Breaks & Joins Podcast Fri, 29 May 2026 04:57:58 -0400 http://www.suemayo.co.uk/ en-gb © 2026 Breaks & Joins Podcast yes 3cbff3f6-f3cd-5163-a3cb-ac40e512f22a Sue Mayo episodic false These chats about repair (our stuff, ourselves and our communities) range from mending textiles to the repair of broken bones, from up-cycling in the pandemic to community conflict in Bangladesh, from home made Punk Clothes to celebrating scars. Growing out of a Community project in Lewisham, South East London the podcasts give more space for longer conversations, and you'll be able to hear Rose Sinclair, textile specialist, Raj Bhari, Peacebuilder, talking with Clare MacDonald, artist and Unitarian Minister, Dr Sylvan Baker, founder of The Verbatim Formula,textile dyer Liz Honeybone from the National Theatre costume department, Theatre Designer Amanda Mascarenhas chatting with Mo Sumah, host of the Mend it with Mo repair cafe, Suzi Warren, founder of Stitch it Dont ditch it, theatre academics Sudip Chakroborthy and Ali Campbell on national identities, and Rachel Ho, ceramicist and creator of the scarred pots.They're interviewed by Sue Mayo, edited by Chuck Blue Lowry, music by Bob Karperhttp://www.suemayo.co.uk/

]]> Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) mending, repair, breaks, joins, fixing, arts, crafts, sewing, mend, activism Sue Mayo https://storage.buzzsprout.com/c8mmmcpp7awxkb1nle1a2g8a33id?.jpg Breaks & Joins Podcast http://www.suemayo.co.uk/ Series 8, Episode 8: Paula Ogun Hector Series 8, Episode 8: Paula Ogun Hector Jamaican–Haitian–British artist and curator Paula Ogun Hector founded Tapestry of Black Britons to honour the often-overlooked African Caribbean presence in Britain, from the Roman era to today. The project began with a woven dialogue between a Yoruba creation story and World War II histories, setting the foundation for an evolving, interdisciplinary, touring artwork. Blending research, digital innovation, heritage craft, and education, the Tapestry invites creatives, schools, universities, and researchers to engage with archives through making. By encouraging participation through needle, tablet, or pencil, it bridges gaps in historical knowledge and nurtures culturally connected, empowered communities.

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https://www.instagram.com/tapestry_of_black_britons/ 

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-18591289 Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:00:00 +0000 2043 8 8 full false Series 8, Episode 7: Zak Foster Series 8, Episode 7: Zak Foster Zak is a community-taught artist whose work draws on Southern textile traditions and repurposed fabrics. He practices an approach to design that is based in narrative and guided by intuition. He is especially drawn to preserving the stories of quilts and explores stories we tell ourselves about the past, present, and future in his work. His work has been featured in on the red carpet of the Met Gala, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as various magazines, websites, and galleries. His book THE WORLD NEEDS YOUR NEXT QUILT and the community he hosts, the QUILTY NOOK, connect and inspire quilters and makers all over the world.

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]]> Zak is a community-taught artist whose work draws on Southern textile traditions and repurposed fabrics. He practices an approach to design that is based in narrative and guided by intuition. He is especially drawn to preserving the stories of quilts and explores stories we tell ourselves about the past, present, and future in his work. His work has been featured in on the red carpet of the Met Gala, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as various magazines, websites, and galleries. His book THE WORLD NEEDS YOUR NEXT QUILT and the community he hosts, the QUILTY NOOK, connect and inspire quilters and makers all over the world.

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-18553570 Thu, 22 Jan 2026 17:00:00 +0000 2167 8 7 full false Series 8, Episode 6: Abu Ansari Series 8, Episode 6: Abu Ansari Content alert: This podcast includes reference to suicide

Abu Ansari is a performer and facilitator working in Chicago and London. He spent 20 years performing on Chicago stages and worked as a performance-based facilitator addressing a variety social issues. He co-founded Mango Riot Theatre in the UK, launching a program that engages youth in colonial history debates. While earning an MA in Applied Theatre, he explored loneliness and minority stress through participatory workshops for LGBTQ+ communities in London. His current project, The Other L Word, invites adults to share experiences of loneliness through performance, aiming to challenge societal structures that perpetuate isolation.

Weblink: www.mangoriot.org

Categories: Artists on the practice

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Abu Ansari is a performer and facilitator working in Chicago and London. He spent 20 years performing on Chicago stages and worked as a performance-based facilitator addressing a variety social issues. He co-founded Mango Riot Theatre in the UK, launching a program that engages youth in colonial history debates. While earning an MA in Applied Theatre, he explored loneliness and minority stress through participatory workshops for LGBTQ+ communities in London. His current project, The Other L Word, invites adults to share experiences of loneliness through performance, aiming to challenge societal structures that perpetuate isolation.

Weblink: www.mangoriot.org

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Arts and Health

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-18520035 Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:00:00 +0000 1851 full false Series 8, Episode 5: Dr Sofie Layton Series 8, Episode 5: Dr Sofie Layton Sofie Layton is an artist, researcher and facilitator who has worked nationally and internationally for over 30 years. Her most recent research practice explores the interface between artist, patient and clinical landscapes. Interweaving lived experience with remediated medical data, she examines how the human story is entangled with the medical. Previous commissions include installations ‘Bedside Manners’ (Evelina Children’s Hospital 2012) and ‘Making the Invisible Visible’ (Great Ormond Street Hospital 2015-2016) exhibited internationally. ‘The Heart of the Matter’ (2016-2018), a national touring exhibition funded by Wellcome and ACE, addressed the medical, experiential and poetic dimensions of the heart. In ‘Does AI Care?’ (2023), commissioned by the London Science Gallery, she worked alongside young adults in remission from cancer to probe AI’s role in contemporary medical care. Her PhD, funded by LAHP - London Arts and Humanities Partnership (AHRC), awarded in 2025, developed multiple methods of artistic remediation and translation of medical data. This was used to investigate the materialisation of pregnancy, culminating in the performative installation Loss is Mine and is Stored within this Body. She has since become a research associate on the Visual and Materials Lab which is part of the Discovery Research Platform for the Medical Humanities at Durham University (funded by the Wellcome Trust). Her current research practice extends her PhD work, further exploring the non-diagnostic use of medical data through workshops, artworks and performance. 

http://www.sofielayton.co.uk

http://www.insidetheheart.org 

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]]> Sofie Layton is an artist, researcher and facilitator who has worked nationally and internationally for over 30 years. Her most recent research practice explores the interface between artist, patient and clinical landscapes. Interweaving lived experience with remediated medical data, she examines how the human story is entangled with the medical. Previous commissions include installations ‘Bedside Manners’ (Evelina Children’s Hospital 2012) and ‘Making the Invisible Visible’ (Great Ormond Street Hospital 2015-2016) exhibited internationally. ‘The Heart of the Matter’ (2016-2018), a national touring exhibition funded by Wellcome and ACE, addressed the medical, experiential and poetic dimensions of the heart. In ‘Does AI Care?’ (2023), commissioned by the London Science Gallery, she worked alongside young adults in remission from cancer to probe AI’s role in contemporary medical care. Her PhD, funded by LAHP - London Arts and Humanities Partnership (AHRC), awarded in 2025, developed multiple methods of artistic remediation and translation of medical data. This was used to investigate the materialisation of pregnancy, culminating in the performative installation Loss is Mine and is Stored within this Body. She has since become a research associate on the Visual and Materials Lab which is part of the Discovery Research Platform for the Medical Humanities at Durham University (funded by the Wellcome Trust). Her current research practice extends her PhD work, further exploring the non-diagnostic use of medical data through workshops, artworks and performance. 

http://www.sofielayton.co.uk

http://www.insidetheheart.org 

@sofielayton

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-18475769 Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:00:00 +0000 2110 8 5 full false Series 8, Episode 4: James Holcombe & Alberto Bona Series 8, Episode 4: James Holcombe & Alberto Bona James Holcombe is a filmmaker with decades of experience in photochemical film production. His practice merges a deep engagement with re-discovered historical, material and social processes of photochemical film production through single screen and expanded performance works. He is the owner of erehwon film. erehwon runs workshops and actively curates workshops, performances, screenings, residencies, and events through workshops and bespoke 1:1 

https://www.erehwonfilm.uk/

Insta: erehwon_film

Italian-born Alberto Bona began his journey as a cartoonist before honing his craft as an actor in London. Fascinated by the expressive power of silent cinema, he has produced and filmed several short films and music videos using clockwork cameras. His work is distinguished by flamboyant characters inhabiting worlds that blur the line between the surreal and the oneiric.

Instagram: @arepofilms

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]]> James Holcombe is a filmmaker with decades of experience in photochemical film production. His practice merges a deep engagement with re-discovered historical, material and social processes of photochemical film production through single screen and expanded performance works. He is the owner of erehwon film. erehwon runs workshops and actively curates workshops, performances, screenings, residencies, and events through workshops and bespoke 1:1 

https://www.erehwonfilm.uk/

Insta: erehwon_film

Italian-born Alberto Bona began his journey as a cartoonist before honing his craft as an actor in London. Fascinated by the expressive power of silent cinema, he has produced and filmed several short films and music videos using clockwork cameras. His work is distinguished by flamboyant characters inhabiting worlds that blur the line between the surreal and the oneiric.

Instagram: @arepofilms

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-18456352 Mon, 05 Jan 2026 17:00:00 +0000 2527 8 4 full false Series 8, Episode 3: Hannah Kayi Mason Series 8, Episode 3: Hannah Kayi Mason Hannah is an experienced cultural practitioner with over 20 years’ experience in the arts, education, public and private sectors. An innovative problem solver and entrepreneurial creative communicator. A strategic leader with a natural gift for working at all levels and across multiple and diverse stakeholders, with a phenomenal track record of working at the intersection of diversity, art and culture. As Head of Social Entrepreneur Support at UnLtd, Hannah led a team of exceptional people helping others to solve societies toughest challenges. Currently leading InCommon as CEO, Hannah is focussing on social connection across generations to create impactful communities.

In Common is a Charity connecting groups of young people with their older neighbours so they can share experiences, celebrate diffferences and learn from each other

https://incommon.org.uk/

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]]> Hannah is an experienced cultural practitioner with over 20 years’ experience in the arts, education, public and private sectors. An innovative problem solver and entrepreneurial creative communicator. A strategic leader with a natural gift for working at all levels and across multiple and diverse stakeholders, with a phenomenal track record of working at the intersection of diversity, art and culture. As Head of Social Entrepreneur Support at UnLtd, Hannah led a team of exceptional people helping others to solve societies toughest challenges. Currently leading InCommon as CEO, Hannah is focussing on social connection across generations to create impactful communities.

In Common is a Charity connecting groups of young people with their older neighbours so they can share experiences, celebrate diffferences and learn from each other

https://incommon.org.uk/

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-18380237 Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:00:00 +0000 1876 8 3 full false Series 8, Episode 2: Chris Hellawell Series 8, Episode 2: Chris Hellawell Chris Hellawell is the Director of the Edinburgh Tool Library

Chris has an educational background in environmental science, but began working in the charity sector 20 years ago. In 2014 he found a way to combine his dual passions of environmental and social justice by starting the first tool library in the UK, and since then it has grown to encompass multiple sites across Edinburgh, where carbon heavy DIY equipment is shared and treated as an asset for the whole community to access. From this starting point, other projects have blossomed, driven by the community around the libraries, and now include a cycle kitchen, Repair Cafe Edinburgh, a draught-busting initiative supporting people in fuel poverty, a programme of weekend volunteer builds, and an outreach programme that specifically targets individuals from groups often excluded from the workshop environment and the trades and making industries. Chris believes that sharing gives access, access gives opportunity, and opportunities can change lives. 

