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Untitled blog post from "ActivistArt"
After a year of working with a great bunch of women in the north east of england, we managed to pull off a great conference, and a fantastic sense of achievement – to be involved in such a partipatory creative […]
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Untitled blog post from "walking with summer"
2013 Activist artist activist artist Artist activist Artist as activist activist as artist activist art art activist this is some of what I have been doing for over a year now where is the meeting point of creativity, challenging injustice […]
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Untitled blog post from "walking with summer"
Waiting Waiting for the seeds of doubt to fall waiting for my face to smile waiting watering the growing watering the shouting watering the tears arms hold my soul the weight of love
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Untitled blog post from "walking with summer"
Remembering standing still, in layers, omelettes of snow. waiting for listening to catch up with my senses. Walking in summer. Warm winds dance out the seeds of rose bay willow herb in the evening light. they move, turn, stop, become […]
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Untitled blog post from "Positive Volunteering"
continued… With other members of the Citizen panel I went on a number of visits to ancient and unique woodland in Durham called High Wood, which we felt, would be ideal as a special place for a creative response in […]
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Untitled blog post from "Positive Volunteering"
I became involved in a Citizen’s Panel as a volunteer at Durham University with the Institute of Advanced Study, in January this year, for a number of reasons. My regular Visiting Lecturer work and project work in Schools was cut […]
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Untitled blog post from "What do we want?"
pulling together communication sharing less hierarchy work class sizes limited to 15 pupils compassion understanding everyone feeling of worth fair and equal pay pay a life filled and lived for learning for the sake of listening respect debate conversation looking […]
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Untitled blog post from "Poverty, dignity and work"
‘Jobs for the Boys’. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/player/b01l7wqh A great short programme on Radio 4’s ‘Thinking Allowed’ re new Evidence that there is still great discrimnation in the arts and that unless you come from a middle class background it is still very […]
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Untitled blog post from "What do we want?"
Saw an amazing and on the edge piece of live theatre on Saturday at Northern Stage, the Belarus Free Theatre in ‘Minsk 2011’, most members of the company have either been arrested, some tortured and/or lost their jobs or places […]
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Untitled blog post from "What do we want?"
Have had a collaboartive video piece accepted for a Salon, yippee! Submitted more and updated entries for a Workshop Facilitators site and it seems to have taken all day, ridicoulous. Rain, fog and more rain here in Gateshead, while trying […]
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Untitled blog post from "What do we want?"
Is this what we are choosing?
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Untitled blog post from "Poverty, dignity and work"
since the cuts last year i have lost all my freelance education work and my higher education lecturing work. I have made five new pieces of art work without any budget – i decided to come out fighting – my […]