Archive for the 'Politics' Category
This weekend we were given a glimpse of how flooding can impact on your life with disasterous results and how having good neighbours who just happen to possess a digger and are prepared to get up and dressed having already retired for the night are worth their weight in gold! We live beneath a bank [...]
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So this summer, I was delighted to be asked to join the…. ermm, well, not exactly a ‘board’ more an advisory committee, a group of professionals to support/drive/encourage/advocate/beg on behalf of newly formed ‘Firestarter Arts’ a social enterprise and community interest company.
What! I hear you scoff…on earth… is a Community Interest Company!? Well I’m [...]
So March is almost over, Easter looms and there are murmurings in the ‘Arts ether’ of more changes to the Arts Council which, should they prove to be true remove any ‘legs’ ACE has left with which to run. Will they really merge the East region with the South East, will ACE development officers be [...]
Last week found me in the snow covered ‘garden of Kent’. Well less of a garden actually, more of a tarmac covered car park full of marquees and transit vans. Dads and uncles buzzed about tinkering with petrol engines whilst their sons and nephews dressed in their leather all in ones and protective helmets looked [...]
This morning the lady over the road, who has come over to the UK to give birth, has gone in to the hospital for a caesarian. On a small back road a car skidded on black ice and ended up on its roof. Yesterday the empty school bus skidded round a bend and into a [...]
“It’s the day when no-one must flinch”
James Naughtie
In my waking consciousness yesterday I heard James Naughtie talking to Carter Wren, Republican consultant on Radio 4s Today Programme:
“This is a story about Obama”…”The otherness of Obama, not just a matter of colour”…”this man has made history just by him participating in the election”, “…this man has [...]
Artsmonkey’s other blog- Travelling Light November 19, 2009I travel quite a bit in my role as a freelance creative consultant and often at my own expense, so I’m careful about my journeys. One of my favourite journeys is returning home from Brighton. Brighton, as far as I can tell is like Marmite, you either love it or you hate. I love it. [...]
- National Theatre of Wales - Live launch November 5, 2009Today is November the fifth a day for plots and coup attempts, remember? Well today also marked the official launch of the National Theatre of Wales and boy did they do it in style. Not only were parties being thrown across Wales but Producer Lucy Jones and Artistic Director John McGrath shared the event online [...]
- Poetry: invitations October 7, 2009autumn haiku .CrispAutumn. Dead leaves hang from tree like brown butterfly cocoons. Seasons of nature. ©theboywyatt This week sees National Poetry day come around again. I have a love/hate relationship with this day ever since I was asked to be part of a team delivering ‘poetry on the buses’ with mixed success. Our carefully picked mix of contemporary and […]
- Beep, beep. Out of my way slow coach! August 31, 2009Haiku’s courtesy of ‘theboywyatt’ http://theboywyatt.blogspot.com/ .GoFasterStripes. Loudly tooting horn! flicking the V’s at the flash. Speeding road rager. ©theboywyatt, 2009 I recently attended a ‘speed awareness workshop’ having been caught speeding by one of Wiltshires 18 (approx.) mobile speed camera’s, like many other unfortunate motorists […]
- Travelling Light November 19, 2009
