Everyday Creativity Open To Create

This episode of the Everyday Creativity podcast comes about through the new creative partnership between Anna B. Sexton & Lucy Dossor from @ Growing Sudley in Liverpool, UK. There is a bit of talk about our new course; Grow Yourself starting on 9th March 2024 https://bit.ly/GrowYourself2024

We also talk about therapeutic gardening, following a slow and in-flow process and hedge witches and plant medicine.

All in all a very lovely episode - sadly the mic on my headphones was a bit pesky, and in the spirit of DIY/GSD the episode is as is...

ENJOY

Lucy's biog...

After a career spent mainly in the Creative Industries in a range of production roles in Theatre, TV and Film, Lucy reskilled in the field of Social and Therapeutic Horticulture and Urban Community Gardening. Having spent several years working with schools and community groups delivering growing workshops and activities, she completed training qualifications with Thrive, the main national training provider in Social and Therapeutic Horticulture. Passionate about the power of nature, in conjunction with other support services, to transform lives and significantly increase a sense of place and wellbeing, Lucy has been involved with the Growing Sudley Therapeutic Garden project since the Spring of 2014. She is the Project Director and co-founder of the Community Interest Company. Since 2017, she has dedicated her time to driving and building the foundations for the current iteration of the historic walled garden space. Lucy uses Permaculture across all areas of life and work and believes it to be a critical and exciting tool towards a healthier, fairer life for people and the planet alike. Her passion is to introduce as many people as possible to the healing power of nature and plants and the benefits of having symbiotic relationships with them.   


Lucy's links
www.growingsudley.com

Transition Network | Transition Towns

Home | Permaculture Association

Home - Thrive



Links to Anna B. Sexton socials


Website ⁠www.opentocreate.com⁠
Instagram @opentocreate_
LinkedIn HERE

Fancy having a chat on the podcast about your unique creative take on life - email anna@opentocreate.com

As always thank you for listening - spread the word, share this episode... and stay open to create...

Anna x


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In this episode Anna B. Sexton gets to talk with Dr. Tarek E. Virani about cultural networks, staying in creative connection with ourselves through our passions for music, making, social activism and localism. We talk about the much-used word 'resilience' and what it means on day to day basis whilst being a creative, academic, parent and band member.

Anna and Tarek met through the UK-wide codesigned research project brought together to better understand creative resilience in the face of Covid-19. The outcome of a round of Zoom calls with creative freelancers and social entrepreneurs in a range of creative and cultural disciplines became the Resilience Toolkit to help creative and cultural micro-businesses calculate risk and provides tailored resources on improving resilience https://creativetoolkit.biz/

Tarek is an Associate Professor of Creative Industries at the School of Arts at UWE Bristol, he is part of the Digital Cultures Research Centre ( DCRC). Previously he was Deputy Director of Network: Queen Mary University of London's Centre for the Creative and Cultural Economy. His research interests span several areas within the creative and cultural economy including the role of intermediaries and social enterprises in the creative and cultural economy, cultural policy, artistic knowledge within locally bounded artistic communities, new work spaces in the creative and cultural economy, the role of micro-community engagement in culture-led regeneration, the role of the creative and cultural economy intermediary, the link between the creative industries and local development, creative and cultural hubs, and the internationalisation of creative work. Tarek has done work for several local, national and international organisations including research institutions, governments and other stakeholders.

Tarek links


Tarek E. Virani - Associate Professor of Creative Industries - University of the West of England | LinkedIn
https://people.uwe.ac.uk/Person/TarekVirani


Links to Anna B. Sexton socials


Website ⁠www.opentocreate.com⁠
Instagram @opentocreate_
LinkedIn HERE

Fancy having a chat on the podcast about your unique creative take on life - email anna@opentocreate.com

As always thank you for listening - spread the word, share this episode... and stay open to create...

Anna x


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Do you find yourself wondering about how you could get started with being creative or boosting your everyday creativity?

Well, we have the perfect guest for you...

Jo Hunter is the Founder and CEO of 64 Million Artists, a social enterprise inviting everyone in the UK to explore their creative potential and use it to challenge the status quo.

She is especially talking about the January Challenge; the annual free to join in daily prompt challenge.
Launching 1st January 2024 the January Challenge
is 31 creative prompts over the 31 days of the month, each designed by different people and communities across the UK.

Here from Jo about what was the creative catalyst for the challenge and what shape it has taken over the years...

You can join in the challenge as little or as much as you wish to via https://64millionartists.com/thejanuarychallenge/

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/64millionartists/

Website https://64millionartists.com/

Podcast https://64millionartists.com/podcast/
 

We hope you enjoy Anna's conversation with Jo which covers well-being in the workplace, personal growth, taking time out, families and creative challenges to keep connected and courageous in life.

