Creative Tourist - Obsessive Collecting Disorder: The Living Room at Chinese Arts Centre

"If the old maxim “Know what you like and like what you know” holds true, then was no way I wasn’t going to like The Living Room at the Chinese Arts Centre. From marbles in the playground to stamps and comic books, collecting has always been a part of my life. If it weren’t for the fear of being recruited for a future episode of Britain’s Biggest Hoarders, I may not be able to keep my OCD (Obsessive Collecting Disorder) in check at all."

Creative Tourist - Obsessive Collecting Disorder: The Living Room at Chinese Arts Centre

Published 04/07/2013

Creative Tourist - Things to do in Manchester: life drawing, burlesque & a doctor in the house.

"One of the great things about living in Manchester is that you turn any corner and you’ll stumble upon an evening of art, theatre or music. But what about a night that combines all three? My visit to Dr. Sketchy Manchester on a dark November evening was that rare triptych of entertainment: life drawing and burlesque, set to a punk/alt-pop soundtrack. Organised by local artist Lee Crocker, Doctor Sketchy is the Manchester branch of a self-styled “Anti-Art School” founded in Brooklyn in 2005. The idea rapidly spread to 100 cities across the world, its aim simple (and apparently universally appreciated): to make life drawing fun again by taking it out of the classroom and by replacing traditional life models with burlesque performers."

Creative Tourist - Things to do in Manchester: life drawing, burlesque & a doctor in the house.

Published 13/02/2013

Creative Tourist - Walking tours: The National Trust goes urban.

"If you are a public transport commuter travelling all four corners of Manchester on a daily basis, you’ll have spent a lot of shoe leather walking, head-down against the rain, criss-crossing the city from home-to-work, from shop-to-cinema and back again. But lift your head once in a while, during those rare and glorious blue sky days, and you’ll see the historic buildings, the blue plaques and street names that hint of Manchester’s industrious past."

Creative Tourist - Walking tours: The National Trust goes urban.

Published 07/11/2012

Cornerhouse - Tech tools worth exploring

"The session was presented by Martyn Bryant of The Next Web. His easy style and friendly manner removed any fears of a complicated and formal lecture type event. His recommendations, a mix of websites and apps, were influenced by his own method of remote working and covered the general goal of using web technology as an aid to working and creating in the 21st Century. The ‘free upgrade’ bonus to the session was his industry insights into things like Pinterest skimming sales from links to using Convo to arrange article and news updates with reporters around the world."

Cornerhouse - Tech tools worth exploring

Published 30/03/2012