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On the 6th candle evening of Chanukah, my Mom & brother danced on Skype, while I sang Chanukah songs and Stella made pictures of them.
Celebrating together, despite geographical distances, has become easy and so enjoyable thanks to modern technology.
Miracles.
I love to collect frige magnet as I travel. Now I have 35 magnets from 35 states of America. I have 15 states to go.
Mauri Hijra, 25 and Shakil, 36 at their place
Bangladesh, April 2008
Hijra - the third gender of Bangladesh
Over 75 members of the community participated in workshops with the artist at Soho House Museum and Octavius’ workspace. The community wanted to express love, homes, migration and cultural heritage.The nest reflects this notion and the sticks intertwined represent our community. The linked coins, patterns, cogs and jewels spell out the message that together we are stronger.
Artist: Faith Pearson working with Octavius
Octavius learning and development partnership is a limited partnership ‘social enterprise’ and not for profit organisation. That is to say, ‘a business with primarily social objectives where any surpluses are reinvested in the business and the communities it serves.’
Its focus is on tenancy and neighbourhood sustainability, construction project management, housing, learning skills and waste prevention.
Faith Pearson lives in Birmingham; she uses discarded materials to create paintings and constructions inspired by community engagement projects – delivered with people on the edges of society.
Through her work she explores the basic instinct of young humans to create, play and imagine, balancing the chaos and destruction caused by this society.
Website: www.faithpearson.co.uk
Funded by: Birmingham City Council, Veolia Environmental Trust and Baron Davenport’s Charity
Veolia Environmental Trust has ‘for 18 years been supporting compliant community and environmental projects in England and Wales by awarding grants through the Landfill Communities Fund ‘.
Baron Davenport’s Charity celebrated its 75th Anniversary in 2005. To mark this occasion, special grants from the Charity, amounting to £75,000, were presented by the Lord Mayor of Birmingham.
www.barondavenportscharity.org
Auction Price: £3200
The Big Hoot captured the imagination of everyone in Birmingham and beyond, with hundreds of thousands of people taking to the streets with their Big Hoot Trail maps to explore the colourful invasion of individually designed owls. Taking in the city’s 10 districts, tourists and residents alike enjoyed their owl adventure, discovering and celebrating the extraordinary creativity produced by many of Birmingham’s artistic community and over 25,000 young people.
The Big Hoot owls went under the hammer on 15 October 2015 at The Big Hoot auction sponsored by Vodafone and we are thrilled to have smashed our target by raising the incredible sum of £508,035!
The money raised from the auction will support Birmingham Children’s Hospital Charity’s £3.65m Star Appeal. This appeal will enable us to create a first of its kind, a Rare Diseases Centre in the UK specifically for children. It will provide co-ordinated care, treatment, support and most importantly hope to children and families living with a rare or undiagnosed condition.
In addition the auction raised £15,000 for G’owl’d by Temper with proceeds going to Edward’s Trust, and £7,800 for Fleet and Free with proceeds going to Birchfield Harriers.
So thank you - we simply couldn’t have done it without you.
Artists have played a major role in The Big Hoot, creating almost 100 owl sculptures. We would like to thank all the artists for their incredible creativity and hard work.
Professional artists from Birmingham, the wider Midlands region and further afield have created extraordinary giant owls that are all unique in style and character and represent the city’s creativity, history and heritage, music, fashion, architecture and attractions.
Birmingham is home to a wealth of artistic and creative individuals and communities and many award-winning and nationally and internationally acclaimed artists. We are delighted with the response from Birmingham’s creative community and are thrilled to work in collaboration with them to transform the streets, squares and parks of the city.
For five months artists have been creating owls in their studios, at home and in The Big Hoot Artists’ Studio at the Custard Factory in Digbeth. Their inspiring and innovative designs have been realised in genres including graffiti, illustration, fine art, graphics, typography, mosaic and new media. They have worked with both community groups and with corporates to realise ideas and create their stunning designs.
The Big Hoot not only provides a high quality and ambitious free public event for families but also supports the creativity of artists and celebrates talent and diversity. The Big Hoot has provided an inspiring relationship between the city and the arts.
The artists have also reached out to communities enabling more people to participate in the arts, to experience working with professional artists and to be inspiring and inspired. From the north to the south of the city residents groups, youth groups and older peoples’ groups have been collaborating with artists to generate ideas, design and create owls for The Big Hoot.
Creativity is everywhere but the opportunity to participate is not. A range of activities have been programmed within Birmingham’s diverse communities and people from the age of 3 – 97 and from wards within the city boundaries have contributed to The Big Hoot and helped make the event extraordinary. Our projects have seen artists working with hundreds of residents and community members including children in looked after care, older peoples’ clubs, young people and residents organisations to design and decorate the owls displayed as part of the 10 week public event.
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Before I Knocked
A poem by Dylan Thomas
Before I knocked and flesh let enter,
With liquid hands tapped on the womb,
I who was as shapeless as the water
That shaped the Jordan near my home
Was brother to Mnetha's daughter
And sister to the fathering worm.
I who was deaf to spring and summer,
Who knew not sun nor moon by name,
Felt thud beneath my flesh's armour,
As yet was in a molten form
The leaden stars, the rainy hammer
Swung by my father from his dome.
I knew the message of the winter,
The darted hail, the childish snow,
And the wind was my sister suitor;
Wind in me leaped, the hellborn dew;
My veins flowed with the Eastern weather;
Ungotten I knew night and day.
As yet ungotten, I did suffer;
The rack of dreams my lily bones
Did twist into a living cipher,
And flesh was snipped to cross the lines
Of gallow crosses on the liver
And brambles in the wringing brains.
My throat knew thirst before the structure
Of skin and vein around the well
Where words and water make a mixture
Unfailing till the blood runs foul;
My heart knew love, my belly hunger;
I smelt the maggot in my stool.
And time cast forth my mortal creature
To drift or drown upon the seas
Acquainted with the salt adventure
Of tides that never touch the shores.
I who was rich was made the richer
By sipping at the vine of days.
I, born of flesh and ghost, was neither
A ghost nor man, but mortal ghost.
And I was struck down by death's feather.
I was a mortal to the last
Long breath that carried to my father
The message of his dying christ.
You who bow down at cross and altar,
Remember me and pity Him
Who took my flesh and bone for armour
And doublecrossed my mother's womb.
(The poem appeared on www.bryantmcgill.com)
Finally did it! Adopted this little girl yesterday in the City...she is sooo sweet! ..and I am having sooo much fun!!...She is three weeks old and really tiny, but she is full of little kitty antics and energy!!
The pretty blankey here is my Mom's housecoat covered lap!! When she stands up you
can see how little she is....the vet said she is only about three weeks old...
. . She is Jessie and her really wants to play with the other Flickr kitties!!
I bought this necklace a few weeks ago. The first time I wore it out the chain broke and I was lucky that it decided to fall into my bra and I didn't lose it!! I put it on a new chain today.
As it was Valentine's day this week I thought I'd use my red fairy lights to make some bokeh. Assignment 52/7 - Creating Mood with Colour. Hopefully I managed to make this look romantic.
For the rest of my 52 week project see my 52 week 2013 set