
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Frodo McDaniel

Individual • Edinburgh • Circus, Clowning, Dance, Physical Performance, Street Theatre, Walkabout, Other

Producer

Frodo is an award-winning Producer, Playwright, and Director. He has over 20 years of experience working across the genres of theatre and circus in the UK and internationally.

As a Producer, he has led projects all over the world from intimate cabarets to big top spectaculars and massive festivals. He has produced touring theatre and circus, nightclubs, awards ceremonies, charity spectaculars, and corporate events. For 3 years, he programmed and managed The Cabaret Tent for Scotland’s largest music festival, T in the Park and was General Manager of Scotland’s best small music festival, The Kelburn Garden Party for 5 years.

He is also an experienced performer and compère with a critically-acclaimed career as an actor and singer in musical theatre and various bands, as well as a long and varied resume in circus, clowning, and comedy.

As an established playwright, Frodo has written and co-written several plays and is currently creating abridged adaptations of the works of Shakespeare as part of his Bard Abridged series which are availble on Amazon.

As a person with a ‘hidden’ disability, Frodo champions inclusivity and access to all aspects of the Arts in his projects and is always delighted to work with LGBTQIA+ artsts and those who may face barriers to participation in the arts due to cultural background, race, or physical ability.

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All or Nothing

Producing Company

Organisation • Aerial

All or Nothing Aerial Dance Theatre are Scotland’s leading aerial dance company creating, performing, teaching and developing aerial arts throughout the country. Our work crosses the boundaries between the floor, air and the space between,…
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All or Nothing

Organisation • Aerial

Producing Company

All or Nothing Aerial Dance Theatre are Scotland’s leading aerial dance company creating, performing, teaching and developing aerial arts throughout the country. Our work crosses the boundaries between the floor, air and the space between, merging aerial arts with dance theatre and contemporary circus.

With performances ranging from small scale theatre to large scale outdoor spectacle, we tour extensively across Scotland, creating our own theatrical works for touring as well as developing aerial elements for events.
Participation is vital to the company’s work, believing that aerial and dance is for everyone, developing all kinds of opportunities for this to happen. All or Nothing constantly challenge assumptions of who can do aerial, opening up the artform to as many people as possible, developing audiences and participants.

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Jusztina Hermann

Performer

Individual • Edinburgh • Circus

Jusztina is an Edinburgh based performance artist and director. She has an MA on Theatre Theory and a Diploma in Physical Theatre Practice, as well as over two decades of experience in circus and street…
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Jusztina Hermann

Individual • Edinburgh • Circus

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Jusztina is an Edinburgh based performance artist and director. She has an MA on Theatre Theory and a Diploma in Physical Theatre Practice, as well as over two decades of experience in circus and street theatre. Her work combines the diversity of performing arts: physical theatre, circus, dance, puppetry, visuals, music and clowning. Jusztina has been directing and mentoring multi art form performances internationally since 2002 as well as devising her own work with Scottish circus-theatre company Delighters.

As a performance artist she is passionate about creating work for all audiences, from site specific outdoor theatre to black box theatre shows, work created to audiences of all ages to small scale intimate theatre. Her fire-theatre shows were performed internationally at Festa Del Fuoco di Stromboli (Italy), Earagail Arts Festival (Ireland), Galway Arts Festival (Ireland), Sziget Festival (Hungary). As a freelance performer she works with Scottish companies such as Jabuti Theatre, Rowanbank, Circus Alba and Irish landscape theatre company LUXe on a regular basis. She directed and performed with Festa Del Fuoco Ensemble (I), CircusTheatre Production (H), Firebirds (H), Circonnection, ENCI, and Iron Oxide.

She mentors circus artists as well as curates and produces Scotland’s ongoing circus showcase Cirqulation. The event has been running since early 2018 with sold out performances, and after 2019 have been awarded funding from Creative Scotland and the National Lottery Fund.

