Creageivity
If you think you may be too old to be creative, or too creative to be old, then CREAGEIVITY is the podcast for you. Hosted by artist / musician / writers Adrienne Thomas and Harlan Cockburn, each show brings illuminating and inspiring conversation with people who have kept on keeping on in their chosen field... or started some entirely new activity in later life.
Episodes
23 episodes
Creageivity 21 - with Filmmaker Mary Dickinson
Filmmaker MARY DICKINSON has an astonishingly long filmography working as a Producer and Director, mainly for the BBC’s flagship Arts programme, ARENA. During her seven years of art school, culminating in an MA from the Royal C...
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Season 3
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Episode 21
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44:46
Creageivity 20 - with Glass Artist Norma Geddes
Born in Canada during the Second World War, Norma Geddes has for many years been resident in Virginia, on the Eastern seaboard of America. She forged a career in healthcare and garnered a fistful of degrees along the way, while always be...
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Season 3
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Episode 20
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40:26
Creageivity 19 - with Actor / Writer / Artist Martin Crocker
South-east Londoner MARTIN CROCKER fronted school plays and was drawn to performing, while at the same time going on to become a sportsman and enthusiast for the outdoors, including mountaineering. In CREAGEIVITY 19, Martin describes how...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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40:29
Creageivity 18 - with Composer and Conductor Lucas Richman
As Adrienne points out in Creageivity 18, listing the many and varied accomplishments of composer, musician, GRAMMY award winning conductor and writer LUCAS RICHMAN is quite the task. Coming from a family of performers, including his act...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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55:32
Creageivity 17 - with Actor / Producer / Activisit / Educator - Latifah Taormina
A graduate of the Second City improvising group in Chicago, Latifah Taormina went on to co-found, produce, direct and perform with The Committee, San Francisco’s famed improvisational theatre of the late 60s. Under her stag...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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46:00
Creageivity 16 - with Us! (Adders & Harl)
Our planned guest for this episode was unable to join us, so we made the creative decision to fall back on our own resources, with Adrienne Thomas the special guest of Harlan Cockburn and vice versa. Back in the 1970s we met a...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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49:05
Creageivity 15 - with Singer / Songwriter / Performer Graham McGregor-Smith
Graham McGregor-Smith took a long detour as a Chartered Accountant, and then stay-at-home Dad before eventually launching himself into music. Having started with a love of AC/DC, he became influenced by the Great American Songbook...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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41:21
Creageivity 14 - with Author Christine Cohen Park
CHRISTINE COHEN PARK is a novelist, freelance writer, facilitator of shared reading groups, and a former tutor on the University of Sussex M.A. in Writing & Personal Development,She’s written three published novels,
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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1:02:19
Creageivity 13 - with Movie Set Designer and Jeweller Mark Rimmell
To describe MARK RIMMELL as a movie set designer, or as a jeweller, is to barely scratch the surface of an extraordinarily rich and varied life. Mark starts us off with his birth in the slums of London's East End in 1933, followed ...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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41:56
Creageivity 12 - with Everyone! A Treasure Chest compilation of 11 episodes
Wow! Eleven episodes of Creageivity, so we thought we would open the treasure chest for a bumper bundle compilation of clips from throughout 2023. Featured guests are: Lisa Armytage, Claire Waller & Arthur Brown, Tim Fraser, Grego...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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1:25:12
Creageivity 11Bonus - King Lear
Our guest on Creageivity 11, Jonathan Weightman, performs as King Lear - a 2023 film role he starred in. Listen to this wonderful bonus minute of Jonathan in full flight!
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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0:58
Creageivity 11 - with Director, writer and actor Jonathan Weightman
Jonathan Weightman has had a storied career as an actor, writer and director, beginning with almost exclusively female roles including Lady Macbeth and St Joan while at school, coming right up to 2023 when he starred as King Lear in a mo...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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46:31
Creageivity 10 - with writer, artist and magazinist Mich Maroney
Visual artist, writer, magazine publisher, and classical music enthusiast, Mich Maroney is an inspiring creative who relocated from the metropolis of London to the rural peace of Ireland. It's here that she has realised a long-held ambit...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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42:53
Creageivity 09 - with Musician and Stonecarver Emil Thompson
Based in the countryside near Dundee, Scotland, 'Old Man Thompson' - Emil Max Thompson - is a talented musician, songwriter, stonecarver... and so much more. In this fascinating podcast he traces some of his family roots, inc...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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54:22
Creageivity 08 - with End of Life expert Hermione Elliott
In her late 50s, as she was contemplating retirement from a career as a nurse, midwife and counsellor, Dr Hermione Elliott instead embarked on a huge journey of what she describes as ‘Unfoldment’. She saw the need for end of life care wh...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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51:59
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Creageivity 07 - with Artist Steve McDade
A drummer who arts, or an artist who drums? Steve McDade's academic career culminated as Head of Fine Art at the University of Chichester, and he has been a constant painter and exhibitor over the years: his most recent work being shown ...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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46:12
Creageivity 06 - with Multimedia-ists Honora & Dahlan Foah
Honora and Dahlan Foah are multi-disciplinary artists and producers, living in Atlanta USA, and working across a dazzling variety of media. Together they are creating a sequence of seven Frequency Operas, with the first of these u...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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53:45
Creageivity 05 - with Generalist John May
What hasn't John May been involved in? He describes himself as a Generalist, and his first activities were in the early UK Arts Lab network. There followed eight years with the New Musical Express (at the time the m...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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54:43
Creageivity 04Bonus - actor Gregory Gudgeon performs Shakespeare
In Creageivity 04 Gregory Gudgeon talks about performing Shakespeare's King Richard II, with puppets. Richard is alone in his prison cell, and begins to use objects there to take the place of people in his life as he compares ...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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3:19
Creageivity 04 - with actor Gregory Gudgeon, and songs from Mark Flett
Acting seems to have been in the blood for Gregory Gudgeon from an early age, with family connections to the stage, and a childhood role in a local pantomime which captured his imagination. Later, movement training came at the Jaques Lec...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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57:36
Creageivity 03 - with songwriter Tim Fraser
Platinum and Gold record songwriter Tim Fraser got traction relatively late in his career, but hasn't looked back since, with multiple successes for major artists around the world. In this podcast he relates the story of how Tina Turn...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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44:59
Creageivity 02 - with Claire Waller and Arthur Brown
Arthur Brown's debut album The Crazy World of Arthur Brown was a hit on both sides of the Atlantic... in 1968. Since then The God of Hellfire has never stopped making music and collaborating with a wide range of amazing m...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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50:56
Creageivity 01 - with actor Lisa Armytage
Podcast 01 features special guest, actor LISA ARMYTAGE, who fell into acting – literally – aged 6, when she entered the school stage headfirst as The Angel Gabriel through the wrong entrance - where the curtains were tied together ...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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37:11
