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Issue 195: Creative Employment , Issue 195: Amateur Participation

  • Creative Employment, Amateur Participation

    Tony Heaton reveals the people who have most inspired him.

    01 Jun 2009

    Sir Phillip Craven MBE
    I was lying dazed and confused in a spinal injuries hospital. It was 1970. A young man, he looked a few years older than me, wheeled past (everyone in here seemed to be in a wheelchair). He said hello, and in the course of a brief conversation he said something I have never forgotten: that being in a wheelchair was the best thing that had happened to him. I thought he was delusional. Three months later I was playing wheelchair basketball, and he was the captain... more

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  • For love, not money

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  • Message to the minister

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  • Turning the recession on its head

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    Martin Bright and Pete Barrett argue that the way we think about working in a recession is unconstructive, and offer an alternative.

  • Time well spent

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    Tony Gibbs sees the beginnings of a new way of thinking about amateur theatre which will make it more sustainable.