Teaching, learning, music, heritage, nature, theatre, stories, art, cats, community, diversity. Kent, U.K. Instagram: @ret_uk
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Mental Wealth
September 2016
Emmie, Keith and I (as Sound Tracks) had a great time leading a workshop at the 2016 Mental Wealth Festival. The festival was held at City Lit, Covent Garden and was jointly hosted by City Lit and Beyond Words. We had the opportunity of meeting a variety of professionals in the world of learning disability and presented some of the ideas from our new sessions: Around the World in 80 Minutes.
Keep an eye out for it next year - as I am sure there will be lots of interesting talks and workshops at no or a low fee.
https://www.mentalwealthfestival.co.uk
July 2016
Inclusive Folk
June 2016
Emmie and I loved teaching a workshop entitled: 'Folk Stories' at this conference hosted by the English Folk Dance and Song Society on Friday.
We talked about the different ways we work with folk music and in particular different ways of storytelling to bring meaning and enjoyment to songs and sessions.
Here are some pics of the room before the workshop :) I have to say heavily inspired by the wonderful Joanna Grace...
#southlondon #blueskies #autumn #autumnsun Love it! (at London, United Kingdom)
re displaying our #LArcheLondon oak assistant crochet crations in the @rps_london shop @runnycustard
Just a few images from Friday's Sensory Stories training with Jo Grace. We had a really good introduction to creating sensory stories, tours and memories for a wide range of people including people with multiple learning disabilities, autism and dementia. Just what I needed to help inspire me to follow my passion and develop work in the area of making heritage accessible... One reason I've changed work recently. I partly have too many project thoughts at the moment but I would rather have it that way than not :) I'd love to develop a sensory nature trail among other ideas for Fun Palaces for a start and sensory tours for local heritage sites :)
Beautiful newly comissioned wallpaper at the South London Botanical Institute
Excited to be part of the community choir for this! Great to have something so interesting and promoting accessibility and the arts so close to home :)
Some images from the free Moss Graffiti workshop this morning at the South London Botanical Institute. Beer is the important ingredient when it comes to making moss paint - and of course a nice cup of tea and cake to help with the process... check out: www.slbi.org.uk and www.zoeburt.com
Some images of the creativity that is taking place in L’Arche London - a craft workshop for adults with learning disabilities in South East London.
Link to my Crystal Palace Park Community Audio Trail (so far...)
Check out my sister blog about Norwood Fun Palace which I curated in October 2014
American Folk Art Museum :) today after my ferry adventures...
Amazing visit to Brooklyn - stumbled across the boulevard and then could take a ferry up 34th st because someone gave me a map with ferry routes on just as I was thinking about ferries - yay :)
Very cool art lab for kids at MoMA - apparently it changes theme and activities every year...
Using #MoMA mobile guide on phone. Great that you can get free audio guide - easy to navigate & runs smoothly - couple of feedback things though - would be good if 'back' button just went back to previous page rather than home page as need to scroll through again to art works and some kind of map navigation tool/map on it would be great....
Finally at MoMA after two years of hearing & reading about it & Loic Tallon's work on my MA Museums & Galleries in ed course & conferences :)
Travelling on the NYC Subway
A bit of research for delivering learning activities related to the NHM London's exhibition...
And one more - a Dino with questions and interpretation :)
And things like this.... Are great for learning.....
I love how everything is explained here at the AMNH so clear and understandable :)
Couldn't resist but return for a quick visit to the AMNH to look at the dinosaurs and other early reptiles...
One more of The Cloisters just because....
Fort Tyson Park on the way to The Cloisters - beautiful & perfect day for it!
On my way to the subway for the cloisters I walked through Harlem and these ppl protesting for Malcolm X's birthday and shutting down the shops on the street for the afternoon
Unicorn tapestries & plants at The cloisters
The Cloisters garden tour....