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]]> Chris Hellawell is the Director of the Edinburgh Tool Library

Chris has an educational background in environmental science, but began working in the charity sector 20 years ago. In 2014 he found a way to combine his dual passions of environmental and social justice by starting the first tool library in the UK, and since then it has grown to encompass multiple sites across Edinburgh, where carbon heavy DIY equipment is shared and treated as an asset for the whole community to access. From this starting point, other projects have blossomed, driven by the community around the libraries, and now include a cycle kitchen, Repair Cafe Edinburgh, a draught-busting initiative supporting people in fuel poverty, a programme of weekend volunteer builds, and an outreach programme that specifically targets individuals from groups often excluded from the workshop environment and the trades and making industries. Chris believes that sharing gives access, access gives opportunity, and opportunities can change lives. 

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-18343348 Fri, 12 Dec 2025 14:00:00 +0000 1868 8 2 full false Series 8, Episode 1: Sarah P Corbett Series 8, Episode 1: Sarah P Corbett Sarah is Founding Director of Craftivist Collective and Gentle Protest. She  is an award-winning activist, author and Ashoka Fellow. Born in Everton, the fourth most deprived ward in the UK. An Activism Manager at Oxfam GB before founding the global Craftivist Collective in 2009. Corbett calls her unique methodology ‘Gentle Protest’ and her work has helped change hearts, minds, policies and laws around the world. Collaborations include Save the Children, The Climate Coalition, Girlguiding, Helsinki Design Week, Tate, V&A, BBC, SkyArts and Secret Cinema amongst others. The Craftivist Collective Handbook was awarded best multimedia book of 2025 by the Creative Book Awards

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]]> Sarah is Founding Director of Craftivist Collective and Gentle Protest. She  is an award-winning activist, author and Ashoka Fellow. Born in Everton, the fourth most deprived ward in the UK. An Activism Manager at Oxfam GB before founding the global Craftivist Collective in 2009. Corbett calls her unique methodology ‘Gentle Protest’ and her work has helped change hearts, minds, policies and laws around the world. Collaborations include Save the Children, The Climate Coalition, Girlguiding, Helsinki Design Week, Tate, V&A, BBC, SkyArts and Secret Cinema amongst others. The Craftivist Collective Handbook was awarded best multimedia book of 2025 by the Creative Book Awards

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-18301213 Thu, 04 Dec 2025 20:00:00 +0000 2237 8 1 full false Series 7, Episode 8: Morag Anderson Series 7, Episode 8: Morag Anderson Morag Anderson’s second chapbook, And I Will Make of You a Vowel Sound, won the Aryamati Poetry Pamphlet Prize and was described by TS Eliot Prize-winning poet Joelle Taylor as 'Delicate and furious, a haunting act of worship, of rebellion, and story. She was poet-in-residence for the 2024 Birnam Book Festival and for Dublin’s Creative Brain Week 2024 held at Trinity College. Recent commissions include The Scottish Poetry Library, The Canmore Suicide Prevention Trust, The National Trust for Scotland, and the Perth Festival of the Arts. Morag is currently a delegate on Arvon’s two-year Advanced Writing Programme.

https://www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/product-page/morag-anderson-poetry-bundle 

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poet/morag-anderson/

https://thebrokenspine.co.uk/2024/10/20/morag-andersons-evolution-from-gritty-realism-to-expansive-lyricism-in-sin-is-due-to-open-in-a-room-above-kittys-and-and-i-will-make-of-you-a-vowel-sound/

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]]> Morag Anderson’s second chapbook, And I Will Make of You a Vowel Sound, won the Aryamati Poetry Pamphlet Prize and was described by TS Eliot Prize-winning poet Joelle Taylor as 'Delicate and furious, a haunting act of worship, of rebellion, and story. She was poet-in-residence for the 2024 Birnam Book Festival and for Dublin’s Creative Brain Week 2024 held at Trinity College. Recent commissions include The Scottish Poetry Library, The Canmore Suicide Prevention Trust, The National Trust for Scotland, and the Perth Festival of the Arts. Morag is currently a delegate on Arvon’s two-year Advanced Writing Programme.

https://www.flyonthewallpress.co.uk/product-page/morag-anderson-poetry-bundle 

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poet/morag-anderson/

https://thebrokenspine.co.uk/2024/10/20/morag-andersons-evolution-from-gritty-realism-to-expansive-lyricism-in-sin-is-due-to-open-in-a-room-above-kittys-and-and-i-will-make-of-you-a-vowel-sound/

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-17252265 Fri, 30 May 2025 10:00:00 +0100 2300 7 8 full false Series 7, Episode 7: Haeweon Yi Series 7, Episode 7: Haeweon Yi Haeweon is a theatremaker, writer, and researcher from Korea, now based in the UK. As a co-artistic director of Blooming Ludus, she has been making diverse community-based theatre projects for climate justice and a sustainable future since 2015. Her current PhD research at the University of Manchester is on nurturing performance practice, “Theatre of Decomposition,” which explores human–fungi relationships, mourning and celebrating in the meshwork of the ecological crises. Her recent works include 'Welcome to the Planet,' a pansori theatre for toddlers of the Anthropocene, 'This Play Is Written in Mushroom' (for CCTA 2023), and 'How to Become a Rock.'

Citizen scientists and Lichen Camp: https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/environment/climate/citizen-scientists-set-to-celebrate-closure-of-annapolis-county-lichen-camp/ 

Friends of Goldsmith Lake Wilderness Area: https://www.facebook.com/groups/friendsofgoldsmithlake/ 

Support and learn more about protecting the old forests in Mi'kma'ki (NS, Canada) – https://saveouroldforests.ca 

Unseen World (Megan Giffen), the organiser of the first fungi festival in Nova Scotia "Myceliates" (2022): https://www.instagram.com/unseenworld.ca/

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]]> Haeweon is a theatremaker, writer, and researcher from Korea, now based in the UK. As a co-artistic director of Blooming Ludus, she has been making diverse community-based theatre projects for climate justice and a sustainable future since 2015. Her current PhD research at the University of Manchester is on nurturing performance practice, “Theatre of Decomposition,” which explores human–fungi relationships, mourning and celebrating in the meshwork of the ecological crises. Her recent works include 'Welcome to the Planet,' a pansori theatre for toddlers of the Anthropocene, 'This Play Is Written in Mushroom' (for CCTA 2023), and 'How to Become a Rock.'

Citizen scientists and Lichen Camp: https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/environment/climate/citizen-scientists-set-to-celebrate-closure-of-annapolis-county-lichen-camp/ 

Friends of Goldsmith Lake Wilderness Area: https://www.facebook.com/groups/friendsofgoldsmithlake/ 

Support and learn more about protecting the old forests in Mi'kma'ki (NS, Canada) – https://saveouroldforests.ca 

Unseen World (Megan Giffen), the organiser of the first fungi festival in Nova Scotia "Myceliates" (2022): https://www.instagram.com/unseenworld.ca/

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-17210311 Thu, 22 May 2025 18:00:00 +0100 2267 7 7 full false Series 7, Episode 6: Arti Prashar Series 7, Episode 6: Arti Prashar Arti’s inclusive creative practice champions diverse voices, and immersive sensory theatre practice for people living with dementia and learning disabled people. She has a strong commitment to collaborative theatre with values based on fundamental human rights. Arti stepped down as Spare Tyre's Artistic Director/CEO in August 2019 after inspirational and acclaimed leadership for 19 years. 2023/24 Director ‘Ballad of Thamesmead’ GDIF/Dante or Die Lead artist ‘Meet Your Neighbour’ Tara Theatre Lead artist The Chatter Project’ Chichester Festival Theatre. ‘My Great Escape’ Acousmatic storytelling collaboration with Julia Schauerman to produce an audio recording and live immersive event. Co-Chair of CADA (Creative Ageing: Development Agency), Chair of The Amplify Project, Awarded OBE in 2022 for services to Arts and Dementia, Awarded Tonic Award 2020 (inclusion and diversity), Churchill Fellow 2013 (spirituality, dementia and ageing) 

LinkedIn: @artiprashar 

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]]> Arti’s inclusive creative practice champions diverse voices, and immersive sensory theatre practice for people living with dementia and learning disabled people. She has a strong commitment to collaborative theatre with values based on fundamental human rights. Arti stepped down as Spare Tyre's Artistic Director/CEO in August 2019 after inspirational and acclaimed leadership for 19 years. 2023/24 Director ‘Ballad of Thamesmead’ GDIF/Dante or Die Lead artist ‘Meet Your Neighbour’ Tara Theatre Lead artist The Chatter Project’ Chichester Festival Theatre. ‘My Great Escape’ Acousmatic storytelling collaboration with Julia Schauerman to produce an audio recording and live immersive event. Co-Chair of CADA (Creative Ageing: Development Agency), Chair of The Amplify Project, Awarded OBE in 2022 for services to Arts and Dementia, Awarded Tonic Award 2020 (inclusion and diversity), Churchill Fellow 2013 (spirituality, dementia and ageing) 

LinkedIn: @artiprashar 

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-17171032 Thu, 15 May 2025 20:00:00 +0100 2634 7 6 full false Series 7, Episode 5: John Dash Series 7, Episode 5: John Dash "I volunteer with Cycling Club Hackney (CCH) My, now adult, children grew up riding and racing with the club and I have used a bike for transport all my adult life - and dabbled in a bit of cyclocross veterans racing. My main sport (for 40 years) has been unicycle hockey.  During the week I work as a property management adviser for Quakers in Britain, with a background in building and structural engineering. The Quaker testimonies to: Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community, Equality & Stewardship are a valuable guide."

On most Saturdays John sets up a drop in cycle repair drop-in, on a street corner near CCH, with many regulars, including children who he has seen through mnay bikes, and others like delivery couriers who are really reliant on their bikes.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/LUnisHockey/

https://www.quaker.org.uk/

https://www.cyclingclubhackney.co.uk/

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]]> "I volunteer with Cycling Club Hackney (CCH) My, now adult, children grew up riding and racing with the club and I have used a bike for transport all my adult life - and dabbled in a bit of cyclocross veterans racing. My main sport (for 40 years) has been unicycle hockey.  During the week I work as a property management adviser for Quakers in Britain, with a background in building and structural engineering. The Quaker testimonies to: Simplicity, Peace, Integrity, Community, Equality & Stewardship are a valuable guide."

On most Saturdays John sets up a drop in cycle repair drop-in, on a street corner near CCH, with many regulars, including children who he has seen through mnay bikes, and others like delivery couriers who are really reliant on their bikes.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/LUnisHockey/

https://www.quaker.org.uk/

https://www.cyclingclubhackney.co.uk/

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-17129241 Fri, 09 May 2025 09:00:00 +0100 1160 7 5 full false Series 7, Episode 4: Mah Rana Series 7, Episode 4: Mah Rana Mah is a practising artist, researcher and writer working in the fields of contemporary jewellery, well-making, creative health, creativity and dementia-care, and psychology. Mah's PhD at Birkbeck College is a qualitative psychology study exploring daughters’ lived experiences of dementia caregiving and crafting with mothers. She is a tutor (research) at the Royal College of Art, on the MFA Arts and Humanities program and the Jewellery and Metal Masters program. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, member of Advocates for Representation in Creative Health (ARCH), and co-edited the Well-making special issue for the Journal of Applied Arts and Health.

https://www.rca.ac.uk/more/staff/mah-rana/ 

https://www.culturehealthandwellbeing.org.uk/news/blog/mah-rana-well-making-spaces 

https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/jaah_00111_2

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https://www.rca.ac.uk/more/staff/mah-rana/ 

https://www.culturehealthandwellbeing.org.uk/news/blog/mah-rana-well-making-spaces 

https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/10.1386/jaah_00111_2

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-17073991 Thu, 01 May 2025 14:00:00 +0100 2075 7 4 full false Series 7, Episode 3: Tobias Tembo and Adam McGuigan Series 7, Episode 3: Tobias Tembo and Adam McGuigan Tobias Tembo is Provincial Youth Development Coordinator for Southern Province, Zambia. He is a visionary leader and co-founder of Barefeet Theatre, a dynamic organization empowering vulnerable youth through the arts. With a career spanning public sector management, civil society, and creative industries, Tobias has driven impactful initiatives in youth development, resource mobilisation, and traditional leadership engagement. His work has earned accolades, including the 2018 Humanitarian Leadership Award for uplifting street children. A skilled communicator and strategist, Tobias has been involved in projects like Zambia’s first BAFTA-winning film, I Am Not a Witch, and financial inclusion programmes for traditional leaders. Passionate about social innovation, he continues to inspire change through collaboration and creativity.

https://barefeettheatre.org/

Adam McGuigan is a Theatre/ Film Maker, Writer and Architect of Creative Experiences. "Being a neurodivergent artist from the north of Ireland is important in the work I create. Growing up in a divided society where culture could mean danger has infused an intrigue about the impact art can have." He is a co-founder of Barefeet Theatre, and currently Artistic Director at Wake The Beast performance company, Associate Artist at Theatre Témoin, Associate at Human Features Productions and Board member of Barefeet Theatre. He  works extensively in the UK and internationally through touring and for 8 years as part of Contacting The World international Theatre Festival (Contact Manchester), Previous AD of SpareParts outdoor arts festival and Creative Producer at Hope Street Ltd.

