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Chanelle Lady McCoy speaks at Educational Annual Conference
Nov 24, 2022 | Chanelle, Lady McCoy
One of Ireland's most successful businesswomen Chanelle Lady McCoy took to the stage at a leading educational body's annual conference to provide a keynote address. Lady McCoy, winner of the All-Ireland Business Champion Award, discussed her own career path,...
Chanelle, Lady McCoy Speaks at Business Leaders Event in Ireland
Nov 8, 2022 | Chanelle, Lady McCoy
Chanelle, Lady McCoy enjoyed being the key speaker at a retail banking breakfast event in Ireland. Chanelle, who is one of Ireland's most successful business women (and recent winner of the All-Ireland Business Champion Award) participated in a fireside chat, engaging...
Sir AP & Lady Chanelle McCoy granted Freedom of the City of London
Nov 8, 2022 | Chanelle, Lady McCoy, Sir Anthony McCoy, OBE
Sir AP McCoy and Chanelle, Lady McCoy have been granted the honorary Freedom of the City of London Award; Chanelle for her contribution to Healthcare and Sir AP for his outstanding contribution to horseracing. Both said they were incredibly honoured and proud to...
Chanelle, Lady McCoy delivers Speech to UCD
Sep 23, 2021 | Chanelle, Lady McCoy
Leading businesswomen Chanelle, Lady McCoy provided a speech and facilitated Q&A session to those attending and employed by the University College Dublin. Chanelle spoke about her career path and setting up businesses and transforming them into a multi-million...
'Pureis' features in Wired & Marie Claire Magazines & Nominated for Glamour Award
Jan 21, 2021 | Chanelle, Lady McCoy
Chanelle, Lady McCoy's "Pureis" brand has recently been featured in Wired Magazine as well as the Sunday Business Post as up-and-coming CBD products on the market. Pureis, which is now stored in Holland & Barrett shops across the UK, has been clinically tested and...
Chanelle McCoy features in the Independent to discuss Covid testing kits
Chanelle, Lady McCoy featured in the Sunday Independent, the Belfast Telegraph, the Irish Sun amongst other daily and weekend news to discuss the new Antigen and Antibody kits manufactured by Chanelle McCoy Health. Chanelle, who has 20 years experience in the pharma...


On Thursday, never-Trump Republican and McCain sidekick Lindsey Graham announced that he would introduce a measure in the Senate next week that would prevent President Trump from taking action against special counsel Robert Mueller, despite current law. The South Carolina senator also threatened Trump, saying that it "could be the beginning of the end" of his presidency if he makes moves to fire Mueller, Politico reported.
"Any effort to go after Mueller could be the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency unless Mueller did something wrong," he told reporters on Capitol Hill.
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"The tiny wrinkle is that people who believe in a robust form of the unitary theory of the executive — the idea that the president should control the exercise of all elective power — might argue that the president retains this authority or discretion given that the prosecutor is an executive branch official," Michael Gerhardt, Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law, told LawNewz.com In Meyers v. United States, the Supreme Court said that the President has the exclusive power to terminate executive branch officials — and of course, the Justice Department is part of the executive branch.
"Indeed the Supreme Court decision in Myers could be read that way. I am guessing that some of the comments from Trump lawyers that he can do this himself could be based on that reading of the constitution," Gerhardt explained.
But Graham's threat and planned legislation would not only strip the administration of powers it already has under the law, it would set a dangerous precedent. What if Graham later decided Trump shouldn't be allowed to act as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces? Or should be allowed to have Secret Service protection or use Air Force One?
In short, it would seem that Graham is not only working to spark a constitutional crisis, he's giving ammunition to the likes of Maxine Waters, the Trump-hating California Democrat obsessed with the president's impeachment.
Make no mistake, this is just a part of the ongoing coup d'etat against Trump.


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The world is preoccupied with Trump's initiatives. But so far he would not destroy the world, being committed to NATO and Japan-US alliance.
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Watch: Full Trailer for SXSW Selected B-Movie Horror 'Big Ass Spider'
Following a debut at SXSW 2013 in the Midnighters section, Big Ass Spider, a Ray Harryhausen-esque monster movie where a massive spider attacks Los Angeles, is coming to theaters and VOD. The unlikely heroic duo of a blue-collar exterminator (Greg Grunberg) and Latino security guard (Lombardo Boyar) must save the day when a giant spider escapes from a military lab and rampages across the City of Angels. It's got all the makings of a ridiculous B-movie, but the special effects look pretty decent, and the action looks like a lot of fun. We just wish the film was R-rated instead of PG-13 for maximum horror craziness.
Here's the full theatrical trailer for Mike Mendez's Big Ass Spider via Deadline:
Big Ass Spider is directed by Mike Mendez and written by Gregory Gieras. When a giant alien spider escapes from a military lab and rampages across the city of Los Angeles, it is up to one clever exterminator and his security guard sidekick to kill the creature before the city is destroyed. Greg Grunberg, Lombardo Boyar, Clare Kramer, Ray Wise, Lin Shaye, Patrick Bauchau all star in the film which premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival earlier this year and hits VOD and limited theaters on October 18th. Look cool?
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Is anyone getting tired of the same, lame jokes in EVERY movie? This doesn't look funny, or ridiculous, or fun, but just another movie for suckers who will go see anything if the studios can get them with a trailer.
Chuckee Knowlton on Sep 24, 2013
I doubt anyone will ever watch this in a cinema, or on DVD, this is streaming sites only.
Carpola on Sep 24, 2013
And for free or a buck it will most likely be quite fun.
Brian Sleider on Sep 24, 2013
Deffo Brian, it will probably be a laugh, Greg Grunberg is pretty funny.
When they can't come up with one funny line in a trailer that hasn't been done a hundred times before, how can it possibly be any good. Stop throwing your money at lousy movies and demand Hollywood make better films, comedies and otherwise. If people accept this crap, they will just keep throwing it at you. Raise your standards and we all will win.
They'll keep throwing crap movies out whether I watch them on tv or not Chuckee. 99% of movies made each year are borderline rubbish.
I'll see half of it when it plays on TV.
Peter T'Sas on Sep 24, 2013
For every 'Pacific Rim' and 'Cloverfield' and 'Super 8' we NEED a 'Big Ass Spider'... I for one say well done, bring it on.
Azzard Gordon on Sep 24, 2013
well at least is not completely stupid
Sam on Sep 24, 2013
Didn't this movie come out like last year?and it played on SyFy?
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I see hints of John Goodman from arachnophobia. And GOD I HATE syfy.
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Phillips Brooks, (born Dec. 13, 1835, Boston, Mass., U.S.—died Jan. 23, 1893, Boston), American Episcopal clergyman renowned as a preacher.
A member of a wealthy old Brahmin family of New England, Brooks attended Harvard University (1851–55) and taught briefly at the Boston Latin School before attending the Episcopal Seminary at Alexandria, Va., being ordained there on July 1, 1859. The following month he began his ministry at the Church of the Advent in Philadelphia, where his impressive personality and eloquence won crowds of admirers. Three years later he became rector of Holy Trinity in the same city. Except for a year of travel abroad in 1865–66, he remained there seven years, during which he finished the lyrics of his famous Christmas carol, "O Little Town of Bethlehem" (music by Lewis H. Redner). In 1869 he accepted the rectorship of Boston's Trinity Church, the nation's stronghold of Episcopalianism, and retained that position until he became bishop of Massachusetts in 1891.
In Lectures on Preaching (delivered at Yale University in 1877), Brooks offered his most influential assay of his profession, defining preaching as "the bringing of truth through personality," by which he meant a kind of radiant optimism. His own eloquence was matched by his commanding, handsome figure, standing six feet four inches tall and weighing (in his prime) 300 pounds. His charismatic preaching became so renowned that he was invited in 1880 to preach at Westminster Abbey in London and at the Royal Chapel at Windsor before Queen Victoria. In 1890 he conducted an acclaimed series of services at Trinity Church, New York City. Several volumes of his sermons were published during his lifetime and posthumously.
Massachusetts, constituent state of the United States of America. It was one of the original 13 states and is one of the 6 New England states, lying in the northeastern corner of the country. Massachusetts (officially called a commonwealth) is bounded to the north by Vermont and New Hampshire, to…
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Poetry, literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning, sound, and rhythm. Poetry is a vast subject, as old as history and older, present wherever religion is present, possibly—under…
Choral music, music sung by a choir with two or more voices assigned to each part. Choral music is necessarily polyphonal—i.e., consisting of two or more autonomous vocal lines. It has a long history in European church music. Choral music ranks as one of several musical genres subject to…
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A group of award winning photographers and skilled, dedicated photographic instructors today announced (with great pride) the debut of BirdPhotographers.Net/It Ain't Just Birds! To check out the new site, visit www.birdphotographers.net. BPN is an educational and critiquing web site designed to help members and visitors become better nature photographers. The group is comprised of Arthur Morris, James Shadle, Alfred and Fabiola Forns, Blake Shadle, Robert O'Toole, Jim Neiger, and Robert Amoruso (with a combined 177 years of photographic experience).
