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
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Series 9, Episode 1: Voices of Repair
Sep 2, 202611 minS9
This podcast weaves together texts from the films Breaks & Joins have made, with the voices of people at the St Margaret’s House repair café, a regular event where volunteer repair experts welcome local people to bring what they need repaired. This reflective piece has music by Charlie Davey and original poetry by Arji Manuelpillai and is a gentle journey into the desire to repair that is so present, and so needed. Arji Manuelpillai https://www.arji.org/ Send us Fan Mail Explore more Breaks & Joins podcasts, on the repair of our stuff, ourselves and our communities. Subscribe to make sure you dont miss any!
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 Yoruba creation story and World War II histories, setting the foundation for an evolving, interdisciplinary, touring artwork. Blending research, digital innovation, heritage craft, and education, the Tapestry invites creatives, schools, universities, and researchers to engage with archives through making. By encouraging participation through needle, tablet, or pencil, it bridges gaps in historical knowledge and nurtures culturally connected, empowered communities. https://www.tapestryofblackbritons.com/ https://www.instagram.com/tapestry_of_black_britons/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/paula-ogun-hector-78b58019/ https://adeche.com/ https://www.instagram.com/alvin_kofi/ Send us Fan Mail Explore more Breaks & Joins podcasts, on the repair of our stuff, ourselves and our communities. Subscribe to make sure you dont miss any!
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 quilts and explores stories we tell ourselves about the past, present, and future in his work. His work has been featured in on the red carpet of the Met Gala, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as various magazines, websites, and galleries. His book THE WORLD NEEDS YOUR NEXT QUILT and the community he hosts, the QUILTY NOOK, connect and inspire quilters and makers all over the world. http://www.zakfoster.com Insta: zakfoster.quilts Send us Fan Mail Explore more Breaks & Joins podcasts, on the repair of our stuff, ourselves and our communities. Subscribe to make sure you dont miss any!
Content alert: This podcast includes reference to suicide Abu 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 variety social issues. He co-founded Mango Riot Theatre in the UK, launching a program that engages youth in colonial history debates. While earning an MA in Applied Theatre, he explored loneliness and minority stress through participatory workshops for LGBTQ+ communities in London. His current project, The Other L Word , invites adults to share experiences of loneliness through performance, aiming to challenge societal structures that perpetuate isolation. Weblink: www.mangoriot.org Categories: Artists on the practice Arts and Health Send us Fan Mail Explore more Breaks & Joins podcasts, on the repair of our stuff, ourselves and our communities. Subscribe to make sure you dont miss any!
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 experience with remediated medical data, she examines how the human story is entangled with the medical. Previous commissions include installations ‘Bedside Manners’ (Evelina Children’s Hospital 2012) and ‘Making the Invisible Visible’ (Great Ormond Street Hospital 2015-2016) exhibited internationally. ‘The Heart of the Matter’ (2016-2018), a national touring exhibition funded by Wellcome and ACE, addressed the medical, experiential and poetic dimensions of the heart. In ‘Does AI Care?’ (2023), commissioned by the London Science Gallery, she worked alongside young adults in remission from cancer to probe AI’s role in contemporary medical care. Her PhD, funded by LAHP - London Arts and Humanities Partnership (AHRC), awarded in 2025, developed multiple methods of artistic remediation and translation of medical data. This was used to investigate the materialisation of pregnancy, culminating in the performative installation Loss is Mine and is Stored within this Body. She has since become a research associate on the Visual and Materials Lab which is part of the Discovery Research Platform for the Medical Humanities at Durham University (funded by the Wellcome Trust). Her current research practice extends her PhD work, further exploring the non-diagnostic use of medical data through workshops, artworks and performance. http://www.sofielayton.co.uk http://www.insidetheheart.org @sofielayton Send us Fan Mail Explore more Breaks & Joins podcasts, on the repair of our stuff, ourselves and our communities. Subscribe to make sure you dont miss any!
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