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Visão geral

  • Sem referências
  • Fluente em: English
  • 53, Masculino
  • Membro desde 2010
  • writer/performer/artist/ninja
  • with style. University graduate, but my real learning hap...
  • De London
  • Perfil 95% concluído

Sobre Mim

CURRENT MISSION

I create conversations; play, art, community, environment and wellbeing.

ABOUT ME

I'm an artist based in the UK. I'm what's known as a spoken word artist, or a performance poet, but I also consider myself a theatre maker. I'm interested in creating conversations; I facilitate other people to have conversations, and to say the things they want to say. I'm open minded, resourceful, dynamic and fun. I work with many great artists, including Talvin Singh and the indy record label Ninja Tune. I've toured my one man show in Europe, Africa, India and the USA. I also write for various pulbications, including Vivacity, a website which documents grass roots movements in cities worldwide:

http://vivacity.me

my own website, which documents my work, is:

http://lastmangoinparis.net

PHILOSOPHY

it's well expressed in the article in the section 'couchsurfing experience', but here's more... the 21st century is an incredibly exciting time to be alive. Boundaries are shifting; humanity's relationship to the world is shifting. All of us are reaching out and exploring new directions, new places and new paradigms. Can we move beyond our desires to accumulate personal wealth, and to consume, to create a world which is fairer to all? can we include the well-being of our environment in that conversation? Can we have fun while we're doing so? I'm looking to find like minded souls across the world, and find them everywhere I go; people that are taking part in this conversation, just by living their lives, and following their hearts. Life is too short not to engage with each other; and life cannot continue unless we learn to co exist. End of rant!

Por que estou no Couchsurfing?

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I'm new to couchsurfing! I'm happy to offer my couch to people when I return from my travels, but I'm excited by the possibility of exploring the couchsurfing network in India while I am there this winter.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

As I'm new to CS, I have no specific stories, but I would like to share something I did this summer; it's an article bout an event I put together, where my friends and I organised lunch for 200 of our neighbours. It sums up my belief about being kind to strangers.

"How do you foster a sense of community in your area? How do you break down the social barriers which exist between neighbours who are often too polite or, as new arrivals, too shy? Well, perhaps all it takes is an invitation...

This July, my neighbours and I got together to co-ordinate a party on our estate. It was all part of the Big Lunch initiative, a nationwide campaign to get as many people having street parties on a
single day as possible. The intention is to get neighbours to hang out with each other and rediscover a sense of community spirit.

Beforehand, we hand delivered flyers to each home on Hackney’s Lockner Estate, introducing ourselves and explaining the ethos behind the Big Lunch. We asked all the neighbours to bring a dish, reflecting their heritage or something typical from their childhood.

On the day itself, we constructed a children’s magical den and home-made bunting out of African fabrics bought cheaply on Dalston’s Ridley Road. The nearby De Beauvoir Square residents association lent us gazebos. Cyclelab in Hoxton set up a bike surgery and a juice
bar. After lending us their sound system, a couple of friends painted children’s faces all day. A parkour instructor led teenagers round the estate. Dan Cundy, a local musician and busker, kept us entertained for hours with his double bass. We planted a community herb garden. And of course, we ate. The winning dish, by popular demand, was a mouthwatering bitesize morsel of Yorkshire pudding topped with a slice of roast beef, closely followed by Nigerian jolof rice and
Bengali pakora.

The Big Lunch is a remarkable initiative, which works. None of us want to grow up alone, separate from our neighbours, and afraid of the places we live in - and none of us have to. By spending time with our neighbours, by sharing our stories, our food, our cultures and our lives,
we can build a sense of community; a sense of pride in our local neighbourhood; a sense of belonging. It’s fun to break bread with
your neighbours. And it might just make this world a nicer place to live in."

Interesses

to be brief - art, nature, people and conversation!

  • arts
  • performing arts
  • environment
  • dining
  • instructor
  • partying
  • gardening
  • music
  • spoken word
  • cycling

Músicas, Filmes e Livros

off the top of my head... authors like Tom Robbins, Salman Rushdie, Italo Calvino, David Mitchell, Haruki Murakami

poets like Rumi, Hafiz, Blake, Shakespeare, Rilke, Yeats

Music - any! Indian classical, alt-folk, electronic, jazz, reggae, world, artists like k'naan, asa change and jun ray, mulatu astatke, fela kuti; I work with Ninja Tune, Coldcut, Cinematic Orchestra, Shri, Talvin Singh, Bandish Projekt, loads more...

Uma Coisa Incrível que Eu Fiz

every day is a little miracle, really!

Ensine, Aprenda, Compartilhe

life is exchange. I want to listen to what you put on the table, and then base our conversation upon this, in a way that will hopefully benefit us both. I work with Theodore Zeldin, whose work into intimacy and conversation is renowned. Some of the things I could share with you are my words (I'm a poet), large amounts of music from around the world, and knowledge that has been gleaned from my 40 years on the planet. I have friends of all ages, working in all fields, all around the globe. I'm happy to tell you more, but moreover - I want to know about you.

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