Creative Loving Spirit

Helen Seymour is a spoken-poet-word-artist-human-performance-person based in Canterbury, and the writer and performer of the shows ‘To Helen Back’ and ‘Helen Highwater’. We speak about Helen’s performance beginnings in poetry slams and the early influences which inspired her to bring an element of surprise into her work and play with audience expectations, how being onstage invited her to be and share more of who she really is, what makes the collaboration with her director work as well as it does and how she sees success as being standing by everything you do and being content with that. FOLLOW HELEN Website: http://www.whatthehelen.net Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/HeronSeasaw Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/whathelens/ Creative Loving Spirit is produced by Paul Macauley. You can find out more about this and other things he makes at: www.paulmacauley.net The music in this podcast is taken from 'In Between The Blinks' by Gudjohr, used with kind permission. Check out this excellent album here: gudjohr.bandcamp.com

Michelle Donkin is a writer and producer and the co-founder of Brighton based Cast Iron Theatre. Our conversation begins with how childhood Michelle was inspired by Star Trek to write herself onto the bridge of the starship Enterprise before realising that exploring human relationships was more interesting than space. We talk about her time spent studying film and scriptwriting at the the National film and Television School, her move into theatre and producing and universal themes like finding your voice and creating what is authentic to you, helping others as you go and how to stay kind to yourself as you live and create. FOLLOW MICHELLE Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/@michelledonkinW FOLLOW CAST IRON THEATRE Website: https://www.castironbrighton.weebly.com Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/@cast_ironacts Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/castirontheatre Instagram: http://instagram.com/cast_iron_theatre Creative Loving Spirit is produced by Paul Macauley. You can find out more about this and other things he makes at: www.paulmacauley.net The music in this podcast is taken from 'In Between The Blinks' by Gudjohr, used with kind permission. Check out this excellent album here: gudjohr.bandcamp.com

Sophia Carr-Gomm is a filmmaker and director based in East Sussex. She is the director of short films ‘The Wider Sun’ and ‘Nobody's Darling’ as well as several music videos, all created through her production company Certain Light Films. We talk about Sophia’s background and career as an actor and how despite apparent success she felt compelled to change direction, finding a new purpose in filmmaking and directing. We also speak about her love for the collaborative nature of the filmmaking process, the mental health pressures on working as an actor and the inspirational effect you can have on others if you are working from an impassioned, healthy and enjoyable place in what you create. FOLLOW SOPHIA Website: https://sophiacarrgomm.com Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/@SophiaCarrGomm Insta: http://instagram.com/sophia_papaya FOLLOW CERTAIN LIGHT FILMS Insta: https://www.instagram.com/certainlightfilms/?hl=en Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/certainlightfilmsltd/ Creative Loving Spirit is produced by Paul Macauley. You can find out more about this and other things he makes at: www.paulmacauley.net The music in this podcast is taken from 'In Between The Blinks' by Gudjohr, used with kind permission. Check out this excellent album here: gudjohr.bandcamp.com

Sarah James is an artist based in Brighton. She creates artwork through drawing in mixed media, exploring birds and wildlife and architecture. In our conversation we talk about Sarah gave herself ‘the job’ of artist as a child, the beauty she finds in the ugly, dishevelled and overlooked, the importance of seeking inspiration in the work of others, the meditative and calming experience she finds in drawing and the positive effect this has on her mental health, sharing artwork online and how she gets herself unstuck. FOLLOW SARAH Insta: http://instagram.com/sarahjamesart/ Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/iam_sarahjames Creative Loving Spirit is produced by Paul Macauley. You can find out more about this and other things he makes at: www.paulmacauley.net The music in this podcast is taken from 'In Between The Blinks' by Gudjohr, used with kind permission. Check out this excellent album here: gudjohr.bandcamp.com

Hatty Jones is a writer and performer based in London, whose plays include ‘That Girl’ which is based on her experiences as a child actor. We talk about Hatty’s training as an actor and her journey to increasingly create the roles and opportunities she seeks as a performer, which has lead to her originating projects for theatre, web series and short films. We discuss writing and the practices that help her get a script written, the lessons Hatty has taken from being part of a writing group, the necessity of deadlines and rules to help get things done, and the advice she would give her younger self setting out to become a writer. FOLLOW HATTY Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Hatty_Jones Insta: https://instagram.com/hattyj0nes 'OFFSTAGE' WEB SERIES
 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCcQ9s7jcurVUqZNmEdIbkA Creative Loving Spirit is produced by Paul Macauley. You can find out more about this and other things he makes at: www.paulmacauley.net The music in this podcast is taken from 'In Between The Blinks' by Gudjohr, used with kind permission. Check out this excellent album here: gudjohr.bandcamp.com

