tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47775900569764323762024-02-06T18:01:05.996-08:00Our Stories - Together In IsolationA place for local creatives to share their thoughts and ideas and display current work. Rob Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18009256608985009718noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4777590056976432376.post-63211818968099196472020-06-04T15:17:00.003-07:002020-06-04T15:21:44.963-07:00Blog Award Winners <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rob Turner Beach Creative</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As the lockdown is relaxed and things have shifted a little for many of us, it feels the right time to let this blog come to a natural conclusion. <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So we have identified three Blog Award Winners for their contributions and certificates have been sent to:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The <span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Bomb Site House 1940 Interior </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">This blog follows the progress of the restoration of a Dolls House originally built from debris found on bombsites during the blitz in the 1940's. Build by a fireman and a policeman living in North London for the local Doctors two young daughters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: arial;">Dan has reflected on the impact of isolation on the creative arts, musicians particularly and has searched for new ways of working together yet individually in isolation. Dan has mastered new sound cloud software to present their work recreating large ensemble works with choral singers, instrumentalists and soloists. The blog explores ways of making and presenting that work, but the spine to the blog is Vivaldi's Gloria made by layering each individual recording into a symphony.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">Thank you to all that have contributed something on here, over 2050 page views to date I hope there was something there you enjoyed. This blog may be resting, or replaced with another idea, who knows what is ahead? </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: small;">But I can say there are plans to create virtual exhibitions with Beach Creative while the galleries remain closed. I hope readers become viewers of these new displays.</span></span></span>Rob Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18009256608985009718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4777590056976432376.post-3853938425882511782020-06-01T01:04:00.001-07:002020-06-02T09:37:52.126-07:00Final Diary Entry <div class="s5" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; text-align: center;">
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<span class="s4" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">No one has told me that </span><span class="s4" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Isolation</span><span class="s4" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "lucida calligraphy"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> has ended? </span><br />
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<span class="s11" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">I mentioned in my last blog that the weather</span><span class="s11" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> is one of my favourite topics, my garden and its birds and bees have also become a firm favourite. The pair of collared doves, the robin, the blackbirds, sparrows and numerous starlings that I mentioned in my first blog </span><span class="s11" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">are</span><span class="s11" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> all still here. They are here of course because I feed them and here I must thank the special local shops who have delivered supplies at a day’s notice. </span></div>
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<span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> I’m just dishing up dinner and see him return and fly off again. After dinner Jim goes into the garden – the baby dove chick has gone! Mother dove is sitting on next-doors roof looking at our windows, as if she believes we are guilty. She stays around on the ground below the nest for some time. Jim and I feel very sad, almost like it was one of our offspring. Collared doves are monogamous, and after several days they appear again feeding late afternoon. Perhaps they have made another nes</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">t away from the marauding crows?</span></div>
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<span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Early May the birds are</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> still</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> busy nesting; the sparrows take up their usual residence in gaps between next-doors </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">velux</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> roof</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> windows – they’re very wise, </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">it’s</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> west facing with their food table in sight. </span></div>
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<span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">May 3</span><span class="s14" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9px; line-height: 10.800000190734863px; vertical-align: super;">rd</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> was International Dawn Chorus day when everyone was encouraged to rise early and listen </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">to the birds melodious starting of their day. </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">I confess I didn’t get up early to hear it.</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> However,</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> I quote cautious words from the RSPB; </span></div>
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<span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">“</span><span class="s17" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">With fewer cars on the roads and a reduction in the noise all around us, it seems as if bird song is louder than ever. Sadly, the opposite is true…..in the last 50 years</span><span class="s18" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">, </span><span class="s19" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">the UK has lost 40 million birds</span><span class="s18" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">!</span><span class="s17" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> </span><span class="s17" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Our</span><span class="s17" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> reserves may be closed, but nature is always open and lifting our spirits like never before….. </span><span class="s17" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">and</span><span class="s17" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> the greatest symphony of all – the dawn chorus – leading the charge. But for how much longer?”</span></div>
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<span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Tuesday May 5</span><span class="s14" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9px; line-height: 10.800000190734863px; vertical-align: super;">th</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> Sat in a sheltered spot in the garden in the afternoon - still cold easterly wind, did some knitting and watching (and talking to) birds – my ‘green-time’ therapy; the robin still visiting the garden. </span></div>
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<span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Wednesday May 6</span><span class="s14" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9px; line-height: 10.800000190734863px; vertical-align: super;">th</span><span class="s22" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Fed birds as usual, Robin and blackbird there to greet me</span><span class="s22" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">. </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">A starling is raiding the garden for nesting materials – tugging at the lavender and other shrubs! </span><span class="s22" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"></span></div>
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<span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">For the last two days the sparrows </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">have been chirping all day long teaching their fledglings to feed and fly. The </span><br />
<span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">robin now only comes into the garden occasionally. T</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">he blackbirds – now called </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Mr &</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Mrs, appear daily but</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px;"> separately. Mr is looking very straggly as he tucks into his favourite food of cut up grapes. Mrs looks better </span><br />
<span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">–</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> they’re obviously </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">nest</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> sharing</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> but no sign o</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">f junior yet. In the evening he</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> sings loudly fro</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">m the top of a nearby tree. A</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> lone starling is madly collecting food in his beak – he too must be feeding young. </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> </span></div>
