February 2012
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Yesterday
I let Ryan, a senior member of Stage ‘65 Youth Theatre loose with my camera yesterday. We were at the Arts Award South West Advisers’ event held at Salisbury Playhouse hosted by Ruth Jones the Regional Development Manager and Real Ideas Organisation (the regional agency). If you’ve never met an Arts Award adviser you wont realise what an intrepid, creative, inspiring group of...
Feb 9th
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Driving in the snow
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Feb 5th
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(Robbie) Burns Unit )
Oh what fun! Last night we repaired to the Milford Hall Hotel for a ‘jolly’ although I wasn’t as jolly as I normally am, having slipped on the ice and sprained my ankle the day before. Good food*, good company and good ‘craic’. Rabbie Burns eh! See the full gallery on Posterous *Actually the food was a bit quirky, the starter named a ‘Milford...
Feb 5th
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January 2012
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Brief flurry of snow - the Winterbournes )
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Jan 30th
Figsbury Rings and down Figsbury Lane
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Jan 27th
Arts Award South West
Advisers’ Professional Development Day Salisbury Playhouse Wednesday, February 8th, 2012 10am – 4pm Have you booked your place yet? This week is your last chance to do so in order to give us time to organise catering and admin. You can see details of the event on the South West regional pages of the Arts Award website where there is a link to the booking form or you can use this...
Jan 24th
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Train as a Social Enterprise Qualification (SEQ)...
    From fundraising fetes to charity auctions, many people organise and undertake a range of positive, social and environmental activities through which they generate income.  With the arrival of this new qualification there is now a route to recognise, encourage and value that activity, providing a framework and accredited qualification to work within and...
Jan 19th
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Jan 16th
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New Tag: Artists on Tumblr →
hydeordie: Hey everyone, new tag alert! Artists on Tumblr is to highlight the best Tumblr has to offer as a wonderful platform to show off your work.  Artistsontumblr.tumblr.com is a great jumping off point for your exploration. Hit me up if we’re missing anyone super vital (like yourself?) I can’t wait to get started on this!
Jan 16th
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Down in the woods today...
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Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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Discombobulated: "For the first time I know what... →
sniffyjenkins: In 1937, as photographer Ansel Adams recovered from a nervous breakdown, he wrote this beautiful letter to his best friend, Cedric Wright: “Dear Cedric, A strange thing happened to me today. I saw a big thundercloud move down over Half Dome, and it was so big and clear and brilliant that it…
Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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Building
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Jan 14th
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*Love* South Wiltshire hedgerows
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Jan 11th
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Old Sarum
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Jan 7th
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Jan 4th
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'the story of the grass hopper and the octopus':... →
OH everyone needs to do this! thewhyoffry: (I think a lot of these relate to me) Dwayne A male name, Dwayne is pronounced d’wayn. It is of Irish and Gaelic origin “dubh”, meaning “dark”. Dwayne is a rare name to come across but people named Dwayne are very intelligent and exellent people, borderline gods. ‘Hey look its Dwayne!’ ‘Oh man…
Jan 4th
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Ashtree Honeybee: What I'm Digging →
thebluesteye: Happy 2012! I had the most mellow new year’s eve to date, left a neighbor’s party early in order to witness the stroke of midnight from the comfort of my own front porch. Scott and I were in bed by 12:30, it was fantastic! Only three days into the new year and already I am experiencing…
Jan 4th
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Buy a book, get culturally active in 2012
Have you got your 2012 diary yet? Lydias 2012 weekly planner could be the answer (also available as download for iPad / iPhone) Full of original drawings from Lydia aged 5 - 8yrs including month to view followed by weekly planner pages. <div style=”text-align:left; width:450px”><div style=”display:block;”>2012 by LB | Make Your Own...
Jan 4th
New Year, New Path... Road... Highway
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Jan 2nd
December 2011
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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“Lucia Etxebarria has every right to feel furious. The Spanish prize-winning...”
– Kathryn Hughes. Yes, how dare Etxebarria think about making a living? How dare she not be so nobly thoughtless and clueless as Hughes’s students? How dare she not have the motives Kathryn Hughes thinks she ought to have — the extraordinarily self-sacrificial ones that (by implication) drive Hughes...
Dec 21st
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For Dan, who asked so nicely
Dan doesn’t do twitter or posterous, he’s a facebook man through and through (Oh Dan!) but this is for him really. A CHRISTMAS ROAD MOVIE IN WALES posterous links Day 1. http://www.artsmonkey.com/welsh-christmas-road-movie                           Day 2. http://www.artsmonkey.com/welsh-christmas-road-movie-day2               Day 3....
Dec 21st
New Theme: Nuntius →
Dec 21st
Dec 20th
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A tanka
theboywyatt: Letterbox circles student below awaits results. taught by his mistress. Brown envelope falls Red rose inside, A+ By me
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Alex Payne on Obligation →
youmightfindyourself: Back in March, I wrote (and subsequently removed most of) a ham-fisted post about the obligation that smart, privileged people should feel to work on things that might make a difference to other people. This was discussed in the context of questioning whether so-called lifestyle businesses are a good idea for entrepreneurs and society at large. I’ve mulled over the idea of...
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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“It is the story of the deconstruction of the American dream, piece by piece,...”
– Bruce Springsteen on ‘Someplace Like America’ - The Washington Post (via lloydshep)
Dec 20th
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“Hitchens went into my kitchen, took a cutting board off the counter, and threw...”
– I knew Christopher Hitchens better than you - Salon.com (via lloydshep)
Dec 20th
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“Having spent many years trying to define the essential of trust, I have arrived...”
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Dec 20th
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Don't be shy now...
This is my first foray into the world of blogging and I’m already filled with trepidation having barely begun. As you might glean, I’m not the most avid user of internet social networks – the delights of myspace, bebo, msn messenger having passed me by completely in my schooldays before I finally succumbed to the pull of facebook several years down the line… Cue training with Juliet Brain on...
Dec 20th
WordPress for Android 2.0 Now Available →
Dec 20th
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Stepping Up
I often tweet about ‘Making It Work’. It’s part of Oxfordshire Youth Arts Partnership Trusts’ Stepping Up -Young Creative Leaders Project which is one of those “If you build it, they will come - leap of faith projects” that @OYAPTrust were compelled to set up at the start of the recession in early 2009 having seen young people starting out in the creative...
Dec 19th
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Snow Watch day four
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Dec 16th
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Saffron Buns
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Dec 16th
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#snow watch day two
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Dec 15th
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#snow watch
Was hoping for snow this morning, skies looked promising but had to settle for thick, heavy rain instead :0( See the full gallery on Posterous Posted via email from artsmonkey’s posterous | Comment »
Dec 14th
Mist in The Meadows
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
The Long and Short of It →
Dec 8th
New Themes: AutoFocus, Imbalance 2, and Reddle →
Dec 7th
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Up on Pepperbox Hill
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Dec 7th
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Dec 6th
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Dec 5th
Family get-togethers
We have an adopted family (my dads best friends family) whom we meet up with every Christmas to eat and drink with, normally on the Sunday before Christmas. This year as some of them are in New Zealand and some are off to Australia for Christmas, we moved it all forward and suprisingly it was a little more zen this year! See the full gallery on Posterous Posted via email from...
Dec 5th
Hansel and Gretel at Theatre Royal Margate: Hansel... →
followthemargatebreadcrumbs: If I’m honest this is the part of the process that I enjoy most. After weeks of rehearsal the actors move into the theatre and work on the completed working set. It’s been a seriously busy weekend getting all the specially designed set into place and making sure it all works smoothly - there are…
Dec 5th