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Be Kind and Wise in 2018

Blog•by Chris Grady•Posted January 1, 2018•0 Comment(s)

As 2017 is analysed and filed away, Kath and I are busily sorting out 40+ years of archives, lofts, photos and our individual and shared lives as we reduce (a bit) what we plan to move to our new home…

Tags: authentic artists, Blackness, calais refugees, cgo surgery, devoted and disgruntled, Gregory Doran, Kath Burlinson, Michael Grady-Hall, mountview, refugee community kitchen
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The essential A in STEAM – arts in education

Blog•by Chris Grady•Posted March 13, 2017•0 Comment(s)

My creative week has encompassed meetings with a playwright exploring 6 new projects which are each in commercial development, an inspiring concert with 4 cabaret bands and over 40 performers offering their celebration of contemporary music, a showcase of a…

Tags: calais refugees, education, lyric hammersmith, mountview, schools, STEAM
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Calais – Three degrees of useful separation to save 1500 lives

Blog•by Chris Grady•Posted October 31, 2016•2 Comment(s)

Those who read my blogs will know that I am near despair to see what a Grady can do to help 1500 young people who are literally packaged in containers awaiting dispatch, with no water or food from the government…

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Calais – my tears and my anger

Blog•by Chris Grady•Posted October 28, 2016•10 Comment(s)

I’m on a posh train, can’t find my seat, standing in floods of tears (not because I can’t find my seat), too tired to walk the ten coaches or so to find my place. That feels a fitting end to…

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Calais – as the Jungle is dismantled

Blog•by Chris Grady•Posted October 26, 2016•4 Comment(s)

For 100+ volunteers in the warehouse a few miles from the Jungle camp, it is business as usual (as I first type this on Day 2 of the evictions). My colleagues and I spent a day sorting donations from supermarkets,…

Tags: calais refugees, charity
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My Ipswich, Colchester, Wood Green, London and Blackpool week

Blog•by Chris Grady•Posted October 18, 2016•1 Comment(s)

I sometimes wonder how anyone makes sense of my artistic taste and my direction of travel. This last week has been a particularly rich menu and by the end of this blog I may have found a common theme. Monday…

Tags: British Naturism, calais refugees, colchester, Ipswich, mountview, Tony Adigun, tristan bates
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Calais – Warehouse, Open Space principles & the right veg

Blog•by Chris Grady•Posted July 25, 2016•3 Comment(s)

I have just spent 3 days in and around the Jungle in Calais, and there are two preceding blogs circulating which look at the work of the Refugee Community Kitchen and Jungle Books. These are just two parts of an…

Tags: calais, calais refugees, harrison owen, jungle books, open space
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Chris Grady is a facilitator, workshop leader and trainer specialising in the support of the next generation of creative producers and practitioners. 

In 2007, Chris founded the CGO.CGO supports freelancers and organisations to forge connections. These may be: internal ones, with yourself and your ambitions; or external ones, with the business or creative world you wish to explore. 

CGO oversees a variety of projects, including Producing, Proper Job Honest, Producers Pool, and Surgeries. CGO also runs The CGO Institute, which offers a Diploma in Creative Producing.

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📌 Hear from Maria and Chris about our new producer development scheme we recently announced!

📎 For more information on the scheme: https://www.chrisgrady.org/cgo-projekt-europa-emerging-migrant-producer-scheme/

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PROJEKT EUROPA & @Chrisgradyorg ANNOUNCES NEW BURSARY SCHEME FOR EMERGING MIGRANT PRODUCERS!

This scheme will award an aspiring producer a funded place on the CGO Diploma in Creative Producing PLUS a 16-week paid work placement with us!

Apply now: http://www.projekteuropa.org/news

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