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<span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Throughout my diary I have mentioned some of my time</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> sitting</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> in the garden has been spent knitting. I started knitting over a year ago after a break of about forty years. I’ve found it both therapeutic and compulsive. I restrict my knitting to smaller creative items – mainly based around rectangles which I create into colourful designs. I’ve made shoulder bags and doll’s blankets for my grand-daughters,</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">flower decorated lavender bags</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">and</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> an assortment of cushion covers – suitable Christmas presents perhaps? </span></div>
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<span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">So I’ve set to and tidied my own bookcases; but more importantly what do they contain? </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"></span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Many are on aspects of Kent’s history; some county topographical; and other of architectural and buildings interest particularly churches and windmills. Tidying the </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">shelves has been a voyage of re-discovery</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">,</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> unearthing some of my forgotten </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">favourites. I highlight one in </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">particular</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">, received</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> as a gift. “I Never Knew That </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">About</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> England” by Christopher Winn is a lavishly illustrated compendium of facts and stories about England presented in county </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">order. My favourite illustrations are the 1930s travel posters luring people to travel by train or motor-car to coast and countryside. Curiously a page fell open at a picture of John Bunyan sitting at a table with quill pen in hand. </span><br />
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<span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Bunyan who was born in 1628 in </span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">Elstow</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> Bedfordshire</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">,</span><span class="s27" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 16px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"></span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">is</span><span class="s13" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> depicted writing his famous Pilgrim’s Progress published nearly 350 years ago – described as a symbolic vision of the good man's pilgrimage through life. It is regarded as a </span><br />
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<span class="s17" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">I</span><span class="s17" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">’ve set aside</span><span class="s17" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> time in isolation to work on my book on Herne’s Homefront in the First World War and have completed research on two women whose origins proved to be quite elusive. Only ever referred</span><span class="s17" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> to</span><span class="s17" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> by the vicar at the time as Miss Shackleton and Miss Oldfield, just identifying their full names was a challenge. </span><br />
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<span class="s17" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">These ladies came to Herne and Broomfield at the beginning of the war and supported the Broomfield mothers and children; they ran the Sunday school,</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a><span class="s17" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"></span><span class="s17" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">mother’s club, raised funds for charities and organised outings. When the war was over they quietlydisappeared. My late aunt, Christiana Port who lived all her life in Broomfield remembered them with affection. Discovering that they both came from distinguished </span><br />
<span class="s17" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">families </span><span class="s17" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">has </span><span class="s17" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">assisted</span><span class="s17" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> me</span><span class="s17" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> greatly in creating their stories. Herne’ Homefront in the First World War now has another interesting chapter highlighting two middle class 19</span><span class="s34" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 9px; line-height: 10.800000190734863px; vertical-align: super;">th</span><span class="s17" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> century women who created vocational lives for themselves.</span><span class="s17" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> </span><span class="s35" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">(Pictured</span><span class="s35" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> above m</span><span class="s35" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">others and children group Broomfield House c1917 Miss</span><span class="s35" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">’</span><span class="s35" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">s Oldfield & Shackleton far left middle </span><span class="s35" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">and second </span><span class="s35" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">row)</span></div>
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<span class="s17" style="background-color: white; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">I’ve also done some more detective work on the RAF pilot who at the height of the Battle of Britain </span><span class="s11" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">in 1940 crash landed his Hurricane aircraft in a farmer’s field near the Share and Coulter and miraculously walked away with just a few bruises. I’ve uncovered an account </span><span class="s11" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">from </span><span class="s11" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">his diaries how he guided his stricken plane away from Herne Bay’s town to avoid a catastrophic loss of life. I hope to incl</span><span class="s11" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;">ude this in Herne & Broomfield History Group’s</span><span class="s11" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 14px; line-height: 16.799999237060547px;"> August newsletter.</span></div>
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<span class="s38" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">At the beginning of the lockdown on March 23</span><span class="s39" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 7px; line-height: 8.399999618530273px; vertical-align: super;">rd</span><span class="s38" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> those people with underlying health conditions (around 2.5 million) were deemed as shielded – not to go out for 12 weeks. The 12 weeks ends on June 14</span><span class="s39" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 7px; line-height: 8.399999618530273px; vertical-align: super;">th</span><span class="s38" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">. On Sunday May 11</span><span class="s39" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 7px; line-height: 8.399999618530273px; vertical-align: super;">th</span><span class="s38" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> lockdown rules were changed and everyone in England can now go out where they wish – the beach and the countryside for example, still observing social distancing, although still staying at home as much as possible. No mention has been made of the future of those of us deemed as </span><span class="s38" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">shielded -</span><span class="s38" style="background-color: white; font-family: "Lucida Calligraphy"; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> are we the forgotten few?</span></div>
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of the Virtual Music Project draws to a close (although the project itself will
continue), it’s an opportunity for me to reflect on what’s transpired. The
process of building pieces of repertoire in unusual fashion, forced upon us by
lockdown, has necessitated a different way of working in response, and thrown
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with others, in order for the shared electricity generated by collaborative
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Inbox as the recordings have been arriving is the use of the word ‘connected.’
