Category Archives: Arts

Your Station

The Your Station exhibition is is full swing. Tickets Please is turning out to be very popular, I am rather proud! It is being exhibited among some amazing sculptures, photographs and paintings from the Future Station group at Metal until more »

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Playing “Tickets Please”

“Tickets Please” is packed up and delivered to METAL. I have had time to edit some video footage of the game in action from our final play tests. “Tickets Please” is an oral history memory game allowing fun interactive exploration more »

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Making “Tickets Please”

Today we completed making “Tickets Please” It is an Arduino and RFID powered oral history memory game allowing fun interactive exploration of the Edge Hill Archive. The “Signal Repeater” electronic hub was made by Mycroft Milverton, the game board was more »

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Return to Iron Mountain and Other Stories

Bonk Street Theatre performed an astounding sequel to From Beyond Iron Mountain with Return to Iron Mountain and Other Stories. Brox played the starring role of Beelzebub. He wrote a very witty part and performed it to much laughter from more »

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Light Night

We had an enormously pleasurable Light Night. We met up with friends at a vintage fair, visited the Walker Art Gallery and then St George’s Hall. We ended up at the ADA where they had loads going on! While there more »

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Edgy: The Railway Cabaret

On Saturday myself and Brox performed with the rest of the Sound Tracks group in Edgy: The Railway Cabaret. Part of the Working Class Life and Music Festival. Our show “Sound Bites” was inspired by the Oral History stored in more »

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