Breaks & Joins Podcast
These chats about repair (our stuff, ourselves and our communities) range from mending textiles to the repair of broken bones, from up-cycling in the pandemic to community conflict in Bangladesh, from home made Punk Clothes to celebrating scars. Growing out of a Community project in Lewisham, South East London the podcasts give more space for longer conversations, and you'll be able to hear Rose Sinclair, textile specialist, Raj Bhari, Peacebuilder, talking with Clare MacDonald, artist and Unitarian Minister, Dr Sylvan Baker, founder of The Verbatim Formula,textile dyer Liz Honeybone from the National Theatre costume department, Theatre Designer Amanda Mascarenhas chatting with Mo Sumah, host of the Mend it with Mo repair cafe, Suzi Warren, founder of Stitch it Dont ditch it, theatre academics Sudip Chakroborthy and Ali Campbell on national identities, and Rachel Ho, ceramicist and creator of the scarred pots.They're interviewed by Sue Mayo, edited by Chuck Blue Lowry, music by Bob Karperhttp://www.suemayo.co.uk/
Episodes
64 episodes
Series 8, Episode 8: Paula Ogun Hector
Jamaican–Haitian–British artist and curator Paula Ogun Hector founded Tapestry of Black Britons to honour the often-overlooked African Caribbean presence in Britain, from the Roman era to today. The project began with a woven dialogue between a...
Series 8, Episode 7: Zak Foster
Zak is a community-taught artist whose work draws on Southern textile traditions and repurposed fabrics. He practices an approach to design that is based in narrative and guided by intuition. He is especially drawn to preserving the stories of ...
Series 8, Episode 6: Abu Ansari
Content alert: This podcast includes reference to suicideAbu Ansari is a performer and facilitator working in Chicago and London. He spent 20 years performing on Chicago stages and worked as a performance-based facilitator addressing a v...
Series 8, Episode 5: Dr Sofie Layton
Sofie Layton is an artist, researcher and facilitator who has worked nationally and internationally for over 30 years. Her most recent research practice explores the interface between artist, patient and clinical landscapes. Interweaving lived ...
Series 8, Episode 4: James Holcombe & Alberto Bona
James Holcombe is a filmmaker with decades of experience in photochemical film production. His practice merges a deep engagement with re-discovered historical, material and social processes of photochemical film production through single screen...
Series 8, Episode 3: Hannah Kayi Mason
Hannah is an experienced cultural practitioner with over 20 years’ experience in the arts, education, public and private sectors. An innovative problem solver and entrepreneurial creative communicator. A strategic leader with a natural gift for...
Series 8, Episode 2: Chris Hellawell
Chris Hellawell is the Director of the Edinburgh Tool LibraryChris has an educational background in environmental science, but began working in the charity sector 20 years ago. In 2014 he found a way to combine his dual passions of envir...
Series 8, Episode 1: Sarah P Corbett
Sarah is Founding Director of Craftivist Collective and Gentle Protest. She is an award-winning activist, author and Ashoka Fellow. Born in Everton, the fourth most deprived ward in the UK. An Activism Manager at Oxfam GB before founding ...
Series 7, Episode 8: Morag Anderson
Morag Anderson’s second chapbook, And I Will Make of You a Vowel Sound, won the Aryamati Poetry Pamphlet Prize and was described by TS Eliot Prize-winning poet Joelle Taylor as 'Delicate and furious, a haunting act of worship, of rebellion, and...
Series 7, Episode 7: Haeweon Yi
Haeweon is a theatremaker, writer, and researcher from Korea, now based in the UK. As a co-artistic director of Blooming Ludus, she has been making diverse community-based theatre projects for climate justice and a sustainable future since 2015...
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Series 7, Episode 6: Arti Prashar
Arti’s inclusive creative practice champions diverse voices, and immersive sensory theatre practice for people living with dementia and learning disabled people. She has a strong commitment to collaborative theatre with values based on fundamen...
