Creageivity

Mick Greer graduated in English Literature from Cambridge University in 1983 and teaches at the School of Arts and Humanities at Lisbon University, where he is an Assistant Professor. He has a PhD on James Joyce and theatre, and is a researcher at the University’s Centre for Theatre Studies, where his main interests include James Joyce, Contemporary British and Irish Theatre, and Shakespeare in Pe...

Maia Eden is a multi-talented creative professional based in the Scottish Highlands. She is best known for her work as an independent musician and singer-songwriter, releasing her EPs New Horizons and Little Triumphs . In Creageivity 39 we hear snippets of Maia’s songs New Horizons, Home , and Starting Over Again . Beyond music, Maia is also a multidisciplinary artist and maker . She works across...

With memories going back to hiding under a table during World War Two air raids , actor, poet and food entrepreneur Maya Waterman recalls vivid moments in her life. Her path from a blitzed London was eventually to take her to the English town of Tunbridge Wells (at the casual suggestion of a friend) where she started a very successful baking business. Baking and feeding people remained a theme thr...

Artist RAMON KUBICEK speaks to us from his home in Gibsons, Canada, where he is a prolific painter and writer. He describes how he has always worked at whatever comes his way in order to continue as an artist. Day jobs have included running wine tasting sessions and construction work. Throughout, he has created, and in recent years has also become interested in how art and healing can be merged, b...

In Creageivity 36 we meet AMANDA BOOTH , Voice Actor, Actor, Translator, and Children’s Author, who also performs a one-woman show Countless Lives about the fascinating Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa . Amanda has lived and worked in Portugal for over forty years, with her first children’s book being published in March 2026, in three languages. The Donkey Who Wanted to Know Things is beautifully i...

Sculptor, painter and vocalist LUCIANNE LASSALLE comes from a long line of artists. Her grandfather, Henry Valensi was founder of the Musicalisme movement in Paris and - as we hear in this podcast - showed Walt Disney his work which the American then ‘borrowed’ for the movie Fantasia. Lucianne’s grandmother was a painter who raised her children on a remote French island, while her aunt was a muse...

Pioneer of electro and electro-pop KAREL FIALKA has never stopped working in music, as a performer, writer and producer. He had significant chart success with his singles Armband, Hey Matthew and The Eyes Have It , and in our Creageivity session he also mentions - and features - his song Alphaville with Tilda Swinton on vocal duties. There’s also the tale of how his friend and tennis partner, Coli...

The poet WENDY KLEIN believes profoundly in the curative powers of dancing, dogs, and reading poetry out loud, and hopes someone will humanely destroy her if she ceases to enjoy these pleasures! Fortunately no destruction was necessaary as Wendy engaged us deeply with her life story, reading three of her poems - a real treat. Wendy describes herself as ‘The Crone Poet’ and writes highly personal p...

JENNIFER LYNCH is a prolific writer covering topics as wide as dancing, children’s stories and an array of spiritual development books. She is also a reiki and massage practitioner and is a frequent broadcaster on spiritual and self-development subjects.  In CREAGEIVITY 32 Jennifer talks about her path and how a serious car crash opened her way towards experiencing and writing about spirituality. ...

For half a century STEFAN FREEDMAN has developed his talents as a multi instrumentalist musician, songwriter, circle dance leader, champion of world music, author, and poet. He travels the globe giving joyful workshops in dance and music, some of which focus on trauma release and wellbeing. In-person and online movement and voice courses remain Stefan's greatest ‘mission’, and his most signif...

HALIMAH COLINGWOOD , aka Halimah the Dreamah, has been making music all her life, even claiming that when she was born, instead of the usual scream on entrance into the world, she sang a high C, shattering all the windows in the delivery room.  Her stories of a life in music are many and varied and feature the duo Blackburn and Snow from mid-sixties San Francisco, at a time when she went by the st...

​Our special guest in this episode is the PRIME NUMBER 29 which gives us the chance to mention the 29 other guests we've had on our previous podcasts. And what guests! OK, on this occasion we probably overuse 'amazing' and 'incredible', but then these descriptions are actually justified. Plus 29 the number is also pretty amazing and incredible: tune in for some very intere...