Many folks have enthusiastically joined critiquing forums only to be turned off when nearly all of the posted comments offer nothing substantive. "Wow, I love that one." "Wish it were mine." "Great image." And such comments are often made even though an image has one or more obvious flaws. The BPN team will first point out the positive features in an image and then comment constructively (but gently) on any problematic features; they will suggest ways that the image might have been improved either in the field or during the image optimization process. When a fantastic image is posted, they will let folks know exactly why they love it by noting the photograph's strongest features.
Arthur Morris (www.birdsasart.com) is a full time professional nature photographer, writer, and educator specializing in birds. More than 18,000 of his images have been published worldwide above his most fitting credit line: BIRDS AS ART. Artie is the author of "The Art of Bird Photography" and "The Art of Bird Photography II (on CD only). He is a Popular Photography columnist, a multiple BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year honoree, and a Canon contract photographer—one of their original Explorers of Light.
James Shadle, (www.wildflorida.net), a highly skilled professional nature photographer and a passionate and hard-working tour leader, has had several winning images in the National Wildlife Federation Photography Contest. James, a member of Tamron's Workshop Team, is a Florida Wetlands Master Naturalist, a US Coast Guard Licensed Captain, and was recently named one of Florida's Twenty-One Most Interesting People.
Alfred Forns, (www.avianscapes.com), a Miami dentist, is a part time professional nature photographer and educator. Alfred, who has been a BIRDS AS ART/Instructional Photo-Tour co-leader for the past five years, had multiple images selected for the 2006 NANPA Showcase.
Fabiola Forns, (www.avianscapes.com), a part time professional photographer, was the winner (Snowy Egret Midair Battle) of the Windland Smith Rice International Award in the Birds category of the 2007 Nature's Best Contest. Fabs is an Adjunct Faculty member at Miami-Dade College where she teaches photography.
Blake Shadle (www.wildflorida.net) is the creative director for a Tampa, Florida web and software development company and one of the top "young guns" in nature photography. He is the co-owner (with his Dad, James) of Wild Florida Photography and In-the-Field Workshops. Blake, a fine young photographer, is the technical brain behind BPN.
Robert O'Toole, (www.robertotoolephotography.com), a full time professional nature photographer and Photoshop expert, is gifted, creative, and a skilled instructor. He has been a BIRDS AS ART/Instructional Photo-Tour co-leader for the past five years; his vertical "Bald Eagle Banking" image was honored in the 2006 BBC Wildlife Photographer of the Year Competition.
Jim Neiger (www.flightschoolphotography.com) is a full time professional photographer who specializes in hand-holding large telephoto lenses for birds in flight and action. He conducts Flight School Photography workshops (many aboard his customized pontoon boat) at various locations near his home in Kissimmee, FL.
Robert Amoruso, (www.wildscapeimages.com), a mechanical engineer by profession, is a part time professional nature photographer and tour leader based in Orlando, FL. He has been a BIRDS AS ART/Instructional Photo-Tour co-leader for the past three years; his "Royal Terns Mating Dance" image was awarded first place in the Birds category in the 2006 Nature's Best Photography Contest.
With a staff of top-notch professional photographers and educators on board, BirdPhotographers.Net aims to become the number one educational and critiquing nature photography site on the web.
Membership at BirdPhotographers.Net is free until April 1, 2008 (no fooling!) but you must register to participate. After that date, the annual membership dues will be $20 and your membership will be in effect for one full year from the date of payment. If you wish to show your support for BPN before April 1, you may elect to pay your first year's membership now or at any time before April 1, 2008. Your membership will not expire until March 31, 2009.
For those of you who have never posted images for critiquing, I can only say that you are missing out on the single greatest way to improve the quality of your images. Please do visit us; don't be shy. And remember, the first three months are free. For those of you who are either members of other critiquing forums or who have left disgusted (because the supposed "critiques" were nothing more than "give your popular friend a pat on the back," I would love to see you at BPN and I promise that your images will receive honest critiques done gently. When I am home, I will be doing lots of them myself.
Our e-zine is not quite ready yet, but we will be having some great stuff up soon including an article on exposure by yours truly and one by UK-phenomenon and multiple BBC honoree Andy Rouse.
I, Jennifer, Jim, Robert O'Toole, and all of the staff at the just-hatched BPN wish you and yours a healthy, happy, and productive 2008 filled with safe travels and great images.
ps: Thanks to all who have sent along holiday wishes and thanks to those who have exhibited great patience with the delayed shipment of recent mail orders. Jim will be back tomorrow shipping a ton of stuff and things will be back to normal by Thursday.


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Capitol Police Union Will Survey Officers on Holding No-Confidence Vote
By Emma Dumain
Posted October 25, 2012 at 11:43am
The Capitol Police Labor Committee will poll officers who work in the Capitol during the next two weeks to gauge support for taking a vote of no confidence against supervisors for alleged misconduct.
Responses will help determine whether the union conducts a no-confidence vote, a course that appeared all but certain a week ago.
"There's still some misunderstanding of what a vote of no confidence is and … whether an actual vote of no confidence will get us the results we're looking for," said Jim Konczos, president of the labor panel.
Konczos and others told Capitol Division officers during a meeting Wednesday morning that while some outstanding issues might not affect them directly, they should care about injustices suffered by colleagues and support efforts to hold responsible parties accountable.
Delaying the anticipated no-confidence vote is not only intended to allow more time for informing the rank and file. It also shows deference to the department's top brass, with whom the union has made recent inroads after several months of bitter negotiations over upper management's handling of internal policies.
Until Oct. 17, the union was actively pursuing a vote of no confidence against supervisors with the ranks of captain and inspector, alleging that they have enforced their own directives without consistency or consultation with management, ordered officers to report for duty in unsafe working conditions and mishandled time-off requests covered under the Family and Medical Leave Act.
According to an Oct. 10 letter Konczos has circulated among Capitol Division officers, supervisors are also disciplining subordinates "based on their own false statements" and sanctioning a "questionable reduction in manpower as we prepare for the presidential inauguration."
After months of meetings with Acting Chief Tom Reynolds and members of the Capitol Police Board, Konczos said he was tired of talking.
But the threat of a no-confidence vote might have had an effect. While such a vote would have no formal effect, it would be embarrassing for the department, particularly during the search to replace former Chief Phillip Morse.
Reynolds announced last week that beginning Oct. 29, the process for approval of Family and Medical Leave Act time-off requests will be streamlined.
Dan Rosenzweig, a union shop steward for officers in the House chambers, said he has noticed some other recent changes. Management, he said, has codified a longstanding but unwritten practice across all Capitol Police divisions of allowing officers to wear rain jackets to protect against the elements when rain is not falling. Supervisors had begun enforcing a directive prohibiting wearing of rain jackets in all types of weather.
Rosenzweig also said Capitol Division officials have been perhaps too lenient in disciplinary actions. One officer was given a warning not to make inappropriate comments on the job, although it was a second such offense within 12 months.
"This guy, he made a racist statement … and he had a week's suspension. Now he just gets a slap on the wrist for a second offense," Rosenzweig complained. "It can't be a coincidence, all of these sudden eases."
Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Terrance Gainer, a former Capitol Police chief, also agreed the possibility of a no-confidence vote may have prompted both sides to look for common ground. "I think it helped force the issues," Gainer said. "I think each side, the union and leadership and commanders of the department, thought they were in sync. And I think the threat of [a vote] was pretty clear evidence that something wasn't right.
Reynolds, who is said to be among those under consideration for the chief's job, could also have a stake in smoothing ruffled feathers. "I'm pleased with our continued progress and productive meetings with the union," Reynolds said in a statement to Roll Call. "We continue to work diligently and cooperatively to utilize our communication channels to best address and resolve matters of mutual concern in the best interest of the department."
Konczos echoed the assessment of the situation and lauded Reynolds' recent actions. "He has showed very good leadership on this," Konczos said. "And we're actually very impressed."
Konczos would not predict the results of the survey or whether or when the Labor Committee might proceed with a no-confidence vote. There remains a need for "accountability" by leadership, he said, and an acknowledgement that those in the leadership ranks behaved inappropriately.
"We'd even take an apology at this point," Konczos said.
As far as Rosenzweig is concerned, a vote is still necessary despite inroads between the two factions: "I like that things have changed, and that's good … but my section, House Chamber security, is pretty strongly for it."


