'Arts and Minds Auction - this Thursday!

Join us at 7pm at the Bethnal Green Working Men's Club for some bidding and dancing!

Fundraising for the ICYE, who'll b esupporting me next year as I volunteer with the Charlotte Miller Art Project in partnership with JUCONI as an arts educator in Ecuador working with kids who are street workers or at risk of becoming street workers in Guayacil.

As a p.s. to this post, writing after the event: 

Huge thanks to everyone that made the night a success and helped me raise £876 for ICYE (after expenses):

First of all a massive thank you to all the artists who so generously donated artwork and made the auction possible:

Rob Ryan, Åsa Lucander, Matt Oxborough, David Lopez, Dave Anderson, Anna Fyda, Barry Evans, Julia Bartl, Melissa Gates, Dominik Biegger, Phoebe Halstead, James Jessiman,  Phoebe Boswell, Tosha Albor, Mia Nilsson, Amanda Sue-Rope, Chris Ayers, Shaun Tan, Fleur Deakin, Sally Elford, Verene Grieshaber, Mike Glenholmes, Anne Gerrish and Marc Moynihan.

Huge thanks to Siobhan Linard for being an AMAZING auctioneer and keeping the bidding competitive, thanks to David Lopez for being a brilliant art-displayee-auctioneer sidekick.

Thanks to Lynsey Butler for her brilliant Hip Hop Housewifing that had us dancing til closing, 

and to Rachel Cohen and her Jazz Quartet for opening the night.

And of course thanks to all of you who came along and bid on the art.

Thank you!

Big love 

:-)

For the love of family and folk :-)

There's been a pause in blogging over these last few weeks cause since I got back to the UK on the 9th July its been a whirlwind of celebrating -  reunions, birthdays (including turning 30 - thanks for the delicious-1st-you've-ever-baked birthday cake Mum!) Fish's hen do, meeting newcomers to the clan (wee Oscar and Cora) and also in an amazingly lucky stroke of timing working on  Bastard Bunny film at the beloved 12foot6! Brilliant!  Happy Days!

Big love from London!

:-)