Everyday Creativity

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

Links to Anna B. Sexton socials

Fancy having a chat on the podcast about your unique creative take on life - email [email protected]

As always thank you for listening - Anna

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/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

Fancy having a chat on the podcast about your unique creative take on life - email [email protected]

As always thank you for listening - Anna

In this episode Anna B. Sexton connects with Niall Conroy BA;

a singer-songwriter, poet and music teacher husband and father of two boys who lives in Galway. He is currently caring for his mum as her carer Monday to Friday so juggling a lot but making the most of his time in between duties. Actual Juggling ability is basic but as with all things you keep at it to get better.

They talk about how creativity keeps flowing, especially around caring duties. How travel is an inspiration to keep and stay in flow. and being part of creative communities aids new ways of thinking, making and co-creating.

Plus get involved with an impromptu playful creative '272' game; co-created when the podcast was recorded, involving your bookcase and some concrete poetry techniques.

So grab a cuppa, or listen whilst out for a walk and enjoy!

Any 272 poems - please post them to Instagram or any socials and use hashtag #272poemABSNC #beopentocreate #everydaycreativity

More information about Niall

He is actively playing Irish ballads and American folk music on guitar vocals and bouzouki with his buddy Bernard Macnamara and they have a weekly residency in Murty Rabbits bar on Forster Street.  

He also has a Silver Moon Jazz Duo with Peter Cunningham and they play monthly at Daingean House Cafe wine night. It can become a Trio and they also have a full 7-piece Dixie band called Strictly Dixie that gets together every year to play Strictly Dixie music.  

Lately, he has focused on developing a solo piano set to play in castles such as the magnificent Claregalway Castle and it is a new rewarding challenge of immense joy. 

Niall likes to write poems and songs constantly and recently decided to start a YouTube channel which will allow him to showcase his poetry and also his teaching style with an eye to developing online courses. 

Clare Galway Castle HERE

YouTube HERE

Instagram HERE

Facebook HERE

References Niall makes to books

Anna B. Sexton socials

Fancy having a chat on the podcast about your unique creative take on life - email [email protected]

Thanks for listening - Anna

Delight in the deliciously yummy conversation with Kaye Winwood, sensory visual artist, & enhancer of dining, learning, community & co-curation experiences.

Our conversation got cooking in the run-up to the launch of Taste * Touch * Smell; a celebration of the durational creative collaborative project work with the Monday Night Club members 18th November 2023 at the Museum of Royal Worcester, UK.

The ongoing, permanent sensory installation and tour at the Museum of the work made by The Monday Night Club members, Kaye, her creative team, Museum staff, volunteers and the Board is open to the public on 23rd November 2023.

The collaborative project at the Museum of Royal Worcester with Kaye Winwood has been made possible by the New Stories, New Audiences fund managed by the Association of Independent Museums funded via The National Lottery Heritage Lottery Fund

Grab a cuppa, or listen whilst out for a walk and enjoy!

More about Kaye

She has an innovative creative practice, inviting audiences to engage with unique sensory environments and objects and in Autumn 2021 she launched GULP. The first UK space based in Birmingham, UK is dedicated to exploring food art histories and showcasing innovation within food and sensory design through a programme of sensory dining experiences and activities. She runs a creative co-working space from GULP to enable other creatives to come together, connect and grow a community together.

Her work fuses sensory design with visual arts and gastronomy to create new and meaningful eating experiences to enthral diners. In 2016 she applied the term 'Expanded Dining' to reflect a 'beyond the plate' approach which reconsiders the dining experience as a sensory playground using food as an art material.

Core creative team

Kaye's socials

Anna B. Sexton socials

Interested in becoming a future guest? HERE

More information HERE

Well hello there...

Welcome to another episode of the Everyday Creativity podcast.

Our guest in this episode is Olatorera Dickson-Amusa, a fellow multi-disciplinary creative whether she embed this into her daily routine, in her work across many sectors and project or in her ongoing love for seeing possibilities everywhere, all around.

It is a pleasure to learn more about how Olatorera is inspiring the next generations of children and young people inside and outside of the classroom so they can reach their full creative potential in whatever subjects and interest areas they pursue.

Listening to Olatorera share about her personal practices of mindful, ethical and upcycling in her thinking, being and making really got me thinking about how much more we can create whilst using less...

Thank you so much of chatting with us today Olatorera,

Anna B. Sexton 10th September 2023

Olatorera's biog

TYPAP is a strong bridge for the impact creation and implementation of CSR initiatives. 

Awarded the Global Council For The Promotion Of International Trade (GCPIT) Women in Business and Leadership awards, 2023.

Sole organizer of TEDxyouthGwarinpa, a TEDx event in November 2022 for the Gwarinpa (Abuja, Nigeria) community.

Launched Sustain Recycle club in 2020, present in six schools, 1000+ members. 

Seasoned school Administrator for GIGATT International School, Abuja, responsible for overseeing staff activities, training, social media presence, curriculum adherence, and budgets. 

Olatorera is driven by the awareness that education— both formal and informal — is the key to any form of development. Her goal is to significantly contribute to a world where quality education is available to all children. 

Olatorera is passionate about community, family and books. She holds on to the vision that equality on all grounds is possible. This includes the hope that children in public schools can one day have just as much leverage as those in expensive private schools. 

Olatorera is consistently creating a world where the African child is not portrayed as a sickly creature on television, clinging to survival. 

She is also a brilliant writer, farmer, Weaver and avid lover of every form of history, mythology, Harry Potter and the Big Bang Theory show.

