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11/10/19

I undertook Dementia Awareness training with Dementia Friends today with Dwell Time and our partners Penistone Line Partnership. What was striking was the difference is approach in dialogue with people with dementia and mental health. With mental health issues, it’s […]

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10/10/19

I interviewed one of the Inspectors at British Transport Police today for Dwell Time. We discussed mental wellbeing and suicide prevention – quite fitting for World Mental Health Day. The interview started off quite guarded but through the course of […]

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09/10/19

I went to see Reasons to Stay Alive at the LBT with Dwell Time’s bibliotherapy partners Words in Mind last night. The theatre production is based on the book of the same title by Matt Haig. The on stage dialogue […]

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08/10/19

Dwell Time joined a YVAN microgrant bursary recipient networking meeting today at The Arthouse in Wakefield. We used zoom video conferencing to link up with the artists who couldn’t attend in person as a trial run. Although there were faults […]

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07/10/19

Monday night was the October edition of Art Lab at Dean Clough. Paul Ashton and Paula Horton presented their work alongside a short screening of the Ballet Russes. Aside from the superficial connection of ballet, the personal narratives and performative […]

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04/10/19

Train doodles whilst chatting with the Dwell Time team on the way back from the Community Rail Awards.

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03/10/19

Long train journey to Telford for the Community Rail Awards and I’ve started doodling with the Echoes of a Market work in mind.

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02/10/19

“Active listening is technique that is used in counseling, training, and solving disputes or conflicts. It requires that the listener fully concentrate, understand, respond and then remember what is being said. This is opposed to other listening techniques like reflective […]

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01/10/19

From the archives: Dialogues: Art, Performance, Film at Rich Mix, January 30 2014 “Conversation makes the world go around. And in recent times creative works of conversation have been a forceful part of contemporary art practices, ‘relational’ and participatory performances, […]

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30/09/19

I went to the Museum of Science and Industry and saw the £50 banknote shortlist exhibition. The exhibition had few artefacts but there was an enigma machine which the selected scientist for the new note Alan Turing famously helped crack […]

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27/09/19

I went to Handforth on a site visit with Dwell Time today. It proved to be quite a long journey by train but a really great meeting and we made use of the train journey to catch up and plan. […]

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26/09/19

New Contemporaries Preview at Leeds Art Gallery I arrived in time for the speeches, looked around the show and talked to some colleagues/friends. We went for drinks after and talked about nepotism in the arts sector. Whilst these types of […]

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25/09/19

Hill walks and conversations today. There is something interesting about conversations at minor altitude (1000ft) possibly due to physiological changes and visual perceptions. I would be interested to see what affect on dialogue climbing to moderate altitude would have.

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24/09/19

Sounds of a Market at Parley, Queensgate Market, Huddersfield

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23/09/19

I had a meeting with the Portico Library today and James brought to my attention one of their previous exhibition In So Many Words: Roget’s Thesaurus and the Power of Language.   “The Portico Library’s first Secretary, Peter Mark Roget, […]

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22/09/19

Reading list: Social Science, Philosophy and Theology in Dialogue A Relational Perspective Edited ByPierpaolo Donati, Antonio Malo, Giulio Maspero First Published 2019 Imprint Routledge This volume explores the potential of employing a relational paradigm for the purposes of interdisciplinary exchange. […]

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21/09/19

Conversational narcissism Anita L. Vangelisti , Mark L. Knapp & John A. Daly Pages 251-274 | Published online: 02 Jun 2009 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03637759009376202?journalCode=rcmm20 Conversational narcissism is typified by an extreme self‐focusing in a conversation, to the exclusion of appropriate concerns for […]

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20/09/19

I went to an artist development session run by Anna Turzynski at Compass Live Art in Leeds about Audience Care. Some key points to consider that I took away include: How we communicate with a rapidly changing audience with new […]

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19/09/19

I gave my Rubbish talk at Impressions Gallery Bradford in the gallery space where Mandy Barker’s show is on. The talk and ensuing dialogue was recorded and will be available on the website! The Rubbish Conversations after the slide presentation […]

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