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IDEAS, TIPS & GEMS OF WISDOM FROM THE TEAM
After a bit of experimentation, we found that the most calming sound was a slow deep tone. Whilstthe sound of the dawn chorus can be uplifting at times, its high pitch and rapid sounds can be overloading to the senses.
You can’t truly understand the scale of OCD unless you have experienced it (been there, done that, and checked multiple times that you do in fact have the T shirt.)
I know when I come up against stigma, it’s not because I am not smart or funny or engaging. It’s because people don’t understand dyslexia. People don’t know how limiting it can be and don’t appreciate how a simple change in a process can mean all the difference to me...
And the challenges of truly & honestly reflecting participant’s creativity within the confines of an arts council funded project...
I met Simon and Jess through my work at the Brighton Fringe. Their positivity and enthusiasm is infectious. They’re passionate about what they do, and the value and difference it can make to people’s real lives. I strongly believe in equality of opportunity, and that the arts can change lives in small, day to day ways as well as huge...
Interactive theatre doesn’t just help keep kids positively engaged for a few hours – it opens the door to a lifetime of curiosity and learning.
Something magical happened at our Project: Oggbots show for families this autumn half term. And we’re not talking about alien spaceships...
We must challenge our own ideas before inviting others to do so. Theatre practitioner and events producer Jolie Booth encounters a mind-broadening first Brexhut workshop.
Brexhut collaborator Rachel Shorer reports on how the 'project of perspectives' is beginning to take shape.
Hi there, Rachel here. I saw Simon's original blog post in the wake of Brexit when a friend shared it on my Facebook. My timeline was filled with disagreement, upset and name calling...
Shortly after the referendum I wrote a blog post about the division that was appearing across the country and proposed a project to address this.
The idea was Brexhut, a tourable conversation space for people of different opinions to sit together and find out what they have in common...
However, there are some clear, unchanging intentions, that I wanted to set out here. Because no matter how much the process or artistic outputs of the project flex and change, our intentions for the project, remain the same.