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

Linktr.ee - https://linktr.ee/olatoreradicksonamusa

Ways to discover more about Anna's creative mojo making work via

Open To Create... website https://www.opentocreate.com/

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/opentocreate_/

Email via [email protected]

Anna's LinkedIn ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/open-to-create-anna-b-sexton/⁠

Anna's artist website ⁠https://www.annabsexton.com/⁠

Instagram ⁠https://www.instagram.com/annabsexton/⁠

Your Roots Go Deep Hypnotherapy website http://your-roots-go-deep-hypnotherapy.com/⁠

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/your_roots_go_deep/

Welcome to another episode of the Everyday Creativity podcast.

Our guest is the versatile creative, Laura Bourgeois. Based in Paris, Laura wears many hats: a musician, composer, and budding producer, currently on the cusp of releasing her debut EP.

She has been making music since her teens, finding the right creative people & communities to uplift her voice, collaborate & perform live.

We crossed paths through a global online community dedicated to amplifying creative voices worldwide, making her the perfect guest to share her insights into her creative process, persistence, planning, and the essence of crafting a truly creative life for herself.

Laura is a professional attorney/lawyer working at Sherpa Associates, and she utilizes her creative thinking to bring uncommon thinking into the legal landscape. Working collaboratively to change paradigms at Sherpa.

Together with the team her work holds corporations to economic accountability and protects the environment, communities, and human rights.

Get ready for an inspiring conversation into Laura's world, where creativity isn't just a spark but a transformative force for good.

Thanks, Laura for an inspirational chat...

Anna B. Sexton 3rd September 2023

Do follow Laura on her socials, and look out for her next gigs in Paris, Marseille, London or in the US...

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/someday.is.today/

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYQGIfBlF8X66Dxks87EjyA

Laura's LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/bourgeoislaura/

Sherpa https://www.asso-sherpa.org/

Ways to discover more about Anna's creative work via

Open To Create... website https://www.opentocreate.com/

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/opentocreate_/

Email via

[email protected]

Anna's LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/open-to-create-anna-b-sexton/

Anna's artist website https://www.annabsexton.com/

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/annabsexton/

Ansal Trafford is a creative entrepreneur very used to pivoting the ways he offers his creative skills, experiences and insights, especially in times of change and transition.

His creative ideas have been used to launch shopping centres and to increase their footfall. They have also helped to raise awareness for national charities and to achieve record-breaking donations for local fundraising campaigns.

His creative mentoring has helped to launch creative careers and to open the doors to higher education. Many of his former students are now established graphic designers, illustrators and website designers.

We really hope you take some inspiration from this conversation and feel your own everyday creativity rekindled through the wealth of creative insights Ansal shares. This is a great episode to re-start creating podcasts again, I certainly am buzzing to be back!

Ways to discover more about Ansal via;

Email via

Ways to discover more about Anna's portfolio career via

Email via [email protected]

Catherine Rogers, is a collage artist, art therapist and creative social entrepreneur working across artforms from collage making workshops face to face or online, community arts workshops, 1-2-1 therapy programmes and work in prisons.

The founder of Cut Out Collage in this episode she chats about what inspires her creatively, ways to find joy in the everyday, relax and recharge and forge an authentic creative path in the world.

She is in the process of growing her creative start-up and honestly talks about what this takes and what she is learning about herself through this creative process.

Every week you can catch Tuesday Tips on collage and Friday's are a celebration of the collage artists she is meeting along her way.

Find out more about Catherine Rogers, founder of Cut Out Collage via;

https://www.instagram.com/cut_outcollage/ 

https://www.cutoutcollage.com/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherine-rogers-76550786/

Get in touch with your host Anna B. Sexton via;

https://www.instagram.com/annabsexton/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/open-to-create-anna-b-sexton/

Episode 4 - Michelle Peterkin-Walker in conversation by Anna B. Sexton.

Michelle Peterkin-Walker, is a digital artist, community activist and creative social entrepreneur working across artforms from filmmaking, photography, graphic design, and community arts projects.

The founder of Akoma Arts in this episode she chats about her creative inspirations, her heritage and the power of being part of creative communities. 

She is in the process of working up two new films, she is developing - Meet me at the Spring and Your lens on L8, using her own and archive footage of the communities in and around Liverpool, L8, UK.

Ahead of her series of Book and Look open studio events in April 2021 at her new space in Aspen Yard, off Lodge Lane, Liverpool L8 you can also buy her work via her website and Etsy site. 

Find out more about Michelle Peterkin-Walker, founder of Akoma Arts via;

https://www.akomaarts.com/

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/AKOMAARTS  

https://www.instagram.com/akoma_arts/

Image of Michelle taken by Adullah Badwi

Get in touch with your host Anna B. Sexton via;

https://www.instagram.com/annabsexton/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/open-to-create-anna-b-sexton/

Episode 2 - Naomi Woddis interviewed by Anna B. Sexton

Naomi Woddis is a multi-talented photographer, podcaster, poet and artist based in London, UK.

In this episode, we discuss how Naomi has evolved her art practice as she creatively channels her energy whilst facing different creative constraints. She discusses her lived experience of mental health and chronic invisible illnesses pre and during the current pandemic lockdowns in the UK and how the power of making images in her close surroundings links to her podcasting and current return to writing more.

We talked about the importance of supportive peer networks and communities to help creativity and confidence to try different mediums and formats, the push and pull of sharing creative work on social media, taking breaks from social media and the everyday creative inspiration of documenting your own life in whatever methods you feel light you up.

In the podcast Naomi mentions 

Jacob Sam-La Rose https://poetryarchive.org/poet/jacob-sam-la-rose/

Daniel Regan https://www.danielregan.photography/

Find out more about Naomi Woddis, via;

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

Website - https://www.naomiwoddis.com/ 

The Two of Us podcast - https://thetwoofus.libsyn.com/

Get in touch with your host Anna B. Sexton via;

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

Website - http://www.opentocreate.com/

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/open-to-create-anna-b-sexton/