Stuck for Ideas Rumble Theatre

Sereena Abbassi is Independent Equity & Inclusion Practitioner, Holistic Coach and Public Speaker. Before going freelance, she was the Worldwide Head of Culture & Inclusion at M&C Saatchi Group.
Taking activism into the corporate space, Sereena works with clients globally, to achieve both a creative and strategic approach to diversity and inclusion.

Sereena: http://www.sereenaabbassi.com/about
Iranian Revolution 1979
Black Iranian Collective – LA
Brit school
Frantz Fanon
Paul Gilroy
W.E.B. Du Bois – Black Double Consciousness
Shamanism
The Body Keeps The Score - Bessel van der Kolk
MC500 Scotland
Hudson Beck Group

Weekly Inspirations:
Darks Days – James Baldwin
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

Becky is the Deputy Head Teacher at
Hill Mead Community School in Brixton. Show Notes:

The Bee in Me - The Unicorn Theatre
The Iron Man - Ted Hughes
Journey to Jo'burg by Beverley Naidoo
The Pardoner’s Tale - Chaucer & The Unicorn

Inspirations:
Unicorn Theatre Production Links:

https://linktr.ee/Unicorntheatre

Forest Schools: https://www.muddypuddles.com/blog/pros-cons-forest-school/

https://www.howwemontessori.com/how-we-montessori/2018/12/what-you-need-to-know-about-forest-schools.html

We would love to invite Caleb Azumah Nelson onto the podcast. Like so many others we were blown away by ‘Open Water’ for the lyricism and poetry of its language. Caleb has been
named a 5 under 35 fiction honouree in the US, longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and longlisted for Desmond Elliot Prize (success in America as well as UK)

Show Notes
Caleb’s Book - Open Water
arthur jafa, visual artist - a space for black expression
open water playlist - https://open.spotify.com/user/s6fqr5ym44s71wgmpe4knarej/playlist/0JeZD3Jd67kGtSpVeXE488?si=AhHT0QRlTE-ABbwZmwKAdg
Open Water Trailer - https://fb.watch/9-pyaMFntM/
kendrick lamar
south east london
kamble adi - ghanain photographer
zadie smith
james baldwin
Books: intimacies katie kitamura
Dark Neighbourhood by Vanessa Onwuemezi

Inspirations:

Solange -https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/solange
The Wife of Willesden, by Zadie Smith - Kiln Thetare https://kilntheatre.com/whats-on/the-wife-of-willesden/

Harriet Hastings created the iced biscuit company Biscuiteers with her husband Stevie in 2007. They have shops and icing cafes around London and work with many iconic brands to create bespoke biscuits for a global market. Their recent accolades include being awarded ‘Best Brand in Lockdown’ in the 2020 eCommerce awards. Alongside her entrepreneurial success, Harriet is also managing director of the Women’s Prize for fiction.
SHOW NOTES:
Biscuiteers, Luxury Hand-Iced Biscuits - https://www.biscuiteers.com
@biscuiteersltd

Lettice Events - https://www.letticeevents.com/

Anya Hindmarch Handbags
Emma Bridgewater and Sophie Conran

3D structures - Covent Garden Gingerbread
https://waddesdon.org.uk/whats-on/biscuiteers-manor-in-gingerbread/#:~:text=The%20celebrated%20hand-iced%20biscuit%20company%20Biscuiteers%2C%20have%20created,of%20icing%2C%20it%20took%20500%20hours%20to%20make%21

Women’s Prize for Fiction - https://www.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/

www.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/#podcast

Catherine Ryan at Latitude

Reading Women - https://www.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk/Reading-Women

Dolly Alderton at the Palladium

Books:

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
The Cazalet Chronicles by Elizabeth Jane Howard

Inspirations:

Hamnet - by Maggie O’Farrell - women’s prize for fiction winner 2020

Life size MR Darcyhttps://www.michellesugarart.co.uk/

Cheese Christmas tree - https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/cheltenham-food-artist-created-seven-3653315

Jelly competition- https://www.dezeen.com/2008/07/22/architectural-jelly-competition-results/

Article 25 - https://www.article-25.org/. Editor extraordinaire @jackbaxter
Partner podcast: @outwoodspodcast

Creative duo and producers Janice Engel and Carlisle Vandervoort join us to speak about documentary filmmaking. In particular, their brilliant new project ‘Raising Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins’ a documentary about a Texan journalist who challenged the political establishment with her razor-sharp wit and outspoken approach. Janice is an award-winning filmmaker and a professor at Academy of Art University, San Francisco, where she teaches documentary film. Carlisle is a born and bred texan and a successful producer, as well as being an avid bee keeper and artist!

SHOW NOTES:
Raise Hell: The Life & Times Of Molly Ivins - https://www.modernfilms.com/mollyivins Watch on Amazon Prime
@mollyivinsfilm

Film Mentions:
All In: The Fight for Democracy
John Lewis: Good Trouble
Sisters with Transistors
Crip Camp

Inspirations:
TIME - https://linktr.ee/TIMEMovie
@foxandrob
Honeyland - https://honeyland.earth
(both available on prime)

Editor @jackbaxter
Partner podcast: @outwoodspodcast

Irish writer Eimear Ryan recently published her debut novel ‘Holding her Breath’ in June this year. It has been praised as the perfect read for fans who love Sally Rooney, Dolan and Anna Hope. Authors we have much admired and indulged in. It’s an honour to have the latest in that line up today. She is currently writer in residence at University College Cork. Eimear Ryan:
@eims86
@eimear_ryan
https://eimearryan.wordpress.com/

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Inspirations:
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel

The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath And Ted Hughes by Janet Malcolm. Partner podcast: @outwoodspodcast