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Aaaaaaand We're Back!
October 8, 2019 § 5 Comments
He's so writing a memoir about this
Query letters. A necessary evil towards the great good of publication. A hoop to jump through towards representation; a lure to draw in the publisher perfect for our story.
Some lucky authors have essays go viral, build enormous social media platforms, or have NYT-bestselling cousins willing to refer us to their own agent. Most of us undertake the slog, often querying a hundred or more agents and revising our query and the manuscript itself many times along the way.
There are some terrific querying resources out there, notably Query Shark, which focuses on fiction but teaches powerful query-letter lessons for writers in all genres. Jane Friedman's website has information on memoir and narrative nonfiction queries. Absolute Write's forums are a place for honest chat about specific agencies. QueryTracker helps us chart our progress. Manuscript Wish List shows us which agents might be right for our book. And here at Brevity, we shared suggestions for the actual process of preparing and submitting to agents.
But it is generally more difficult to learn best practices for memoir, rather than fiction, queries—and Brevity is here to help.
The Brevity Podcast returns in November, featuring an interview with Grace Talusan, author of The Body Papers, and a conversation with the Query Shark herself, literary agent Janet Reid.
That's where you come in.
Podcast host Allison K Williams will discuss memoir queries with Janet, using some examples from Brevity readers & podcast listeners. We'll assess your clarity and style, how you cover the standard query-letter elements, and talk about what you might do differently (or are already doing well!) to increase your chances of representation.
If you'd like to send in your query for a shot at having it discussed on-air, please paste it into an email, followed by your first two manuscript pages (also pasted), to brevitymagpodcast at gmail.com. Deadline for consideration is October 20th. We won't use author names on the air, but we will be reading all or part of the query letters chosen, so only submit if you're willing to have your words read on the podcast, please.
Querying can be overwhelming, intimidating, and depressing. But you don't have to do it alone, and you don't have to do it without guidance. Help is out there—and it's coming to your ears.
Brevity Podcast Host Allison K Williams, and Editor-in-Chief Dinty W. Moore will also be leading a retreat in Costa Rica in May 2020.
Brevity Podcast Episode #10: One-Minute Memoir
September 4, 2018 § 10 Comments
It's been five months of exciting technical challenges since the last Brevity Podcast, but we're back! This episode, we finally reveal the fifteen One-Minute Memoirs, and our podcast host Allison K Williams and Audio Editor Kathryn Rose discuss why we chose them (from over 300 submissions!), the process of reading and listening to all the submitted essays, and key things writers can do to make their work stand out from the rest of the submissions pile.
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The memoirists:
Anne Boaden earned her MFA in Creative Writing at Goddard College and is writing a memoir of her active duty with the United States Marine Corps flying AH-1W Cobra attack helicopters. Her work has appeared in The Pitkin Review and NELLE. She lives in England with her husband, two cats, one dog, flock of chickens, and brand-new baby Robin Anne Delgaard Boaden.
Tracy Royce is a poet, writer, and doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her work has appeared in The Fat Studies Reader, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Affilia, and Mother of Invention: How Our Mothers Influenced Us as Feminist Academics and Activists.
Anne McGrath's work has appeared in Antioch University's Lunch Ticket, The Brevity Blog, Chapman University's Dirt Cakes, The Caterpillar Magazine, and the One Hundred Voices anthology. Ms. McGrath is an assistant contest editor at Narrative Magazine and is pursuing an MFA in creative writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Irvin Weathersby is a Brooklyn-based writer and professor from New Orleans. His work has appeared in literary journals and magazines including Notable Black American Men Book II, Killens Review, The Atlantic, Ebony, and Esquire.
Patrice Gopo is a 2017-2018 North Carolina Arts Council Literature Fellow. All the Colors We Will See, her essay collection about race, immigration, and belonging is now out from Thomas Nelson, and has been named a Fall 2018 Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection.
MFC Feeley attended UC Berkeley and NYU. She has published in The Tishman Review, Mainstreet Rag, WicWas, Plate In The Mirror, and Ghost Parachute, and was a 2016 fellow at the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing and a 2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Quarterfinalist. She won the Raven Prize for CNF and is writing a series of short stories inspired by the Bill of Rights for Ghost Parachute.
Jamie Zvirzdin teaches in the Master of Arts Science Writing program at Johns Hopkins University. Her work has previously appeared in The Kenyon Review, Issues in Science and Technology, Creative Nonfiction, and CONSEQUENCE.
Evie Gold is a non-fiction humor essayist, a sushi connoisseur, and a wandering nomad.
BK Marcus is a homeschooling dad in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he also performs and coaches live storytelling.
Erin Murphy's work has appeared or is forthcoming in journals including The Georgia Review, Memoir Magazine, The Normal School, Field, Southern Humanities Review and North American Review. She is the editor of Creating Nonfiction: Twenty Essays and Interviews with the Writers, and is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Penn State Altoona.
Georgie Hunt's writing has appeared in Prick of the Spindle, NANO Fiction, River Teeth's "Beautiful Things" and Brevity. She was a finalist in Black Warrior Review's 11th Annual Nonfiction Contest, and holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of North Carolina, Wilmington.
Karen Egee writes to savor the good and try to make sense of the rest. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and dog. They spend as much time in Maine as possible.
Rhonda Zimlich's fiction and memoir has appeared in publications such as Crow Pie, Acorn Review, and Ink Stains. She enjoys living in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, twin daughters, and feisty black cats. She received her MFA in writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts this summer.
Scott F. Parker's book A Way Home from Oregon: Essays has just been released from Kelson Books.
Jennifer Lang writes mostly about her divided self. Her essays have appeared in Under the Sun, Assay, Ascent, The Coachella Review, Hippocampus Magazine, and Full Grown People. She's been nominated for Best American Essays and the Pushcart Prize, and is writing her first memoir.
Additional voices: Hananah Zaheer (Dubai), Iobel Andemicael (Dubai) and Brian Pastor (Chicago).
Additional music by Sergey Cheremisinov via freemusicarchive.org, and sound effects from freesound.org. Call to prayer from Learn Truth Find Peace.
Next episode, we'll be talking about Writing Hard Things.
Allison K Williams is Brevity's Social Media Editor and hosts the Brevity Podcast. She's writing this in Paris, yesterday she was in Tunisia, New York the day before, and tonight she's back home in Dubai…hence our erratic podcast schedule.
Brevity Podcast Episode #9: Rhiannon Navin and Ander Monson
April 5, 2018 § 1 Comment
This episode, Brevity takes a detour into fiction, speaking with debut author Rhiannon Navin about making fiction from fact and how she turned her real-life emotional experience into a novel. Then it's back to our regularly scheduled creative nonfiction, with Ander Monson, editor-in-chief of Diagram.
Show notes and links to people, places and things we've discussed are below.
Next episode, it's time for our listeners' very own One-Minute Memoirs! Audio Editor Kathryn Rose and I will discuss what made the winning submissions stand out, and how to make your own story pack maximum punch in minimum space. And you'll hear 15 fantastic, very short memoirs.
Show Notes: Episode #9 People and Books
Find out more about:
Ander Monson
New Michigan Press
Letter to a Future Lover
Paul Monette
Casa de los Ninos
Charley Douglas and the "laff box"
Useful Adjectives and Adjectival Phrases to Describe Ander Monson:
self-involved
trickeration-loving
straight-shooting
family-betraying
law-breaking
ne'er-do-well
future addict
serious and accomplished
brainy but beautiful
more than likely delusional
poetryish
encyclopedic
whale-kicking
bright but misguided
hurt, badly, baldly
trying real hard to be good
Additional music by John Stebbe, Ars Sonor, and Kai Engel via freemusicarchive.org.
Allison K Williams is the host of the Brevity Podcast.
In You We Trust
November 28, 2017 § 10 Comments
…maybe just stop talking.
We're settled into our seats, ready to watch Meryl Streep perform in the new musical adaptation of Gone Girl ("Gone!"). We're leafing through Playbill, counting up Oscar nominations, when suddenly Ms. Streep steps out in front of the curtain to address the audience.
"Hi everyone, I'm really excited you're here for this show, based on the book about a woman who fakes her own disappearance and sets her husband up for a murder rap. I hope you'll especially enjoy the scene where I write all the journal entries at the same time with different pens."
Or she says, "In rehearsals for this show, I worked on my high E notes with a noted vocal coach at Julliard, maybe you've heard of him?"
We're already here, Meryl. We're ready to watch. We trust you to deliver. Just let us watch you–don't tell us the story you're about to tell us. And if it turns out the show isn't to our taste, your pre-show explanation won't fix that.
