The love and humour of community at the Black Achievers East Midlands Conference Centre Beeston Lane Saturday 22nd October…

What an opening: and, if you needed a who’s who of Nottingham power, celebrity and action it was here, at East Midlands Conference Centre, Saturday 21st October. The will to bring everyone together stimulated by the effervescent arboretum councillor Merlita Bryan Merlita Bryan with Panya Banjoko, writer, poet, teacher, children’s writer, cultural archivist and literary […]

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Source: About me I’m working to help micro businesses reach more people, more of the time.

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I’m in Nottingham, England and work to help micro businesses reach more people, more of the time. I think that tech platforms are in beta form and we’re pretending otherwise: although the tech is fantastic it now needs to be made smaller and more responsive to the infrastructural needs of people in towns, villages, countryside […]

Getting Comfortable Versus Getting Lazy

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The World of Tomorrow: Why Dr Suzie Imber’s grace under pressure is about social mobility as well as rocket science

Featured image: Charlie’s Art (aged five and a half) I loved Do You Have What It Takes To Be and Astronaut: I’m not a child, not a scientist but what was great in the BBC 4 Series that meant I watched every programme of the six on iplayer. The fantastic work of BBC’s Helen […]

OX JAM Nottingham and Beeston 21st October from first thing: Hundreds of musicians across genres. It’s about time

Music is about multitudes participating in performance that raises the spirit to change things for the better. OXFAM too is changing and making a local difference as well as on the international scene. OXJAM (its eleventh year), wants you to participate, to connect with the people in your local area and share the delight: strings, […]

The Way You Walk, How You Dress, How You Think: Expect More and Change The World: Better Algorithms, Fewer Silos

It’s impossible to thank everyone for the care and love they’ve given you: impossible to imagine that through kindness alone that you’ll change social injustice or systems. We all try. I grew up in a loving family but because of my mum’s Irish ethnicity felt the impact of discrimination on her: after my father died […]

When you have a city with a bold and beautiful independent gallery like Syson

You feel it’s yours, that you’re living alongside artists in your own neighbourhood. The work is all the things you’ve ever thought, felt, aspired, wondered about. It’s a real grown up space where people explore the big questions as if its normal to do so. That’s great and unusual in Nottingham and why visiting Syson […]

Elevate: Robert Carvalho Means You!

Birmingham multi instrumentalist Carvalho has released Elevate through French based label Springbok and you can listen here Elevate is Robert’s personal journey through from the diaspora, with Dance music, Afro beat, Soulful House, Garage and Brazilian Samba influences, composed in the Robert Carvalho focussed, joyful and careful tribute style. From his first release of ‘All The things You know to be True‘ in 2013 […]

Wish You Were Here: BBC’s Big Painting Challenge: Diana Ali On Her Own Work: Who Am I To Tell Someone Else’s Story?

Above Featured image: A postcard from Post-Authorshop– a collaboration with 100 people from across the world (No 7) from Diana Ali’s portfolio on Axis Web Above: the image gives you some idea of the richness of the collaboration BBC’s Big Painting Challenge mentor Diana Ali developed with her trade mark light touch, humour and grace. The BBC’s […]