Episode 11 - Happy Hour

07/01/21 • 61 min

The Creative Adventurer's Survival Guide

Feeling energised from our previous Adventurer's Charrette (Episode 5) we're limbering up for another creative gym session!
In this episode of the Survival Guide, we begin to develop a creative 'happy hour' - starting with an ancient fossilised relic, we let our minds wander beyond the barriers of time to which we're bound and explore mysteries that we'll never ever know.
And a good mystery can always let the imagination run wild! What ideas will those mysteries uncover for you?
Here are some inspirational resources discussed in this episode:

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Previous Episode

Episode 10 - Tale of a Word Artist

Lisette Auton is a disabled writer, performer, activist, and creative practitioner based in North East England. She is a white woman with freckles and brown hair of changing length.
And her creative adventure had a significant breakthrough in 2018, winning one of 10 coveted spots in the Penguin Random House UK’s WriteNow Programme, which aims to find, mentor and publish new writers from communities under-represented on UK bookshelves.
Lisette is now busy working on her debut middle grade novel for Puffin Books called, The Secret of Haven Point, due to be published in 2022, and an as-yet untitled second book for 2023.
Woven throughout her tapestry of words, Lisette is driven to write the missing - to make disability highly visible and part of everyday conversation and creative practices, instead of being too often overlooked and ignored.
She is a founding member and Director of Disconsortia, a collective of disabled artists, who work to ensure equal inclusion across the creative landscape and all its practices.

So in this episode, Lisette shares her passion for words and how she has adapted to the significant restrictions faced during the global pandemic.
Explore more of Lisette's world of words:

Writing the Missing - A River Cycle (with BSL, Audio Description & Captions)
What Would Frida Say? (captioned)
Lisette Auton's Website

You can also discover more creative wonder of disability arts via:

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Episode 12 - State of Flux

In the first episode of a new series of The Creative Adventurer’s Survival Guide we re-introduce ourselves and reflect on the creative journeys we’ve been on over the last year.
Many creatives find themselves going through a state of flux, periods when they can feel exceptionally laser-focused and other times when it’s necessary to go on a walkabout and to just let the imagination run free and untethered, but flux take us further off-course than expected.
This state of flux has been magnified by the upside-down nature of finding new ways of surviving a pandemic lifestyle, where social freedoms can chop and change. Just when you feel you’ve found your groove, it can soon be thrown off by further restrictions and road blocks. So how do we steer the stormy seas and navigate to calmer waters?
Well, in this episode we dig out the Sharpies and embark on a 'World Mapping' exercise, to ruminate over the new and exciting twists and turns that have blown us off-course, as we re-discover our natural rhythm of creativity.