Here we are at The City Learning Centre doing the latest photo workshop with Madeleine. It's an amazing place and there are some excellent photos being uploaded. Madeleine will make a selection for the exhibition. If you weren't able to make it tonight Madeleine will be doing another session tomorrow from 4 til 6. It's been really good working one-to-one and learning how to do things properly (not that I did it myself!). Nic, if you see this could you contact me so we can get a .....

Hello Everyone!Sorry not to have been in touch recently but I've been waiting to hear from Portico about our next workshop dates and so far I haven't had a reply. However, Madeleine would like to run two separate workshops (one for each school as it makes it easier for her to support everyone if they are in smaller groups) and we are aiming for Monday 14th and Tuesday 15th June from 4 til 6 (or thereabouts). If it suits everyone we would do Lauriston on Monday and Jubilee on .....

Is anybody back in the coury and can anybody help?!

I've just realised that a lot of you are probably sunning yourselves under that unpronounceable ash cloud, but am I right in thinking the quilting workshop is on 29th April at Jubilee School? I think I am but would appreciate confirmation.

I hope you've all had a wonderful Easter. Mine was mixed, first half behaving like a 10 year old mountain biking on The South Downs, the second spent recovering from an operation (the two were not related). This, coupled with my daughter having my camera in Argentina means I've been rubbish with photos. I do hope everyone else is getting together a good collection for our forthcoming exhibition.I think I'm too much of a coward to be a good photographer anyway. I daren't get close .....

This blog is getting more and more fun to read and comment on by the minute! Excellent.

Thanks so much to Madeleine for leading us from ignorance to enlightenment with photoshop (my ignorance, anyway). It was really good to see so many wonderful photos appearing from the group's cameras. Obviously lots of action over half term in the markets and elsewhere. I think the cameras have been and will continue to be a great asset to the whole project and I'm looking forward to the exhibition we'll have of all your work in the summer term (as long as Nile doesn't include his photoshoppe .....

I've just read Maggie's blog and it makes me think the whole ABC project is worth it! I hope you don't mind, Maggie but Nick and I are speaking at a conference in Birmingham tomorrow, telling people about the project and I'll definitely quote you.This blog is such an important way of airing our opinions that I think we should all be visiting it more often (I too am a culprit) because it is a true and powerful record of what we have done and how people are feeling (both children an .....

I've missed blogging for a while and it's lovely to get back onto the site and read of so much activity. Maggie, Olivia, Dunni and Lola seem to be becoming real experts with the cameras and I'm really impressed with Aoife and Muireann's uploaded pictures (got a spare hour to remind me how to do it Aoife?!). And Eelyn, how d'you manage to take such a beautiful pic on a phone?I absolutely loved our visit to the theatre on Friday for a whole range of reasons. Firstly, I think these j .....

Wow! Breda and Jordan there's no stopping you two is there? Can't wait to see the photo project on dinners you cook and eat. In fact it was great reading all the entries tonight to see what everyone is aiming to do - faces in mirrors, Muirrean - sounds great. And as for Rhea's shopping trip down Oxford Street.... I can't think of anything worse but I'm sure you and your mum and cousin will have a ball. And Marcia and Dwaun, the pics of Ridley Road should be good too. Thanks, everyone .....

Madeleine, you're a star! Thank you for your guidance around the NPG. It was great to see the Taylor Wessing Prize exhibition - such a range of pictures but as someone said, there was a tendency for them to be a bit dismal. I don't know what anyone else chose as their favourite pic but for me it was the poor man with chickenpox. It was such an ordinary subject but the photographer seemed to show himself very exposed and vulnerable. It said so much more than just a spotty man but they .....

unless it's me behind the lens......

Another brilliant evening! Thanks everyone for turning up on time.

Thanks to Cheryl for doing a brilliant dance workshop and making me ache all over today!It was great to have you all there and I think you'll appreciate it on Sunday.I heard that there will be a free dance workshop/demo at Sadlers Wells both before the performance and during the interval and I don't think we should miss it so let's get there by 7pm at the latest.Also to remind everyone to bring along a photo of something/someone/somewhere that they really like so we ca .....

Great to see Marcia and Duane writing their comments about Nation. Those of you who haven't yet, please do because what you were saying after the performance should definitely be shared with others.

Well, I left this evening's performance at The National feeling like I had just eaten a meal. Sometimes  just a snack will do, sometimes a takeaway but tonight I felt like I'd had a banquet! The whole performance was so rich that I'll be digesting it for weeks to come.

I'd forgotten what a great thing the blog was as a way of sharing thoughts and ideas about our cultural experiences. Actually, I'd forgotten how to use the blog!

 

For the past few months, my daughter has been working as an intern at Sadlers Wells. It has made us so much more aware of what a lot of brilliant dance (and a bit of rubbish too). We have been to see just about everything that was on over the autumn season and really got into dance.