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4th of November 2013 The Dragon Café celebrates the news that we have secured funding for another year, and Sarah explains that we will reopen in February 2014, to allow time for some necessary strategic planning for the long term future of the Café. Birthday celebrations and a paean from Stephen and Tim who, after a bit of Bangra, also tell us about a missing cat flap. We compare and contrast the Art World as represented by Grayson Perry’s lecture with art world of the Dragon café and we dance with David.

courtesy of Kevin McClean John Constable wishes The Dragon Café a happy first birthday aided by Norman and David debuts his new Southwark Walks song. Eleanor Longden's TED talk introduces the subject of 'hearing voices', one we'll certainly be revisiting in the future, a snippet from Sue and Joe's amazing film, Southwark Tale (hopefully screening on this site soon!), Moonlight Sonata from Blue, The Dragons parade with samba from Bloco Maluco, and finally, voices from 'We Need To Talk About…Hope and Meaning in Recovery' (You can hear the whole of this here).

19th of August 2013 In this weeks show we speak to D Rosier who tells us about the highly recommended blog, SLam TWIG: Operations (http://slamtwigops.wordpress.com),  Barbara questions whether "life is just a bowl of cherries" in her poem 'The Turning Tide' and D shares with us the graphs and charts of her artwork. (You can see it at http://drosier.wordpress.com/2013/08/20/graphs-and-charts-illustrated-talks-and-q-as-at-dragon-cafe-19th-august/, where you can also listen to her whole talk.)

This was the day of the confluence of a didgeridoo, Lancashire clogs, a tongue drum, a darbuka, amulets and talismans, Kindred Minds at the Dragon Café, a trusty trowel and bucket not to mention gremlins….I said don't mention the gremlins!

3rd of June 2013 Biscuit citizens tell their tale, as the Bandorians play. Behind the scenes at Resonance we go. With poems on the air, in our dear Dragon Café Bubbles, my head, and counsel to go slow. Liz Atkins talks about her compulsive skin-picking and the art she makes, in prose. Then back to our poetic world and month we go.

Aside from the lovely 4-handed piano duetting of Elena Riu and Peter Bridges, this week’s DC podcast is really an assemblage of film soundtrack lucky enough to escape the cutting-room floor, all garnered from the Cafe on the day  Declan’s film month gets off to a lively start. Action!