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THE CANTERBURY PEOPLE'S MAP PART III

August 21, 2015

A community walk to the Abbots Mill Project, an eco showcase in the heart of Canterbury. Rob Turner is currently the Resident Armchair Artist at The Beaney in Canterbury. The feeling or look of the map now seems to be establishing itself; one of my roles in its making has been to somehow make all the […]

THE CANTERBURY PEOPLE'S MAP PART II

August 21, 2015

Made through a series of open workshops at the Beaney. Rob Turner is currently the Resident Armchair Artist at The Beaney in Canterbury. The second workshop coincided with another event at the Beaney that day and it was busy. I don’t remember a point during the day where it wasn’t being worked on. It was so […]

11 SURPRISING FACTS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT FAMED ARTIST EDUARDO PAOLOZZI

August 14, 2015

Eduardo Paolozzi was a pioneering 20th century British artist and his famous print series; General Dynamic F.U.N is currently on display at the Beaney. Here are a few facts you might not know about him… 1. Scottish-born Paolozzi’s Italian parents ran a small ice cream parlour in Leith. 2. Paolozzi had always shown a talent […]

THE CANTERBURY PEOPLE'S MAP

August 14, 2015

Rob Turner is currently the Resident Armchair Artist at The Beaney in Canterbury. I believe maps to be important documents reflecting cultural interests and changing social attitudes and I also think the personality, the views and the interests of a person drawing a map must always indirectly leek out however precise and accurate the map is! […]

IMMERSION

August 14, 2015

Gary Studley is currently poet-in-residence at Canterbury Roman Museum. Minasan konnichiwa, and welcome to Blog Eight. Today’s imaginary title is IMMERSION. If you were to daftly put aside any notion of looking at the artefacts and just walk around the Roman Museum at the sort of speed that makes you look like you need the […]

IN THE CALM OF THE CANTERBURY ROMAN MUSEUM

August 14, 2015

Gary Studley is currently poet-in-residence at Canterbury Roman Museum. Buenos dias a todos and welcome to Blog Seven. As hinted at in Blog Six, one of the wonderful things about the Canterbury Roman Museum is that it appears to have made the decision to slow things down in the way it exhibits artefacts and its […]

SITTING WRITING ON THE TRICLINIUM...

August 07, 2015

Gary Studley is currently poet-in-residence at Canterbury Roman Museum. Hello readers and welcome to another great day in the metropolis. Here’s Blog Six. Despite everything the press may try to tell us about how bad life is, the Earth is still approximately the same circumference as ever (about 25,000 miles at the Equator) and the […]

CANTERBURY VOLUNTEER GRADUATE LANDS DREAM JOB

August 06, 2015

Gillian Conabeer has demonstrated the value in volunteering after securing her dream job with the Museum of London. Keen to pursue a career in heritage, Gillian believes the experience she gained during her time at Canterbury Museums & Galleries helped her to achieve this goal. Gillian Conabeer started volunteering at Canterbury Heritage Museum when she […]

RECORD BREAKERS - SUMMER READING CHALLENGE 2015

July 29, 2015

All the staff at Canterbury Library are gearing up for this year’s Summer Reading Challenge – Record Breakers. Every summer all public libraries in Kent join in with the Summer Reading Challenge which is a national initiative run by The Reading Agency. This is the biggest reading promotion that we do in Kent and is […]

STORIES GENERATED BY THE WANTSUM CHANNEL

July 27, 2015

Rob Turner is currently the Resident Armchair Artist at The Beaney in Canterbury. I made an artwork based on the Folk Tale called ‘The Wantsum Worm’ I mentioned this in my previous blog post. I liked the idea of maps and stories merging together. The result is difficult to describe, it’s definitely a sculpture, it’s also […]

"FROM SUCH CARNAGE CAME GOOD...(AND THE) REMAINS OF A LARGE ROMAN TOWNHOUSE PAVEMENT WERE DISCOVERED"

July 20, 2015

Gary Studley is currently poet-in-residence at Canterbury Roman Museum. Guten morgen and welcome to Blog Five. “Guten Morgen,” they greeted me, not quite in unison, the husband one foot further up the steps, reading the last bullet point, “AD 43 – the Romans invade…” as his smiling wife/girlfriend/partner turned to the earth-hue illustration of Canterbury […]

A BIKE RIDE ALONG THE WANTSUM CHANNEL (PART 2)

July 14, 2015

Rob Turner is currently the Resident Armchair Artist at The Beaney in Canterbury. So I decided to ride along the Wantscum Channel a journey with two layers, the past and the present! I had seen some free literature about various heritage trails and national walking routes across the area, so I felt quite confident about finding […]

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