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[maddysargent]

The finished recipe book - ‘From Ground to Grub’. Commissioned by Team London Bridge and IdeasTap. Designed & Illustrated by myself, to benefit the White’s Grounds& Tyers Estates in Bermondsey, London.

A big project, and a lot fun to work on. I now have a couple of huge boxes of paper food for my little boys to play with too! :)

[maddysargent]

#fromgroundtogrub #teamlondonbridge #ideastap #paperfood #recipebook

[scottwillis]

Tapes From The Revolutionary won IdeasTap Graduate Award : Short Film 2015 in association with BAFTA. Pretty chuffed.

[harriet-bruce]

http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=12409 A while back I was one of the winners of a competition for merch design for the Bauhaus: Art as Life Exhibition at the Barbican, London - back to thread ideas for BERLIN themed murals. Watch this space.

[altrunews]

So we were really sad to hear that due to a lack of funding IdeasTap, the arts charity that has been helping young people break into creative industries, is being forced to close.

Thankfully a load of people out there feel equally peeved at the closure and have set up a great petition to prevent it and fight against the arts becoming solely accessible to the more privileged among us.

As usual, insufficient funding and an upsetting lack of government support means that, despite spending the past year seeking a solution to the problem, the charity can no longer continue.

[caligulasalibi]

Austerity - The BAC & Ideastap

The drastic (and oddly prophetic) acts of the week have stunned us into submission; the blazing BAC and the closure of Ideas-tap. The bandwagon is seemingly already full, as every theater, artist and company tweet their guts out in an attempt to alter the bureaucratic process.We have not enough money, or influence therefore all we can give is our signature or a scrap of writing like this one. Beautiful though the show of support is, the lack of power is sad and angry. It is yet another example designed to reveal the truly useless people beneath the passion.

We say this because it can be foolish to naively make a stand without fully understanding the power of our own uselessness, not because we don't think people should help in anyway they can. They should, of course,  because it's all we can do and it’s the right thing to do. Power is given by understanding both sides of the coin and unfortunately, due to lack of funding from the public sector, austerity has crept into the Ideas tap bed, leaving behind a dripping horses head of corporate indignation.

But we must tweet and sign and speak to as many people as we can- Ideas-tap helped Caligula out more than we probably know and- as with all bedrock institutions- the moment it goes will be the moment we truly appreciate their work. Ideas-tap is Good in the old fashioned sense of the word; run by Good People, with Good Intention and Good outcomes. This speaks volumes when you consider the true state of our industry; one of ego, greed and sycophancy.

To add to the absurdity, Mother nature's Austere backhand has gone and burnt down one of the finest venues in London – a bright, idiosyncratic and highly original house for the maladjusted and the free. This situation is so out of hand that we can't even be angry at anyone, nor can we blame the government, which just makes it all the more sad and unjust. Thankfully no one was hurt and, call me a philistine, but it is just a building and Buildings, like philanthropists, can be re built and the work can always be re-staged. If there was ever a week in human history which clearly spoke out to the young artist and asked the to reconsider joining the army or moving into finance, it’s this one.

[evolvingcareersplayers]

A Masterclass and the Power of Words

I was at a Masterclass at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in which the Actor Mark Strong shared his experience of the industry and his career before hosting a Q and A. One of the questions Mark was asked was how he gets into a character – to understand the essence of their being. His reply was that’s its in the writing and he gets everything he needs from the words, he spoke in particular about his…

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