Variations on a theme – ‘thanks for helping me stay connected;’ ‘it’s great to
feel connected to Canterbury;’ ‘it’s a lovely way to still feel connected with
others.’ Continuing to make music – albeit in a drastically altered form – has
provided a much-needed element of continuity for people, and a way of keeping
in touch during lockdown and enforced separation from family and friends.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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to feel that what they are producing is part of a larger context has been an
important aspect of their creativity. Online art exhibitions, virtual tours,
online ‘Meet the Artist’ sessions; it’s not simply been about producing art in
isolation, it’s also been about finding different, new ways in which to share
it, to make it available. Livestreamed concerts from people’s living-rooms have
shown that artists need to feel their work is reaching people, that what they
have to say is reaching those who are willing to see and hear it<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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wellbeing under lockdown. We’ve seen the surge in people watching online
performances from theatres, concert-halls, living-rooms, kitchens as artists
move online to keep engaged with audiences. We’ve been watching films and
bingeing on boxed sets on Netflix and Amazon Prime; we’ve been reading books. Art
educates, informs, entertains, distracts, poses questions, challenges,
reassures – and we need it to keep doing all those things even in a time of
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threads running through all the different responses to the current situation. Veronica’s
act (and how telling it is) of rebuilding a 1940s doll’s house; Sylvia’s
transformation into a <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>bird- and weather-watcher
who tidies her bookshelves; Bryan’s turning away from the outside world yet
connecting with it still in his explorations in photo-realistic landscape
painting; all our stories here concern rebuilding, changing, or even simply
coping – and they are all valid. As one of my students, a former History
student now working in York Theatre Royal, wrote recently – ‘There’s no correct
way to be creative in a crisis.’ And she’s right. The act of being creative, in
whatever form, is a valid response in itself, in whatever shape it manifests.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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familiar things, routines, memories for reassurance? I’ve certainly found
myself listening to a lot more music that I was listening to when growing up
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strings-instrument mix from Mozart’s anthem ‘Ave verum corpus,’ one of his
best-loved works, that we are putting together for an online virtual
performance next week. Listening to the warmth of the accompaniment which
unfolds beneath the voices, it’s difficult not to be moved by hearing musicians
overcome the situations in which they find themselves in order to continue,
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well. Mozart’s music speaks to us across the centuries, and reassures us, in
its continuing familiarity, that there is the possibility of renewal. T<span style="background: white;">he quiet authority of Mozart's message,
written in the last year of his tragically short life, rings through the years
with its message of consolation. There is hope, it seems to say. I’m looking
forward to the time when theatres, libraries, galleries and concert-halls can
throw open their doors once more; when we can return to places like Beach
Creative, and experience the wonder, the magic and the excitement of the
unknown that the arts offer us, time and time again.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span></strong></span>Rob Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18009256608985009718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4777590056976432376.post-90473799088900516922020-05-23T04:09:00.002-07:002020-05-23T04:17:31.795-07:00On the record: tracking the creative process - literally<span id="goog_82907450"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a><span id="goog_82907451" style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">By Dan Harding at the University of Kent.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As those of you who have been following the unfolding of
this project will know, the opportunity to plot the progress of the virtual
performances as they are being constructed can offer a fascinating aural
insight into the evolutionary process. In place of the formative process of
rehearsing, instead the project has afforded the chance to track the slow
creation of the recordings – literally to track them, as the various recorded
tracks are added.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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two mixes of various upper-voice recordings – and this week is the opportunity
to hear an extract from a first combining of all the voices with some of the
string instruments – another step in the gradual creation of the finished
piece.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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combined with the two incarnations we listened to last week, the combination of
all three tracks starts to provide an aural sense of the piece’s coming
together. The solitary soprano section recording – the combined upper-voices mix
– and now this, bringing the tenors and basses into the virtual choir and
introducing some of the instruments providing the supportive harmonic landscape
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three in sequence, starting from the virtual soprano sectional recording on the
playlist and moving upwards – it’s like a sonic flower gradually blossoming. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I do the social media for Take Off Charity. On a Sunday evening I asked our followers on twitter and Facebook to post pictures of their isolation walks- I’ve had some fantastic responses, we’ve been doing it weekly... I look forward to seeing how people are connecting with nature. This is my favourite bit of my working week.</span><br />
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Sarah Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02202010418771496766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4777590056976432376.post-5949730837816355832020-05-17T05:33:00.002-07:002020-05-18T21:02:02.340-07:00Bomb Site House 1940 Interior Part Eight<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> By Veronica Tonge</span></span><br />
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SITE HOUSE in 2013, as it was collected from a hospice charity shop near
London. This is the view from the back, which had push on cover. Roof flap detached
and the 1940 light switches sprouting a party successful 1960s rewire (the
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missing, and the front of the base was detached, making the whole house, in
spite of it being made or oak salvaged from a bomb site, very structurally
unstable. The bathroom walls were covered in 1960s sticky back plastic. Red
felt 'fitted carpet', dirty and mouldy, was in all rooms - and a thick coat of
white gloss paint obscured the original 1940s decor. It was going to be a
proper job getting it back to something like its original look.</span></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span> </span><br />
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the missing doors were remade, the sliding doors to the sitting/room </span><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;">library </span>downstairs
left reconstructed from the owner’s remembered description. Original
mustard yellow decor to the right either revealed by careful scraping and <span style="caret-color: rgb(88, 86, 214);">chipping off or repainted in a
similar colour. Bedrooms and sitting room repapered in a version 1930s/40s hand
stippled wallpaper in period tones of blues, pinks and greeny gold. The bedroom
floors were papered in soft blue and brownish textured paper imitating linoleum
and the sitting room floor, still in its original dark varnished wood, was
cleaned of white gloss splodges and revarnished where necessary. My vision for
this house is to return it to as near original look and atmosphere as possible
and the restoration will be continued as and when.</span></span></div>
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Rob Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18009256608985009718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4777590056976432376.post-36752464640349821522020-05-14T11:41:00.001-07:002020-05-14T11:41:20.027-07:00Creating moments that never were<div style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">