Series 7, Episode 5: John Dash
"I volunteer with Cycling Club Hackney (CCH) My, now adult, children grew up riding and racing with the club and I have used a bike for transport all my adult life - and dabbled in a bit of cyclocross veterans racing. My main sport (for 40 year...
Series 7, Episode 4: Mah Rana
Mah is a practising artist, researcher and writer working in the fields of contemporary jewellery, well-making, creative health, creativity and dementia-care, and psychology. Mah's PhD at Birkbeck College is a qualitative psychology study explo...
Series 7, Episode 3: Tobias Tembo and Adam McGuigan
Tobias Tembo is Provincial Youth Development Coordinator for Southern Province, Zambia. He is a visionary leader and co-founder of Barefeet Theatre, a dynamic organization empowering vulnerable youth through the arts. With a career spann...
Series 7, Episode 2: Ayesha Chouglay
Ayesha is a writer, artist and facilitator, and recently judged the Deaf and Disabled Writers Commissions for Spread the Word, alongside Joseph Rizzo Naudi, for the second year running. She was one of the commissioned writers for Nature Calling...
Series 7, Episode 1: Daniel Regan Artist & Creative Health Consultant
Daniel Regan is a visual artist & Creative Health Consultant working across the sector in the UK. For over 20 years his creative works have brokered dialogues around taboo topics such as mental health, grief, self injury, suicide and racism...
Series 6, Episode 8: Bridget McKenzie
Bridget McKenzie: Researcher, trainer and artist, engaging people with the Earth crisis. Her career includes being Tate’s Education manager and the British Library’s Head of Learning. In 2006 she founded Flow Associates, a research consultancy ...
Series 6, Episode 7: Celia Pym
London-based artist Celia Pym has been mending clothing and textiles since 2007. Her work has recently been exhibited in Bags, Hweg, Cornwall (2024); Cheongju Craft Biennale, Korea (2023) and ‘Connect. Reveal. Conceal’. Make Hauser & Wirth,...
Series 6, Episode 6: Tas Emiabata
Tas Emiabata is an actor, musician, facilitator and trainer. As a creative facilitator he works with children, young people and adults to deliver a diverse range of acting and theatre-based workshops, and has worked on the groundbreaking
Series 6, Episode 5: Carolyn Defrin
Carolyn Defrin is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and facilitator originally from the US and based in Europe. She is currently a Marie Curie fellow at the University of Graz, developing arts based research about collective creativity in...
Series 6, Episode 4: Meadhbh McIlgorm & Amberlea Neely
9ft in Common uncovers the complexities and shares the possibilities of an infrastructure of urban alleyways, Belfast’s wild and liminal spaces.The work, in close partnerships with local communities, investigates ownership, acc...
Series 6, Episode 3: Maryam Shaharuddin
A theatre facilitator, Maryam co-creates performances with participants. She works at a range of organisations including Angel Shed, Kiln, Almeida, Bush, Company Three and the The National Theatre. She is an Associate Artist at Coney, focusing ...
Series 6, Episode 2: Lauren and members of Sydenham Garden's m.u.d. project
ⓜ.ⓤ.ⓓ is a group for Lewisham-borough-based 18-25-year-olds wanting to commune with the natural world. They cultivate an LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent-centred space. Meeting every Wednesday at Sydenham Garden, they share skills, follow tangents, ...
Series 6, Episode 1: Phineas Harper
Phineas Harper develops sustainable cultural programmes that engage broad audiences with architecture and design. A regular contributor to The Guardian, their career spans criticism, curation, education, youth work, journalism and sculpture. Th...
Series 5, Episode 9: Dr Ros Gray
Ros is Reader in Fine Art, Critical Studies and Programme Director of the MA Art & Ecology. Her research and teaching often involves collaborations with artists, scientists and activists, addressing ecological emergency with an emphasis on ...
