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As a young girl, loving painting and drawing, I was told that it was ‘no way to earn a living.’ So, as I grew up, I still created art and also loved fashion. The excitement of the fashions of the [...]

My days are very short now. About eight hours on a good day. Which means I am in bed for sixteen, asleep or resting, but regardless, insentient, semiconscious at best. Unaware of the world around [...]

Democracy in my lifetime Is Freedom of fear. The possibility that lives are not crushed by privilege. That in another lifetime I will never hold my daughter chest to chest Whilst infected racism [...]

Black Writers on Democracy Commissions –   Blog & Call for Entries 5 mini-commissions to raise new and reflective voices. Like many, we knew it was important for us to respond to the [...]

Erasmus+ The First Stepping Stone & International Contact Making Seminar and Marketplace.   Over the last month, I’ve entered the small matrix of hotel corridors and conference rooms [...]

Hello friends, We’ve collated some digital video material of work to date since humble origins in 2015. Please enjoy free streaming of MENTAL Play on tour 2015 (60 mins), The Verbatim [...]

Jake, a new Volunteer at The Green Backyard, speaks about his positive experiences of this Peterborough #GREEN_SPACE and how it has contributed to his outlook on life. Jake was interviewed on a [...]

Tony Wood, Volunteer @  the WestRaven Big Local development, talks frankly about what brought a lorry driver from Tottenham to #GREEN_SPACE in Peterborough for the #GREEN_SPACEPlay. He was [...]

Gavin Waterman shares his thoughts, experiences and hopes for the Olive Branch Community Garden following its 2017 AGM. He speaks from the bubble of an allotment polytunnel on a frosty/sunny [...]

In a recent interview for The Verbatim GREEN_SPACE Play project, Volunteer & Mum Ashleigh Purdy talks of the value of The Olive Branch Community garden to vulnerable groups and those seeking [...]