More background on Jo Hunter

Since 64 Million Artists was founded in 2014, they have run bespoke programmes and nationwide campaigns for individuals, communities and leaders across schools, universities, whole cities, workplaces, cultural institutions and health and government bodies. They experiment with different ways to reconnect people with their creativity and work to understand and explore how creativity impacts positive change. Over 50,000 people take part in their January Challenge each year and they are well known for prioritising well-being, working a 4-day week and taking August off each year. Previously Jo was Head of Strategic Development at Battersea Arts Centre, Senior Artistic Associate at Harbourfront Centre Toronto and Head of Funded Programmes at Sing Up. She also started her career in the circus and is a former presenter of BBC's Why Don't You? She was a Clore Fellow in 2014/15 and is a fellow of the Salzburg Leadership Forum.


Links to Anna B. Sexton socials


Website ⁠www.opentocreate.com⁠
Instagram @opentocreate_
LinkedIn HERE

Fancy having a chat on the podcast about your unique creative take on life - email anna@opentocreate.com

As always thank you for listening - Anna x






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In this episode of the Everyday Creativity podcast, our guest is Suzie Pindar; the Naked Artist.

Together with Anna B. Sexton, our discussions cover the creative connections made whilst moving across the city commuting or out of artist walks.

As well as seeking to find creative responses as a tactic to tackle the precarity of living, working and attempting to thrive in London, UK as an artist. Being an artist educator and carer for a parent with Alzheimer's is also covered.

Suzie is a prolific multi-media artist using an array of making practices to express her day-to-day realities. She uses mark-making, written words, cut-up letters, and photography on the pages of books combining mixed heartfelt raw emotions.  Most recently she has been making street art with her word-based art and has had a solo show in Brussels, Belgium,

In all of her work, she aims to capture, her living, breathing, experiencing, feeling, and remembering, whilst recording her day-to-day healing, and recovery journey.

Throughout her process, Suzie demonstrates a staying power and commitment to her art as she works to go beyond mere surviving to thriving.


Suzie's social / contact links

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/suziepindar/

Website - https://www.thenakedartist.co.uk/


Links to Anna B. Sexton socials


Website ⁠www.opentocreate.com⁠
Instagram @opentocreate_
LinkedIn HERE

Fancy having a chat on the podcast about your unique creative take on life - email anna@opentocreate.com

As always thank you for listening - Anna x


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This is a full circle moment for Anna to interview Chase Johnston-Lynch fellow podcaster and producer of the Liverpool Community Podcast, amongst many of his creative facets.

Together they discuss the power of radio and podcasting, sharing skills with young people through grassroots-led creative education, and doing it messy with the equipment at hand plus how being neurodiverse brings new angles into the creative process.

Chase is an American filmmaker who used to produce/direct music videos in 90s NYC with such people as Wu Tang Clan and Alicia Keys. He came to Liverpool in 2001 and started teaching media/film studies and training the next generation. Currently based in Bankhill, Liverpool UK at the Big Condo Academy Chase is in the process of getting his next film produced and directed.


Links to Chase's socials


YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@squareonevisualgrammar8916
Liverpool Community Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/@liverpoolonlinenetwork908
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/p/CjLaBbzsaNs/
Big Condo Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/bigcondoacademy/
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chasejohnstonlynch/



Links to Anna B. Sexton socials


Website ⁠www.opentocreate.com⁠
Instagram @opentocreate_
LinkedIn HERE

Fancy having a chat on the podcast about your unique creative take on life - email anna@opentocreate.com

As always thank you for listening - Anna



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In this episode, Anna B. Sexton is in conversation with Dr. Penny Hay is an artist, educator and researcher, Professor of Imagination Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries, Reader in Creative Teaching and Learning, strand leader for Creative Pedagogy, Chair of Imagination Research Space, co-chair of eARTh, Bath Spa University and Founding Director House of Imagination. Signature projects include School Without Walls and Forest of Imagination. Penny’s doctoral research focused on children’s learning identity as artists. Penny is an Honorary Fellow at Arts University Plymouth, a National Teaching Fellow, Fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching, with awards from Action for Children’s Arts, Thornton Education Trust, Landscape Institute and Creative Bath.

It was a real honour to reconnect with Penny on this episode of the Everyday Creativity podcast as her collaborative, open and active learning from the world around us very much inspires my own approaches to living a creative life.



Dr. Penny Hay NTF FHEA FCCT FRSA (Pronouns: she/her)

Relevant links
⁠https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/penny-hay

https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/research-and-enterprise/research-centres/earth/⁠⁠

http://houseofimagination.org

⁠http://www.forestofimagination.org.uk

⁠⁠http://www.school-without-walls.org

⁠⁠https://www.compound13.org

https://www.interstice.eu/⁠


Anna B. Sexton socials


Website ⁠www.opentocreate.com⁠
Instagram @opentocreate_
LinkedIn HERE

Fancy having a chat on the podcast about your unique creative take on life - email anna@opentocreate.com

As always thank you for listening - Anna


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