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Gerry Flanagan

Performer

Individual • Edinburgh • Clowning, Physical Performance, Street Theatre, Walkabout, Other

Walkabout Street Theatre, small scale touring, community participation projects to create a show, workshops in Clown and related subjects, devising and directing,
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Gerry Flanagan

Individual • Edinburgh • Clowning, Physical Performance, Street Theatre, Walkabout, Other

Performer

Walkabout Street Theatre, small scale touring, community participation projects to create a show, workshops in Clown and related subjects, devising and directing,

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Vanhulle Dance Theatre

Producing Company

Organisation • Acrobatics, Circus, Dance, Physical Performance

Vanhulle Dance Theatre creates highly physical, emotive and thought-provoking productions, fusing contemporary dance and martial arts. Our shows tour nationally and internationally. Connecting to our audiences is at the heart of what we do. We…
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Vanhulle Dance Theatre

Organisation • Acrobatics, Circus, Dance, Physical Performance

Producing Company

Vanhulle Dance Theatre creates highly physical, emotive and thought-provoking productions, fusing contemporary dance and martial arts. Our shows tour nationally and internationally. Connecting to our audiences is at the heart of what we do. We deliver professional classes and workshops across the UK and Europe, helping to develop and nurture aspiring performers. We bring high quality dance performances and workshops to schools, libraries, rural communities and Theatres, introducing thousands of people to dance.

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Ruben San Roman

Performer

Individual • Glasgow • Circus, Clowning, Installation, Physical Performance

Ruben San Roman Gamez is an experienced Designer/Artist/Maker living in Scotland who has based his own practice on the diversity of roles he has gone through along his professional experience within the Art/Scenic Dept. Working…
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Ruben San Roman

Individual • Glasgow • Circus, Clowning, Installation, Physical Performance

Performer

Ruben San Roman Gamez is an experienced Designer/Artist/Maker living in Scotland who has based his own practice on the diversity of roles he has gone through along his professional experience within the Art/Scenic Dept. Working on several types of productions from Opera to Film, Theatre or Advertisement, Music stages, Ballet, Dance, delivering set/scenic workshops and any kind of performative arts and installations. Gaining with the years an overall understanding on how a production gets generated from the early stages to it is set live, something that has made him able to bring his own designs to reality. He has a special predilection for theatre, specifically that Social Theatre for those who are excluded from the mainstream reach. Feeling really committed to environmental/ecological matters, and finding in Music and Nature his biggest forms of inspiration.
In 2023 Ruben got nominated to the best design in Scotland for “The Gift/The Unexpected Gift” Barrowland Ballet, and won the prize to the best children production with the same show by CATS.
Ruben decided to mash all those experiences up and undertake some clown training. Taking inspiration from his bold, raw, visceral, sometimes very naive perception/criticism about the world and human relationships. Something that is becoming a reality when directing or performing along modest but creative, original and honest collaborative projects. One of the main aims in Ruben´s work is making audiences question around social matters, psychological and human nature issues, and the forces driving interaction between individuals, always with a hint of sarcasm/dark humour

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Pia Kullik

Artist-Designer-Maker

Individual • Edinburgh • Carnival, Circus, Digital, Pyrotechnics, Street Theatre, Other

– Costume design and making (5 years experience), currently in the final year of my HND Costume for Stage and Screen at Edinburgh College. I can do wardrobe and props management as well. – Fire…
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Pia Kullik

Individual • Edinburgh • Carnival, Circus, Digital, Pyrotechnics, Street Theatre, Other

Artist-Designer-Maker

– Costume design and making (5 years experience), currently in the final year of my HND Costume for Stage and Screen at Edinburgh College. I can do wardrobe and props management as well.
– Fire safety tech for outdoor events big (Kelburn Garden Party, Beltane Fire Festival, Castle of Lights) and small (charity events with DeLighters). Includes fuel handling, setup/takedown and using appropriate equipment in case of emergencies. 6 years experience.
– Stage management (Kelburn Garden Party)
– IT and admin
– Fire performance

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Adam Towndrow

Producer

Individual • International • Aerial, Circus, Dance, Street Theatre, Walkabout

I support organisations to create, develop and tour award winning productions nationally and internationally. The productions I am involved in are of various scale and include promenade, static and site sensitive work. I am passionate…
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Adam Towndrow

Individual • International • Aerial, Circus, Dance, Street Theatre, Walkabout

Producer

I support organisations to create, develop and tour award winning productions nationally and internationally.

The productions I am involved in are of various scale and include promenade, static and site sensitive work.

I am passionate about co-creation and developing work to provide audiences and partipants with lasting and unforgetable experiences.

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Nicola Lawton

Performer

Individual • Glasgow • Circus, Physical Performance

I am a performer and producer based in Glasgow with 15 years of experience. My performance practice is in fire arts and more recently I have incorporated LED. My producing practice covers all types of…
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Nicola Lawton

Individual • Glasgow • Circus, Physical Performance

Performer

I am a performer and producer based in Glasgow with 15 years of experience. My performance practice is in fire arts and more recently I have incorporated LED. My producing practice covers all types of circus from aerial to acrobatics, juggling, clowning and more and often blends theatre, dance and other types of physical performance. I am currently Executive Producer for Scissor Kick Ltd a Glasgow based production company and sit on the board for Articulation.

