This months Talkaoke host training session is part of Barmy Park series of events happening at Bethnal Green Library. Barmy Park is a 14 day event of art, performance, poetry, music and madness… and Talkaoke will be there on 21st Sept from 6pm till 8pm as part of our host training session. So if your interested in having a chat, debat, supporting the new hosts or even having a go at hosting then pop over.

If you are interested in having a go at hosting Talkaoke please contact Asia (asia@thepeoplespeak.org.uk)

For more info on Barmy Park visit here

Talkaoke will be in the lovely surroundings of Braziers Park for the Supernormal Festival 2010 in Oxfordshire for much chat, fun and relaxing. This festival is presented by Braziers International Artists Workshop.

Braziers Park is an eco site in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with fresh drinking water, organic food, local beer, cocktails, hot outdoor showers, composting toilets and not a portaloo in sight.

This is a weekend festival but Talkaoke will only be there on Saturday.

Weekend tickets (including camping) £55. Day tickets £30.

Fore more info visit: www.supernormalfestival.co.uk

Previous Talkaoke hosts who want to host again at Supernormal can get in free, please get in touch with Asia asia@thepeoplespeak.org.uk

The Science Museum opened late for a teachers only special giving them a chance to explore the museums and the many wonders. And Talkaoke was there, located in the Antenna Gallery, to gather teachers thought as well as getting a discussion going among them.

This was a slow session with a lack of visitors making it hard to get enough flow of people to the table, but it was still an enjoyable and informative session.

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The Talkaoke table was buzzing from the off with lots of people eager to chat and get in the middle and have a go at hosting the doughnut of chat. See how they faired to an audience of awaiting pundits.

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The creative industries are in danger of being caught “napping” on sustainability, according to Lord Puttnam. They risk waking up too late to find the world “has changed out of all recognition”.

The filmmaker and politician was speaking at our Creative Industries Sustainability Beacon event, last week – the launch of a challenging project to bring together leaders from the world of fashion, performing arts, film, architecture, design and all the other creative industries, to examine the future of their businesses in a rapidly changing and uncertain world.

Lord Puttnam was “personally convinced that climate change is already the single greatest challenge facing all of us – ultimately dwarfing our present economic woes…” But he said climate change and other sustainability challenges present a raft of opportunities for all creative industries and their “attitudes and skills… can really help stimulate change.”

This project sets out to help the creative industries understand and seize those opportunities. Water scarcity; energy security; sustainable consumption; population growth; social wellbeing are just a few of the issues which need to be tackled urgently – and, we believe, creatively – for societies near and far to thrive.

Following Puttnam’s opening address, Jonathon Porritt led a Talkaoke debate from the “donut of chat”, surrounded by an impressive line-up of contributors (giving Glastonbury a run for its money).

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As part of Birmingham City councils bid to make Birmingham the next city of culture Talkaoke was outside the Newtown Shopping Centre to talk to shoppers about what they thought would be good for the city of Birmingham.

And a big thanks to Baileys Caribbean restaurant for the delicious food.

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Talkaoke continues it’s good work in Bolton with a visit to The Last Drop Hotel in Bolton to get some ideas and thoughts from young people about how they would like to invest in their future in an event called Uchoose.

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Talkaoke was in Handsworth Park, Birmingham, for the Vaisakhi Celebrations.

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Watch Part 2 here

Back in the west country, Talkaoke visits the Royal Cornwall Show in Wadebridge for 3 days of chat and debate about the festival, sustainable energy, making Cornwall greener, farmers selling themselves more and how to improve schools by making them greener.

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For more information on the whole event visit: http://www.royalcornwallshow.org

This months Talkaoke training session took place at Chelsea College of Art and Design, in the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground, as part of a project called Critical Practice.

In a spectacular bespoke temporary structure assembled in public, Critical Practice was convening a landmark event, in an amazing location with a host of international contributors.

Through participatory and ‘public’ forms of knowledge production they explored the history of public space and the public sphere, differing cultural perceptions of ‘being in public’, the politics of public assembly, the socialisation implicit in ‘publicness’, the architecture of public knowledge, and much more besides.

You can also help participate in the projects development: http://criticalpracticechelsea.org

Parade was organised by Critical Practice / Chelsea College of Art and is supported by Adam Mickiewicz Institute ad part of Polska!Year

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