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Prince of the Welsh?
From Inktober posts Oct 2018 part of the Pick and Choose History of Courtenay Street, Kennington and Lambeth: Prince of the Welsh? Well the Prince of Wales has owned most of Lambeth for a long time, but it seems more … Continue reading
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Secret Tunnels of Kennigton
From Inktober posts Oct 2018 part of the Pick and Choose History of Courtenay Street, Kennington and Lambeth: Secret Tunnels in Kennington! We all know about the ones from MI6 to MI5 and so on but these ones mentioned by … Continue reading
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Gardening – Kennigton Roses
From Inktober posts in October 2018 “Really this is from yesterday – I was thinking about it as I was working at the Garden Museum last night. In case you can’t read my writing it says: Gardening. In Courtenay Street … Continue reading
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Women’s History Month
Not only does International Women’s Day fall in March, it turns out it is also Women’s History Month. As you will all know from previous posts I’m interested in local history and politics and I recently made this list of … Continue reading
The shadow street
As part of the work I am doing for my Artist in Residence project, I have been inspired by conversations with my neighbours – and the loan of some old maps by one of them, to look into the past … Continue reading
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Tagged 1911, Artist in Residence, courtenay street, housing, Lambeth, overcrowding
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Post Capitalist Creation
This is a slightly extended version of a talk I gave last night at the first Gobo networking night. Gobo is a new digital ‘match-making’ service for venues and theatre-makers – it’s launching soon and you can find out more … Continue reading
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Tagged acting, arab spring, bears, directing, Gobo, Julius Caesar, london, london riots, postcapitalism, rehearsal methods, rehearsal space, two
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Blast from the past – how much has changed though?
Just a quicky post re the Election. I was talking about this to someone this morning and got out my great-grandfather’s electoral address for the 1892 London County Council elections. He stood with Lawrence Stevens for the two seats in … Continue reading
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Re-Balancing Act
There has been a lot of talk about re-balancing the economy to diminish the dominance of London and boost the ‘regions’ – forgetting of course that London is a region! We have particularly heard about this in the arts and … Continue reading
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Show Culture Some Love
This is a campaign I am running on Facebook and Twitter for Artists Assembly Against Austerity as part of their involvement in the PCS Union conference on the Future of Arts and Culture in Britain. The idea is that on … Continue reading
#create365 no.16 a different way of doing things
I was going to title this piece ‘a better way of doing things’ and then I stopped because I wasn’t sure that what we did at the weekend was ‘better’, but it was ‘different’ and it was certainly very enjoyable. … Continue reading
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