Personalisation: The New Word in Social Care. A CoolTan Arts interview with CoolTan poet and long term participant Peter Cox, by podcaster Stefan Finnis.

Personalisation, Isolation and The End of Day Centres?

A CoolTan participant interviews Lynne Clayton, co-chair of Southwark Mind at the Personalisation Event June 23rd 2011, Southwark.

Over the next few months CoolTan participants will be producing a series podcasts on the topic of personalisation. Check back here for updates.

Traditionally More Excluded Types of Disabled People

Adrian Whyatt - former trustee at the Roya l Association for Disability Rights (RADAR) and former Chair, Greater London Action on Disability (GLAD) – interviews Jon Newton, head of Physical Disability and Sensory Impairment for Southwark Council about traditionally more excluded types of disabled people (e.g. those with autism, dyslexia, dyspraxia, attenion (deficit) hyperactivity disorder (a(d)hd) and brain injury survivors. At the Personalisation Event June 23rd 2011, Southwark.

Listen to this song by Erroll David Woodberry and experience the Largactyl Shuffle in musical form.

Cooltan Arts student Aaron Pilgrim has just completed a podcasting course.

This podcast is one of two he created in just five weeks.

Yoga is a free course at Cool Tan offered to anyone who can drop in on Tuesdays 1-2pm

Hear Mohammed talk about his experiences at yoga and enjoy Aaron’s great production skills!

Cal the Cool Tan Office to find out more about their podcasting courses.

Astrology….

Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus > Do you know your ruling planet?

Here, two people express their views on Astrology…. A believer and a non believer.

What are your views and can we convert you?

This podcast was produced and edited by Petite DJ on the FREE Podcasting Course at Cool Tan Arts.

For more podcasts click here.

Aaron Pilgrim reports on the benefits and uses of therpeutic art. Cool Tan Arts is a charity in Southwark, London that promotes mental well-being by providing free workshops on many topics for those that need them.  

Listen and hear two people – one a tutor, one a student - talk about their first-hand experiences of the benefits of therapeutic art.

This podcast was produced as part of Cool Tan’s Podcasting Course for Southwark residents.

Join Marvin, a podcasting student at Cool Tan, on a discussion on why football has a bigger following than religion and how football and sports can improve teenagers social development.

Join me, Besion, on my first podcast were I discuss the goings on in the Mighty Marvel Comic World of how comics have fallen into people’s hearts and have had such a long history like Spiderman, Wonderwoman, The Hulk and Batman. I am going to look at how the films and TV series have given comic characters a longer life.

If you have an address in Southwark, these free courses are for you!

Learn to use professional portable recording equipment, editing software and produce your own podcast. The next course begins Thursday 27th May and runs for 5 weeks.

For further information please call the office on: 020 7701 2696

Hear a previous course result by Age Concern member Margeret.

For information on our other courses, some of which are free to everyone irrespectve of where you live, see HERE

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‘Creatures Lost In Time’ is a soundtrack created out of responses by CoolTan Arts participants to the art exhibition ‘Walking In My Mind’ at the Hayward Gallery. It features seven compositions arranged and produced by sound artist Duncan Chapman and artist Victoria Turnbull.  CoolTan Arts contributors are Michelle Baharier, Sharon Batt, Simon Hayes, Jenny Pestel, Brian Ring, Richard Muzira, Sahra Hassan, Maki Spanoudis, Lesley Dewhurst, Marjorie McLean, Howard Andrews, Cleo Ibberson, William Ball and Alison Westecott.  The project was part of the Learning and Participation programme at Southbank Centre.

The seven compositions are:- ’Your are not children’, ’voices’, ’poems (Sharon)’, ’Simon’s piece’, ’a blind man on the beach’, ’titles (Sharon)’ and ’please don’t touch the white dots’.

From the studios at RESONANCE FM on the eve of World Mental Health Day Michelle Baharier and Kathrin Kirrman talk about the Largactyl Shuffle, the sculpture workshop and the art exhibition Altered States. The radio show also includes interviews with other CoolTan participants: Cynthia Bernheim, Roisin MacMahon, Tim Jerram, Jenny Pestel, Rossan Daskalov, William Ball, Sasha Dee and others. There are also excerpts from speeches by Claire Henderson and Bob Smith opening the art exhibition Altered states.

BUDDHISM IN THE CITY

Living in the city can be taxing and stressful, but some people find a way to retreat even without leaving zone 1.
Have you ever wondered where you might go to find more?

Would you like to know a bit more about relaxing and being rested, without spending time away from London?

Well this programme will tell you one way of starting.

Sarah Campbell from Herne Hill finds out by asking a few Londoners, as part  of Cool Tan’s Radio Production and Broadcasting Workshop.

Young Harvey Gibbons made a piece for Children’s Arts Week on Cool Tan Arts.

Using professional recording editing equipment, Harvey who is only 11,  takes us through some of the exhibits and interviews particpants of the screen printing workshop.

This piece has also been broadcast on Barnet radio station Xpressitfm as part of national Children’s Art’s Week.

Listen to the Audio

Margeret, an active member of Age Concern, has learned to podcast in just three short weeks. This is her piece on OAPs and London travel, which she collected from Cool Tan and the surrounding area in Elephant and Castle…definately a hoptspot for travel trials and tribulations!

In a total of nine hours tuition, not only has Margeret learned to use the portable recroding equipment but she edited the files into a string of answers used below.

Cool Tan runs free workshops for people with mental health issues and also residents of Southwark.

A piece by podcasting student Mohammed on what voltuneering means to different people and the pros and cons of volunteering.

Mohammed talks to Cool Tan stalwarts Richard Muzira and Will Ball about the reasons and the results of voltunteering at Cool Tan.

This podcast was made on the amazing free course run by Cool Tan: Podcasting.

Cool Tan Arts Club volunteers Will and Mohammed are outside in the sun in front of the arts club.

Will discusses gardening on a low budget, as he has been taking care of the Cool Tan entrance which is in a blooming good state!  Mohammed, a student on exchange from Tanzania, is making sandals out of old tyres with a view to giving future workshops on the tyre sandal making.

Both have tips on recycling that you won’t hear elsewhere!

This podcast was made during Cool Tan’s Free Podcasting Course.

In this podcast batik workshop participants talk about their work and the Alternative Fashion Show.

In this podcast, poems are read by participants at the CoolTan Arts event marking the International Women’s Day.

In this podcast Kathrin Kirrmann gives details of the major events of 2009.