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.
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Creageivity 18 - with Composer and Conductor Lucas Richman
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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 actor father and mother, Peter Mark Richman and Helen Richman, Lucas knew from early on that he would be a musician,…
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Creageivity 17 - with Actor / Producer / Activisit / Educator - Latifah Taormina
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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 stage name of Jessica Myerson, her Hollywood career included parts in The Graduate, Mrs Doubtfire, and Steelyard Blues, and she was…
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Creageivity 16 - with Us! (Adders & Harl)
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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 at Maidstone Art College in Kent, southern England, and the journeys there were similar... but different: Adrienne battled fo…
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Creageivity 15 - with Singer / Songwriter / Performer Graham McGregor-Smith
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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, with artists such as Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett. However it was many years before he was able to progress things, …
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Creageivity 14 - with Author Christine Cohen Park
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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, Joining the Grown–ups, The Househusband, and A Key To Lock Out Cougars. She has also co-edited a prize-winning collection of short st…
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Creageivity 13 - with Movie Set Designer and Jeweller Mark Rimmell
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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 by incredibly difficult years. Gradually he overcame many obstacles and his creativity began to flower as a singer, and…
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Creageivity 12 - with Everyone! A Treasure Chest compilation of 11 episodes
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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, Gregory Gudgeon, John May, Honora & Dahlan Foah, Jonathan Weightman, Mich Maroney, Steve McDade, Hermione Elliott, and Emil T…
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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! If you think you're too old to be creative, or too creative to be old, then Creageivity is the podcast for you!By Adrienne Thomas and Harlan Cockburn
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Creageivity 11 - with Director, writer and actor Jonathan Weightman
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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 movie, shot underground! With an English father and Brazilian / Uruguayan mother, Jonathan describes how he always …
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Creageivity 10 - with writer, artist and magazinist Mich Maroney
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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 ambition to start a magazine blending the written word with distinctive visual art. SWERVE Magazine is available in pr…
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Creageivity 09 - with Musician and Stonecarver Emil Thompson
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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, including a cross-dressing great grandfather who was a risque star of Music Hall. We also learn what ekphrastic means, and how t…
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Creageivity 08 - with End of Life expert Hermione Elliott
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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 which was analogous to the Doulas who assist with birth, and has since worked tirelessly to found and lead the orga…
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Creageivity 07 - with Artist Steve McDade
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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 in 2023, with a back catalogue spanning very many art shows. As a musician he was inspired by Tony Williams at a…
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Creageivity 06 - with Multimedia-ists Honora & Dahlan Foah
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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 unique events being staged in a Budapest church, and the latest taking place in the Vatican. Honora originally trained as…
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Creageivity 05 - with Generalist John May
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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 most influential music weekly in Britain), writing as Dick Tracy. He has met and interviewed - among many others - Allen Ginsberg, Steve…
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Creageivity 04Bonus - actor Gregory Gudgeon performs Shakespeare
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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 how far he has fallen: ' Sometimes am I king; Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar, And so I am.' He hears distant mus…
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Creageivity 04 - with actor Gregory Gudgeon, and songs from Mark Flett
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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 Lecoq school in Paris, with productions in French, and the mentorship of the Czech actor and director, Hannah Kodice…
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Creageivity 03 - with songwriter Tim Fraser
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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 Turner came to record one of his songs, and mentions a few other performers along the way. There's also the opportunity …
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Creageivity 02 - with Claire Waller and Arthur Brown
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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 musicians. (In this podcast he recalls gigs with Frank Zappa, and hanging out with Jimi Hendrix in his LA apartment). A true legen…
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Creageivity 01 - with actor Lisa Armytage
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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 at the bottom. Recovering from this mortifying beginning has been a lifelong quest. You may remember Lisa as a 30-somet…
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