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<span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Through the magic of the Virtual Music Project, it’s possible to create artificial moments, ones that could never have existed due to the current lockdown, but which can be conjured forth nonetheless – virtual moments that ought to have been.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">As I’ve been building the virtual performance of the second movement of Vivaldi’s ‘Gloria,’ I’ve been able to create two such instances; sectional rehearsals that would, in the normal scheme of things, have taken place, but which circumstances have conspired to deny the choir the chance of undertaking. As part of the normal rehearsal process, you would have been able to take the individual voice-parts separately – sopranos, altos, tenors, basses – to address particular issues of ensemble sound; diction, breathing, vowel-shapes, rhythm, all the myriad technical issues which the rehearsal process is used to </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">iron out</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. So, here’s two such moments; firstly, a virtual soprano sectional, created as I layer each individual soprano recording into the project:</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">harmonies beneath the combined upper-voices, you can really feel the dissonances the unfurling voices create against each other, those highly expressive moments which are all the more effective for floating in isolation (oh the irony…). Suspended above the area where the bass parts would normally be</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">i</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">t shows Vivaldi’s palette of musical expression working through moments of tension and release, and, without the lower parts, sounds almost contemporary in place</span><span style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">s. An artificially-created moment providing an insight into the piece’s expressive workings.</span><br />
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Sarah Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02202010418771496766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4777590056976432376.post-19785535419402320382020-05-11T03:33:00.001-07:002020-05-12T08:29:29.735-07:00Standing and Swaying Standing and Swaying<br />
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have you heard of or experienced the 8-10 month sleep regression in babies ? its quite something.<br />
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I am doing A LOT of swaying.. I've started to create little swaying sequences in my head that I do with my baby. A bit like a dance routine. I've drawn a silly picture to try and explain some of the directions I take- (clearly not at had much sleep)<br />
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<br />Sarah Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02202010418771496766noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4777590056976432376.post-30932424554847552822020-05-10T10:24:00.003-07:002020-05-10T11:33:34.341-07:00Bomb Site House 1940 Interior Part Seven<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By Veronica Tonge</span><br />
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have been papered with pieces of left over from house decoration with 1930s
full size wallpapers. I discovered small fragments of a very thick brownish
paper beneath the coat of gloss white which had been applied to the walls in
the 1960s. I decided to revive an old ‘make do and mend’ paint technique to
reproduce some replacement papers. This stippled sponging technique was often
used by handymen between the wars as a cheap way of making coloured wallpaper,
probably with coloured distemper. For a doll’s house version, you need a
synthetic sponge (the sort that imitates a natural sponge), textured
watercolour paper, acrylic paints and courage! I painted A4 sheets of stretched
paper with cream acrylic and left them to dry overnight. I mixed dark brown acrylic
with a little water and sponged stippled the paint on top of this using just a
small piece of sponge for good control. I then did a couple or more of coloured
coats on top to go with the furniture in each room. The effect is random and
beautiful and if it comes out too wild, then a watery mix of acrylic white
stippled over everything is the way to go.</span></span></div>
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but pink dominated paper to look good with the strawberry pink bedroom set,
which was not original to the house, but home-made and from the same era.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">An unexpected and fascinating aspect afforded by the Virtual
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submitting in different ways. I’m reminded of Satie’s famous quote: ‘Before
composing a piece, I walk around it several times accompanied by myself.’ Now,
in the age of lockdown and isolation, I find I’m realising his idea, walking
around a piece by making different versions of a piece by assembling recordings
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have each sent in a version of ‘Don’t Get Around Much Anymore’ which we are
putting together from recordings the musicians are making in isolation, Steph’s
wonderfully indolent alto tones and Will’s buoyant baritone. And when you’re
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Which is exactly what I’ve done: two versions of the tune,
featuring two different voices and consequently I’ve changed the nature of the
ensemble by using fewer recordings. Steph’s version is accompanied by the full (virtual)
dance orchestra, whilst Will’s recording is accompanied by a leaner version of
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"I want to go to the Fairy Glen Nana" my grand daughter said, so off we
went to this very special place in Bishopstone Glen, that has charmed children
for many decades. <br />
Sadly, when we arrived, looking down from the footbridge, the tiny
cottages/stepping stones/gardens and pretty flowers tiny watering cans etc.
were nowhere to be seen...just brambles, chopped down trees, and a collection
of branches criss-crossing what was a magical brook, and a tangled mass of
bindweed, willow, rotten tree trunks covering the whole area with just the odd
ripple of water glistening through the occasional gap . <br />
"But where are the fairies Nana?" <br />
We decided they had moved house while the wreckage of their precious homes was
sorted, so with a sad heart, we made our way through the woodland, and further
into the spinny. <br />
After a while, we discovered a clearing and Lo and Behold! The fairy
community had been re-housed! Little cottages: doorways leading into who
knows where: a miniature rope bridge connecting the trees: hanging chimes
creating the faintest of tingling sounds giving the whole area a quietly
magical feel, and we felt we had to whisper to each other for fear of
disturbing the precious residents. <br />
The joy on her face was indescribable and we spent our whole afternoon visiting
each of the tiny cottages being drawn into a whole enchanted imaginative world.</span>
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Our Stories- Together In Isolation<br />
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My last blog covered our isolation up until March 20th when I noted that schools were to close and said I was missing seeing our grandchildren. Since then our grandchildren and their parents have featured quite a lot in our lives – albeit at a distance. We’ve had Mothering Sunday, Easter week-end and a birthday, when everyone was busy making cards – so much so that I ran out of glue and had to send out for more supplies.<br />
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Our two youngest grandchildren insisted on posting their artworks and asking for ‘thankyou’s’ from us – so I became immersed in much appreciated creative works. Even my 40 year-old son waded in with his cheerful creation and Jim also had a go. Other family members phoned and skyped us as well as stocking us up with supplies of hot cross buns and chocolates – all of which helped to restore some normality in these unfamiliar times. <br />
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Looking through my diary entries I see myself as a becoming a watcher – watching the people passing by my house; watching the weather and my garden wildlife. The weather is my favourite.<br />
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Fortunately for all of us most days of the lockdown have been unseasonably sunny, such a bonus for garden lovers or those on their daily walk. However this part of Kent has been plagued with an easterly ‘breeze’ as the forecasters call it - in reality a very cold wind. I spent some afternoons in early April sitting in a sheltered garden spot reading or knitting and wearing my jacket and hat. There have been only a few of those lovely golden sunsets – but they were worth waiting for. On April 7th and 8th I noted the full moon illuminating our garden and on investigation found it was the Super Pink Moon – the biggest Super Moon of the year - it occurs during its closest approach to the earth; quite an awesome sight! As I write this the sun has gone and it has rained nearly all day and the forecast is the same for the next few days – gardeners and farmers will be happy.<br />
