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AofA People: Ian Marchant – Writer, Broadcaster and Performer

5 mn read Ian Marchant is an English writer, broadcaster and performer. He is best known for his non-fiction—mainly travel and memoir—but he has also written two novels and several other books, as well as short stories and newspaper articles. Following the completion of Parallel Lines and The Longest Crawl he has been invited to contribute to several […]

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Woodstock or Bust – How a Hat Designer Started a Revolution

5 mn read Mindy Fradkin aka Princess Wow has been involved in the arts her whole life as a performer of Hat’s Entertainment, with her designer hats as props, as a singer/songwriter with her wasband ex Roland Mousaa, former radio show host, music promoter and founder of the Smile Revolution which raises conscious awareness of the healing power […]

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Hope in my Small Urban Winter Garden

5 mn read The days are lengthening, the angle of the sun’s rays is becoming more acute and, all around us, nature is revving up, getting busy and starting to surge with springtime aliveness. It’s easy to think that all this activity has only just begun, and to a certain extent this is true. However, a glance through […]

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Q & A – John Baine aka poet/musician/activist Attila the Stockbroker

3 mn read John Baine, known by his stage name Attila the Stockbroker, is an English punk poet, multi-instrumentalist musician and songwriter. He performs solo and as the leader of the band Barnstormer 1649, who combine early music and punk. He has performed over 3,800 concerts, published eight books of poems, an autobiography (which itself has 38 poems in […]

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AofA People – M. Sarki – poet, photographer, fictionist, book reviewer…

4 mn read What do you do? I am a published poet, fictionist, essayist, book reviewer, photographer, painter, carpenter, guitarist, and amateur social scientist. Tell us what it’s like to be your age? Being sixty-eight years old is not the same as anything I have ever experienced before. After falling from my cabin roof twelve years ago my […]

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Seizing The Latter Part of Life to Be Creative

3 mn read ‘Epic Minds’is a 35 minute dance theatre circus production about psychosis and the idea of insanity. I have created and directed this piece to complete my MA in Directing Circus and Physical Theatre at Bristol Circomedia. I am a woman, 69 years of age, who is passionate about making engaging, thoughtful work that embraces dance, […]

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