Scott Lee Andrews is an artist and songwriter from Wales who has released and performed music as Exit_International, Mutation and Jaws of Deaf. We talk about growing up in a small town and finding the heroes in the alternative music culture with its big characters and musical and visual inspirations, Scott’s decision to study music production instead of pursuing going to Oxford, creating work that subverts mundane reality and pushes buttons, his growing appreciation for the fundamental power of art and music to connect with and move people, and how attention from BBC Introducing put Exit_International’s song about a petrol powered dildo on to the Radio 1 playlist. FOLLOW SCOTT Bandcamp: https://scottleeandrews.bandcamp.com Insta: https://instagram.com/scottleeandrews FOLLOW EXIT_INTERNATIONAL Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/0R6Pk0StQGdN83NWJRS4VR?si=KvntSaVAQVeqzKhWyKIsog Insta: https://instagram.com/exit_international_band Twitter: https://twitter.com/exit_int_music Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ExitInternational Website: https://undergroove.bigcartel.com/artist/exit_international Creative Loving Spirit is produced by Paul Macauley. You can find out more about this and other things he makes at: www.paulmacauley.net The music in this podcast is taken from 'In Between The Blinks' by Gudjohr, used with kind permission. Check out this excellent album here: gudjohr.bandcamp.com

Kerra Nolan is an artist based in Victoria, Australia. She is the creator of Pop Vulture’s Cave, a brandfor the freaks and geeks that offers affordable and sustainable custom tees and clothing. We speak about the origins of Kerra’s art in her teenage experience of feeling on the outside leading to exploring different narratives of popular culture and what what popular culture would look like if she made it, authenticity and the compulsion to create the work you want to see knowing it all valuable to someone else, imposter syndrome and analysis paralysis and the pressures of turning your art into a business. FOLLOW POP VULTURE Website and shop: https://www.pop-vulture.net/ Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/PopVulturesCave/ Insta: https://instagram.com/pop.vultures.cave/ FOLLOW KERRA Insta: https://instagram.com/pop.vulture.irl Creative Loving Spirit is produced by Paul Macauley. You can find out more about this and other things he makes at: www.paulmacauley.net The music in this podcast is taken from 'In Between The Blinks' by Gudjohr, used with kind permission. Check out this excellent album here: gudjohr.bandcamp.com

Alinah Azadeh is an artist based in East Sussex. She makes interdisciplinary work through writing, performance, working with materials and through participatory collaboration with the public and others to create installations and engagements. Our conversation moves through Alinah’s background and heritage and the poetics of spaces, the loss of her mother and the project that allowed her to tell her own story of grief through objects that invited people to share their own objects and stories of loss or endings, making art that is accessible to anyone to find something in and connect with and the importance of finding the allies with whom you can develop the work you want to offer the world. FOLLOW ALINAH Website: https://www.alinahazadeh.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alinahazadehartist Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/alinahazadeh Creative Loving Spirit is produced by Paul Macauley. You can find out more about this and other things he makes at: www.paulmacauley.net The music in this podcast is taken from 'In Between The Blinks' by Gudjohr, used with kind permission. Check out this excellent album here: gudjohr.bandcamp.com

Ben Pickersgill is a Brighton based music producer and DJ and part of drum and bass outfit Klax. We talk about Ben’s beginnings in finding the music that combined the things he loved, paying dues with years of producing his own stuff, the benefits and challenges of making music as part of a collective and what it takes to collaborate in a useful way, mental health in music and the pressures of staying productive and keeping up with a quickly evolving scene, the stand out moment of being picked to remix David Bowie’s ‘Heroes’ and the lessons learned from playing a DJ set in Bristol which made 1000 people go quiet. FOLLOW BEN Insta: https://instagram.com/klaxben?igshid=so5rst61anc2 FOLLOW KLAX Soundcloud: http://www.soundcloud.com/klax Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/klax2020/ Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/25NoSiDaJAxrEQeTZES6Yh?si=kH-N-k54RWm1GRITDhdUeg Insta: https://instagram.com/klaxuk?igshid=1unzqlrr35k3r Creative Loving Spirit is produced by Paul Macauley. You can find out more about this and other things he makes at: www.paulmacauley.net The music in this podcast is taken from 'In Between The Blinks' by Gudjohr, used with kind permission. Check out this excellent album here: gudjohr.bandcamp.com

Dr Joel Levey, with Michelle Levey, is an early pioneer in mindfulness, contemplative science, and the science of extra-ordinary human performance. Together Joel and Michelle are founders of Wisdom at Work and The International Center for Corporate Culture and Organizational Health at InnerWork Technologies, Inc. We talk about Joel’s journey and use some of his insights to explore creativity, curiosity and compassion, to look at how we can help open the mind to all the moments of choice and creative potential we have and what are some of the practices that can help us to wake up from habit and mindlessness to being an embodied creative spirit. FOLLOW JOEL Website: http://www.wisdomatwork.com/ Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/wisdomatwork Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Joel-and-Michelle-Levey/184438048260908 Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leveyswisdomatwork/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/wisdomatwork/videos Creative Loving Spirit is produced by Paul Macauley. You can find out more about this and other things he makes at: www.paulmacauley.net The music in this podcast is taken from 'In Between The Blinks' by Gudjohr, used with kind permission. Check out this excellent album here: gudjohr.bandcamp.com