Jarvis Cocker WARNING: liveblogged – left in first person This is about the Extraordinary Artists are storytellers, they tell us different versions of the story about what it means to be a human being. Lots of people want to be an artist, but everyone of you is an artist, but perhaps you have not realised […]
The Story 2018: Zoe Whitley
Zoe Whitley (Tate Modern) She wants to talk about the “never meet your heroes†statement…because she’s never met hers. It’s about expectations. When you meet people that are larger than your life, you don’t want to meet any who may show something that does not meet that, that shows their imperfections. She wants to talk […]
The Story 2018: Camilla Wright
WARNING: Liveblogged. Edited for clarity Camilla Wright is the founder of Popbitch You think you know what the story of our time…but often what you see is what one paper wants you see, or an advertiser wants, or a couple of people made up. So what we see becomes narrow. Popbitch can be broader. Founded […]
The Story 2018: Elijah
WARNING: Liveblogged, only minor edits Elijah (and on twitter) talked about his history with Grime music and culture from London pirate radio in early 2000s. Jamaican parents, born in Hackney, lived there all life. Got involved in music in late teens, eg in Notting hill carnival 1994. The sound developed, reggae, jungle, garage through to […]
The Story 2018: Mandy Rose
WARNING: Liveblogged. Only minor edits/amends About 25 years ago, she found herself watching a tape that had arrived in the post. There were shots of mirrors around the house. Then colonel Gordon Henshaw started talking..about how mentally you don’t feel older, the mirrors show you the reality of time He would have been the last […]
The Story 2018: Tanya Byrne
Note: this was liveblogged at The Story 2018. Minor amends and edits only Will be talking about ‘Who am i’ It should be a simple as ‘I’m Tanya‘. But is there anyone in the room who hasn’t asked further. To explore that, will be telling the story of how she was born Wed 22nd Dec, […]
The Story 2018: Lisa-Marie Neudert
Note: this was liveblogged at the time. Minor amends and edits only Lisa-Maria Neudert works at the Oxford Internet Institute, researching how algorithms are being used to manipulate public opinion. about how we as a society are having public conversations and how we are participating in public life So this is about conversational propaganda. Starts […]
The Story 2018 Conference: Juno Dawson
Note: this was liveblogged at the time. Minor amends and edits only Juno Dawson This talk may not be fully on brief… it’s about the side hustle of being a story teller. She is a storyteller first, and everything else second. but there is always the side hustle. She got into writing a weird way; […]
The Story 2018 Conference: Ministry of Stories
Note: this was liveblogged at the time. Minor amends and edits only From their site: The Ministry of Stories is a local writing and mentoring centre in east London, where anyone aged eight to 18 can come and discover their own gift for writing. What do they do: Writing and mentoring space in East London. […]
2017 Review Part 2
The second part of my 2017 Review – basically just for my records. July July started off with me doing something completely different. I headed off to Switzerland for a Beginner’s Mountaineering Course! So taxi, plane, train and finally bus took me to the small village of Les Haudere’s in the south of Switzerland. There, […]
2017 Review Part 1
As I’ve not being doing weeknotes or even month notes in 2017, I’m going to go with a Year Note. A record for me to remember – rather than any one else to be amused by :-). A aide memoire to what I was doing and where I went, based on combination of calendar, Swarm […]