Archive for the 'Sharing' 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 [...]
Yesterday I was wandering around Manor Farm, a living history site and Victorian Farm that forms part of Manor Farm Country Park near Burseldon in Hampshire www.hants.gov.uk/manorfarm and the large group of five to eight yr olds with me loved discovering how people only washed once a week and washed their clothes and slept three [...]
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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 [...]
No, not the British Fame Game or Bendy Funnel Gadget – the BFG is an excellent adaption by children’s theatre maestro David Wood, of Roald Dahl’s story The BFG (Big Friendly Giant) directed by Phil Clarke. As children’s shows go this is a class act and considering it’s a touring production there are no visible cracks in [...]
I have been reminded recently of the importance of *dancing* figuratively, metaphorically, literally any which way you roll. I was at the funeral of ‘Roz Hope’ the inimitable mother of an old friend and never a more upbeat, positive, moving occasion have I been a part of. The over-riding theme being to live life, it will [...]
Who inspired you to do something? Who inspires you to do what you’re doing? Who’s your Muse and why? Give it some thought.
I’ve been reading Lloyd Davis’s ‘Tuttle Report’ social media meet-up/network/idea’s factory which is transforming how people work, create and instigate business partnerships and ventures via the framework of social media. The Tuttle Report [...]
Further to my blog post ‘Bucking trends at Buckmore Park’ The Independent recently featured two articles along a similar theme; “hoodies, louts, scum. How the media demonises teenagers.” And a feature by author and father Anthony Horowitz “Why do we treat children as the enemy?” Two very interesting reads.
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March. Financial year end? Work starting to pile up after the winter downturn? Looking forward to a holiday? Dreaming of sun, sea and sand? Feeling all credit crunched and hunched up? Time for a comedy workshop maybe, or a residential, a nice weekend break.
A cheaper equivalent could 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 [...]
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