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]]> Tobias Tembo is Provincial Youth Development Coordinator for Southern Province, Zambia. He is a visionary leader and co-founder of Barefeet Theatre, a dynamic organization empowering vulnerable youth through the arts. With a career spanning public sector management, civil society, and creative industries, Tobias has driven impactful initiatives in youth development, resource mobilisation, and traditional leadership engagement. His work has earned accolades, including the 2018 Humanitarian Leadership Award for uplifting street children. A skilled communicator and strategist, Tobias has been involved in projects like Zambia’s first BAFTA-winning film, I Am Not a Witch, and financial inclusion programmes for traditional leaders. Passionate about social innovation, he continues to inspire change through collaboration and creativity.

https://barefeettheatre.org/

Adam McGuigan is a Theatre/ Film Maker, Writer and Architect of Creative Experiences. "Being a neurodivergent artist from the north of Ireland is important in the work I create. Growing up in a divided society where culture could mean danger has infused an intrigue about the impact art can have." He is a co-founder of Barefeet Theatre, and currently Artistic Director at Wake The Beast performance company, Associate Artist at Theatre Témoin, Associate at Human Features Productions and Board member of Barefeet Theatre. He  works extensively in the UK and internationally through touring and for 8 years as part of Contacting The World international Theatre Festival (Contact Manchester), Previous AD of SpareParts outdoor arts festival and Creative Producer at Hope Street Ltd.

https://www.adammcguigan.com/theatre

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-17022153 Thu, 24 Apr 2025 16:00:00 +0100 2482 7 3 full false Series 7, Episode 2: Ayesha Chouglay Series 7, Episode 2: Ayesha Chouglay Ayesha is a writer, artist and facilitator, and recently judged the Deaf and Disabled Writers Commissions for Spread the Word, alongside Joseph Rizzo Naudi, for the second year running. She was one of the commissioned writers for Nature Calling, a £2m National Landscapes art programme, creating poetry inspired by the Lincolnshire Wolds, whilst facilitating a series of workshops, exploring creative ways of accessing rural landscapes. As a deaf and disabled person herself, she uses personal experience to open up safe spaces for conversation. She has an MA in The Contemporary, for which she was awarded two scholarships.

Instagram: @weirdbutinteresting 

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Instagram: @weirdbutinteresting 

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-16994415 Thu, 17 Apr 2025 09:00:00 +0100 2182 7 2 full false Series 7, Episode 1: Daniel Regan Artist & Creative Health Consultant Series 7, Episode 1: Daniel Regan Artist & Creative Health Consultant Daniel Regan is a visual artist & Creative Health Consultant working across the sector in the UK. For over 20 years his creative works have brokered dialogues around taboo topics such as mental health, grief, self injury, suicide and racism, through the lens of his intersectional identities as a queer and disabled person of Black and white mixed heritage. Daniel works on commissions, produces and delivers socially engaged projects and provides consultancy in Creative Health. Daniel regularly exhibits and speaks at events across fine art, educational and clinical institutions in the UK and worldwide, alongside teaching at medical institutions.

My website: https://www.danielregan.photography

Arts & Health Hub website: https://www.artsandhealthhub.org  

My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danielreganphotography/

Arts & Health Hub Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artsandhealthhub/

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]]> Daniel Regan is a visual artist & Creative Health Consultant working across the sector in the UK. For over 20 years his creative works have brokered dialogues around taboo topics such as mental health, grief, self injury, suicide and racism, through the lens of his intersectional identities as a queer and disabled person of Black and white mixed heritage. Daniel works on commissions, produces and delivers socially engaged projects and provides consultancy in Creative Health. Daniel regularly exhibits and speaks at events across fine art, educational and clinical institutions in the UK and worldwide, alongside teaching at medical institutions.

My website: https://www.danielregan.photography

Arts & Health Hub website: https://www.artsandhealthhub.org  

My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/danielreganphotography/

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-16953696 Thu, 10 Apr 2025 18:00:00 +0100 2162 7 1 full false Series 6, Episode 8: Bridget McKenzie Series 6, Episode 8: Bridget McKenzie Bridget McKenzie: Researcher, trainer and artist, engaging people with the Earth crisis. Her career includes being Tate’s Education manager and the British Library’s Head of Learning. In 2006 she founded Flow Associates, a research consultancy in cultural learning which has carried out hundreds of evaluative enquiry projects. In 2019, she founded Climate Museum UK, a creative collective helping people make sense of environmental issues. She also co-founded Culture Declares, an international movement of cultural workers declaring a climate and ecological emergency. She experiments with creative activism in her local city of Norwich, in Norfolk. 

https://bridgetmckenzie.uk/

https://www.culturedeclares.org/

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]]> Bridget McKenzie: Researcher, trainer and artist, engaging people with the Earth crisis. Her career includes being Tate’s Education manager and the British Library’s Head of Learning. In 2006 she founded Flow Associates, a research consultancy in cultural learning which has carried out hundreds of evaluative enquiry projects. In 2019, she founded Climate Museum UK, a creative collective helping people make sense of environmental issues. She also co-founded Culture Declares, an international movement of cultural workers declaring a climate and ecological emergency. She experiments with creative activism in her local city of Norwich, in Norfolk. 

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https://www.culturedeclares.org/

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-16194721 Fri, 29 Nov 2024 18:00:00 +0000 2156 6 8 full false Series 6, Episode 7: Celia Pym Series 6, Episode 7: Celia Pym London-based artist Celia Pym has been mending clothing and textiles since 2007. Her work has recently been exhibited in Bags, Hweg, Cornwall (2024); Cheongju Craft Biennale, Korea (2023) and ‘Connect. Reveal. Conceal’. Make Hauser & Wirth, London (2023). Pym is an Associate Lecturer in Textiles at the Royal College of Art and published her first book, ‘On Mending: Stories of Damage and Repair’ in 2022.

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]]> London-based artist Celia Pym has been mending clothing and textiles since 2007. Her work has recently been exhibited in Bags, Hweg, Cornwall (2024); Cheongju Craft Biennale, Korea (2023) and ‘Connect. Reveal. Conceal’. Make Hauser & Wirth, London (2023). Pym is an Associate Lecturer in Textiles at the Royal College of Art and published her first book, ‘On Mending: Stories of Damage and Repair’ in 2022.

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-16148010 Thu, 21 Nov 2024 17:00:00 +0000 2142 6 7 full false Series 6, Episode 6: Tas Emiabata Series 6, Episode 6: Tas Emiabata Tas Emiabata is an actor, musician, facilitator and trainer. As a creative facilitator he works with children, young people and adults to deliver a diverse range of acting and theatre-based workshops, and has worked on the groundbreaking Creative Routes programme. He has extensive knowledge and experience of verse drama specialising in the work of Shakespeare. He has designed and delivered bespoke practical sessions that motivate participants to reach their fullest potential, gaining confidence and applicable skills in a wide variety of organisations and institutions, including work on anti-racist strategies and gender equality.

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]]> Tas Emiabata is an actor, musician, facilitator and trainer. As a creative facilitator he works with children, young people and adults to deliver a diverse range of acting and theatre-based workshops, and has worked on the groundbreaking Creative Routes programme. He has extensive knowledge and experience of verse drama specialising in the work of Shakespeare. He has designed and delivered bespoke practical sessions that motivate participants to reach their fullest potential, gaining confidence and applicable skills in a wide variety of organisations and institutions, including work on anti-racist strategies and gender equality.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tas-emiabata-717a5931/

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-16107468 Thu, 14 Nov 2024 18:00:00 +0000 2383 6 6 full false Series 6, Episode 5: Carolyn Defrin Series 6, Episode 5: Carolyn Defrin Carolyn Defrin is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and facilitator originally from the US and based in Europe. She is currently a Marie Curie fellow at the University of Graz, developing arts based research about collective creativity in border zones. She holds a PhD in co-creating culture and policy (London South Bank University) and an MA in performance design (Central Saint Martins). Recent commissions include artworks for the Tessa Jowell Health Centre in collaboration with Dulwich Picture Gallery, and theatre and video installation projects for Ovalhouse, performingborders, Deptford Lounge and The Yard (London.) She is also co-founder of kissing_project, celebrating the universality and uniqueness of humans through stories that begin with a kiss.

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]]> Carolyn Defrin is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and facilitator originally from the US and based in Europe. She is currently a Marie Curie fellow at the University of Graz, developing arts based research about collective creativity in border zones. She holds a PhD in co-creating culture and policy (London South Bank University) and an MA in performance design (Central Saint Martins). Recent commissions include artworks for the Tessa Jowell Health Centre in collaboration with Dulwich Picture Gallery, and theatre and video installation projects for Ovalhouse, performingborders, Deptford Lounge and The Yard (London.) She is also co-founder of kissing_project, celebrating the universality and uniqueness of humans through stories that begin with a kiss.

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-16066392 Thu, 07 Nov 2024 17:00:00 +0000 2107 6 5 full false Series 6, Episode 4: Meadhbh McIlgorm & Amberlea Neely Series 6, Episode 4: Meadhbh McIlgorm & Amberlea Neely 9ft in Common uncovers the complexities and shares the possibilities of an infrastructure of urban alleyways, Belfast’s wild and liminal spaces.
The work, in close partnerships with local communities,  investigates ownership, access, disruption and place. The name 9ft in Common is inspired by a lease first signed in December 1902, confirming a right of way over and along a 9ft passage in Belfast. It is led and developed by Amberlea Neely of Starling Start and Aisling Rusk of Studio idir.

https://9ftincommon.com/

Meadhbh McIlgorm, Project Producer, is a multi-disciplinary artist-maker of things and experiences. She is a studio holder at QSS Artist Studios, Belfast. As a creative producer she has worked with many artists and arts organisations managing events, exhibitions, public engagement programmes and professional development opportunities. Increasingly, in both her studio and in expanded practice she is developing projects relating to sustainability, placemaking and our material heritage and is particularly passionate about materials, process and the skills associated with production, repair and reuse.

https://www.meadhbhmcilgorm.com/ 

insta: @champagne_clouds._

Amberlea Neely is the Founder and Director of Starling Start. Starling Start co-designs inclusive and ambitious strategic plans, blueprints, or approaches that guide cultural development, and dreams up magical one-off gatherings and sustained programmes that are guided by people and place. Amberlea co-leads 9ft in Common with long term collaborator Aisling Rusk, Studio idir. 9ft in Common is an investigation into the social and spatial potential of Belfast’s alleyways which is supported by Necessity and Belfast 24. Amberlea was Acting Director of Northern Ireland’s Architecture Centre, PLACE. She has also contributed as a Lecturing Associate on the MA Arts Management programme at Queen's University Belfast.