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Sam Eccles

Arts Administrator

Individual • Glasgow • Other, Not Applicable

Supporting and Elevating the OACS in Scotland – helping people articulate and move towards their vision with speed
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Sam Eccles

Individual • Glasgow • Other, Not Applicable

Arts Administrator

Supporting and Elevating the OACS in Scotland – helping people articulate and move towards their vision with speed

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Zinnia Oberski

Performer

Individual • Clowning

Performer and maker Zinnia Oberski has an extensive movement background, predominantly in circus. She uses elements of physical theatre, dance and performance art to break the traditional circus aesthetic of the superhuman and focus on…
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Zinnia Oberski

Individual • Clowning

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Performer and maker Zinnia Oberski has an extensive movement background, predominantly in circus. She uses elements of physical theatre, dance and performance art to break the traditional circus aesthetic of the superhuman and focus on a strength that can only be accessed through vulnerability. Zinnia’s physical work is visceral and hypnotic, speaking directly to the subconscious and the human animal in the language of the body. Zinnia works in a holistic way, treating mind and body as one cohesive entity.

Having come from a background involving hard physical training she looks for balance between strength and softness in both movement and intention – a way of training which challenges the bodymind in a fun and positive way. Zinnia’s creative work is multi-artform and makes use of many different styles and techniques. She takes influence from circus, physical theatre, dance, animal movement, performance art and clown to make authentic work that travels beyond the purely visual. She is currently working on a new clown/bouffon show (FRUITOPIA) and touring her solo aerial show Dreams of the Small Gods in Scandinavia and northern Europe.

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Beverley Grant

Performer

Individual • Edinburgh • Aerial, Dance, Physical Performance

Aerial dance theatre performer and assistant director
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Beverley Grant

Individual • Edinburgh • Aerial, Dance, Physical Performance

Performer

Aerial dance theatre performer and assistant director

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Wren Winters

Programmer

Individual • Dumfries & Galloway • Other

Project coordinator and programming specialist engaging communities with festival development, art, heritage, and sustainable tourism.
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Wren Winters

Individual • Dumfries & Galloway • Other

Programmer

Project coordinator and programming specialist engaging communities with festival development, art, heritage, and sustainable tourism.

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Mark Bleakley

Performer

Individual • Glasgow • Dance, Installation

I am a Scottish and Irish artist and choreographer based between Scotland and Denmark where I completed my MFA in Choreography. I present work in both dance and visual arts contexts. Formally trained in visual…
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Mark Bleakley

Individual • Glasgow • Dance, Installation

Performer

I am a Scottish and Irish artist and choreographer based between Scotland and Denmark where I completed my MFA in Choreography. I present work in both dance and visual arts contexts. Formally trained in visual art, my practice is rooted in social dance through Bboying (Breakdancing) and House dance. Like the Gemini I am, my practice follows desire and pleasure in many directions at the same time, this has produced a practice that is equally social as it is conceptual, rhythmic as it is sculptural.

My work explores how We handle things; people, objects and how objects handle Us through: environments, architecture, and social structures. Specifically I am very interested in the power of dance to change and create new spaces and places.

Working in various collaborative roles of performer, artist, dramaturg, writer, I have worked with artists such as Jo Fong, Florence Peake, Colette sadler and Farah Saleh.

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Shaper/Caper

Producing Company

Organisation • Dance, Digital, Physical Performance

Shaper/Caper are an award winning dance theatre company based in Dundee presenting the work of choreographer Thomas Small. They present work on stage, outdoors and digitally. They work with communities to tell under represented stories…
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Shaper/Caper

Organisation • Dance, Digital, Physical Performance

Producing Company

Shaper/Caper are an award winning dance theatre company based in Dundee presenting the work of choreographer Thomas Small. They present work on stage, outdoors and digitally. They work with communities to tell under represented stories through programmes in schools, communities and outdoor settings

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Jennifer Paterson

Artist-Designer-Maker

Individual • Edinburgh • Aerial, Dance, Physical Performance

I originally trained in dance before being persuaded to take my feet off the ground and try aerial arts. From there I was sold and performed internationally in aerial and dance for several UK &…
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Jennifer Paterson