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I’m sure my interest in the weather comes from my maternal ancestors who farmed the land around Herne and Broomfield in past centuries. The term super moon was not then thought up - to them a full moon was the parish lantern. I quote from A Remembered Land,* a book about the countryside from the 1880s to 1914; “The elements made our rural ancestors what they were; the biting winds, the cutting frosts and the baking sun – all these things carved and shaped the faces that look out from the photographs of pre-First World War rural Britain”.<br />
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I expect also that the skies in my ancestors days were really as clear bright blue as they were often painted – no motor cars or aeroplanes then to pollute them; ironically in these lockdown days it can be seen that due to greatly decreased road traffic and a fraction of the number of aeroplanes above, our skies are again returning to their previous hues of deep blue, Scientists report them as being comparable to the rich blue colour usually only found on remote tropical islands. Needless to say air pollution has also decreased. Blessings in disguise!<br />
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I realise I’ve got a bit carried away on my weather watching observations. I have also written a piece about tidying my bookshelves and re-discovering some of my favourite books. Bookshelves seem to <br />
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*A Remembered Land, Ed Sean Street pubs Penguin Books 1994<br />
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The makers were a policeman and a fireman, maybe in their precious spare
moments when not suddenly called to emergency wartime duties. Was the paint job
interrupted? Did scarce paint supplies run out? I can’t even get my hand into
this part of the house, or see what I am <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">doing and would have to work by feel
alone, so I will not even</span> try. Sometimes history does not want to be disturbed!</span></span><br />
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slightly spooky view of the interior shows the large bedroom on the left with
some the original surviving pale blue furniture - surviving wardrobe plus two
single beds. Additionally, some extra non original WW2 period furniture,
including dressing table with round mirror from a powder compact and table made
from a cotton reel. The pink set of furniture in the next door bedroom is a
gorgeous hand made quirky set of bed (with mattress and eiderdown), wardrobe,
chest of drawers, dressing table and chair from the 1940s period. I couldn’t
resist impatiently trying out the furniture in situ, even though the house is
still under restoration. The mix and match method, slowly collecting genuine
old pieces to furnish a vintage house, is part of the obsessive passion all
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Virtual Music Project has yielded its first fruit – the
complete first movement of Vivaldi’s <i>Gloria</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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musicians live ? No. Does it work as a recreation of a live performance ? No.
All the variables of a live rendition – venue acoustics, audience atmosphere,
performer nerves, collective energy, the sheer adrenalin drive that comes from
knowing that you are performing live, or that this is a recorded take, are
absent – you can’t possibly recreate those when everyone is making their own
recordings at different times, in different places, under different
circumstances. The unified vision of the conductor or director, shaping and
nurturing the eventual performance during the rehearsal process, is also
missing; apart from directions and suggestions given at the start of the
project, before everyone begins making their recordings, there’s absolutely no
conductor authority anymore. The only sway I might have, as the notional
director of the recording, is at the editing stage – making choices about
balance, panning, mixing and so forth. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So what <i>was</i> the point ?<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Unlike concert performances, or recordings, where the point of
the process is the end result – a polished delivery for the benefit of live
listeners or a recording to document a finished result – the point of building
this virtual Vivaldi was exactly that – the building. At a time when isolation
is a governing factor in everyone’s lives, the sense of being involved in a
collective endeavour, and taking the responsibility for learning and recording
a piece of music has given us purpose, a task to fulfil; something to occupy
the hours and, perhaps most importantly, a sense of a deadline, a dwindling
concept in the current climate where we often struggle to find structure to our
days, or even know what day of the week it is.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Listening back to the recording, I realise that it gains its
power not from the live, communal concerted effort that recordings usually
have; it gains its power from the fact that it has been brought about when that
is that very aspect that is entirely missing. The performers have come together
without actually being physically able to – in fact, having been instructed
specifically not to do so – and have managed to transcend the walls of their
rooms, their homes, defeating the distance between each other to manage to
continue making music. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Rob Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18009256608985009718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4777590056976432376.post-73896981615960305492020-04-29T05:57:00.000-07:002020-05-26T01:17:57.342-07:00Emergancy Vehicles (part2)<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This follows on from the very first post on this blog when we set things up on the 23rd March, which is 33 blog posts back, it is a long way back there now. People have contributed such a lot about their projects and very varied they are, so I felt it time to share a little of what I have been up to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I had been working once a week with residents in Newington
for several weeks before the lockdown, creating the ‘Emergency Vehicles’. The
residents wanted to reflect the complex relationship their community (like communities up and down the country) has with the emergency services, often when they are called it is because of dramatic and difficult personal or community events -</span> amplified by sirens. When the air ambulance landed on the green next to the
community centre Kevin the gardener/maintenance guy said he didn’t need the leaf
blower that day! The last day I was there the police rolled up gently and
quietly in a massive Land Rover and deliberately parked right in front of the
community centre by the green open space and just waited there for about 45
minutes. This was to prevent largely parents parking their cars on the communal
green while they waited for their children to come out of school. The green had
become an unofficial car park every afternoon and the grass was turning into
mud. So, the whole emergency vehicle thing resonated and they worked hard
making police cars, fire engines, helicopters and ambulances. Traffic cones and
hazard tape are prevalent as well. </span></span></span></span><br />
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workshop during this unusual period of our lives, what will be my contribution
to the project? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My role might be
described as to only fill in the spaces between each vehicle and do the
backgrounds. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every time I turn on my computer,
I see Hi Viz black and yellow hazard warnings, every time I turn the television
on I see ambulances blue lights and Haz Mat suits. Imagery which has filtered
into my work subconsciously and consciously. This has turned into a work about
our ‘Emergency services’ and I have had to include the text – Stay Home – Save Lives –
Protect The NHS , how could I not.</span> </span><br />
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week’s work consisted of some careful and patient removal of white 1960s gloss
paint to reveal the original 1940s colour scheme - similar to Farrow &
Ball’s no. 52 ’straw left out in the rain’. I don’t use chemical solvents (bad
for the respiratory system and liable to remove too much) </span></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">preferring a
old Tiranti clay modelling spatula from art school days which has a thin,
strong edge. Flicking and scraping paint off on a small scale is a skill and is
hard on your hands, but the result is worth it. Often this added paint was just
sploshed on over slightly greasy or dirty surfaces which makes the adhesion
poor. The period atmosphere of the house depends on the colour being regained
as much as possible. Repainting needs to be ‘aged’ afterwards to make it blend
with the restored surface. There is lots to be done still. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span><br />
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It is glossy around the coloured glass window and matt on the stairs, which I
hadn’t expected. The windows are made from wire mesh, possibly coated with
shellac, an old style ‘varnish’ made from the secretions of an Asian insect.
