Jam Packed Westow Park For The Crystal Palace Overground Festival... Where I Was Happy To Meet Some Familiar

I love how everything is explained here at the AMNH so clear and understandable :)

#100happydays day 5 .... bit boring and predictable but today I was happy to release the fourth track of my audio trail...

I'm doing #100happydays - I think I'm ok at noticing things and will try and make it more museum/career orientated, but with space for other happy things :) Doesn't mean my life will be all blue skies- but today is! I did feel a bit resentful/confused of/by the sudden sun these past mornings because I felt so tired but the sun has won me over today :)

Museum one of my USA trip ... The American Museum of Natural History. Yummy meal from the Peacefood Cafe not too far away before hand. Ate under the blue skies in Central Park before enjoying #museumhack tour in lovely cool building of the AMNH - great extensive collection!

Busy National Theatre the other night as viewed from the bus...

Inclusive Folk

June 2016

Emmie and I loved teaching a workshop entitled: 'Folk Stories' at this conference hosted by the English Folk Dance and Song Society on Friday.

We talked about the different ways we work with folk music and in particular different ways of storytelling to bring meaning and enjoyment to songs and sessions.

Here are some pics of the room before the workshop :) I have to say heavily inspired by the wonderful Joanna Grace...

Collecting together images that relate to The Crystal Palace of 1851 in Hyde Park and in Sydenham/Penge from 1854-1936. Do you know where any of the statues are? Got any memorabilia at home? Lets start collecting it all together in one place! Web links and photos alike all welcome :)

My new experimental project…. Only pinned one photo so far! Would be great to bring together all Crystal Palace artefacts in one place and see how far they have spread. I heard that I think it was Big Crosby was amongst the people to buy one of the statues in the big sell off….. Wonder where it is now?!

A days work

So today I have mostly been spending the whole day writing emails to people about community trails they have made and also a call out for contributors to my audio trail!! All steps but also need to do some reading... :)

Travelling on the NYC Subway