Red, there’s a reason why women claim it as their colour. It’s a power colour, interwoven with our right of passage into womanhood. This month I submitted a story to the Scottish Book Trust part a fairy tale and part Read more…
(based on the genius song “Agony” from Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim) Did I abuse this (educational opportunity)by showing distain?My brain’s feeling mashed up.I might just lose it;tormented I’m reeling from frontal lobe pain! Agony!VIVA’s out of my reachWhen Read more…
“There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this” TP Sorry Terry, if you don’t mind me calling you that, but this is not THE END. You Read more…
5th March, 4-6pm, Reinvention Centre at Westwood, Warwick Campus [Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/alexreyes/] Dr Analia Meo from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, came to discuss a short documentary called Teachers’ Views on Returning Schools. The Film looks at the experiences and Read more…
Professor Johnathan Hearn came to speak, at the University of Warwick, about power and the role of competition in society. ‘Competition is part of the deep structure of how society is organised,’ he said. ‘I am not a supporter of Read more…
[view of Minneapolis taken by myself] Following a proactive approach to Professor Jack Zipes in 2013 I went to Minneapolis in September 2014 to work as an assistant on the Neighbourhood Bridges Program (Bridges), an arts for education charity. Read more…
1stNovember – poster presentation Presented a poster of my research at the Herbert Art Gallery as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences. The exhibition aimed to improve public access to innovative research in Warwick and Coventry and was Read more…
In September I was invited to Minneapolis by Professor Jack Zipes to participate in the work of Neighborhood Bridges. This involved presenting my research to staff, teachers and teaching artists of Neighborhood Bridges, meeting with academics, and going into a Read more…
I was invited to Minneapolis this September by Professor Jack Zipes after meeting him in Cambridge last year in order to talk to the charity Neighborhood Bridges about my research with storytelling. In order to promote my trip and my work to those Read more…
My trip to the conference (Well at the World’s End) and the Beyond the Boarders storytelling festival inspired the following short piece which I dedicate to everyone present this year. [Picture from Redbubble.com] Memories beside the sea – Read more…