Why Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence is relevant now and Museumand: Nottingham’s museum without walls about Caribbean people and Culture

Featured Image: Orhan Pamuk’s Museum Of Innocence in Çukurcuma, Istanbul Museums are like cultural tardises, with and without walls, they are the solids, liquids and oxygen that helps us to breathe…. Above photos of the area where Pamuk set and created the novel and museum 1969 2013…it became part of a renaissance and regeneration of the area, […]

Why parliament is so important: just a thought before the local elections, vote to protect everything parliament is

Above and Featured Image: Future Learn Course (Parliamentary Copyright) I always vote labour but that’s my privilege. I live in Rushcliffe, where the very popular Kenneth Clarke QC MP is about to semi retire. Above Ken Clarke’s Autobiography: ‘Kind of Blue’ available from good local bookshops like Five Leaves Who will replace him? Do you […]

Nu Urban Gardeners at Newstead Abbey: Fetes: April 15th-16th & 22nd-23rd April 2017 Live Art event May 6th-7th 2017

Nottingham Contemporary has taken a long view on history with the exhibition The Place is Here but like Philippa Perry in her (probably award winning BBC4 programme about Surrealism), where she creates her own pop up bureau of surrealist research, asking people to recall the last dream they had, possibly, the place we’re all seeking, […]

Thanks Sarah for bringing much more than dance and barre skill to West Bridgford from Calgary: Sarah in Nottingham (1)

Featured Image: Mother’s Day roses from Sarah Moran to her Monday’s Barre Class at The Fitness Space, Bridgford Road West Bridgford 27th March 2017 Sarah runs the kind of classes that inspire you to try to live in a more balanced and thoughtful way. I’m really glad that The Fitness Space’s Geoff Djann has brought her […]

Bringing it all home: Susi Henson and Independent Fashion Cat Walk across Nottingham Sat 25th March 12.45 starting at OneBC

Featured image: Bianca Mwaura’s painting of a woman walking with a lion If anyone can focus a Saturday lunch time attention on the importance of independent manufacture and retail it’s Nottingham business woman Susi Henson who is locally grown, stunningly talented and a real force for regeneration here. Susi designs lingerie and wedding garments….and much, […]

Keep Independent Retailers Alive: buy the one thing you love: Hockley, Sneinton and Derby Road

Featured Image Verna Poppy Designs at Sneinton Market 4th March The have lots and have notts applies to retailing, particularly how we support the ethos and diversity of independence in making and selling in Nottingham. As long ago as April 2015 Sophie Thomas, writing an article for Notts TV picked up on the beautiful surface of […]

24 Green Street: what if every house could nestle in grass like this…

Originally posted on Design As Distributed Agency:
This is a wonder! The grass on your doorstep is the dream of Mohammed Mahdi one of the MArch students in the Design as Distributed Agency blog, the work in progress of Studio 4 March Sheffield Hallam Architecture students. The students have picked up on a great local newspaper, the South Leeds Life that has the courage […]

Class with class: 2 hours £150: free if you’re out of work: Michael Ruocco, your junction to a career in App Design if you want it

Featured Image Wire Frame App Flow thanks Michael Ruocco You know how Charlie in the Chocolate Factory is given a golden ticket? Roald Dahl grew up in Wales and after private school was offered a golden ticket to Oxford but refused it, saying: “No thank you. I want to go straight from school to work for a […]

12.6 million adults in the UK lack basic digital skills: 5.8 million people have never used the internet: 35% of computer teachers in schools have a relevant degree: 30% of the required number of computer science teachers have not been recruited: 13% of computer graduates are still unemployed 6 months after leaving university. This digital skills gap is costing the UK economy £63 billion a year in lost GDP.

Featured image from the wonderful Martyn Williams on Alamy Image: Discussion of the appointment of the Science and Technology Committee in Parliament 2015 Source: Science and Technology Committee UK Parliament 2016-2017 Remember, or have you googled the very first mobile phone? Left the first mobile phone Dyna Tac 8000x and Burroughs Mainframe Computers After my daughter […]

Art is in her heart: Balzac Scholar artist and thinker at the Exhibition: Ewa Szypula

Featured image: Ewa Szypula at Nottingham Castle for the Matthew Darbyshire Exhibition The extraordinary thing about Ewa Szypula is that she’s an academic who is also a really gifted artist. She produced the front cover of her doctorate/book: Balzac’s Love Letters: Correspondence and The Literary Imagination (see below). The love between Honore De Balzac and the Polish […]