Reading submissions is a lot like being in that audience. Around the Brevity Podcast house, we're settling in with pages of Submittable entries for the One-Minute Memoir episode. Each essay is the curtain going up on a show we've never seen before, enjoying how much humor, sadness, quirkiness, reflection, action, and adventure can be packed into under 150 words, sometimes many fewer than that. There are pieces totally unique in content, and others with universal situations but new approaches. Every author has something truly, beautifully theirs…and some of them tell us about it in advance.
Cover letters everywhere range from a single sentence of author bio to a full page of credits, context, and background information, and every variation in between. Sometimes, authors get nervous that the editors won't get it. Or they're really excited about their time working with a prestigious teacher. Maybe they feel like they don't have enough publication credits, and explaining the story fills up that space. Or there's a backstory that's totally amazing.
These things don't suck, but they're not helping your submission. I don't actively read the cover letter until I've read the essay–though I end up seeing some of what Submittable displays before clicking through to the submitted piece. Most editors want to come to your words as readers do: a fresh impression on the page. They don't get to sit down and explain to subscribers what they meant when they picked that piece, why they think it's great. As authors, we rarely get to discuss why or how we came to write something unless we're talking about it with our friends or being interviewed. But that's bonus material for the true fans, not a base to start from with first-time readers. Don't give away the game.
For example, when submitting your terrific flash essay about knitting with a women's circle in Guangzhou:
This essay focuses on the time I gave birth in China surrounded by my knitting class.
I wanted to tell the stories of the amazing grandmothers I met while doing handicrafts in China. They all had children who had emigrated, and I saw how conflicted they felt.
For the purposes of submission, one sentence maximum about the circumstances directly affecting the writing (not the story).
I wrote this during my missionary work in China.
I'm a professional knitting teacher.
Will detailing parts of your story get you rejected out of hand? Not by us. In the long run, this isn't a huge issue. For most journals, it doesn't really matter what you write in that space–at this point in the process, they're interested in the story and the writing. Explaining neither fixes nor destroys a submission. So don't sweat it if you've fallen into this category before. Just stop doing it.
Reading your story is more powerful than reading about your story. Let us be surprised and delighted and astounded–the way we want our audience to be when they get to read your work.
Edited to add: Aerogramme offers some more terrific cover letter advice from Tahoma Review Prose Editor Yi Shun Lai.
Allison K Williams is Brevity's Social Media Editor. Her travel-adventure-writing newsletter can show up twice monthly in your inbox, if that's not telling too much.
Call For Brevity Submissions: One-Minute Memoir
Rufus P. Turner, developer of the first transistor radio & a professor of literature–Brevity's kind of guy
We're trying something new.
The Brevity Podcast is seeking submissions for our One-Minute Memoir episode. We're looking for ultra-flash nonfiction of 100-150 words (on paper) and up to one minute (recording time). Accepted pieces will be broadcast in our February episode and receive a $25 honorarium.
Deadline for submission is January 6, 2018.
You may submit in one of two ways:
1) Text only. Submit a .doc. We will record accepted pieces in the Brevity studio.
2) Audio file. Submit an MP3 or WAV of your own recording PLUS a .doc with the text. Read our blog post about recording your own work for basic sound guidelines. We will master accepted pieces. Recordings should be a maximum of 60 seconds.
Please start your recording with your name and the title of your piece; this doesn't count as part of the 60 seconds.
Brevity publishes well-known and emerging writers working in the extremely brief (750 words or less) essay form. We have featured work from two Pulitzer prize finalists, many NEA fellows, Pushcart winners, Best American authors, and writers from India, Egypt, Ireland, Spain, Malaysia, Qatar, and Japan. We have also featured numerous previously-unpublished authors, and take a special joy in helping to launch a new literary career. Over the past year Brevity has averaged 10,000 unique visitors per month. The Brevity Podcast launched in 2016, and has featured interviews with Andre Dubus III, Dani Shapiro, Rick Moody, and other nonfiction notables.
Please use the Submittable button below to submit your work, choosing the category One-Minute Memoir.
We can't wait to hear what you have to say.
October 19, 2017 § 13 Comments
Yes, I should pause there…
When I teach a workshop, I like to audiotape it. Partly so I can send the recording to the class, which takes some of the stress off taking notes and lets everyone participate a little bit more. But also because ItalkamillionmilesanhourifIdon'tstopmyself.
The same thing applies to readings–when I head up for the podium, I leave my phone voice recorder running at my seat. After, I can listen–did I pause in the right places? Was there audience laughter I didn't make room for? Often, just glancing back at my chair, seeing the phone there, reminds me slow down. Take a breath.
It's valuable to listen to our own voices. Find out how long that piece really is with audience reactions in it. See if we really sound like a dork (spoiler: usually no). If the recorder is in the audience, it often picks up the kind of supportive murmurs and agreement breaths listeners make when we're enjoying a story. Those noises aren't always easy to hear in the moment, when we're stressed about getting through a piece. And it's always awesome to re-listen to applause.
As well as being a great tool to improve our own reading, there are places to submit audio stories. The Drum is a fantastic audio literary magazine, and Story Club specializes in nonfiction performance, with the author setting the text after a live show. The Brevity Podcast will be calling for One-Minute Memoirs next week. For all of these, you don't have to be an audio whiz, but a few simple tricks will help you sound your best.
Check your phone. Phones usually record better than computers if you're not using a separate microphone, and you probably have a native Voice Memos or Voice Recorder app. On most phones from the last three years, the built-in mic is good enough to get decent live-audience audio, and decent-to-good private taping. Look up where the mic is physically located on your phone, and point that end toward the reader. Try a couple of test recordings to see how close you want to hold it to your face–usually 4-6 inches away is good.
Check your app. On my iPhone, the Voice Memos app keeps going even when the screen locks or if I open another app. But when I'm doing more sophisticated recording with a plug-in microphone and an app called Motiv, the recording stops if the screen goes dark. I found that out the hard, embarrassing, can-I-please-interview-you-again way. Now I turn screen lock to "never" and put the phone in airplane mode. Some phones also stop recording if someone calls or texts. Find out for sure–or just put it in airplane every time.
Pad your space. Recordings are better with less echo. In a public reading, this is out of our control. Setting the phone on a wooden or plastic surface is better than a metal folding chair (they give a slight echo), but it's not going to make a huge difference for personal recordings. If you're taping for submission–like, say, the upcoming Brevity call for One-Minute Memoir–test the first paragraph in a couple of spaces to see what sounds best. Rooms with carpet, lower ceilings, and soft furniture work best. Walk-in closets are great. In a pinch, I record in my car (parked and turned off, until it gets so hot I have to take a break) or with a blanket or towel over my head. (Table fort, anyone?)
Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. I always bobble on a few words the first time I read an essay aloud. Plus, speaking into the recorder affects my pace. I try to tape a reading at least three times. Even if I can't edit, I can at least pick the best take.
Whether you post or submit your work, or just listen for your own edification, taping is a great way to see how you sound. Often, extra lines or awkward phrases jump right out from the audio, or we instinctively smooth out a sentence as we speak it. Why not give it a test run? We're hoping to hear from you soon, and we'll tell you how and what next week!
Allison K Williams hosts the Brevity Podcast. Her most recently available audio class is Write Better with Social Media.
Brevity Podcast Episode #6 Donna Talarico-Beerman
August 31, 2017 § 6 Comments
I hope it's a podcast!
Surprise! It's a podcast! We've got a few episodes packed and ready from a whirlwind summer of interviews, so we hope you'll be enjoying (slightly) more frequent listening. Stream the show right from this post, or click over to iTunes, Soundcloud or Stitcher. If you're subscribed, we'll show up in your podcast app queue. And wherever you listen or download us, please take a moment to leave a brief review–it helps us show up in searches and recommendations.
Episode #6 features an interview with Donna Talarico-Beerman on the process of becoming a small press, running a conference, and balancing her own writing time in there, too. We're also talking all things writing conference over the next few episodes, and we've got brief on-the-spot interviews from Lee Martin, Sue William Silverman, and some lovely writer-participants from the Postgraduate Writing Conference at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Show notes and links to people, places and things we've discussed are below. Next episode, we'll be talking with Kristen Arnett about her new book, Felt in the Jaw.
Find out more about Donna Talarico-Beerman at her website.
Hippocampus magazine, with links to Hippocampus Books and the Hippocamp conference. You can also follow the conference hashtag on Twitter, and many of the sessions will be live-tweeted.
Today's the last day to submit to Remember in November
High Ed Web
AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs)
Mary Karr
Photographer Dave Pidgeon
Donna's essay in the Los Angeles Review, Things That Aren't Theirs
Questions to ask of a character:
What do I wish for?
What do I hope for?
What is my greatest dream?
What is my greatest fear?