Individual • Edinburgh • Aerial, Dance, Physical Performance

Artist-Designer-Maker

I originally trained in dance before being persuaded to take my feet off the ground and try aerial arts. From there I was sold and performed internationally in aerial and dance for several UK & Irish Companies, directors, and in large scale events for over 20 years.
Currently I am Artistic Director of All or Nothing Aerial Dance Theatre, a company founded in Edinburgh in 2006. I direct and choreograph the majority of the company’s work including many outdoor performances. Also create opportunties to experience aerial at all levels and develop talent pathways for both those in the recreational and professional sector.
Outwith All or Nothing I mentor, teach and work as an aerial director, choreographer and advisor with a variety of companies across the arts sector.

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Ruaraidh Milne

Performer

Individual • Moray • Acrobatics, Aerial, Circus, Clowning, Pyrotechnics, Street Theatre, Walkabout

A wide range of stilt walking characters, fire shows, aerial performances (indoors and out), teaching (including acro). I work on solo and collaborative projects throughout Scotland, primarily in Highlands and Moray, also often Aberdeenshire and…
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Ruaraidh Milne

Individual • Moray • Acrobatics, Aerial, Circus, Clowning, Pyrotechnics, Street Theatre, Walkabout

Performer

A wide range of stilt walking characters, fire shows, aerial performances (indoors and out), teaching (including acro).
I work on solo and collaborative projects throughout Scotland, primarily in Highlands and Moray, also often Aberdeenshire and Central Belt.

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Jen Kelly

Performer

Individual • Glasgow • Clowning, Digital, Physical Performance, Other

I am a Glasgow based performance artist engaging with autobiography, visual and physical theatre, and storytelling. I use devising as a tool to create work that comments on societal structures. As an emerging artist and…
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Jen Kelly

Individual • Glasgow • Clowning, Digital, Physical Performance, Other

Performer

I am a Glasgow based performance artist engaging with autobiography, visual and physical theatre, and storytelling. I use devising as a tool to create work that comments on societal structures. As an emerging artist and facilitator, forming relationships with venues and artists is an important part of my practice.

I aim to harness performance to approach difficult topics. I view performance art as a way of approaching stigmas, specifically concerning mental health and societal structures. My practice is about reclaiming space through performance art, conceptualisation and connecting with audiences through emotion. I direct and devise work from various stimuli, including autobiographical content, ideas based from political conversations, devised movement and reimagining well known texts.

I write songs and comedy, which often features in work I make. I am inspired by music and use this as a tool to create visual art and physical theatre communicating a range of ideas and political comments to audiences. I facilitate workshops and participate in performance labs and networking events in the arts community within Glasgow and further afield. I have developed skills in producing and project management over the last few years.

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Rita Pacheco

Performer

Individual • Glasgow • Spoken Word, Other

Free improviser, sound-maker, performer, and multidisciplinary artist based in Glasgow. Work spans creating music, performance, and visual arts using found materials and everyday objects. Passionate about connecting with the community and blending art with nature,…
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Rita Pacheco

Individual • Glasgow • Spoken Word, Other

Performer

Free improviser, sound-maker, performer, and multidisciplinary artist based in Glasgow. Work spans creating music, performance, and visual arts using found materials and everyday objects. Passionate about connecting with the community and blending art with nature, with place. I have worked as a landscape architect for 25 years as a landscape designer and I am looking to change area to connect with people exploring creative local projects and outdoor activities. Actively seeking collaborations and to deepen connections and engage in creative placemaking.

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Riff Raff Producing CIC

Producing Company

Organisation • Aerial, Circus, Dance, Physical Performance, Puppetry, Pyrotechnics, Street Theatre, Other

Riff Raff Producing CIC is a creative arts and wellbeing organisation. As well as offering producing services to independent artists and arts organisations, we create accessible opportunities to the arts for main caregivers and their…
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Riff Raff Producing CIC

Organisation • Aerial, Circus, Dance, Physical Performance, Puppetry, Pyrotechnics, Street Theatre, Other

Producing Company

Riff Raff Producing CIC is a creative arts and wellbeing organisation. As well as offering producing services to independent artists and arts organisations, we create accessible opportunities to the arts for main caregivers and their families, believing that if we invest in main caregivers, it has ripple effects.

From the intimate to the spectacular, we create spaces, performances and participatory experiences that celebrate and bring together families and communities in all their forms, with our head-turning, heart-warming, multi-artform projects.

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