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cream cleaner on a cotton wool bud around the base of the house revealed that
the original maker had added a hand painted garden around the outside. This is
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Rob Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18009256608985009718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4777590056976432376.post-72579494323893958372020-04-24T02:50:00.003-07:002020-04-24T02:50:17.090-07:00More On How To Cook Your Eggs!<div style="text-align: center;">
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Rob Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18009256608985009718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4777590056976432376.post-16793335646999931882020-04-23T02:08:00.000-07:002020-04-23T02:08:07.558-07:00Virtual Music Project: Part 3, All That Jazz<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dan Harding </span><br /><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Deputy Director of Music Colyer-Fergusson Building | University of Kent</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When setting up the virtual recording of the Vivaldi <i>Gloria</i>,
I realised of course that it doesn’t cater for saxophonists, trombonists, jazz
trumpeters, pianists and jazz bassists – well, not unless it was a very
different, jazz-inspired swing version, which on some level doesn’t bear
thinking about…! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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University community, there’s also the opportunity to build a virtual dance
orchestra performing – and really, the title of the piece made it obvious that
this was exactly the right piece to prepare during the current lockdown climate
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Get Around Much Anymore.</span></i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The Music department was hugely
fortunate to have been granted an astonishing bequest some years ago, a
complete set of band parts for a swing dance orchestra – original sets of sheet
music from the 40s and 50s which originally belonged to the Ken Lewis Dance
Orchestra, a jazz group active throughout the county and beyond run by pianist
and bandmaster, George Morgan, from Gravesend. So, just before the office
closed, I scanned several sets of parts for various tunes, and we’re currently
in the process of putting Duke Ellington’s classic tune together.<o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As with the Vivaldi, it’s been great to welcome (virtually,
at least) several alumni into the digital fold; here’s an excerpt featuring the
first few recordings to have arrived in my Inbox recently, featuring the voice
of Drama graduate Steph Richardson (who any fans of the University Big Band
will remember from her days singing alongside them), trumpeter Kevin Dickens,
, and yours truly on a very rudimentary rehearsal piano
track over a drum-loop that’s thankfully about to be superseded by a
wonderfully Thelonius-Monk indebted piano recording from alumnus Jim Reid.....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span>Rob Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18009256608985009718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4777590056976432376.post-56404840100628512462020-04-22T02:10:00.003-07:002020-04-22T02:12:51.090-07:00A Landscape Painting Tutorial <br />
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12x10” ply coated with 3 coats of gesso each one being sanded down<br />
The subject was loosely drawn on to the board with 3h graphite pencil <br />
Then using an eraser most of the lines taken out so the graphite does not muddy
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in was done with Windsor & Newton Acrylic and I used water to thin the
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After the blocking was dry I used Windsor & Newton oil paint with Liquin
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My next stage was to paint the sky as I always start furthest away and work
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the sky was completed I established where the horizon was going to be and
painted that ensuring the hue was right to give the areal perspective <br />
I then continued the horizon to the right of the picture first by putting in
the darker areas using Ivory Black mixed with liquin original using a Rosemary
and co TreeAnd Texture brush. Then added the mid tones using a Rigger brush no
2 also from Rosemary and co thinning the paint to a milk like consistency. I
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then starting with the tree furthest away I added the mid tones one tree at a
time.<br />
Time to put the first coat on the water using the same colours but a little
darker for the reflections once this area was dry I added glazes of these
colours and in the shallow water the colour from the ground. <br />
While this was drying I started on the bank on the right using different shades
of the same colours to add depth I used a R&Co flat 16 for this adding
details with a rigger brush.<br />
Before starting to paint the ripples on the water I decided to paint the high lites
to the trees, I did this by using a no 4 fan brush, using the very edge and
corner of the brush for some marks, a rigger brush and a round bristle brush to
give a variation in the marks made.<br />
The wall was next and was fairly straight forward using the no 16 flat and the
rigger brush<br />
Once the wall was done I added the reflection colours to the water.<br />
The ripples were painted using a no 0 rigger brush. To establish the ripple
direction I used a mid tone blue/grey mix as this can be seen on both light and
dark areas of the water. In order to soften the light and dark tones using the
rigger brush I put the light marks into the dark area and the dark marks into
the light. From the reference photo I could see there was a dark area just
under each of the ripples. This was done by mixing a darker version of the
water where the ripples were. Once done I added the high lights.<br />
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Rob Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18009256608985009718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4777590056976432376.post-63244714837472125952020-04-20T00:56:00.001-07:002020-04-20T04:13:35.989-07:00Bomb Site House 1940 Interior Part Four<br />
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kitchen is more or less painted, with no doubt some ’tweaking’ still to do. The
floor is a dark red 1930s linoleum (similar to the kitchen floor in my
childhood home which was a 1930s ‘mock Tudor’ semi) I have ‘aged’ the new paint
surfaces, as this will always have to be an old, rather battered 1940 doll’s
house. A rather modern looking, brand new gas stove has appeared from the next
decade (!) and somehow, amidst Wartime shortages, a small celebration cake.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></o:p><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">During
WW2, according to legend, one family made a classic two tier white iced cake,
which was lent around the neighbourhood as a showpiece for weddings,
christenings and other celebrations, but never consumed. Finally, in the 1950s,
someone poked holes in the base with a knitting needle, poured brandy into it