Lancaster Story Slam
VCFA (many writing programs/conferences)
Kenyon Review Writers Workshop
New York Pitch Conference
Lee Martin
Miller Williams
Sue William Silverman
Amy Braun's Attic Discovery Project
David Jauss
Manual typewriter thanks to theshaggyfreak via freesound.org
Additional music, Later Fruits, thanks to Axletree via freemusicarchive.org
Allison K Williams is the host of the Brevity Podcast. She'll also be appearing at Hippocamp for an intensive workshop on Self-Editing and consultations on your pages.
Brevity Podcast Episode #5 Dinty W. Moore
Dinty W. Moore has always stood out
It's time once again for the intermittent Brevity Podcast! Listen right from this post, or click over to iTunes, Soundcloud or Stitcher. If you're subscribed, we'll show up in your podcast app queue. And wherever you listen or download us, please take a moment to leave a brief review–it helps us show up in searches and recommendations.
Episode #5 features an interview with Dinty W. Moore, our very own Editor in Chief and founder of Brevity. Dinty will be keynote speaking at the Hippocamp Creative Nonfiction Conference September 8-10 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Show notes and links to people, places and things we've discussed are below. Next episode, we'll be talking with Donna Talarico-Beerman, Editor in Chief at Hippocampus and the Hippocampus Press.
We're guessing you already know who Dinty is if you're here, but you can find out more about the author of The Story Cure at his website, and follow him on Facebook.
The Accidental Buddhist: Mindfulness, Enlightenment, and Sitting Still, American Style
Joan Didion's books
Kathryn Harrison's The Kiss
It's the wrong time of year for Peeps, but catch them around Easter. If you're looking for Samuel Pepys, find out more here. You can also read his exhaustive diary, one of the great records of 17th-Century London, including eyewitness reports of the Plague and the Great Fire of London.
Sarah Manguso's books
Judith Kitchen's books
Brevity Podcast #4: Brian Doyle
June 1, 2017 § 5 Comments
The Brevity Podcast returns with a special episode featuring our interview with Brian Doyle, originally recorded last year. We wrote on yesterday's blog about Brian's work in Brevity, and his legacy. Here he is in his own words.
Show Notes: Episode #4 People, Books and Places
For many years, Brian edited Portland magazine at the University of Portland
"How Did You Become a Writer" in The American Scholar.
Brian's books, The Kind of Brave You Wanted To Be and Chicago
A beautiful rendition of Brian's poem: WordTheatre® presents Jackson Rathbone reading "First Kiss" By Brian Doyle
Links to Brian's essays in Brevity
Doyle Family Support Fund
Allison K Williams is a writer and editor based in Dubai, and the host of the Brevity Podcast.
Of Books, Podcasts, and Leaving Home
March 14, 2017 § 7 Comments
The Book Cougars
By Shuly Cawood
I've been listening lately to a new podcast, Book Cougars: Two Middle-Aged Women on the Hunt for a Good Read. I don't know how in the world the hosts read the number of books they do, but they each read about ten books at the pace I read a measly one. This podcast is where I have learned about free audiobook resources. It's the podcast where I learned about Roxane Gay pulling her book from Simon & Schuster. It's the podcast where I can get someone else's take on the book versus the movie. The two hosts are Chris and Emily, and they take listeners on a tour of their latest reads and biblio adventures, discuss cultural and political issues that come up in the books, provide information about resources at libraries, and share laughter when they find something funny.
It's the laughter part I love—though don't get me wrong, I like hearing about authors and new and old books, and just plain learning since I am an author myself. But it's the laughter that gets me the most. There's a reason for that, beyond just plain liking to hear joy in people's voices.
But to explain, I have to tell you a story—well, actually two: one from my life, and one from someone else's.
When I was in my 20s, I lived for almost two years in a quaint, picturesque college town. The emphasis is on "almost two years," not picturesque or quaint. I was struggling with love and life and working too hard at a job at which—I heard through the office grapevine—the boss didn't think I was putting in enough hours, though I was averaging 50-60 a week. To say I was unhappy is putting it lightly. I cried way too much, and I had to push myself to get through the day.
My unhappiness was not the fault of the town or my boss or my job or the apartment I lived in that felt lonely or any one thing but mostly everything all piled together—which means mostly me. At a little over the one-year mark, I wanted to get up and go, but I did not. I was afraid leaving my job would be failing. I realize now I stayed longer than I should have. Even when I had been sad before in my life, I had always been able to find beauty in the landscape—in a sunrise tinged with pink or the swaying of trees—but I remember one day feeling like I couldn't see beauty anymore. It was winter, and even with the glitter of snow, beauty had vanished for me when I looked out at the world.
Finally, at just over the one-and-a-half-year mark, I got up the courage to give notice—six weeks, so that I would not leave my employer in a lurch. All these years later, I still remember the final day, when I drove with the last of my things on the two-lane then the highways and away from that cute little town that should have been perfect for me but instead, even now, is washed in sadness in my memories of it. They say you can't escape by leaving. They say that sadness follows you, but mine didn't. I remember thinking on that drive that the world looked beautiful again, and I had that same feeling the day after, and the next. What I'm trying to say is I know what it means to have to leave a place in order to survive.
I grew up with a friend who was always yearning to leave our hometown. And leave she did—she went to another state for college and then moved to the East Coast where she had her two kids. Then she came back. Not because she missed our hometown but because she knew it was a great place to raise her children. And it was. But, as her kids got older, she kept saying as soon as the youngest was out of high school, she was heading to the East Coast. Meanwhile, she was making friends, running her own business, parenting her (wonderful) children. The years went on. Her first kid graduated from high school, and three years later, her last one did. Still, she stayed put. I knew she was itching for a change, but those roots were deep. It isn't easy to just drive away when you have a mortgage and a business and long-running friendships and a history. At the same time, my friend knew she had to go, that she just couldn't live in our hometown anymore. Two years ago, she got rid of most of her belongings, rented out her house until it sold, and got in her car and drove away, landing on the East Coast.
Leaving took guts. If you meet this friend, what you'll meet is loyalty, endurance, integrity, and strength. She has always been those things. But now she is also happiness—I hear it in her voice, and I can see it in her whole being. This friend loves books—has always loved books. And when she talked about starting a podcast about books with one of her friends, I heard joy in the telling. Yes, she is the Emily of the Book Cougars. So when I listen to the podcast, I hear great conversation, interesting book news, banter about the latest reads, but best of all, laughter.
Hearing her laugh is my favorite part.
Book Cougars can be found via the website, www.bookcougars.com, or on Facebook, iTunes, and Twitter.
Shuly Cawood's memoir, The Going and Goodbye, is forthcoming from Platypus Press in August 2017. Her writing has been nominated for a Pushcart and has appeared in The Rumpus, Zone 3, Label Me Latina/o, Full Grown People, and Fiction Southeast, among others. She has an MFA in creative writing from Queens University.
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"Pidge stretched her mouth so wide it hurt. Tears welled in her eyes. What have I gotten myself into? She thought," Michelle Staubach Grimes writes in her children's book, Pidge Takes the Stage.
A sequel in a series, this oversized thirty-two-page hardbound targets five- to six-year-old children and readers who appreciate a fun story about participation, hard work, and acceptance. With no scary scenes, it would be best read to beginner readers based on some complicated words. Expressive, detailed illustrations by Deore cover the pages with the story coinciding with the artwork.
In this charming story, young Pidge decides to audition for a school play and include her rather unruly-behaved dog, Maverick. While everyone tells her the dog is not well trained and she has to learn how to sing properly, the girl believes in herself and her canine. After taking lessons and training her dog as best as she can, the day of the audition arrives, but chaos occurs when Maverick misbehaves. Pidge's friend takes care of the beloved pet so she can audition and be selected for a different role in the play.
This book is a clever way for a young child to learn about believing in oneself, practicing to get better at something, not giving up on others, being a friend, offering unconditional love, and trying your best in every situation. I love how the author promotes doing hard work and fortitude to achieve a goal.
The book contains many multi-syllable words that may frustrate beginner readers, but it also is a way to learn new words. Those with visual issues may find some of the illustrations too busy and hectic.
While the book is for five and six-year-olds, I think it could be read and understood by younger children or read on its own by older kids in the lower elementary grades. I hope more adventures of Pidge are in the works.
If you read the first in the series of Pidge's life, this book will delight a young reader. It would be well received by a reader who likes to learn or try new things while accepting things do not always work out as planned.
Thanks to Finnpartners and the author for this complimentary book that I am under no obligation to review.


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We have been quoted a ridiculous £1,200 plus VAT EACH from one UK-based company, which seems outrageous as we do not have complicated financial affairs - or indeed bucketloads of cash stashed away in Swiss bank accounts or indeed, anywhere.
Is there anybody out there who can offer any words of advice or help???