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]]> 9ft in Common uncovers the complexities and shares the possibilities of an infrastructure of urban alleyways, Belfast’s wild and liminal spaces.
The work, in close partnerships with local communities,  investigates ownership, access, disruption and place. The name 9ft in Common is inspired by a lease first signed in December 1902, confirming a right of way over and along a 9ft passage in Belfast. It is led and developed by Amberlea Neely of Starling Start and Aisling Rusk of Studio idir.

https://9ftincommon.com/

Meadhbh McIlgorm, Project Producer, is a multi-disciplinary artist-maker of things and experiences. She is a studio holder at QSS Artist Studios, Belfast. As a creative producer she has worked with many artists and arts organisations managing events, exhibitions, public engagement programmes and professional development opportunities. Increasingly, in both her studio and in expanded practice she is developing projects relating to sustainability, placemaking and our material heritage and is particularly passionate about materials, process and the skills associated with production, repair and reuse.

https://www.meadhbhmcilgorm.com/ 

insta: @champagne_clouds._

Amberlea Neely is the Founder and Director of Starling Start. Starling Start co-designs inclusive and ambitious strategic plans, blueprints, or approaches that guide cultural development, and dreams up magical one-off gatherings and sustained programmes that are guided by people and place. Amberlea co-leads 9ft in Common with long term collaborator Aisling Rusk, Studio idir. 9ft in Common is an investigation into the social and spatial potential of Belfast’s alleyways which is supported by Necessity and Belfast 24. Amberlea was Acting Director of Northern Ireland’s Architecture Centre, PLACE. She has also contributed as a Lecturing Associate on the MA Arts Management programme at Queen's University Belfast.

http://www.starlingstart.com

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-16024654 Thu, 31 Oct 2024 08:00:00 +0000 2459 6 4 full false Series 6, Episode 3: Maryam Shaharuddin Series 6, Episode 3: Maryam Shaharuddin A theatre facilitator, Maryam co-creates performances with participants. She works at a range of organisations including Angel Shed, Kiln, Almeida, Bush, Company Three and the The National Theatre. She is an Associate Artist at Coney, focusing on playful activism. As a researcher she has worked on Positively Past Positively Present (PositivelyUK & Central School of Speech & Drama) and The Book of Knowledge (The Bridge & Kings College, University of London) exploring arts and women’s health. She is a mentor for Tamasha’s Creative Wellbeing Lab, sharing her facilitation practice. Joy and play are at the heart of creating inclusive, socially engaged theatre. Maryam is especially passionate about work that celebrates Muslim Women. 

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-15985802 Thu, 24 Oct 2024 18:00:00 +0100 1753 6 3 full false Series 6, Episode 2: Lauren and members of Sydenham Garden's m.u.d. project Series 6, Episode 2: Lauren and members of Sydenham Garden's m.u.d. project ⓜ.ⓤ.ⓓ is a group for Lewisham-borough-based 18-25-year-olds wanting to commune with the natural world. They cultivate an LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent-centred space. Meeting every Wednesday at Sydenham Garden, they share skills, follow tangents, and practice community. A typical session might see them: sowing seed and tending to their crops, naturally dyeing fabrics and sewing, learning to bind books, exposing cyanotypes, making music, cooking for each other etc… The group is facilitated by Lauren Goddard, a gardener and creative who's worked in therapeutic horticulture for the past 7 years. 

https://www.instagram.com/mud.sg/

https://www.sydenhamgarden.org.uk/

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https://www.instagram.com/mud.sg/

https://www.sydenhamgarden.org.uk/

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-15944879 Thu, 17 Oct 2024 20:00:00 +0100 1828 6 2 full false Series 6, Episode 1: Phineas Harper Series 6, Episode 1: Phineas Harper Phineas Harper develops sustainable cultural programmes that engage broad audiences with architecture and design. A regular contributor to The Guardian, their career spans criticism, curation, education, youth work, journalism and sculpture. They are founder of the Architecture of Repair project.

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]]> Phineas Harper develops sustainable cultural programmes that engage broad audiences with architecture and design. A regular contributor to The Guardian, their career spans criticism, curation, education, youth work, journalism and sculpture. They are founder of the Architecture of Repair project.

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https://www.instagram.com/phinharper/

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-15904079 Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:00:00 +0100 2664 6 1 full false Series 5, Episode 9: Dr Ros Gray Series 5, Episode 9: Dr Ros Gray Ros is Reader in Fine Art, Critical Studies and Programme Director of the MA Art & Ecology. Her research and teaching often involves collaborations with artists, scientists and activists, addressing ecological emergency with an emphasis on climate justice. In her spare time, she likes to mend and grow things. In 2023 she founded the Darn It! darning club at the Telegraph Hill Centre in New Cross, which is a space for learning and sharing skills, being creative and cherishing clothes.

https://www.instagram.com/darn_it_darningclub/

https://www.gold.ac.uk/art/research/staff/rg/01/

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https://www.instagram.com/darn_it_darningclub/

https://www.gold.ac.uk/art/research/staff/rg/01/

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-15081643 Thu, 16 May 2024 17:00:00 +0100 1651 5 9 full false Series 5, Episode 8: Matilya Njau, Horticulturalist Series 5, Episode 8: Matilya Njau, Horticulturalist I’m a gardener by trade and have spent most of my waking moments in the last 8 years, tending to and communing with plants. At the heart of my practice is helping people reconnect with their immediate surroundings, creating green spaces in difficult places and using gardening as a vessel to connect with self, ancestors and other human and non-human beings. I also welcome any opportunity to create food-growing spaces! The questions that drive my work are; what relationships do we need to build with plants in order to address climate and food justice? What do plants teach us about ourselves and others? How do our ancestors speak to us through the non-human world? How can green spaces act as vehicles for connection, rest and therapy?

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-15040891 Thu, 09 May 2024 18:00:00 +0100 1560 5 8 full false Series 5, Episode 7: Dr Georgia Bowers Series 5, Episode 7: Dr Georgia Bowers Dr Georgia Bowers is a leading Creative Ageing practitioner, academic and pro-ageing activist. Her work explores how theatre making with older adults can tackle ageism and takes place in care homes, hospitals, sheltered housing accommodation, day centres and via online video platforms. Georgia has worked for arts organisations such as Royal Opera House, Brighton People’s Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre, Spare Tyre and London Bubble. Both her research and Creative Ageing practice has been celebrated and shared throughout Europe and North America. She is currently the Programme Leader for Applied and Contemporary Theatre at the Guildford School of Acting. 

http://www.georgiabowers.co.uk

https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2023.2272511

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http://www.georgiabowers.co.uk

https://doi.org/10.1080/13528165.2023.2272511

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-14997316 Thu, 02 May 2024 15:00:00 +0100 2038 5 7 full false Series 5, Episode 6: Anna Matthams Series 5, Episode 6: Anna Matthams In my role of Arts Manager for Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust I am responsible for delivering an arts programme to support the health and wellbeing of our patients, staff and visitors. Our projects encompass all art forms, using music, dance, creative drawing, and arts and crafts to provide individuals with the means for creative expression and to help alleviate stress and anxiety. Visual art and design are used to enhance our hospitals, helping to create healing environments where people feel comfortable and reassured. All of our arts activities are underpinned by a solid evidence base which proves the benefits of the arts on health. 

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]]> In my role of Arts Manager for Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust I am responsible for delivering an arts programme to support the health and wellbeing of our patients, staff and visitors. Our projects encompass all art forms, using music, dance, creative drawing, and arts and crafts to provide individuals with the means for creative expression and to help alleviate stress and anxiety. Visual art and design are used to enhance our hospitals, helping to create healing environments where people feel comfortable and reassured. All of our arts activities are underpinned by a solid evidence base which proves the benefits of the arts on health. 

https://www.lewishamandgreenwich.nhs.uk/arts-connect

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-14955681 Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:00:00 +0100 1667 5 6 full false Series 5, Episode 5: Gaynor Tutani Series 5, Episode 5: Gaynor Tutani Gaynor Tutani (Art Adlib) is a curator, producer and writer who merges her various arts, culture, community and educational passions to produce exhibitions, events and commentaries on art and curating. Her speciality is in Public Programming – of which she extends as part of her practice as the Creative Programing Officer at Museum of the Home. She is the Co-founder of EARTHworks [Artists], a curatorial duo with artist Jean Joseph,  that is dedicated to promoting creative collaborations through an intergenerational lens. Gaynor holds a BA in History and the History of Ideas and an MA in Museum Cultures with Curating, specialising in decolonial approaches.

https://www.instagram.com/art__adlib/

https://www.museumofthehome.org.uk/

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]]> Gaynor Tutani (Art Adlib) is a curator, producer and writer who merges her various arts, culture, community and educational passions to produce exhibitions, events and commentaries on art and curating. Her speciality is in Public Programming – of which she extends as part of her practice as the Creative Programing Officer at Museum of the Home. She is the Co-founder of EARTHworks [Artists], a curatorial duo with artist Jean Joseph,  that is dedicated to promoting creative collaborations through an intergenerational lens. Gaynor holds a BA in History and the History of Ideas and an MA in Museum Cultures with Curating, specialising in decolonial approaches.

https://www.instagram.com/art__adlib/

https://www.museumofthehome.org.uk/

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-14913982 Thu, 18 Apr 2024 18:00:00 +0100 1574 5 5 full false Series 5, Episode 4: Dr Megan Vine Series 5, Episode 4: Dr Megan Vine Following a Masters in Applied Theatre at Goldsmiths, Megan completed her PhD in Psychology at the University of Limerick in 2023 and received an Irish Research Council scholarship for her research: "Community Solidarity Initiatives as Spaces for Connection, Resistance and Change". This project investigated how people living in Direct Provision and members of the wider community engaged with and experienced community solidarity initiatives that bring both groups together around shared experiences like food, sport and cultural celebrations. Megan currently works at UL as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Mike Quayle on the CON-NET project; employing qualitative methods to explore experiences and consequences of coordinated online misbehaviour. 

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]]> Following a Masters in Applied Theatre at Goldsmiths, Megan completed her PhD in Psychology at the University of Limerick in 2023 and received an Irish Research Council scholarship for her research: "Community Solidarity Initiatives as Spaces for Connection, Resistance and Change". This project investigated how people living in Direct Provision and members of the wider community engaged with and experienced community solidarity initiatives that bring both groups together around shared experiences like food, sport and cultural celebrations. Megan currently works at UL as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Mike Quayle on the CON-NET project; employing qualitative methods to explore experiences and consequences of coordinated online misbehaviour. 

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-14871952 Thu, 11 Apr 2024 17:00:00 +0100 1880 5 4 full false Series 5, Episode 3: Arji Manuelpillai Series 5, Episode 3: Arji Manuelpillai Arji Manuelpillai is a poet, performer and creative facilitator based in London. He was the Jerwood/Arvon Mentee mentored by Hannah Lowe. Arji’s debut pamphlet ‘Mutton Rolls' was published with Out-Spoken Press in 2020 and his newest book ‘Improvised Explosive Device’ was released in the Autumn of 2022 with Penned in the Margins. This highly acclaimed book was noted in The Telegraph’s Top 20 poetry books of the year, as well as in The Guardian’s best recent poetry section. It was also the Winter PBS selection and Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize. Arji has been facilitating for over 20 years both nationally and internationally.  Arji is writing a suite of poems for the new Breaks & Joins film, Can everything be mended? (released May 2024). He hosts the podcast Arji's Poetry Pickle jar

http://www.arji.org

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]]> Arji Manuelpillai is a poet, performer and creative facilitator based in London. He was the Jerwood/Arvon Mentee mentored by Hannah Lowe. Arji’s debut pamphlet ‘Mutton Rolls' was published with Out-Spoken Press in 2020 and his newest book ‘Improvised Explosive Device’ was released in the Autumn of 2022 with Penned in the Margins. This highly acclaimed book was noted in The Telegraph’s Top 20 poetry books of the year, as well as in The Guardian’s best recent poetry section. It was also the Winter PBS selection and Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize. Arji has been facilitating for over 20 years both nationally and internationally.  Arji is writing a suite of poems for the new Breaks & Joins film, Can everything be mended? (released May 2024). He hosts the podcast Arji's Poetry Pickle jar

http://www.arji.org

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-14827813 Thu, 04 Apr 2024 15:00:00 +0100 1685 5 3 full false Series 5, Episode 2: Merel Van Der Knoop Series 5, Episode 2: Merel Van Der Knoop Merel works as a freelance accompanist and vocal coach besides teaching singing and piano. She is choir leader of the Long Covid Choir and the Long Covid Kids Choir. Merel also works as a Supporting Artist for feature tv/film, such as The Crown. In her free time she takes Art Classes with Lucy Freud. Merel fell ill with Covid in 2021 and has been living with Long Covid ever since. She loves using her musical skills to bring joyful moments to others living with Long Covid. 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfZDlE7_gekaPrRl4eDibKg (@merelsmusicroom)

https://www.longcovidkids.org/service-page/lck-choir-all-ages-welcome 

http://www.longcovidchoir.org 

Latest recording with the Long Covid Choir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkK-oX61Pwk