and this well-used, long suffering and iconic cake was finally eaten - and
pronounced delicious…<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Still
to fabricate: a small tablecloth and a tiny ‘proggy’ rug made of waste scraps,
a wooden draining board, an undersink shelf with cleaning materials and a
curtain to go around this. Now I can’t sew - at all. Would any kind person like
to help out with the fabric embellishments, if I send dimensions required? BOMB
SITE HOUSE would be very, very grateful!<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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next task is chipping off as much of the white gloss as I can in the rest of
the house to reveal the original colours. I shall be very quiet for the whole
of next week.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">contact Veronica <a href="mailto:veronicatonge@talktalk.net">veronicatonge@talktalk.net</a></span></td></tr>
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Rob Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18009256608985009718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4777590056976432376.post-70724400279371604702020-04-19T01:59:00.003-07:002020-04-19T01:59:37.497-07:00Soft boiled dippy eggs<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Toast</span> <br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Beach Creative Café, b<span style="font-family: Arial;">reakfast suggestion</span></span><br />
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Rob Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18009256608985009718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4777590056976432376.post-16254729986107204992020-04-17T05:49:00.000-07:002020-04-17T05:49:21.390-07:00Virtual Music Project: Part Two: bridging the gap<br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Dan Harding </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We’re now into the third week of the </span><a href="http://facebook.com/uokvirtualmusicproject"><b><span style="color: #0563c1; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Virtual Music Project</span></b></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, and the recording have been hurtling in from people’s homes as more musicians get involved in creating the virtual performance of Vivaldi’s <i>Gloria</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">As well as people recording from sites right across the UK – from Whitstable and Herne Bay to Wiltshire, Bristol, Somerset, Northamptonshire and Yorkshire – the project has mobilised students and alumni from overseas; from Germany, Luxembourg, and this morning the inbox rang with a submission from a former student in Tokyo. This endeavour really is defeating distance, bringing musicians together and giving them a focus and sense of participation in a creative project at a time when we are all having to find new ways of being, ways in which to adjust to the sudden changes forced upon us. </span></div>
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Rob Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18009256608985009718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4777590056976432376.post-7795654112091512002020-04-16T17:30:00.000-07:002020-04-27T03:56:04.921-07:00Finished last tub of sweets !!<br />
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When I realised that we would soon have to isolate and protect ourselves from Coronavirus and because of our underlying health conditions, we decided on Friday March 13th – our 55th wedding anniversary to have a meal at the Bell in Minster (Thanet) one of our favourite eating places – an old beamed building with a large inglenook fireplace. En route to The Bell we did a little extra food shopping at Marks & Spencer’s and treated ourselves to a tub of chocolate sweets – a bit like Christmas. <br />
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Diary note March 26th – finished last of our tub of sweets!”<br />
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After our meal we did a little walk across to St Mary’s church, described as one of the largest and <br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">finest churches in Kent, – had a brief look inside the church; I bought a couple of birthday cards from their homemade craft sale table. We paused outside the west door with the sun warming our backs and looked again at the huge oak door – it must have been a craftsman’s pride and joy; we noticed the stonemason’s marks on a lower stone door jamb; the mixed building materials of stone, knapped and plain flints, small terra cotta bricks and halfway up beside the door a medieval tile stood out – the same pattern as those on the porch floor. This quick visual summary suggesting that this part of the church had been re-built at some time from pre-existing materials. The Normans began construction of the Nave in 1250AD although the site of worship goes back to 670AD. We had previously explored the church’s interior when I noticed several 18th century memorials to Belsey family members. As the crow flies Minster is not too distant from Herne (approx. 8 miles) where Belsey’s also lived in the 18th century, so these families were probably linked to each other. Also of interest I noticed a bench opposite the church dedicated to members of the Waltho family from Minster – an uncommon surname; Thomas James Waltho is remembered on Herne’s WW1 Memorial - I’ve researched his interesting story and found he married into a Herne family. There could be a connection? More subjects for further research. I was pleased that our last planned trip out before isolation ended on a historical note.</span><br />
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Much of the first days of isolation was about getting food supplies delivered which I found was quite stressful - out of my comfort zone. Eventually thanks to Duncan my son, who has been a lifeline helping to organise these things we are now getting deliveries of milk, groceries, fruit & vegetables mostly from different suppliers and I have learned a new phrase ‘delivery slot’. Apparently these are quite rare and I am learning to list what I might need three weeks ahead of when I need it. <br />
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Not being able to just ‘pop to the shop’ is very frustrating.<br />
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I knew the week ahead might be difficult as we both had medical appointments that we needed to keep.<br />
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Sunday March 15th we discovered our drains were seriously blocked (I won’t go into details) and we had to call out emergency professionals – after a couple of hours – and trying to keep a social distance, the problem was solved – or partly as further drain work is needed! I recorded in my diary; “Sunday dinner was bit late today!” <br />
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The medical appointments were kept; my infusion treatment on Monday did not go too well as unusually my blood pressure shot up so the whole thing took nearly four hours longer than normal. Because of Coronavirus, Jim was not allowed in the hospital and spent a fortune on car parking as his new disabled blue badge had not arrived. My diary comment for this day; “Left home at 8.30 am arrived home 5.00 pm. What a day!! The weather was sunny and warm - not that I saw much of it!”<br />
