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Love the life you have: Skin Elixir: moisturiser and perfume: handmade and lustrous: empathy and serendipity

Keith Jarrett Kolne Concert most watched piano concert ever When Keith Jarrett, famous improvisational pianist, agreed to an invitation to play in Kolne, on a poorly tuned piano, he empathised with the 19 year old Vera Brandes, then  Germany’s youngest concert promoter. 1400 people had bought tickets, She/he couldn’t let them down. Although he wasn’t […]

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Work and Us: why we need more 2,3,4 day a week roles and skill access across our lifetimes

Featured Image from Samir Hussein’s wonderful image of Prince Harry and Trevor Rose, Manager of Full Effect Recording based at Russell Youth Club Lowdham Street NG3 2DP Prof Ayorkor Korsah of Ashesi Univ Accra Ghana, understands robotics. She also understands why we need to keep all the people, all of the time, in mind as we develop […]

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Why movement in an opencity is for everyone: Barre and much more with Sarah Moran at the Fitness Space

Why do we sit in offices and dream of the gym? Because we really would prefer to be moving and learning and doing something that will help us move throughout our day with a bit more elegance and style. Even to people who don’t dance, the discipline, form and line of ballet, the barre at […]

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The Buck Stops here, with us, hate crime statistics and a society that integrates everyones’ contribution

Image part of the publicity for 1972 film The Harder They Come  a 1972 Jamaican crime film directed by Perry Henzell and co-written by Trevor D. Rhone, and starring Jimmy Cliff. (Permission to use the image applied for) I’m sharing Dr Alan Maddison’s Article from the great British blog Political Sift because, not only is there now […]

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Economic Hardship Reporting is Real News: June Thunderstorm writing about the social pressures around smoking

Smoking Geographies Published by Wiley 2017 Ross Barnett Adjunct Professor of the University NewZealand Graham Moon Professor of Spatial Analysis University of Southampton Jamie Pierce Professor of Health Geography University of Edinburgh Lee Thompson Senior Lecturer at university of Otago New Zealand Liz Twigg is a Professor of Human Geography University of Portsmouth Smoking Geographies […]

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Chris Lewis Jones: art is in his heart:”I’m me and nobody else…whatever people say I am, that’s what I’m not”

Above: Chris Lewis Jones: Shoe..he’s working on a new performer’s shoes drawing project: he is very interested in music, performance and tracing emotion. In Alan Sillitoe’s Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, Albert Finney’s Arthur Seaton is caught in a spiral of work, drink and grabbing pleasure where he can and we and he know he is more than […]

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August Moon Tea: everyone should try this: in spite of what’s outside there’s a different world inside

When you walk down Carlton Street you can feel a sense of business and busyness, you know that there’s a kind of microcosm here also of all that’s good and bad in the city. August Moon Tea  brings the Tea Ceremony and wonderful teas to Nottingham. At the bottom of Goose Gate, number 60,  the very […]

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Remember nosy google cars? Well, here’s the human version: 15 photographers taking over half a million photographs in a year Picture this: Chen Hai Wen: flying, driving, walking, cycling across China….

Featured Image: The wonderful Beauty Paddy of China by Photographer Thierry Bornier A Family Album of the ethnic groups that create China. Between 2008 and 2009 over 150 historians and anthropologists travelled across China to research everything from the most typical villages to the most extraordinary traditional dress. The project was documented by photographer Chen […]

Read More Remember nosy google cars? Well, here’s the human version: 15 photographers taking over half a million photographs in a year Picture this: Chen Hai Wen: flying, driving, walking, cycling across China….