Creation Arcade

~ Episode 7 ~ This week I take you back to 1959 when Creation Magazine launched Dublin's first shopping arcade, Creation Arcade! A thrilling era when sheer glass facades & telephone kiosks were the height of sophistication. Influencing Irish women for decades & now it has a podcast named after it! ~

Episode 6 ~ This weeks guest is an Illustrator & Muralist, it's the marvellous Holly Pereira ~ She specialises in lettering design & handpaint murals. Leaving NCAD a professional 'bad video artist' Holly waitressed her way from one exhibition to the next until starting her own business based on her love of lettering design, her work is a visual delight, truly stunning! A warm, witty, wonderful woman ~

Episode 5 ~ This week I chat to Journalist, Musician & Writer Martin Mackie ~ He takes us from playing guitar & singing on the West Belfast music scene to Fleet Street to the drunken heights of Dublin town. Martin's song Magic Potion features in the podcast, you should check his video's out on YouTube. A Gentleman & a Scholar ~

Episode 4 ~ This week's guest is the wonderful Taz Kelleher ~ One half of the Sustainable Fashion Dublin duo. Taz tells us tales of making bunk beds for her teddy bears & creating dresses out of bed sheets ~ She's Magic ~

Episode 3 ~ I had a great chat with Róisín Savage MD of Casual Choir Dublin, The Line-Up Choir & Session Singer from the Casual Choir wave to Carnegie Hall ~

Episode 2 we chat to Caz9 an Irish music producer, composer, singer and lyricist. She creates beats-orientated futurepop laden with luscious harmonies, dreamy synth-scapes and emotive lyricism & she's only lovely so she is!

Creation Arcade is a podcast recorded in the heart of Dublin city. Harriet gets inside the creative minds that fill this wonderful city & finds out how they got here and what they're doing now. Good buzz all round!