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Editorial & Insights

Our first Concern is about People & their Health

Vested-Interests
by Michael Taylor
Communication is a powerful tool to address growing and complex health challenges. It can help to change people’s knowledge, attitudes and behaviours ...
October 29, 2025
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Introducing Talking Health

Vested-Interests
by Shena Parthab Taylor
Wellbeing and creativity are manifestly interlinked and exploring these is ...
August 24, 2025
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Message from Matt, Editor

Editorial-Insights
by Matt Trevallion
Our Editorial Committee! wamly welcomes you to our first editorial in theCafé. Our 'raison d’etre' is to proselytise the links between creativity and well-being ...
May 14, 2025
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The Future of Employment

Editorial-Insights, Vested-Interests
by Matt Trevallion
Contemplating the future of ‘employment’ in the context of ‘creativity’ and ‘earning a crust’ ..... might past trends reflect new opportunities in the modern high-tech economy: “What goe...
April 9, 2025
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Articles

How to Pierce the I-bubble!

Articles
by WAK Coe
WAK Coe grew up (I wish! Ed.) under the influence of Michael Wharton, who, for 20 years beginning in the ...
October 13, 2025
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“There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.”

Articles
by Cassus Belli
As he stood there, naked and exposed, he felt fear; he guessed the word 'primordial' was not inappropriate....
April 9, 2025
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Contemplating the (former) United States of America as of 2025

Articles
by WAK Coe
“Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise”. “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has…
April 2, 2025
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A sideways look: Origins of ‘art’, ‘artists’ and the ‘art market’

Articles
by Michael Taylor
So, tell me again; where are we going with this …..? We invite you to cast your mind back a while and let your imagination run alongside your sense of humour…..
January 27, 2025
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News & Events

Oundle Fringe Festival

News & Events
by Editorial Team
Oundle is thronged for over a week every summer, with entertainers of a wide range of genres of music and dance delighting audiences with performances in the local ....
February 23, 2026
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Stamford Arts Centre

News & Events
by Editorial Team
Stamford Arts Centre offers theatre, concerts, a range of live shows, art exhibition facilities and cinema - working with the charity Independent Cinema Office ...
August 26, 2025
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Northants & Rutland Open Studios

News & Events
by Editorial Team
Northants & Rutland Open Studios fosters a diverse, vibrant artistic community within and just over the borders of the Northamptonshire & Rutland counties, and ...
August 26, 2025
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Creative Quarter ~ Visit Norwich

News & Events
by Editorial Team
The Creative Quarter is one of Norwich’s largest districts – and a hub abounding with artistic, cultural and creative offerings, both the old and new : Norwich University of the Arts brings new id...
August 26, 2025
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Bristling Talent

Autumn at Buachaille Etive

Bristling Talent - Artists, Landscapes, Mountains
by Shena Parthab Taylor
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Alania, Turkey

Architectural-Urban, Bristling Talent - Artists, theCafe Society
by Shena Parthab Taylor
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Eventide in Thrapston

Architectural-Urban, Bristling Talent - Artists, theCafe Society
by Shena Parthab Taylor
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Portrait of Rob

Rob in Contemplation

Bristling Talent - Artists, Portraits, theCafe Society
by Shena Parthab Taylor
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Writers’ Bloc

The Byzantium Inheritance

Adventure, Historical-Political Fiction, Novels, Writers Bloc
by Michael Taylor
The Byzantium Inheritance is a work of fiction - more an ‘informed adventure’ than a ‘ thriller’. My story describes a series of climactic events, each event leading logically to the next - ...
February 3, 2025
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The Private Life of a Potter

Memoirs-Embroidered Memoirs
by Professor Sebastian Blackie
When I was a child, my father showed me a book by his school-friend the artist and poet Thomas Hennell...
January 13, 2025
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God’s Last Burlesque

Memoirs-Embroidered Memoirs
by Michael Taylor
God’s Last Burlesque was inspired by my ex-father-in-law; ‘Ted’ or, to me, ‘Sir’; a man who I know for sure did actually shift some of the national boundaries on the maps of the Middle East ...
November 25, 2024
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I’ll never forget ….. whot’s’isname?

Memoirs-Embroidered Memoirs
by Michael Taylor
I’ll never forget ….. whot’sisname? (…. or what did either Narcissus or Dostoyevsky ever do for me??!) along with God’s Last Burlesque, represents my attempts to put life in focus (my own li...
November 25, 2024
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Feats of Clay

Prof S 6

Ceramics, Feats of Clay
by Professor Sebastian Blackie
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Prof S 5

Ceramics, Feats of Clay
by Professor Sebastian Blackie
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Prof S 4

Ceramics, Feats of Clay
by Professor Sebastian Blackie
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Prof S 3

Ceramics, Feats of Clay
by Professor Sebastian Blackie
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Bolden Images

Bird magic

Bolden Images - Photography, Scenic, theCafe Society
by Phil Dartnell
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seaside stroll

Seaside Stroll

Bolden Images - Photography, Portraits / Figures, Waterscapes / Seascapes
by Phil Dartnell
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A Hare-y Encounter

Animals, Bolden Images - Photography
by Phil Dartnell
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It looks like …

Bolden Images - Photography, Still Life
by Phil Dartnell
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