You need an English speaking Financial Advisor versed in Anglo Saxon affairs (on moving to France ) . The Accountant comes later if you feel your business warrants it , but the financial advisor will advise you !
If I was you, I'd maintain UK Tax Status and residence if you can!


This is the continuation of my last my entry for the @tattoodjay's Wednesday walk challenge.
As I told you last time, I took a lot of photos during my walks in the woods and just do not have time to publish them all on Wednesdays.
So, the last time I stopped at the fact that we went down the hill on snow scooters.
The hill in this place is long and quite steep. We like to ride here, so we made a few more descents.
After that we climbed to the other side of the ravine and went on the usual route.
Going a little further we approached the fork where we planned to go to the new, longest route in this forest. We have never been there and we wanted to go along this route and see it.
Directions to this route in different places of the route are shown by such signs. From here we headed for the ten-kilometer route.
Maples grow in places along the road. They hang last year's seeds. While my company was at a fork in the road and decided to follow the route, I decided to take a picture of one seed. I'm testing the macro mode on the phone.
We walked forward a bit and a long gentle slope opened before us. Children immediately rushed forward on the snow scooters.
The route was long. Children were still halfway tired and we had to periodically cheer from or drive on snow-scooters and tubing. Therefore, I photographed only periodically.
Here I saw a fallen tree, which I liked. I took a shot of it.
I was surprised how many paths go in different directions from the main route. Apparently here you can walk for a very long time if you know where to go. Or very easy to get lost.
Here I saw an interesting descent on one of the side paths. But here we have not gone. Now our main goal was to quickly go back to the familiar road and from there rush to the snow scooters to our cars.
While I was taking pictures, my company went ahead.
As can be seen from the previous photos, here the entire pine forest turned out to be left of us. To our right, only ordinary deciduous trees grew.
In some places, we again found ourselves in a coniferous forest. By the way, I now remembered that in this place we were overtaken by two skiers. While we passed the entire route, these two drove past us three times.
Then again we found ourself in deciduous forest.
And in one place we found ourselves in a beautiful birch grove.
All the way we talked about how beautiful it is here. We wanted to visit here in the spring, when the trees are already green, or in the summer. I am sure that it would be very nice to ride bicycles here.
There is another interesting fact that I could not show in the photos. All pines and larches in the forest grow in straight rows. As it is not surprising, but this huge forest, apparently, is planted by people. We paid attention to this more than once. It is visible in all parts of the forest. Here is one photo from past walks. If you look closely, you can see that trees grow in a straight line in the depths of the forest. The scale of the work is amazing.
When we again went to the pine forest, I felt that it was very little left until the exit to the path we knew.
Then I put my son on a snow scooter and we rolled forward with him. From time to time I had to push a snow scooter, and when there was a lift ahead, I had to carry it with me. There was no time to take more pictures.
When we finally got to the familiar road, the joy of the whole company knew no bounds. They all stated unequivocally that they would never again take such a long route.
Then I did not even get the phone. My son and I rode to our cars on a snow scooter. Thus ended one more walk through the pine forest.
I strongly recommend to open the photo in a separate tab to appreciate it.


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MTF Aveiro 2020
MTF Aveiro
ANOTHER GREEN WORLD
12 - 17 October 2020
In the city of Aveiro, Portugal, 50 experts from the MTF community representing 22 countries assembled to collaborate, experiment and plan how we are now going to invent new, sustainable, just and equitable worlds.
Despite a worsening global Covid situation and Portugal being placed on the Red Zone travel list for many countries, the event was cleared to proceed according to strict guidelines. Music, performance and creativity formed the centrepiece for cross-disciplinary innovation, bringing together AI, neuroscience, clean energy tech, space data, marine biology and more, to find hybrid solutions to some of the most important challenges that face our world today.
#MTF AVEIRO PROJECTS
International collaborations between artists and scientists
Responding to the theme 'Another Green World', inspired by exclusive presentations and a day of brainstorming with members of the MTF community from around the world, participants formed interdisciplinary teams and initiated a diverse range of projects. The experts shared knowledge and insight from their own disciplines with brilliant people they might otherwise never have had the occasion to meet, and teamed up to build creative and technological approaches to the grand challenges. MTF Aveiro resulted in 6 new international collaborations, in which the experts developed working prototypes that were showcased in a series of public performances conceived and designed by the participants.
Two subjects were seated on the stage and connected to EEG brainwave readers and heart rate monitors. Sitting face to face, recalling Marina Abramovic's famous work 'The Artist is Present', the participants were brought to a state of empathy through physical co-presence (at a safe distance). Their connection was both stimulated through live musical performance as well as provoked with dissonance and noise, to challenge whether their levels of empathy could be deliberately broken.
Live Soundscapes Lagoon Project
Sound artist Grant Smith (UK) mapped and created a live-streamed performance of the soundscape of the Aveiro lagoons, creating a unique sonic signature of Aveiro for the theatre stage with new ways of producing sounds using a combination of recordings and existing digital technologies. His research investigations influenced the thinking of several other groups, particularly the Artificial Life and Third Sonorous Body projects.
Interactive Cork Interface
Tiago Margaça from Aveiro band Musgos, mechanical engineer André Maia and sound designer Rui Carvalhos teamed up to combine technology with natural materials found in and around the Laguna de Aveiro. Working with electronic capacitive paint, the team created an instrument that uses local sounds recorded in Aveiro, triggered by touching ancient cork that had circuitry applied using the conductive paint.
Generative artists Sofia Crespo (Argentinian) and Feileacan McCormick (Norwegian) work at the intersection of natural systems, machine learning, AI and neural networks. During the brainstorming sessions with fellow lab and online participants it became apparent that there was a possibility to raise awareness of the importance of the Laguna de Aveiro ecosystem by generating speculative life forms to draw attention to this thriving ecosystem.
Chicks on Speed Epic Shoes
Artist and technologist David Cox, fashion technologist Carolin Vogler, and multimedia engineer, roboticist and audio systems programmer Daniel Rosero were inspired by the Chicks on Speed presentation and decided to create a playable musical instrument that responds to a variety of movements, impacts and step styles, and also detects the position and behaviour of the other shoe in the pair and responds accordingly.
Tercer Cuerpo Sonoro
The Art+Science research group at UNAM in Mexico City explored and mapped a third body or third space between two different realities: one in the abandoned mine and mostly unexplored biosphere of the Parque Ecológico Experimental in the center of Mexico City, and the other at the Laguna de Aveiro. Using field recordings made in both locations, they combined the environmental audio to create an entirely new sonic space in a search for a resonance and remote togetherness with Aveiro.
#MTF EXCLUSIVES*
50 GLOBAL EXPERT PRESENTATIONS
& PERFORMANCES
*EXCLUSIVE TO #MTFLabs participants AND VIPS
To inspire the participants and inform their work, MTF Labs Aveiro featured an exclusive conference with 50 live presentations and performances from high level experts across the United States, Britain, Mexico, Italy, Slovenia, Israel, Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Portugal, in a blend of online presentations and live in-person talks.
A small selection of presentations from the conference sessions are included below. For the full programme, see Aveiro Exclusives.
Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky - Sonifying Antarctica
Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky, is a composer, multimedia artist and writer whose work immerses audiences in a blend of genres, global culture and environmental and social issues. His current work is the artistic research project 'Virtual Antartica".
David Cox - Humans Since 1982
Head of technology and partner at art studio Humans since 1982, responsible for the technology of the kinetic projects "Clock Clock" and "A million Times": hardware, firmware, network, server application and choreography design platform. David played a key role in shaping the studio which comprises a large group of specialists from different backgrounds.
Carolin Vogler - Knitting DNA
Vogler is a S+T+ARTS alumna with "Knitted DNA" and winner of the IEEE Brain Prize at a hackathon of Ars Electronica 2019 for creating a personalisable 3D printed light and ornamental EEG cap. Merging marketing skills, design ideas and maker knowledge she combines traditional processes and new technologies to create new viewpoints and sustainable solutions.
Robertina Šebjanič - Aquatocene Art
Robertina uses art to explore the cultural, (bio)political, chemical and biological realities of aquatic environments, which serves as a starting point to investigate and tackle the philosophical questions on the intersection of art, technology and science.
Mónica Pedro - Fish-based materials
Mónica Pedro is an applied researcher with a background in project management for cutting-edge technologies and in fashion. She uses fish skin and local and ecological (non-petrochemical) substances in order to create leathers and textiles. Her work raises discussions about aesthetics, localism, whole-animal use and ecology awareness.
Marta de Menezes - Nature?