Long Covid Kids Choir recording in Ukrainian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb7tgxwhdVw

Long Covid Kids Choir recording for Coronation
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Long Covid Kids Choir Christmas recording 2022
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]]> Merel works as a freelance accompanist and vocal coach besides teaching singing and piano. She is choir leader of the Long Covid Choir and the Long Covid Kids Choir. Merel also works as a Supporting Artist for feature tv/film, such as The Crown. In her free time she takes Art Classes with Lucy Freud. Merel fell ill with Covid in 2021 and has been living with Long Covid ever since. She loves using her musical skills to bring joyful moments to others living with Long Covid. 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfZDlE7_gekaPrRl4eDibKg (@merelsmusicroom)

https://www.longcovidkids.org/service-page/lck-choir-all-ages-welcome 

http://www.longcovidchoir.org 

Latest recording with the Long Covid Choir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkK-oX61Pwk

Long Covid Kids Choir recording in Ukrainian
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb7tgxwhdVw

Long Covid Kids Choir recording for Coronation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt7gtBf3Uco

Long Covid Kids Choir Christmas recording 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtMyrSZyTSs

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-14780656 Wed, 27 Mar 2024 17:00:00 +0000 1652 5 2 full false Series 5, Episode 1: Amie Taylor Series 5, Episode 1: Amie Taylor Amie is a writer, theatre maker, musical theatre teacher and the Director for Fun Palaces. 

A Fun Palace is a free event made by local people for their own community. At Fun Palaces people come together to share their skills, passions and interests, and to show the world just how brilliant and packed full of genius their community is. Anyone can make one, anyone can go to one; it's a movemnt, a campaign, a catalyst.

She has written three books for children. 

http://www.funpalaces.co.uk

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]]> Amie is a writer, theatre maker, musical theatre teacher and the Director for Fun Palaces. 

A Fun Palace is a free event made by local people for their own community. At Fun Palaces people come together to share their skills, passions and interests, and to show the world just how brilliant and packed full of genius their community is. Anyone can make one, anyone can go to one; it's a movemnt, a campaign, a catalyst.

She has written three books for children. 

http://www.funpalaces.co.uk

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-14737186 Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:00:00 +0000 1568 5 1 full false Series 4, Episode 8: Camille Dawson and Cristina Ottonello Series 4, Episode 8: Camille Dawson and Cristina Ottonello Camille Dawson is a critically acclaimed comedy writer, performer and director. She is founder and Artistic Director of Frisky Arts. Camille has a multi art, anarchic and comedic style.  The War Inside is inspired by her experience of struggling with autoimmune disease. The show shines a light on invisible illness, and takes the audience on a wild ride, inside the body.  Alongside the show, The Tapestry of Imperfections is a collaboration with the public.  This community artwork is a celebration of the growth and strength we develop by going through the imperfect moments of life.

https://www.camilledawson.com/

https://www.friskyarts.com/

Cristina Ottonello is a large-scale installation artist with a developed skillset in participatory projects with communities of interest and young people. She specialises in outdoor art and in the creation of large-scale temporary installations with a strong visual impact and wide-reaching public involvement. Her work is inspired by and replicating objects found in nature and science – fun, playful, animated and atmospheric works, often exhibited as part of outdoor festivals and light trails within heritage, cultural and garden sites and exhibited in many iconic sites throughout the UK and in Italy.  Cristina was the designer for The War Inside, and the co facilitator of The Tapestry of Imperfections, the participatory work that runs alongside the show.

http://www.cristinaottonello.art 

Insta: @cristina.otto.art





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]]> Camille Dawson is a critically acclaimed comedy writer, performer and director. She is founder and Artistic Director of Frisky Arts. Camille has a multi art, anarchic and comedic style.  The War Inside is inspired by her experience of struggling with autoimmune disease. The show shines a light on invisible illness, and takes the audience on a wild ride, inside the body.  Alongside the show, The Tapestry of Imperfections is a collaboration with the public.  This community artwork is a celebration of the growth and strength we develop by going through the imperfect moments of life.

https://www.camilledawson.com/

https://www.friskyarts.com/

Cristina Ottonello is a large-scale installation artist with a developed skillset in participatory projects with communities of interest and young people. She specialises in outdoor art and in the creation of large-scale temporary installations with a strong visual impact and wide-reaching public involvement. Her work is inspired by and replicating objects found in nature and science – fun, playful, animated and atmospheric works, often exhibited as part of outdoor festivals and light trails within heritage, cultural and garden sites and exhibited in many iconic sites throughout the UK and in Italy.  Cristina was the designer for The War Inside, and the co facilitator of The Tapestry of Imperfections, the participatory work that runs alongside the show.

http://www.cristinaottonello.art 

Insta: @cristina.otto.art





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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-13985626 Thu, 16 Nov 2023 18:00:00 +0000 2165 4 8 full false Series 4, Episode 7: Maria Amidu Series 4, Episode 7: Maria Amidu Maria Amidu is a visual artist and PhD Candidate in the School of Arts & Humanities at the Royal College of Art. Her artistic concerns are influenced by the complexities of the relational – between people and between people and place. Through writing as artistic practice she tries to substantiate what might be going on in collective situations, paying specific attention to what is hidden, obscured or unspoken. She privileges fault lines and weak spots as essential components in her artworks – fragility, fracture, instability, dissolve, impermanence, residue, mess, breaks, risk. 

Maria Amidu

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]]> Maria Amidu is a visual artist and PhD Candidate in the School of Arts & Humanities at the Royal College of Art. Her artistic concerns are influenced by the complexities of the relational – between people and between people and place. Through writing as artistic practice she tries to substantiate what might be going on in collective situations, paying specific attention to what is hidden, obscured or unspoken. She privileges fault lines and weak spots as essential components in her artworks – fragility, fracture, instability, dissolve, impermanence, residue, mess, breaks, risk. 

Maria Amidu

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-13941655 Thu, 09 Nov 2023 17:00:00 +0000 2464 4 7 full false Series 4, Episode 6: Lee Robb Series 4, Episode 6: Lee Robb Lee is the founder of Positive Carrickfergus and co-founder of Repair Cafe Belfast and Carrick Greengrocers. She has lived in Carrickfergus for most of her life apart from a few years in England and Italy like so many of her generation brought up in Northern Ireland. Lee has worked in the voluntary and community sector for around 25 years mostly in grant making and decided about 6 years ago to try to work out how to make more of a useful contribution to her town and NI. She is terrible at switching off but finds that knitting socks helps. 

https://positivecarrickfergus.org/ 

https://www.instagram.com/repaircafebelfast/?hl=en

https://carrickgreengrocers.org/

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]]> Lee is the founder of Positive Carrickfergus and co-founder of Repair Cafe Belfast and Carrick Greengrocers. She has lived in Carrickfergus for most of her life apart from a few years in England and Italy like so many of her generation brought up in Northern Ireland. Lee has worked in the voluntary and community sector for around 25 years mostly in grant making and decided about 6 years ago to try to work out how to make more of a useful contribution to her town and NI. She is terrible at switching off but finds that knitting socks helps. 

https://positivecarrickfergus.org/ 

https://www.instagram.com/repaircafebelfast/?hl=en

https://carrickgreengrocers.org/

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-13890238 Wed, 01 Nov 2023 18:00:00 +0000 2144 4 6 full false Series 4, Episode 5: Amahra Spence Series 4, Episode 5: Amahra Spence Amahra Spence lives in the UK and works globally. Her practice is one of poetic pragmatism, exploring transformation and iterating change oriented towards liberation. In particular, Amahra engages this through spatial reclamation and social justice, design, performance and storytelling. 

In all aspects of her work, Amahra contends with Black Imagination as a framework and the starting point for change. 

As Founding Director of MAIA (2013) and Organiser of The Black Land & Spatial Justice Project (2020), Amahra brings a critical analysis of systemic injustice and power, committing to infrastructure building, resource redistribution and platforming radical imagination.

Outside of self-initiated projects, Amahra works to reimagine the governance, models, spaces, systems and practices of organisations across the cultural, public, Built Environment and philanthropic sectors. In this context, she has worked with a wide range of organisations, including Birmingham Museums Trust, muf architecture/art, Clore Leadership, Ten Years Time, Iniva, The National Lottery Community Fund, East Street Arts, Arts Council England and many more.

https://www.maiagroup.co/

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]]> Amahra Spence lives in the UK and works globally. Her practice is one of poetic pragmatism, exploring transformation and iterating change oriented towards liberation. In particular, Amahra engages this through spatial reclamation and social justice, design, performance and storytelling. 

In all aspects of her work, Amahra contends with Black Imagination as a framework and the starting point for change. 

As Founding Director of MAIA (2013) and Organiser of The Black Land & Spatial Justice Project (2020), Amahra brings a critical analysis of systemic injustice and power, committing to infrastructure building, resource redistribution and platforming radical imagination.

Outside of self-initiated projects, Amahra works to reimagine the governance, models, spaces, systems and practices of organisations across the cultural, public, Built Environment and philanthropic sectors. In this context, she has worked with a wide range of organisations, including Birmingham Museums Trust, muf architecture/art, Clore Leadership, Ten Years Time, Iniva, The National Lottery Community Fund, East Street Arts, Arts Council England and many more.

https://www.maiagroup.co/

https://www.amahraspence.com/



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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-13867527 Sun, 29 Oct 2023 19:00:00 +0000 2701 4 5 full false Series 4, Episode 4: Madeline Tanoto Series 4, Episode 4: Madeline Tanoto Madeline Tanoto is a designer-maker & teacher with a 20 year career in fashion & teaching across all things textiles. She is a qualified Mental Health First Aider & combines these skills with her textiles experience to explore the craft of mending within a supportive & inclusive environment. She is the founding Director of Mads do & Mend CIC whose aim is to teach people to mend what they own, creating connections with each other, be creative, and consider the global impact mending can have on the world and the communities who live in it.

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]]> Madeline Tanoto is a designer-maker & teacher with a 20 year career in fashion & teaching across all things textiles. She is a qualified Mental Health First Aider & combines these skills with her textiles experience to explore the craft of mending within a supportive & inclusive environment. She is the founding Director of Mads do & Mend CIC whose aim is to teach people to mend what they own, creating connections with each other, be creative, and consider the global impact mending can have on the world and the communities who live in it.

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-13813575 Fri, 20 Oct 2023 08:00:00 +0100 1785 4 4 full false Series 4, Episode 3: Sally Jaquet Series 4, Episode 3: Sally Jaquet Sally Jaquet is an Edinburgh-based community musician who believes music is for everyone - a human right that helps us connect, care and cherish each other and ourselves. Her projects include vocal and songwriting teaching; choir leading; music & wellbeing workshops for school groups, businesses; and music research and arts projects evaluation. As well as group music facilitation, Sally is a performing musician within a range of styles - Jazz, Blues, Scottish and Appalachian folk, Electronic funk, and Indie Soul. She currently works for Love Music, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Royal Conservatoire of Music, Hear Me Out as well as a range of individual projects.

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]]> Sally Jaquet is an Edinburgh-based community musician who believes music is for everyone - a human right that helps us connect, care and cherish each other and ourselves. Her projects include vocal and songwriting teaching; choir leading; music & wellbeing workshops for school groups, businesses; and music research and arts projects evaluation. As well as group music facilitation, Sally is a performing musician within a range of styles - Jazz, Blues, Scottish and Appalachian folk, Electronic funk, and Indie Soul. She currently works for Love Music, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Royal Conservatoire of Music, Hear Me Out as well as a range of individual projects.

