Well, so much for my intention to write a post every month in 2017..... I see my last one was written 3 days into the new year and here I am writing the follow-up 3 days before the end of the same year. My defence is twofold: 1) it was an unexpectedly busy & brilliant year so it just never became a priority and 2) I only have 1  reader ...

Happy New Year everyone : ) Slightly oddly I've always liked January... many people just seem to see it as a bleak expanse of nothing after the excitement of Christmas, but for me I just love the sense of a new start, of new possibilities and of the chance to draw a line under stuff that happened in the previous year that wasn't ...

Scarily I’ve now been working in the creative sector for more than 20 years and during that time I’ve helped set up theatre companies, run arts education programmes, managed a venue for 10 years and, since summer 2015, I have been a freelance creative producer working with venues, festivals, tours and projects. But have I actually learnt ...

It's been two months since I wrote one of these - apologies to Mrs Holly - hate to keep my reader on tenterhooks. It's been a busy old start to 2016 - with no sign of work drying up yet, but I remain in a state the can best be described as 'the opposite to complacent'... I'm absolutely loving the variety each week brings.  So far this year ...