http://www.brendanjackson.co.uk 90% truth, 10% exaggeration Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:54:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en April 7th and 8th, 2010 The Drum, Birmingham, UK Further information and booking: www.the-drum.org.uk/event/interchat Featuring Airan Berg, Linz 2009 European Capital of Culture (Austria); François Matarasso (UK); Fundacja Pogranicze (Poland); Laundry (UK); Nova Kultura (Bulgaria). Wednesday 7th April, 2pm - 8pm Artist-led sessions to explore good practice in community engagement projects, with local and international ... http://www.brendanjackson.co.uk/2010/02/23/interchat/ The trans-pennine express left Leeds on time, despite the ice and fog and utter and complete disruption in the whole of the country. Just the foreboding of snow, you understand. BIG FREEZE ON THE WAY! announced news placards outside the station. They drank coffee and stared intently at their i-phones. At first, ... http://www.brendanjackson.co.uk/2009/12/18/scattered-thunderstorms-in-singapore/ Creative Laboratory participants photographed on top of Mount Vodno, which overlooks the city of Skopje, Macedonia. Skopje, home to nearly half of the country's population, was the location for an artist residency in association with cultural centre CK, as part of the Intercultural Dialogue project. Some photo galleries posted here... http://www.brendanjackson.co.uk/2009/09/23/in-skopje/ Once upon a time, I co-ordinated a series of projects for a community arts organisation called Jubilee Arts, under the banner of ‘The People’s Portrait of Sandwell’. This was a series of exhibitions made with local participants – using photography and text – which challenged many of the prevalent negative ... http://www.brendanjackson.co.uk/2009/09/07/thats-one-long-street/ There are cafes and there then there are caffs. Caffs from memory, by the old Bull Ring underpasses and the coach station, where various members of  Dexy's Midnight Runners would hang out, or The Hawks, or TV Eye, or The Prefects or any number of groups  with punkish attitudes, sitting ... http://www.brendanjackson.co.uk/2009/07/20/30-degrees-and-rising/ St. Katherines Chapel, Kandanos. We were given a tour of Kandanos by students from the village school, who participated in the Creative Laboratory in Hania. Details of the project can be found at the Intercultural Dialogue web site... http://www.brendanjackson.co.uk/2009/05/26/in-crete/ I have never fallen down a rabbit hole, as Alice in Wonderland once did, but I have been to some peculiar and topsy-turvy places. I was brought up in Great Britain – and I use this term deliberately. In the primary schoolroom of my childhood, the main feature I can ... http://www.brendanjackson.co.uk/2009/04/22/through-the-looking-glass/ In the yard in the community hall opposite my house, a playgroup acts out their version of ‘St. George and the Dragon’. Further down the street, the procession for Vaisakhi passes. Everyone is in a good spirits. In the discussion after the recent Identity and Divided Society talk at Wolverhampton ... http://www.brendanjackson.co.uk/2009/04/22/still-in-the-united-kingdom/ Wolverhampton Art Gallery has a contemporary collection of artworks dating from the 1980's, addressing 'The Troubles' in Northern Ireland. There are a series of talks, presentations and films as part of their current exhibition programme. Here's just two of them I'm involved with... Caribbee Island Saturday 21st March, 1pm, Wolverhampton Art ... http://www.brendanjackson.co.uk/2009/01/27/upcoming-presentations/ All galleries back online. Animator & and Piddle Valley relocated to Project Archive section..... http://www.brendanjackson.co.uk/2009/01/15/web-update/