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-13773017 Fri, 13 Oct 2023 18:00:00 +0100 2138 4 3 full false Season 4, Episode 2: Ellen Bassam Season 4, Episode 2: Ellen Bassam Ellen works as a consultant for Seahorse Environmental, a specialist environmental communications agency. In this role she works with a number of NGOs and businesses on campaigns including the Lost Rainforests of Britain campaign. She has a background in research and is particularly interested in the circular economy, the arts and environment and behaviour change. 

https://www.seahorseenvironmental.co.uk/ 

https://lostrainforestsofbritain.org/


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]]> Ellen works as a consultant for Seahorse Environmental, a specialist environmental communications agency. In this role she works with a number of NGOs and businesses on campaigns including the Lost Rainforests of Britain campaign. She has a background in research and is particularly interested in the circular economy, the arts and environment and behaviour change. 

https://www.seahorseenvironmental.co.uk/ 

https://lostrainforestsofbritain.org/


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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-13720586 Thu, 05 Oct 2023 08:00:00 +0100 1969 4 2 full false Season 4, Episode 1: Kay Adekunle Rufai Season 4, Episode 1: Kay Adekunle Rufai Kay Rufai is a Photographer, Poet, Filmmaker, Author, Mental Health researcher and founder of the internationally acclaimed S.M.I.L.E-ing Boys projects. He is currently the first Artist in residence for West Midlands Police Artist as part of Coventry City of Culture, using creative arts to improve relationships between police and marginalised young people.  His work  spans the past 8 years in a handful of countries including the UK, USA, Ethiopia, Bhutan, Germany, Scandinavia, Mexico, Nigeria and Colombia.  He explores themes of masculinity, identity, mental health, serious youth violence and
community cohesion through art, photography, educational workshops, residencies, training and public events.   A great deal of his work has directly engaged diverse communities, young people in custody, at-risk youth, refugee and displaced groups of people as well as collaboratively creating bodies of work with them.

www.universoulartist.com
www.smilingboys.com
www.instagram.com/universoulartist
www.instagram.com/smilingboysproject


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]]> Kay Rufai is a Photographer, Poet, Filmmaker, Author, Mental Health researcher and founder of the internationally acclaimed S.M.I.L.E-ing Boys projects. He is currently the first Artist in residence for West Midlands Police Artist as part of Coventry City of Culture, using creative arts to improve relationships between police and marginalised young people.  His work  spans the past 8 years in a handful of countries including the UK, USA, Ethiopia, Bhutan, Germany, Scandinavia, Mexico, Nigeria and Colombia.  He explores themes of masculinity, identity, mental health, serious youth violence and
community cohesion through art, photography, educational workshops, residencies, training and public events.   A great deal of his work has directly engaged diverse communities, young people in custody, at-risk youth, refugee and displaced groups of people as well as collaboratively creating bodies of work with them.

www.universoulartist.com
www.smilingboys.com
www.instagram.com/universoulartist
www.instagram.com/smilingboysproject


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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-13684199 Fri, 29 Sep 2023 08:00:00 +0100 2307 4 1 full false Series 3, Episode 8: Yvonne Field & Immy Kaur Series 3, Episode 8: Yvonne Field & Immy Kaur Yvonne Field is a serial social entrepreneur and change agent who has spent more than four decades working with grassroots organisations, front line staff, senior managers and policy makers in local, national and international government and civil society organisations. 

Yvonne has worked across more than 20 European countries, the English-speaking Caribbean region, Asia and South Africa. She established and grew a management consultancy and training company for 15 years advising the UK government and regional governments on the development of Black and racially minoritised communities and women’s enterprise.  

Yvonne also spent more than 10 years in academia (Goldsmiths, University of London). 

In 2014, she established the Ubele Initiative (The Future), a national social enterprise which supports Black and raciallyminoritised communities to develop sustainable communities through intergenerational leadership, community space development, enterprise and social action.  

She is a Director of Wolves Lane Centre; a Churchill Fellow, (2012) and a member of the London’s Mayor’s Advisory group on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. Yvonne was recognised as a national Pandemic Pioneer in 2021 due to her contribution during Covid. 

https://www.ubele.org/

Throughout her decade-long career, Immy has focused on convening and building community, the role of citizens in radical systemic change, and how we together create more democratic, distributed, open source social and civic infrastructure. Through this work she has discovered much about economic justice and broader injustices, the pivotal role of land and social/civic infrastructure in neighbourhoods, and the value extracted from communities through our broken investment models. It’s an ongoing journey of discovery, emergence and learning together. Immy is a Co - Founder and Director of CIVIC SQUARE. CIVIC SQUARE is a public square, neighbourhood lab, and creative + participatory platform focused on regenerative civic and social infrastructure within neighbourhoods. Immy is part of a creative and dynamic leadership team who work alongside the local neighbourhood, to offer a bold approach to visioning, building and investing in civic infrastructure for neighbourhoods of the future. She is also an active member of Project 00. Immy is part of the Doughnut Economics Action Lab Advisory Team, a Birmingham Hippodrome Trustee and also sits on the National Lottery Community Fund Advisory Board. Immy was a founding director of Impact Hub Birmingham, which was open between 2015 - 2019. Impact Hub Birmingham was on a mission to help build a fairer more equal and just city, through people place and open movements. On a voluntary basis, Immy also led and ran TEDxBRUM between 2012 and 2017. Immy’s work has been recognised with a series of notable honours and awards. In 2018, Impact Hub Birmingham was named a NESTA New Radical. For her services to the city of Birmingham, Aston University’s School of Life & Heath Sciences granted Immy an Honorary Doctorate in 2019. And in 2020, Immy was awarded a prestigious Ashoka Fellowship.

https://twitter.com/ImmyKaur

https://twitter.com/CIVIC_SQUARE
https://civicsquare.cc/

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Yvonne has worked across more than 20 European countries, the English-speaking Caribbean region, Asia and South Africa. She established and grew a management consultancy and training company for 15 years advising the UK government and regional governments on the development of Black and racially minoritised communities and women’s enterprise.  

Yvonne also spent more than 10 years in academia (Goldsmiths, University of London). 

In 2014, she established the Ubele Initiative (The Future), a national social enterprise which supports Black and raciallyminoritised communities to develop sustainable communities through intergenerational leadership, community space development, enterprise and social action.  

She is a Director of Wolves Lane Centre; a Churchill Fellow, (2012) and a member of the London’s Mayor’s Advisory group on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. Yvonne was recognised as a national Pandemic Pioneer in 2021 due to her contribution during Covid. 

https://www.ubele.org/

Throughout her decade-long career, Immy has focused on convening and building community, the role of citizens in radical systemic change, and how we together create more democratic, distributed, open source social and civic infrastructure. Through this work she has discovered much about economic justice and broader injustices, the pivotal role of land and social/civic infrastructure in neighbourhoods, and the value extracted from communities through our broken investment models. It’s an ongoing journey of discovery, emergence and learning together. Immy is a Co - Founder and Director of CIVIC SQUARE. CIVIC SQUARE is a public square, neighbourhood lab, and creative + participatory platform focused on regenerative civic and social infrastructure within neighbourhoods. Immy is part of a creative and dynamic leadership team who work alongside the local neighbourhood, to offer a bold approach to visioning, building and investing in civic infrastructure for neighbourhoods of the future. She is also an active member of Project 00. Immy is part of the Doughnut Economics Action Lab Advisory Team, a Birmingham Hippodrome Trustee and also sits on the National Lottery Community Fund Advisory Board. Immy was a founding director of Impact Hub Birmingham, which was open between 2015 - 2019. Impact Hub Birmingham was on a mission to help build a fairer more equal and just city, through people place and open movements. On a voluntary basis, Immy also led and ran TEDxBRUM between 2012 and 2017. Immy’s work has been recognised with a series of notable honours and awards. In 2018, Impact Hub Birmingham was named a NESTA New Radical. For her services to the city of Birmingham, Aston University’s School of Life & Heath Sciences granted Immy an Honorary Doctorate in 2019. And in 2020, Immy was awarded a prestigious Ashoka Fellowship.

https://twitter.com/ImmyKaur

https://twitter.com/CIVIC_SQUARE
https://civicsquare.cc/

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-13002979 Thu, 08 Jun 2023 16:00:00 +0100 3567 3 8 full false Series 3, Episode 7: Sarah Pimenta Series 3, Episode 7: Sarah Pimenta Sarah Pimenta is an experienced artist, illustrator and facilitator and has worked in education for over twenty three years including in over 250 primary and secondary schools nationally and two in Africa. She previously co-directed Arts Charity Cloth of Gold and is now known as Social Fabric. Sarah is highly experienced at leading, coordinating and delivering inclusive, high-quality participatory art/textile workshops in different settings and has created work with groups in collaboration with Schools, Museums, Theatres and Galleries that have told many stories. Sarah co-created and illustrated the ‘Therapeutic Fairy Tales’ a six book series to support children and co-wrote the ‘Storybook Manual: An Introduction to Working with Storybooks Therapeutically and Creatively’ & ‘Rewilding Children's Imaginations – 99 creative activities inspired by nature and folktales from around the world’ with Pia Jones & Tamsin Cooke.

http://www.social-fabric.co.uk
instagram @socialfabric1
twitter @mystudio5 

Storybook Manual: An Introduction To Working With Storybooks Therapeutically And Creatively

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]]> Sarah Pimenta is an experienced artist, illustrator and facilitator and has worked in education for over twenty three years including in over 250 primary and secondary schools nationally and two in Africa. She previously co-directed Arts Charity Cloth of Gold and is now known as Social Fabric. Sarah is highly experienced at leading, coordinating and delivering inclusive, high-quality participatory art/textile workshops in different settings and has created work with groups in collaboration with Schools, Museums, Theatres and Galleries that have told many stories. Sarah co-created and illustrated the ‘Therapeutic Fairy Tales’ a six book series to support children and co-wrote the ‘Storybook Manual: An Introduction to Working with Storybooks Therapeutically and Creatively’ & ‘Rewilding Children's Imaginations – 99 creative activities inspired by nature and folktales from around the world’ with Pia Jones & Tamsin Cooke.

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Storybook Manual: An Introduction To Working With Storybooks Therapeutically And Creatively

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-12961521 Thu, 01 Jun 2023 18:00:00 +0100 2083 3 7 full false Series 3, Episode 6: Chris Finch Series 3, Episode 6: Chris Finch Chris Finch is an NHS Mental Health Worker. He has a passion for repair, fixing bikes from his garage, and many more things from his cellar, which is packed with tools, spare parts, and objects waiting to be mended.  Chris appears in The Breaks & Joins film.

"My name is Chris and I am in my mid 60s. I have many interests and enjoy using my practical skills in my spare time. I studied Art originally and have had many different jobs but have built a career in the field of mental health support for more than 30 years. I love many things from the past such as bicycles, motorcycles and vintage machines and enjoy the challenges of repairing and renovating things that might otherwise end up in landfill."

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]]> Chris Finch is an NHS Mental Health Worker. He has a passion for repair, fixing bikes from his garage, and many more things from his cellar, which is packed with tools, spare parts, and objects waiting to be mended.  Chris appears in The Breaks & Joins film.

"My name is Chris and I am in my mid 60s. I have many interests and enjoy using my practical skills in my spare time. I studied Art originally and have had many different jobs but have built a career in the field of mental health support for more than 30 years. I love many things from the past such as bicycles, motorcycles and vintage machines and enjoy the challenges of repairing and renovating things that might otherwise end up in landfill."

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-12920656 Thu, 25 May 2023 17:00:00 +0100 2242 3 6 full false Series 3, Episode 5: Jo Cook Series 3, Episode 5: Jo Cook Jo Cook is the founder and creator of Meet and Mend and runs sessions and projects within the West Yorkshire county of England. Meet and Mend focuses on textile activities that encourage sustainable methods, such as re-purposing and recycling wherever possible. Meet and Mend ran the Cost of Living Quilt Project in January and February 2023 and is currently running the Reusable Sanitary Pads Project, making cloth pads for women in hardship.. The main focus for these projects is to learn and share hand sewing and slow-stitching techniques, to make connections and friendships, and to resuse fabric for the wider good.