In 1999 Portuguese artist de Menezes created her first biological artwork (Nature?) by modifying the wing patterns of live butterflies. Since then, she has used diverse biological techniques using live neurons and bacteria - as well as functional MRI of the brain to create portraits where the mind can be visualised and fluorescent DNA probes to create micro-sculptures in human cell nuclei.
Alexandra Murray-Leslie & Melissa E. Logan - Chicks On Speed
Chicks on Speed is a feminist music and fine art ensemble, formed in Munich in 1997. They reached cult status throughout the 2000s as catalysts of the musical genre electroclash, but were founded as a multidisciplinary art group working in performance art, collage, textiles and fashion.
Kika Goncalves - Ocean Soundscape Awareness
A PhD researcher in ecoacoustics and artistic creation focusing on the ocean soundscapes, Goncalves creates awareness of noise pollution in aquatic environments through artistic practices and artworks, with a special interest in low frequencies, vibration and particle motion disturbances.
Martim Sousa Tavares - Ways of Hearing
Maestro orchestra conductor and music communicator. Beyond conducting orchestras in several countries, Martim is an avid communicator of classical music, being involved in several projects that aim to reignite interest in classical music, and bring it to remote parts of Portugal.
Dan Hill - The Slowdown Papers
Head of Strategic Design at Vinnova, the Swedish Innovation Agency, Visiting Professor Eindhoven, RMIT and Bartlett; ex Head of BBC Music, and Head of the Cities Catapult. Author at cityofsound.com
Harry Yeff (Reeps One) - Vocal AI
Artist in Residence at the World Economic Forum and Nokia Bell Labs, Yeff explores the evolution of the human voice, art and science. His work blends experimental vocal performance with AI, and transforms the voice into visible, physical form through performance, installation, sculpture, photography and film as well as curatorial, directorial and academic projects.
Christian Guttmann - How Our Lives Change in the Age of AI
Global Vice-President for Artificial Intelligence, TietoEVRY, named one of the top 100 global AI leaders in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Science, Guttmann has built hundreds of wide-ranging AI systems. He is also involved in major European initiatives, advising EU commissioners in Brussels on AI regulation.
Davys Espindola Moreno & Ana Maia - Inclusion Through Music
Morena and Maia use music in inclusive education for children with and without special needs. Their work includes the development of children's orchestras, as well as solutions that allow children with motor disability due to Cerebral Palsy to access Art Education Programs, and develop their potential and artistic skills using ICT.
Joseph Wilk / Andreas Bergsland / Kirsi Mustalahti / Lilian Jap - Dance AI
Ongoing international collaboration to create, explore and perform a novel system for language and movement that repositions the relationship between movement, music and meaning and addressing communication and accessibility.
Stanza - The Emergent City
Stanza is an internationally recognised artist, who has been exhibiting worldwide since 1984. His artworks have won twenty international art prizes and art awards including: Vidalife 6.0 First Prize Spain; SeNef Grand Prix Korea; Videobrasil First Prize Brazil; and Cynet Art First Prize Germany. His art has also been rewarded with a prestigious Nesta Dreamtime Award, an Arts Humanities Creative Fellowship and a Clarks bursary.
#MTF AVEIRO SATELLITES
International MTF SATELLITE events at universities and research institutes
Art+Science Research Centre at UNAM in Mexico City
INESC at the University of Porto
ESMAD at the Polytechnic Institute of Porto,
NTNU – the Norwegian Institute of Science and Technology
Participants from around the world also joined MTF Labs as part of MTF Aveiro satellite events hosted at universities and research institutions. This new format mixed the onsite expert labs and inspirational talks with an educational component from the universities, joining research teams across the world and creating new curricula and teaching models.
#MTF SPARKS
Saturday 17th October
Biblioteca Municipal de Aveiro
MTF Sparks brought together educational experts Tom Fox and Alexandra Antonopoulou to construct a programme that combines a range of STEAM skills, from programming and electronics, to narrative and performance.
20 children from local schools, accompanied by school teachers and representatives from the Aveiro Creative Science Park joined in at the MTF Sparks event where, with the guidance of MTF experts and facilitators, the students built experimental electronic musical instruments using their newly acquired skills.
MTF Aveiro Participants
Meet the MTF Labs experts, artists, inventors, creators and students who contributed to MTF Aveiro.
Daniel Rosero
Daniel Rosero is a multimedia engineer and master in data science with more than 9 years of experience in development, who is always researching new technological approaches to creative problem solving and technologies.
Marta de Menezes
Marta de Menezes is a Portuguese artist exploring the intersection between Art and Biology, working in research laboratories demonstrating that new biological technologies can be used as new art medium.
Pavlo Apisov
Pavlo is a professional mobile developer with a big interest in AI, music, and technologies that combine these things.
Anthony Cowie (Clutch)
Anthony Cowie is a musician, sound designer and composer, producing work as Thee Manual Labour/Clutch Daisy.
Fransisca Tan
Fransisca Tan is an Austrian-based food experience designer with a background in cognitive sciences, communication & media and IT.
Francisca Siza
Francisca Siza is a Portuguese documentary maker, videographer, and photographer.
Tiago Margaca
Musgos is an instrumental band that explores landscapes of experimental post-prog-rock/art-punk-jazz.
Mónica Pedro
Mónica Pedro is a natural born innovator. PhD student on New Media and Pervasive Systems, with a long track as a researcher in Human Computer Interaction and Technology Enhanced Learning.
Alexandra Murray-Leslie
Alexandra Murray-Leslie is a performer and co-founder of the international art band Chicks on Speed, currently guest professor at Trondheim Academy of Fine Art, Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU.
Christian Guttmann
Dr. Christian Guttmann, named one of the top 100 global AI leaders in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Science, has many years of practical experience in the field.
David Cox is Head of technology and partner at art studio Humans since 1982. He is responsible for the technology of the kinetic projects "Clock Clock" and "A million Times".
Francisca Goncalves
Francisca is a researcher from Porto, with a background in biological sciences with a degree in Veterinary Medicine and a Multimedia Master in Interactive Music and Sound Design.
CJ Carr
This Turing-test competition winner relishes in tricking people into believing computer-created music is human.
Vahakn Matossian
Vahakn Matossian-Gehlhaar is the co-founder of Human Instruments with BA's and MA's in Product Design from Brighton and Royal College of Art respectively.
Lisa Lang
Lisa Lang is the founder and CEO of Elektrocouture, OfundamentO and Powerhouse. She's an inventor, manufacturer and maker, and she's a leading light in FashionTech, wearable technologies, smart textiles manufacturing and making things glow.
Martim Sousa Tavares
Conductor, artistic director, thinker & speaker, advocating for the dissemination of classical music and broader cultural participation of communities.
Diana Vieira
Diana Vieira has dedicated the last 13 years into the study of post-fire hydrological and erosive impacts by means of field experiments and hydrological modelling.
Robertina Šebjanič
Robertina Šebjanič (SI) is an internationally exhibited and awarded artist/reasercher. Her artistic work deals with the cultural, (bio)political and ecological realities of aquatic environments.
Marco Antonio Lara's work (installation, sound art and video) revolves around the evolution of "simple" units and their development into complex systems.
Saga Arvidsdotter
Saga is a blockchain engineer, interdisciplinary artist and startup advisor. She has won 4 of the biggest Ethereum blockchain hackathons in a row 2019 and is thus a blockchain hackathon world champion.
Lena Ortega
Dr. Lena Ortega is a sound artist, researcher, and designer whose line of inquiry joins the concepts of resonance and embodied experience in the relationship between non-human and human animals and their environment.
Stanza is an internationally recognised artist, who has been exhibiting worldwide since 1984.
Harry Yeff
Harry Yeff, better known by his stage name, Reeps One is an English beatboxer, composer, artist and new media artist. He produces work as a response to an ongoing investigation into the evolution of the human voice, art, and technology.
Creator of Artificial Life, Sofia Crespo is an artist working with a huge interest in biology-inspired technologies.
Luis Clara Gomes
Moullinex is the alter ego of Portuguese producer, dj and multi-instrumentalist Luis Clara Gomes, and one of the leading artists in the disco scene.
Horácio António Barbosa Tomé Marques
Professor at at ESMAD - Escola Superior de Media Artes e Design, P. Porto, Portugal. Multimedia artist, musician-composer, and researcher with more than 30 years of activity (e.g., music, 3d, interaction).
Kirsi Mustalahti
Mustalahti is a Founder of ACCAC Global (Accessible Arts and Culture) which is a growing, international arts and culture movement that presents diversity, accessibility and social inclusion in a new light.
Carolin Vogler
Winner of a S+T+ARTS residency, Carolin Vogler is a science, tech and art enthusiast, trained in fashion marketing and luxury management.
Feileacan McCormick
Norwegian artist, researcher & former architect based in Berlin whose practice meditates on ecology, nature & generative arts, with a focus on giving non-human new forms of presence & life in digital space.
