Dance lovers – get moving!

May 21, 2015May 23, 2015Leave a comment

An opportunity to take part in the Fuse Festival as a volunteer dance assistant with MOVEME.

Be part of a unique experience…

MoveMe Dance is looking for enthusiastic people to become volunteer Dance Assistants at one or more of their events.

All you need is a bit of free time, a love of moving and to enjoy communicating with others.

You don’t need to be trained in dance, just to love it!

MoveMe is an event where professional dancers teach a choreography that has been created for everyone and anyone. Dance Assistants play a vital role at the events. They are taught the choreography at a brief training session, then support the two dancer-tutors by getting in there amongst the crowd to help participants learn the moves on the day.

Dance class meets flash mob meets party, MoveMe is a creative opportunity for everyone to have fun releasing their inner dancer without being judged on ability.

Events this year are happening in Rochester and Chatham and training will take place on Friday, June 12 from 6-8pm.

Performances take place on Saturday 13 June (Chatham) and Sunday 14 June (Rochester) in the afternoon.

If you live / work in these areas and would like to get involved, please register your interest and state which location you can attend by emailing Jeanette Hinton by Friday 5 June:

hello@movemedance.co.uk

For company information and pictures please visit the MoveMe website or the Facebook page.

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Sunday Slackers

May 17, 2015May 20, 2015Leave a comment

Books: Incredibly beautiful monastic library

For writers: Writing prompts to help generate free writing

Animals: Don’t catch them unawares!

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Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games

May 15, 2015May 20, 20152 Comments

From the Paganesque opening and the appearance of the Borg like Dark Lord, you knew this wasn’t going to be a completely traditional Irish experience. Continue reading →

A creative boost

April 24, 2015April 24, 20153 Comments

Can I get a whoop whoop?! Just me then? Ok.

A hearty ‘congratulations’ is a great opening to an email, and reading on to find out the Rochester Literature Festival has been short listed in two categories in the Kent Digital Awards 2015 gave me a bigger boost (fleetingly) than chocolate.

I entered the LitFest into the Website: School, Education or Charity section of these inaugural awards but such was the overwhelming response, the KDA instigated a couple more categories and short listed us in the Lifestyle and Culture Award too! *does a happy dance*

Big congratulations also to some of the lovely people I’m connected with across social media or work in some way: Lucy Hall, Ohhh Kaye, Maxim PR, Rochester Bridge Trust and Fore! Women are all shortlisted in various categories.

You can read all about the awards and see the full list of finalists on the Kent Digital Awards website.

Firework image: Pixabay

Sunday Slackers

April 5, 2015April 8, 2015Leave a comment

Time for tea, and a schmoozy through some fun stuff …

Technology: Fifteen of the most advanced robots ever invented (video) I’m quite keen on the PR2 – and I checked the date to make sure it wasn’t an April Fool prank!

Literary Art: Graffiti artists’ tributes to Sir Terry Pratchett

And in related news – How you can tell if you’re in an STP novel. Carry on down and read the comments, there are plenty more ways.

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Reaper

March 27, 2015March 27, 2015Leave a comment

Indigo eyes of the exterminating angel
Forewarn of potential danger
A wreath of barbs in the tear garden
Create a fiendish tangle

Her grimy soul in isolation
Catches rain within her hands
Weeping song drips through her fingers
And sings a note of salvation

Pity their ignorance in the joy of diversity
Forgive their joy in the pursuit of bigotry
Refuse to kow tow to conformity
The Reaper will have her revenge.

This is a new piece of artwork by Richard Jefferies in his Goth on My Keyboard series.

After contributing poems responding to Richard’s wonderful character for his Goth on My Keyboard charity book, Richard produced a new image for a reading I gave at a Seasonally Effected evening. The result was the Reaper poem above, which doesn’t appear in the book.

If you’d like to contribute to the Sophie Lancaster Foundation, you can find a link to the book in my original blog post here, which gives you more information on the charity.

Sunday Slackers

March 22, 2015March 21, 2015Leave a comment

A fine excuse to put the kettle on …

Space: The final frontier – these images are little bit more spectacular than what I saw here in the south east on Friday. I’m not bitter. But I totally blame Dara and Brian for getting me all excited and then …nothing.

Nature: A tortoise, a croc and Sir David Attenborough. We may be being a little insensitive to the tortoise’s feelings – but it’s too funny not to share. I normally watch the GN Show so I must have been on a rare night out to have missed this.

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