Website: http://www.meetandmend.co.uk 

Instagram: @meetandmend 

Twitter:@meetandmend

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]]> Jo Cook is the founder and creator of Meet and Mend and runs sessions and projects within the West Yorkshire county of England. Meet and Mend focuses on textile activities that encourage sustainable methods, such as re-purposing and recycling wherever possible. Meet and Mend ran the Cost of Living Quilt Project in January and February 2023 and is currently running the Reusable Sanitary Pads Project, making cloth pads for women in hardship.. The main focus for these projects is to learn and share hand sewing and slow-stitching techniques, to make connections and friendships, and to resuse fabric for the wider good.

Website: http://www.meetandmend.co.uk 

Instagram: @meetandmend 

Twitter:@meetandmend

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-12872858 Thu, 18 May 2023 10:00:00 +0100 1581 3 5 full false Series 3, Episode 4 Yomi Sode & Chloe Osborne Series 3, Episode 4 Yomi Sode & Chloe Osborne Award - winning writer Yomi Sode, and artist/activist Chloe Osborne together run 'The Grief Lab' an opportunity to explore, playfully, riotously, experimentally, grief and loss.  In this episode they discuss their approaches, the development of this work, and how to continually move the expectations of others and ourselves about how to deal with difficult feelings.

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]]> Award - winning writer Yomi Sode, and artist/activist Chloe Osborne together run 'The Grief Lab' an opportunity to explore, playfully, riotously, experimentally, grief and loss.  In this episode they discuss their approaches, the development of this work, and how to continually move the expectations of others and ourselves about how to deal with difficult feelings.

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-12834931 Fri, 12 May 2023 09:00:00 +0100 2423 3 4 full false Series 3, Episode 3: Professor Hartley Jafine Series 3, Episode 3: Professor Hartley Jafine Professor Hartley Jafine is an improviser, clown nose enthusiast, and Survivor superfan. He is on the faculty at McMaster University and University of Toronto, where he facilitates theatre and arts-based courses. As a health humanities artist-scholar his teaching and research focuses on the intersection between applied theatre, improvisation and health science education. "My work investigates the use of theatre, improv, and serious play to support the enhancement of clinical competencies, wellness, and personal awareness with healthcare students and professionals. I don't know how to ride a bike and believe pears make an excellent pizza topping. "

Tedx Talk
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]]> Professor Hartley Jafine is an improviser, clown nose enthusiast, and Survivor superfan. He is on the faculty at McMaster University and University of Toronto, where he facilitates theatre and arts-based courses. As a health humanities artist-scholar his teaching and research focuses on the intersection between applied theatre, improvisation and health science education. "My work investigates the use of theatre, improv, and serious play to support the enhancement of clinical competencies, wellness, and personal awareness with healthcare students and professionals. I don't know how to ride a bike and believe pears make an excellent pizza topping. "

Tedx Talk
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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-12788904 Fri, 05 May 2023 10:00:00 +0100 1980 3 3 full false Series 3, Episode 2: Molly Syrett Series 3, Episode 2: Molly Syrett Molly Syrett is a costume supervisor and buyer, currently training in millinery. Molly has worked with a range of theatre and dance companies on UK tours, site specific and immersive productions including for London Borough Of Culture, The National Theatre and on Harry Potter & the Cursed Child. Molly also works with Goldsmiths University of London’s Theatre and Performance department as a costume and set design technician. Molly aims to imbue her millinery with a sense of fun and joy, while focusing on working with pre-existing materials.

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]]> Molly Syrett is a costume supervisor and buyer, currently training in millinery. Molly has worked with a range of theatre and dance companies on UK tours, site specific and immersive productions including for London Borough Of Culture, The National Theatre and on Harry Potter & the Cursed Child. Molly also works with Goldsmiths University of London’s Theatre and Performance department as a costume and set design technician. Molly aims to imbue her millinery with a sense of fun and joy, while focusing on working with pre-existing materials.

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-12741108 Fri, 28 Apr 2023 10:00:00 +0100 2010 3 2 full false Series 3, Episode 1: Toby Peach Series 3, Episode 1: Toby Peach Toby is an Award-Winning theatre maker & Associate Director at interactive theatre makers, Coney, where he focuses on making work with, and for, young people & families that spark change through play. He has made pieces that live on National Trust grounds, at The National Archives and landed in schools across the UK. 

In 2020, he created Beyond Arts CIC, who amplify stories of life beyond a cancer diagnosis. Their projects empower young people who’ve experienced cancer to find their own language to communicate their experiences to others and together we evolve the cancer narrative.  Beyond Arts has a podcast: Afterthoughts, link below

https://www.tobypeach.co.uk/home

https://beyondarts.org.uk/about/

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]]> Toby is an Award-Winning theatre maker & Associate Director at interactive theatre makers, Coney, where he focuses on making work with, and for, young people & families that spark change through play. He has made pieces that live on National Trust grounds, at The National Archives and landed in schools across the UK. 

In 2020, he created Beyond Arts CIC, who amplify stories of life beyond a cancer diagnosis. Their projects empower young people who’ve experienced cancer to find their own language to communicate their experiences to others and together we evolve the cancer narrative.  Beyond Arts has a podcast: Afterthoughts, link below

https://www.tobypeach.co.uk/home

https://beyondarts.org.uk/about/

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-12690639 Thu, 20 Apr 2023 17:00:00 +0100 1996 3 1 full false Series 2, Episode 7: Devon Goodrich and Michael Breakey Series 2, Episode 7: Devon Goodrich and Michael Breakey For this episode we made a site visit - a first for us. We spoke to Michael Breakey and Devon Goodrich who host and manage the Rotherhithe Shed, but also to some of the people who had popped in that afternoon to make, mend, paint and chat. Rotherhithe Shed, just south of the River Thames,  was set up by Time & Talents and London Bubble Theatre Company, and is based in Bubble's large workshop. The Shed provides a space for older adults to put their practical skills to good use – fixing, making, whittling, drilling, sawing and tinkering, to learn new skills and to connect with each other. They are part of the wider association, Men's Sheds, initially set up to meet the needs of older men, who were much less likely to join groups and activities than women. There are Sheds all over the world - they are amazing spaces.

https://www.timeandtalents.org.uk/the-rotherhithe-shed/

https://menssheds.org.uk/

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]]> For this episode we made a site visit - a first for us. We spoke to Michael Breakey and Devon Goodrich who host and manage the Rotherhithe Shed, but also to some of the people who had popped in that afternoon to make, mend, paint and chat. Rotherhithe Shed, just south of the River Thames,  was set up by Time & Talents and London Bubble Theatre Company, and is based in Bubble's large workshop. The Shed provides a space for older adults to put their practical skills to good use – fixing, making, whittling, drilling, sawing and tinkering, to learn new skills and to connect with each other. They are part of the wider association, Men's Sheds, initially set up to meet the needs of older men, who were much less likely to join groups and activities than women. There are Sheds all over the world - they are amazing spaces.

https://www.timeandtalents.org.uk/the-rotherhithe-shed/

https://menssheds.org.uk/

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-11916647 Thu, 22 Dec 2022 10:00:00 +0000 1839 2 7 full false Series 2, Episode 6: Olivia Namutebi and Rebecca Hayes Laughton Series 2, Episode 6: Olivia Namutebi and Rebecca Hayes Laughton Rebecca Hayes Laughton has supported the Women for Refugee Women drama groups for 7 years, hosting a space for women who are refugees and asylum seekers, where creativity, laughter, and finding words for the unspeakable come together. Part of the wider campaigning organisation, W4RW, the group regularly perform at events, conferences and celebrations. Rebecca  is working towards her PhD , and is as a documentary producer for the BBC

Olivia Namutebi is a core member of W4RW where she has become a facilitator. She credits her experience with the group of bringing her from a place of  isolation and powerlessness to confidence as a campaigner and activist.

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]]> Rebecca Hayes Laughton has supported the Women for Refugee Women drama groups for 7 years, hosting a space for women who are refugees and asylum seekers, where creativity, laughter, and finding words for the unspeakable come together. Part of the wider campaigning organisation, W4RW, the group regularly perform at events, conferences and celebrations. Rebecca  is working towards her PhD , and is as a documentary producer for the BBC

Olivia Namutebi is a core member of W4RW where she has become a facilitator. She credits her experience with the group of bringing her from a place of  isolation and powerlessness to confidence as a campaigner and activist.

https://www.refugeewomen.co.uk/



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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-11584223 Fri, 28 Oct 2022 07:00:00 +0100 2378 2 6 full false Series 2, Episode 5: Tony Cealy Series 2, Episode 5: Tony Cealy Tony Cealy is an Arts Development Practitioner, Consultant, Trainer & Producer

Founder, Director & Producer of 492 Korna Klub the UK's only weekly improvised radio drama exploring social issues amongst the black community
Artistic Agitator Fellow Brixton House - connecting strangers & beginning difficult conversations in shared spaces about Brixton and its people
Co-Founder & Curator of 81 Acts of Exuberant Defiance - a ground-breaking grass-roots project, built from the ground up with over 300 people giving their time and energy for free to make a radical reclaiming of heritage - to imagine, experiment and create new futures. Click here on how to get involved: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=287694275664249&ref=watch_permalink
Facilitator & trainer at the Core Learning Group. A project that sets out to envisage how civil society in London might better share resources and power to drive change. https://smk.org.uk/what-we-do/power-project/resource-pinboard/
Founder of http://theblackmensconsortium.com/ a project that supports Black Men affected by Mental Illness.

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]]> Tony Cealy is an Arts Development Practitioner, Consultant, Trainer & Producer

Founder, Director & Producer of 492 Korna Klub the UK's only weekly improvised radio drama exploring social issues amongst the black community
Artistic Agitator Fellow Brixton House - connecting strangers & beginning difficult conversations in shared spaces about Brixton and its people
Co-Founder & Curator of 81 Acts of Exuberant Defiance - a ground-breaking grass-roots project, built from the ground up with over 300 people giving their time and energy for free to make a radical reclaiming of heritage - to imagine, experiment and create new futures. Click here on how to get involved: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=287694275664249&ref=watch_permalink
Facilitator & trainer at the Core Learning Group. A project that sets out to envisage how civil society in London might better share resources and power to drive change. https://smk.org.uk/what-we-do/power-project/resource-pinboard/
Founder of http://theblackmensconsortium.com/ a project that supports Black Men affected by Mental Illness.

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-11537088 Thu, 20 Oct 2022 17:00:00 +0100 2223 2 5 full false Series 2, Episode 4: Parisa Wright Series 2, Episode 4: Parisa Wright Parisa Wright is is the founder and CEo of Greener & Cleaner, a sustainable living charity. She left her 20 year career in law to focus fully on addressing the climate crisis by making sure that susatinable living is accessible and inclusive for all.  Greer and Cleaner runs The Hub inThe Glades Shopping Centre in Bromley, running classes and workshops, mending surgeries and capaign events, and is engaged in a National Research project with IMperial College, London.

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]]> Parisa Wright is is the founder and CEo of Greener & Cleaner, a sustainable living charity. She left her 20 year career in law to focus fully on addressing the climate crisis by making sure that susatinable living is accessible and inclusive for all.  Greer and Cleaner runs The Hub inThe Glades Shopping Centre in Bromley, running classes and workshops, mending surgeries and capaign events, and is engaged in a National Research project with IMperial College, London.

https://www.greenerandcleaner.co.uk/

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-11498833 Fri, 14 Oct 2022 08:00:00 +0100 2149 2 4 full false Series 2, Episode 3: Gail Babb and Alex Evans Series 2, Episode 3: Gail Babb and Alex Evans Gail is an award-winning theatre maker who specialises in creating new work that centres and celebrates Black British experiences. As a dramaturg and director, she has created shows for theatres, found sites (including museums and a derelict school), as well as national and international touring. Recent credits include work with Brixton House, Fuel, China Plate, National Youth Theatre, Talawa Theatre Company and Hackney Showroom. In 2021, she won the Kenneth Tynan Award for Excellence in Dramaturgy and was named one of Alfred Fagon Awards’ 25 Black Champions of Theatre. Gail also facilitates creative processes in community settings and runs the MA in Applied Theatre at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Alex is a Visual Artist, Director and Facilitator working across the UK and internationally with Children, Young People and Communities. His participatory projects create group encounters for shared imagination, movement, learning and social justice. He is the Artistic Director and CEO of Kazzum Arts, a trauma-informed arts organisation in East London.