One of the secrets to MIKE PAILTHORPE’s survival and success in music, education and - at one time, publishing – is simple: ‘Just talk to people.’ Mike grew up in Hounslow, and at school, started punk band The Milk (our first podcast track) which went on to play numerous Rock Against Racism gigs, with the encouragement of established bands Misty in Roots and The Ruts .  Mike then, ‘Retired from pu...

GABY WEINER has held various professorial and honorary research positions in universities in the UK and Sweden. Publications include Just a Bunch of Girls (1985); Feminisms in Education (1994); Closing the Gender Gap ; Kids in Cyberspace, Reconstructing and Deconstructing Lives ; Tales of Loving and Leaving (2016); Harriet Martineau and the Birth of the Disciplines ; and Reintroducing Harriet Mart...

Ashton Applewhite is the author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism and a co-founder of the Old School Hub . She has written for Harper’s , the Guardian , and the New York Times ; speaks widely at venues that have included the United Nations and the TED mainstage ; and is at the forefront of the emerging movement to raise awareness of ageism and make age a criterion for diversity. In 2...

Architect and Designer, Londoner PETER BOSSON attended Hornsea Art School before going on to the Royal College of Art and gaining a degree in architecture. Working as a consultant for Olivetti (then the largest computer manufacturer in the world), Peter studied the lack of ergonomic thinking in computer and office design and saw the need to “ Connect the disconnect between furniture and IT .”  The...

Brian Reynolds: A Storyteller Who Plays to Win Brian Reynolds is an LA-based writer, director, and choreographer of movement—whether it’s the perfectly timed punch in a stage fight or the subtle, loaded pause between two characters on screen. With a background spanning theater, film, stage combat and storytelling, Brian has a knack for crafting narratives that balance sharp wit with emotional dept...

Musician ELI DOKSON converted from high school trumpeter to electric guitarist after seeing the Beatles perform live: “Everyone else was standing there screaming, and I was just standing there staring,” he recalls. And so began a lifelong passion for playing guitar, which Eli still continues at the age of 75, gigging regularly in the area around his home of Crestone in the high desert of Colorado,...

Our guest for Creageivity 22 is MONICA CLARKE – also known as Ouma Monica , meaning Grandmother – who was born and raised in South Africa during the brutal and repressive Apartheid regime which separated people according to their skin colour. By the 1980s Monica was an activist for the African National Congress , smuggling revolutionary literature and funds into the country – which led to her life...

Filmmaker MARY DICKINSON has an astonishingly long filmography working as a Producer and Director, mainly for the BBC’s flagship Arts programme, ARENA . During her seven years of art school, culminating in an MA from the Royal College of Art , Mary rapidly abandoned her teenage dreams of becoming a painter. Instead she experimented with decaying food as sculptural statements, performance art, and...

Born in Canada during the Second World War, Norma Geddes has for many years been resident in Virginia, on the Eastern seaboard of America. She forged a career in healthcare and garnered a fistful of degrees along the way, while always being interested in creative expression. In our lively and entertaining meeting with Norma, she tells how one of her early forays into spinning yarns had to cease du...

South-east Londoner MARTIN CROCKER fronted school plays and was drawn to performing, while at the same time going on to become a sportsman and enthusiast for the outdoors, including mountaineering. In CREAGEIVITY 19, Martin describes how and why he was attracted to success in different areas, especially as an actor on stage, television, and as an in-demand voice-over artist . At the same time he a...

As Adrienne points out in Creageivity 18, listing the many and varied accomplishments of composer, musician, GRAMMY award winning conductor and writer LUCAS RICHMAN is quite the task. Coming from a family of performers, including his actor father and mother, Peter Mark Richman and Helen Richman , Lucas knew from early on that he would be a musician, and as we hear in this episode, at 17 he was com...

A graduate of the Second City improvising group in Chicago, Latifah Taormina went on to co-found, produce, direct and perform with The Committee , San Francisco’s famed improvisational theatre of the late 60s. Under her stage name of Jessica Myerson , her Hollywood career included parts in The Graduate, Mrs Doubtfire, and Steelyard Blues, and she was a familiar face on American TV with appearances...

Our planned guest for this episode was unable to join us, so we made the creative decision to fall back on our own resources, with Adrienne Thomas the special guest of Harlan Cockburn and vice versa. Back in the 1970s we met at Maidstone Art College in Kent, southern England, and the journeys there were similar... but different: Adrienne battled for her place, and Harlan arrived by accident. Hear...