"Carlisle's all about edges, borders, the delineation of one thing and another. It's on the edge of England, or maybe the edge of Scotland. It's a border town, a frontier place, a fringe; the edge of every empire that the ...Read More
The third stop on the Empty Shops Network tour (the second, Shoreham, was so manic it goes unblogged) is Carlisle. It's a bewildering, beautiful and bewitching city. I'm staying in a moderately grotty guesthouse a few minutes outside the city centre. ...Read More
A couple of years ago I ran a small local arts organisation, the Revolutionary Arts Group, struggling with no resources to stage artist-led festivals and open studio events, and using non-traditional venues for exhibitions- an old bakers, a functioning church, ...Read More
As I've had time and space to work on ideas for empty shops this year, and as I've been able to support others in their work, I've become ever more keenly interested in the ideas, inspiration and ideology behind the ...Read More
The a, b, c, of Empty Shops “The fact that the trees are in blossom very briefly is what makes them important to us.” Tim Anselm (The Beekeepers blog, 1st Apil 2009) This is an agenda for people using empty shops, ...Read More