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]]> Gail is an award-winning theatre maker who specialises in creating new work that centres and celebrates Black British experiences. As a dramaturg and director, she has created shows for theatres, found sites (including museums and a derelict school), as well as national and international touring. Recent credits include work with Brixton House, Fuel, China Plate, National Youth Theatre, Talawa Theatre Company and Hackney Showroom. In 2021, she won the Kenneth Tynan Award for Excellence in Dramaturgy and was named one of Alfred Fagon Awards’ 25 Black Champions of Theatre. Gail also facilitates creative processes in community settings and runs the MA in Applied Theatre at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Alex is a Visual Artist, Director and Facilitator working across the UK and internationally with Children, Young People and Communities. His participatory projects create group encounters for shared imagination, movement, learning and social justice. He is the Artistic Director and CEO of Kazzum Arts, a trauma-informed arts organisation in East London.

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-11455124 Fri, 07 Oct 2022 09:00:00 +0100 2078 2 3 full false Series 2, Episode 2: Molly Martin Series 2, Episode 2: Molly Martin Molly is an artist who lives and works in London. Her art work looks at negative space with a considered colour palette, and a delicate approach to the drawn line. Drawing from life as well as memory, dreams and imagination, Molly creates work around a sense of place, belonging and time. Molly is also a professional textile repairer and researcher, specialising in delicate fabrics and traditional hand sewing techniques. She has worked as the sole repairer for slow fashion company egg and works in continuous collaboration with TOAST, teaching repair workshops in London and throughout the UK. Her book ‘The Art of Repair’ (published March 2021 with Short Books) looks at the philosophy, history and techniques of textile repair, and is accompanied by her original illustration.

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]]> Molly is an artist who lives and works in London. Her art work looks at negative space with a considered colour palette, and a delicate approach to the drawn line. Drawing from life as well as memory, dreams and imagination, Molly creates work around a sense of place, belonging and time. Molly is also a professional textile repairer and researcher, specialising in delicate fabrics and traditional hand sewing techniques. She has worked as the sole repairer for slow fashion company egg and works in continuous collaboration with TOAST, teaching repair workshops in London and throughout the UK. Her book ‘The Art of Repair’ (published March 2021 with Short Books) looks at the philosophy, history and techniques of textile repair, and is accompanied by her original illustration.

http://www.mollymartin.uk

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-11409025 Thu, 29 Sep 2022 19:00:00 +0100 2648 full false Series 2, Episode 1: David Labi Series 2, Episode 1: David Labi David is a London-born storyteller, founder/director of ethical agency Good Point, and an artist who writes, makes films, and performs. Currently he's developing and touring a tragicomic one-man show about fatherhood called Pieces of a Man, along with an interactive workshop to help people reconfigure their internal relationships with their parents. David has lived in Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Berlin, and is now based in Brussels. 

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http://www.davidlabi.com

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]]> David is a London-born storyteller, founder/director of ethical agency Good Point, and an artist who writes, makes films, and performs. Currently he's developing and touring a tragicomic one-man show about fatherhood called Pieces of a Man, along with an interactive workshop to help people reconfigure their internal relationships with their parents. David has lived in Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Berlin, and is now based in Brussels. 

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http://www.davidlabi.com

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-11371660 Fri, 23 Sep 2022 10:00:00 +0100 1653 2 1 full false Episode 8: Rachel Ho Episode 8: Rachel Ho Rachel trained as a potter in Belfast and Kilkenny and has developed  a unique ceramics practice that explores concepts such as Hope, Grief and Scars. Based In Macclesfield she exhibits in galleries but also in public spaces, entering into a dialogue with those who view and pick up her work.

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-10312241 Thu, 24 Mar 2022 17:00:00 +0000 2230 full false Episode 7: Sudip Chakroborthy and Ali Campbell Episode 7: Sudip Chakroborthy and Ali Campbell Sudip Chakroborthy recently gained his PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London. he is an experienced theatre director who has worked extensively in Bangladesh, Canada and the UK. He teaches at the University of Dhaka

Ali Campbell is Professor of Applied Performance at Queen Mary, University of London. A specialist in collaborative theatre making, he trained with Augusto Boal, and his work has taken him to India and Bangladesh, Brazil, Uganda and the USA. His passion for social justice and his Quaker beliefs underpin his work.

Sudip and Ali collaborate frequently on the Season of Bangla Drama, an annual celebration of Bangla performance in Tower Hamlets.

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Ali Campbell is Professor of Applied Performance at Queen Mary, University of London. A specialist in collaborative theatre making, he trained with Augusto Boal, and his work has taken him to India and Bangladesh, Brazil, Uganda and the USA. His passion for social justice and his Quaker beliefs underpin his work.

Sudip and Ali collaborate frequently on the Season of Bangla Drama, an annual celebration of Bangla performance in Tower Hamlets.

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-10269574 Thu, 17 Mar 2022 19:00:00 +0000 2299 full false Episode 6: Suzi Warren Episode 6: Suzi Warren Designer and Maker Suzi Warren is a co-founder of Twisted Twee, designing, making and upcycling clothes with a satirical twist. Suzi created 'Stitch it Don't Ditch it', initially by setting up a chair outside a fast fashion shop and sitting and mending, to start conversations. This gentle protest has now grown, with lines of menders snaking down high streets across the UK. Suzi is looking for 1000 menders to do 'Stitch it Don't ditch' it along Oxford Street

https://twistedtwee.co.uk/products/the-clothing-hospital?_pos=1&_sid=3d470ef79&_ss=r

https://www.acart.org.uk/post/introducing-suzi-warren

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]]> Designer and Maker Suzi Warren is a co-founder of Twisted Twee, designing, making and upcycling clothes with a satirical twist. Suzi created 'Stitch it Don't Ditch it', initially by setting up a chair outside a fast fashion shop and sitting and mending, to start conversations. This gentle protest has now grown, with lines of menders snaking down high streets across the UK. Suzi is looking for 1000 menders to do 'Stitch it Don't ditch' it along Oxford Street

https://twistedtwee.co.uk/products/the-clothing-hospital?_pos=1&_sid=3d470ef79&_ss=r

https://www.acart.org.uk/post/introducing-suzi-warren

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-10228059 Thu, 10 Mar 2022 21:00:00 +0000 1835 full false Episode 5: Amanda Mascarenhas and Mo Sumah Episode 5: Amanda Mascarenhas and Mo Sumah Amanda Mascarenhas is a Theatre Designer and Visual Artist. She specialises in immersive and sensory design, and also works extensively in participatory settings. She is Associate artist with Kazzum Arts a member of the Breaks & Joins team

https://www.amandamascarenhas.com/about

Mo Sumah runs Mend it with Mo, a repair cafe, at the Telegraph Hill Centre, where he is also Facilities Manager. Mo is passionate about mending and recycling; repair as a way of resisting the culture of waste and disposability. Mo is a member of the Breaks & Joins team

https://thcentre.com/mend-it-with-mo/

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https://www.amandamascarenhas.com/about

Mo Sumah runs Mend it with Mo, a repair cafe, at the Telegraph Hill Centre, where he is also Facilities Manager. Mo is passionate about mending and recycling; repair as a way of resisting the culture of waste and disposability. Mo is a member of the Breaks & Joins team

https://thcentre.com/mend-it-with-mo/

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-10183181 Thu, 03 Mar 2022 19:00:00 +0000 1697 full false Episode 4: Liz Honeybone Episode 4: Liz Honeybone Liz Honeybone is in the textile department at the National Theatre. She has always sewn, making and adapting her own clothes, and she shares her expertise on dye, on making costumes speak through their colour and texture, on responding to furlough by making scrubs for the NHS and learning about natural dyes. Her infectious energy and enthusiasm make this episode as good as a strong coffee, and my sister Janet, who gave Liz her first job at The National, gets  a shout out too.

Liz is part of the collective, the Skip Sisters

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https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/costume-and-props-hire

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]]> Liz Honeybone is in the textile department at the National Theatre. She has always sewn, making and adapting her own clothes, and she shares her expertise on dye, on making costumes speak through their colour and texture, on responding to furlough by making scrubs for the NHS and learning about natural dyes. Her infectious energy and enthusiasm make this episode as good as a strong coffee, and my sister Janet, who gave Liz her first job at The National, gets  a shout out too.

Liz is part of the collective, the Skip Sisters

skip sisters

https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/costume-and-props-hire

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-10137203 Thu, 24 Feb 2022 17:00:00 +0000 1945 full false Episode 3: Sylvan Baker Episode 3: Sylvan Baker Sylvan is a neuro diverse care leaver, practitioner and researcher who has been working across the fields of applied theatre, socially engaged arts and education for the past 30 years. His practice has taken place across the UK and globally in sites in Brazil, and the USA,  More recently my work has centred around developing research that allows its participants to be co researchers and not objects of research.

https://www.cssd.ac.uk/staff-profiles/dr-sylvan-baker


https://theverbatimformula.org.uk/what-we-do/

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]]> Sylvan is a neuro diverse care leaver, practitioner and researcher who has been working across the fields of applied theatre, socially engaged arts and education for the past 30 years. His practice has taken place across the UK and globally in sites in Brazil, and the USA,  More recently my work has centred around developing research that allows its participants to be co researchers and not objects of research.

https://www.cssd.ac.uk/staff-profiles/dr-sylvan-baker


https://theverbatimformula.org.uk/what-we-do/

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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-10091545 Thu, 17 Feb 2022 08:00:00 +0000 2239 full false Episode 2: Raj Bhari and Claire MacDonald Episode 2: Raj Bhari and Claire MacDonald Both Raj and Claire have broken bones, in a way that brought them to a halt . They chat about fractures, doctors, slowing down and slow mending.

Raj Bhari is a facilitator and trainer in Peacebuilding, who works internationally and in the UK, managing conflict and building peaceful communities. Raj teaches on the MA Applied Theatre at Goldsmiths, andis a member of the Breaks & Joins team 

Claire is a writer, theatre practitioner, and Unitarian Minister. She founded Impact Theatre Cooperative and is an active member of Culture Declares Emergency, the global community of artists and cultural leaders actively responding to climate and ecological emergency. 



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]]> Both Raj and Claire have broken bones, in a way that brought them to a halt . They chat about fractures, doctors, slowing down and slow mending.

Raj Bhari is a facilitator and trainer in Peacebuilding, who works internationally and in the UK, managing conflict and building peaceful communities. Raj teaches on the MA Applied Theatre at Goldsmiths, andis a member of the Breaks & Joins team 

Claire is a writer, theatre practitioner, and Unitarian Minister. She founded Impact Theatre Cooperative and is an active member of Culture Declares Emergency, the global community of artists and cultural leaders actively responding to climate and ecological emergency. 



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]]> Sue Mayo Buzzsprout-10050990 Thu, 10 Feb 2022 18:00:00 +0000 2031 full false Episode 1: Rose Sinclair Episode 1: Rose Sinclair We chat to Rose Sinclair, Design Lecturer at Goldsmiths,  A textile specialist, she talks about all things mending, and the Dorcas Clubs, where women from the Caribbean traditionally met to sew and knit and chat together. @Dorcasstories

https://www.gold.ac.uk/design/people/sinclair/

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]]> We chat to Rose Sinclair, Design Lecturer at Goldsmiths,  A textile specialist, she talks about all things mending, and the Dorcas Clubs, where women from the Caribbean traditionally met to sew and knit and chat together. @Dorcasstories

https://www.gold.ac.uk/design/people/sinclair/

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