Later on in the week we did treat ourselves to a calming walk along the beach which was deserted – although March, it was really like a summer’s day. I actually managed the walk without bringing home a collection of pebbles and shells as I was worried about picking up germs.<br />
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This week ended on Saturday with Jim having his cataract op at Estuary View, after hand sanitising and temperature taking I was allowed to go in with him. Waiting time and the procedure took several hours - I was able to do quite a lot of knitting. I am pleased to report that the cataract op has been successful. All future such ops have been put on hold because of the current situation, so his other eye will have to wait!<br />
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On this day I noted in my diary;<br />
“On the Thanet way en route to Estuary View I noticed a large amount of traffic travelling towards the coast – later turned out to be of concern as crowds of visitors had gathered on the beach at Whitstable, going against Government directive to avoid crowds – it made the national news”.<br />
To conclude on the medical front – for our other appointments consultants and their team members<br />
have made telephone consultations with us – their advice, concern and interest has been excellent <br />
taking into account all the extra pressures they must have at this time.<br />
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My daughter-in-law put this picture taken by my youngest son, on her facebook page; I’d love to share it and her comment; <br />
“We have a mountain to climb but together we will make it.”<br />
I know I’m not alone in missing seeing my grandchildren. And finally with children in mind;<br />
Friday March 20th Government announced that’s schools would close – the beginning of another chapter…<br />
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<i> Sylvia McKean April 13th 2020</i><br />
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<br />Sarah Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02202010418771496766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4777590056976432376.post-28342498143816309302020-04-15T17:00:00.000-07:002020-04-27T03:57:34.857-07:00I used to resent pink<u></u><b></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Almost a year ago my daughter was born. My beautiful baby.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We got so many cards and gifts for her, it was quite touching. We were moving house at the time she was born (still trying to forget how stressful that was), and even the bank sent us a gift hamper of baby bath stuff!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">We didn't find out the gender of our baby - (best thing ever!) when she was born, we got SO much pink stuff. SO SO much pink- I really remember looking round and seeing pink everywhere.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I absolutely <b>resented</b> the colour- looking back on it now it was un gracious and ungrateful behaviour. I blame it on those post birth hormones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I just wanted to make note of my change of feelings towards pink in isolation, on my daily walk I love looking at everything in blossom. I find myself saying, 'look at that tree, lovely and pink!'</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />Sarah Turnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02202010418771496766noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4777590056976432376.post-1081622845557594462020-04-14T02:06:00.001-07:002020-04-22T09:08:14.891-07:00My Happy Memory Project organised by People United<a href="https://peopleunited.org.uk/"><img alt="People United" height="121" src="https://peopleunited.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/pu-horizontal.png" width="400" /></a><br />
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initiative, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://peopleunited.org.uk/project/kind-canterbury/" target="_blank"><span style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); border: 1pt currentColor; color: black; padding: 0cm;">Kind Canterbury</span></a><span style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); color: black;">, we are excited to launch our new
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to your </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/peopleunitedpeople/" target="_blank"><span style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); border: 1pt currentColor; color: black; padding: 0cm;">Facebook</span></a><span style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); color: black;">, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/people_united" target="_blank"><span style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); border: 1pt currentColor; color: black; padding: 0cm;">twitter</span></a><span style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); color: black;"> or </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/people_united_/" target="_blank"><span style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); border: 1pt currentColor; color: black; padding: 0cm;">Instagram</span></a><span style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); color: black;"> account, using the hashtag <strong><span style="border: 1pt currentColor; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; padding: 0cm;">#KindCanterbury</span></strong> and
tagging <strong><span style="border: 1pt currentColor; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; padding: 0cm;">People United</span></strong> by <strong><span style="border: 1pt currentColor; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; padding: 0cm;">Sunday 26 April 2020</span></strong>.</span><span style="color: black;"><br />
<span style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244);">Alternatively, you can email your submission
to People United at </span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); border: 1pt currentColor; color: black; padding: 0cm;">info@peopleunited.org.uk</span></a><span style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); color: black;">.</span></span></div>
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associate artist Nova Marshall who will bring together your stories and images
to create an amazing digital artwork made by you. Nova will be highlighting
commonalities and illuminating the kind people and places of the Canterbury
district.<span style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); color: black; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></span></div>
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about Kind Canterbury or My Happy Memory, please contact Becky, Creative
Programmes Coordinator at </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="background: rgb(244, 244, 244); border: 1pt currentColor; color: black; padding: 0cm;">becky@peopleunited.org.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">For more detail and ways to become involved see the People
United website ‘My Happy Memory’ (<a href="https://peopleunited.org.uk/2020/04/kind-canterbury-my-happy-memory/"><span style="color: blue;">click
here</span></a>)</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span><br />
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