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I’ve recently completed training as a coach thanks to a brilliant course run by Relational Dynamics 1st. As well as coaching, it covered leadership and communication skills. I can’t help […]
I’ve recently completed training as a coach thanks to a brilliant course run by Relational Dynamics 1st. As well as coaching, it covered leadership and communication skills. I can’t help […]
On the back of a fascinating visit to Sonica festival in Glasgow back in October, I asked the team who lead the festival, Cathie Boyd and Claire Moran of Cryptic, […]
Back in October I was in sunny Glasgow (yes, it really was sunny), sitting in the window of a shop while the shopping centre crowds passed by and stared at […]
A couple of weeks ago I took part in a sound piece called the Listening Choir at Fierce Festival in Birmingham. Listening Choir is a project that takes audiences on […]
Somehow I am now 6 months in to the BOOM scheme. Ordinarily the summer months are the quietest of my year: a time for research, contemplation, reviewing processes, filing and […]
I went to Green Man festival recently with Antonio Roberts, who had been commissioned to create an outdoor art installation for the festival site. It’s part of a rolling commissioning […]
As part of the BOOM programme I’ve been spending a bit of time out and about recently, seeing artworks which take music and sound outdoors. At Bluedot festival last weekend […]
Curating is becoming a buzzword, applied not just to art but to your Instagram feed, your Spotify playlists, your wardrobe, the contents of your fridge… Curating has been democratised: no […]
Craftspace are encouraging cyclists to visit them in Birmingham this week to pose for a portrait whilst cycling. The portrait is embroidered by Harriett Riddell using a sewing machine powered […]
Birmingham’s towering, shiny, new library opened today. Back when it was nothing more than a big hole in the ground, I honestly remember thinking: why is everyone so excited about […]