Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination

“It’s a soft target, isn’t it? If you close libraries, nobody dies – that’s what they think. But what’s happening is it’s society who suffers and people who suffer.” Says Michael Rosen theguardian.com/books/article/…

🧠 The latest in our series of reflections from our recent event, An Invitation to Think, comes from our partners at @CambridgeCandI who led the creative workshop, 'A Call for Being Together Differently'. 🔎 Read more & find out how you can get involved fullscopecollaboration.org.uk/blog/an-invita…

We’re off. Join us at the Out of the Ordinary Festival. In the Guildhall sheltering from rain but surrounded by the forest and sounds and smells of nature. Thanks to @Kings_College for their meadow bale. With artists @HilCoxCondron and Caroline Wendling.

@kat_brereton @frankcottrell_b 👍We were chatting with Fenland libraries about this as part of planning Imaginariums and encouraging collective re-imagining. @RobGMacfarlane and @JackieMorrisArt joked book could double as coffee table (all campers need these).

@frankcottrell_b @CambridgeCandI kindly gifted every school in Cambridgeshire a copy a few years ago @frankcottrell_b. I am unsure how many were used for camping, but lots of lovely writing was done 😁❤️

Also Lost Words is a truly great work of Art. But you might struggle to take it on holiday - it's very big. You could go on holiday TO its gorgeous pages Or if you opened it upside down, possibly camp in it

@accessart We’re in. Beautiful 😍

Join the AccessArt Tiny Art School Movement! Aimed at reviving a sense of purpose amongst, and appreciation for, artist educators working in our communities, AccessArt has started a body of work to explore, celebrate and promote the notion of “tiny art schools” across the UK. Tapping into existing practice and innovation, we’ll be sharing how artist educators are working with their audiences, using community centres, village halls, and private studio spaces as art education labs, building creative and economic communities of all sizes. We’ll be exploring how the tiny art school concept can be both a viable business model for the artist educator, and help inform a ground-up, inclusive and diverse re-thinking of the purpose and value of art education for all today. We hope to inspire many more artist educators to recognise the purpose and power of their own creativity, and to think about how they can set up tiny art schools in their own name for the benefit of all. Find out more at accessart.org.uk/the-accessart-… @SusanJonesArts @theartcriminal @PenAHay @engagevisualart @artukdotorg @RCA @AlumniRCA

Aren’t these wonderful @WandleburyWoods @HilCoxCondron

Exquisite work created with families this morning as part of @camcitco family lunch programme. So many artists of all ages working companionably with beautiful inks made by @HilCoxCondron exploring how willows regenerate 💕. Plus we shared delicious lunch with @FoodCambridge

Lots of lovely people going to be at this event. Do come along.

I’m doing jury service & today I became the first person ever in England (I think!) to swear a legal oath on a river. With my fingers dipped in water taken from the Roding I stated my juror’s oath as follows: “I swear by the River Roding, from her source in Molehill Green to her confluence with the Thames, that I will faithfully try the Defendant & give a true verdict according to the evidence” The Judge at Snaresbrook Crown Court had never heard of a situation where someone wanted to swear their juror’s oath on a part of Nature before. However, I explained that Nature was my god & I treat the Roding with the same reverence, sacredness & love in action as many religious people give to their holy book. On this basis he was prepared to allow an oath on the river, as long as I gave an affirmation as well, which I did. Here’s to introducing the sacredness of Nature back into our legal system, step by step & piece by piece!

"Involving people with diverse experiences, identities and backgrounds in the design of any service is key to making sure that it’s equally accessible to a wider range of potential service users." 👀 Read our latest blog by The Kite Trust's Pip Gardner fullscopecollaboration.org.uk/blog/complex-n…

'Schools have been identified as key institutional community assets and arts-in-nature practice has been shown to promote children’s mental health.' Here how our ‘Artscaping’ practice could be scaled up frontiersin.org/journals/publi…

It can be done! When people say it’s just not practically feasible for a river flowing through a major capital city to be clean enough to swim in, we can now point to Paris to say it’s possible. The reason we can’t have such nice things is private greed & political incompetence.

Today's decision emanating from Southwark Crown Court is an outrage . It is an attack on our civil liberties , we must defend our right to peaceful protest . @AttorneyGeneral , please meet with us urgently . This grotesque miscarriage of justice must be fixed . #WholeTruthFive

Why is #artseducation in schools important? My new open access paper. Thanks to @MusicEdu4all and @GomersalArt and all the RAPS schools for their inspiration. link.springer.com/content/pdf/10…

We need an ARTS BACK … arts baccalaureate Get it !!!! For primary schools… art rooms for all primary schools so kids can study the world through drawing, music, drama and dance and poetry..

Read our latest blog about our system collaboration event, and download our latest report: Learning, Amplifying & Influencing: An Invitation to Think — Fullscope (fullscopecollaboration.org.uk)

Thank you to all our artists & collaborators who made our pop-up performances, creative workshops and opportunities to dance possible: Filipa Pereira-stubbs @ViolaWangStudio @GlassHouseDance @TogetherCulture @Joshuabilton @BrittenSinfonia @hanwalker @SanskrutiCam @CambridgeCandI

Yay! Bridget is in a creative space, with children using art as their lens to the world!!!!

Ok, I can really get behind an @Ed_Miliband + @Miatsf combination. We are ready.

@PenAHay @forestimaginatn @Cambridge_Uni @DCU @BathSpaUni @BathSpaResearch @BSUEnvHums @CCCIBathSpa @LondonMetUni @NTF_Tweet @CultureLearning @InSEAOfficial Welcome to Cambridge. Lovely to know Forest of Imagination is here.

Honoured to be a keynote speaker at the International Conference of Possibility Studies: Expanding Conceptions for Research on Possibility at Cambridge University + esteemed colleagues! My focus is on Collective Ecological Imagination @forestimaginatn 💚 possibilitystudies.net