Grant Smith
SC are an arts cooperative based in London, Crete and the The Hague. Work explores intersections among social, personal and environmental ecologies.
Rui Abreu
Rui Miguel Abreu has been a music journalist for 30 plus years, currently writing for Blitz magazine, doing several radio shows at Antena 3 and directing the digital magazine Rimas e Batidas.
Nuno Barbosa
Nuno Barbosa is an award-winning independent video producer living in Aveiro, Portugal.
Tiago Quendera
Tiago Quendera is a programmer, game designer, researcher, and neuroscientist focussing on interactive, transformative artistic work.
Gilberto Bernardes
Gilberto Bernardes has a multifaceted activity as a musician, professor, and researcher in sound and music computing.
Ana Maia
Special education teacher working in a ICT Resources Center for students with special needs (CRTIC Aveiro).
Luis Anjos
Luis Anjos is a bioinformatics engineer and citizen scientist with more than 20 years of experience researching, defining, design, developing and deploying software solutions and platforms using the latest technology.
Ivo Prata
Ivo Prata is an art-educator and performer navigating the waters of video, photography, sound and light, as well as performance and storytelling.
Rui Carvalho
Ruido is a Portuguese, London-based artist. A self taught producer/performer who worked in numerous projects since the end of the 90's.
Anna Elyutina
Anna Elyutina is a guitarist and an 'Improvisational Cyber Musician', focussing on interactivity in a live environment.
André Maia
André Maia, born in Aveiro, living in Barcelona, is a professional lighting designer, computer engineer, a music lover since an early age and a late self-taught musician.
Toni Castells
Toni Castells is an award-winning composer whose sonic worlds transpire a precocious classical training with an inventive use of modern technologies to create unique and distinctive dreamy, cinematic and poetic soundscapes.
Joao Lourenco
Joao Lourenco is a musician and sound engineer, played with Rock bands, traditional and world music groups.
Diogo Meireles
Diogo is a multidisciplinary 3D Artist and Motion designer. Currently he is working as a freelance artist in Porto, creating, designing and producing contents for video-mapping shows, commercial ads, corporate events among others.
Lui Avallos
Lui Avallos is a Brazilian screenwriter, director and multimedia artist.
Diana Combo
Diana Combo is a Portuguese sound artist and musician, whose work balances folk storytelling with noise and improvised soundscapes.
Inês Meira
Inês Meira graduated in Music Production and Technologies, and performed as a violinist in chamber music groups, symphony orchestras, string orchestras and also as a classical ballet dancer.
Tim Perry
Tim Perry is passionate software developer & drummer, who loves hardware hacking, web development, mobile apps, and all things tech.
Suse Ribeiro
Suse Ribeiro is a musician and sound artist. She works with sound spatialisation and explores it as a tool for musical creation.
Claudia Oliveira
Claudia Oliveira is a designer and media artist. Her work lies at the intersection of art, design and technology.
Ginger Leigh
Ginger Leigh (alias 'Synthestruct') is an interactive and audiovisual artist who works with sensors and data to create real-time, multi-modal experiences that explore how we connect with and understand the world around us.
Inês Castanheira
Inês Castanheira is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher based in Portugal. Her work is a continuous dialogue between art and technology, exploring and combining image, sound, electronics, coding and interactivity.
Cristoforo Gaetani
Cristoforo Gaetani is a musician from Italy travelling the world to record ethnomusicological sound of people and instruments from around the world.
Ramy Elnagar
Ramy Elnagar is a creative strategist and immersive technologies specialist. Over the last few years, Ramy cofounded a few immersive tech and research consultancies as well as supported global experiential agencies like Unit9, Happy Finish and The Life Firm.
Andreas Bergsland is a professor and creator of the Music, Communication and Technology Masters degree at NTNU Trondheim. He is interested in music and movement, especially involving dancers of all abilities, and usually applying some form of sensors and sonic interaction.
Miguel Carvalho is studying Computer Engineering at FEUP in Portugal. Interested in Computer Graphics, Machine Learning, and their relation to Sound and Music.
Ernesto Romero Mariscal Guasp
Ernesto Romero Mariscal Guasp is a musician, composer, singer, programmer. Studied composition, mathematics and choir conduction.
Eyal Weisz
A musician, music technologist, multidisciplinary technological artist, software engineer, and informal educator.
Sebastián Lomelí Bravo
Founding member of Arte+Ciencia (UNAM), full-time professor at the Faculty for Philosophy and Letters, and researcher of the National System. He specializes in aesthetics and philosophy of art.
Luís Aly
Luís Aly is a sound designer for performing arts exploring the diverse ways computer code influences (and is influenced by) the act of performing.
Alessandro D'Ausilio
Alessandro D'Ausilio studied Experimental Psychology and obtained a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from the Sapienza University of Rome - spending extended research periods both at MIT and the Eberhart-Karls-Universität.
Antonio Camurri
Antonio Camurri, PhD in Computer Engineering, full professor at DIBRIS, University of Genova, where he teaches"Human Computer Interaction" and "Multimodal Systems for Human Computer Interaction".
Vania Fortuna
Vania Fortuna is a Mexico City based singer, composer and sociologist.
Eurídice Navarro
Communicologist and amateur Anthropologist, she is dedicated to the production of video dance, the production of craft beer and herbalism.
Rodrigo Perez Garcia
Dr. Rodrigo Pérez García is a chemist specialised in nanomaterials self-assembly and interfacial phenomena.
Minerva Hernández
Minerva Hernández is Head of the inter and transdisciplinary project Bioscénica, which creates, develops and produces innovative activities that combines art, science and technology.
Hugo Branco
Hugo Branco is currently the artistic director of the arts-residency-guesthouse-cultural-centre VIC // Aveiro Arts House in Aveiro, Portugal.
Bárbara Paixão
Bárbara Paixão is a Porto-based interactive artist and designer, exploring the interaction between humans and sound.
Temitayo Olugbade
Temitayo Olugbade is a Research Associate in affective computing and applied machine learning at University College London Interaction Centre (UCLIC).
Nicolas Gold
Nicolas Gold is Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at University College London. He is a member of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, and was an Associate of the AHRC Research Centre for Musical Performance as Creative Practice.
Emilio Sánchez Galán
Emilio Galán is a philosopher, filmmaker and multimedia artist, director and founder of Temporal (Taller de Filosofía Expandida). They often perform as Gaël(le) Emilix.
Willie Mandeville
Willie Mandeville is an American lutenist, guitarist, and composer currently living and working in Trondheim, Norway.
Melissa Logan
Melissa Logan is a performer and co-founder of the international art band Chicks on Speed.
Sara Borgström
Sara Borgström is the founder and CEO of Transforming Textiles AB.
Flora Krasniqi
Head of International Unit and Projects, POLIS University, Tirana, with a keen interest in cross-disciplinary research.
Vesna Petresin
Dr Vesna Petresin, BSc PhD FRSA (born in Ljubljana, works and lives in Berlin and London) is a transdisciplinary artist and thinker.
Davys Moreno
Davys Espíndola Moreno is a PhD candidate at Aveiro University, Violinist, Professor in Musical Performance and educator.
António Salvador
Physiotherapist and founder of Music NeuroRehab Lab, the clinical research laboratory in music neuroscience and neurological rehabilitation.
Leigh Murray
Senior Engineer at University of Oslo, Center for Information Technology.
Joni Mok
Joni Mok is an interaction designer with a multidisciplinary background in the creative industry, from classical music to the world of digital, design, technology and advertising.
Néstor Peixoto
Néstor Peixoto is a multi-instrumentalist, hobbyist mycologist, and diver, producing music under the moniker Aethereal Arthropod.
Anders Salomon Lidal
Masters Student, Music Communication &Technology, NTNU
Lindsay Charles
Gonçalo Bernardo
Undergrad student, INESC, University of Porto.
Marko Řeháček
Marko Řeháček is a generative artist studying Applied Informatics at Masaryk University.
Irina Petrova
Postgrad student, University of Porto.
Aurora Fernandes
Undergrad student, University of Porto.
Andreia Vilas Boas
Carolina Valadão
Angela Barbosa
Ana Catarina Silva
Joaquim Pinto
Sara Ferreira
Student, University of Porto.
Daniela Alves
Sara Pinho
Melissa Guimarães
Luís Manuel Alípio
Professor, University of Porto.
António Lopes
Eliana Silva
Sandra Pires
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Is Margaret Thatcher good or bad?
My parents/grandparents say good things about her and they were living in England while she was prime minister. Not to mention how she was the first female prime minister and the longest running, so she must have been doing something right.
From what I've read about her she seems to have been a great British leader.
I am really curious to see how queerfeminist answered this.