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- Finbarre Snarey is a British arts and culture journalist, tarot researcher, producer and creative technologist based in Beeston, Nottinghamshire. He is the creator and host of Tarot Interviews, an interview series that uses randomly drawn tarot cards to structure conversations with writers, musicians and other cultural figures, and its text-based companion series Tarot DMs.
Snarey is also the founder and curator of the British Tarot Archive. His research focuses on the Rider-Waite-Smith tarot, tarot history and heritage, and the use of chance-based or aleatory methods in interviewing and cultural practice. His work has included research presented at Goldsmiths, University of London, and involvement in work documenting Rider-Waite-Smith tarot reading as living heritage in the UK.
His interview work has featured authors, musicians and artists including Joanne Harris, Adrian Tchaikovsky, Lauren Beukes, C.B. Lee and Lucy Rose. Drawing on a background in broadcasting, journalism and live cultural events, Snarey's work combines cultural reporting, experimental interview formats and research into the history and continuing cultural life of tarot.
- IMDb mini biography by: Finbarre Snarey
- SpouseNicola Snarey(August 30, 2008 - ?) (2 children)
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- Finbarre's birth year, 1978, mirrors the 78 cards found in a traditional tarot deck.
- The first deck of tarot cards Finbarre bought was a Rider-Waite-Smith deck bought from a second hand bookshop in Brighton. The box was wrapped in protective newspaper that happened to be printed the same day Finbarre was born.
- Finbarre Snarey has traced his ancestry to the Manners family of Belvoir Castle, who were involved in the 1619 "Witches of Belvoir" case.
- Tarot Interviews is produced in Beeston, Nottinghamshire. The town was also the birthplace of Robert William Felkin, a Golden Dawn leader who helped carry structured tarot traditions from Britain to New Zealand in the early 20th century.
- Tarot DMs is described as a "digital scrapbook" rather than a podcast, because interviews unfold through messenger apps and can include mixed media responses. Lucy Rose, author of The Lamb, described the Tarot DMs format as "so accessible" and "genius.".
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