A million miles away

8th September 2015By Sally FlemonsBlog: What if... No Comments

Gemma Paintin, Co-artistic Director of Action Hero, gives us a flavour for the upcoming Natural Selection performance with an account of a not-very-ordinary invitation to visit Jim (he’s the one pictured right, Rob is on his left with the pants …

Who pays? You decide…

20th August 2015By Ilana MitchellBlog: What if... No Comments

Investigating new ways to raise funds for our projects is bringing rise to all sorts of ethical conundrums. Like: how much to charge audience members for ticketed events?hr As with all Wunderbar processes, setting a ticket price isn’t simple. The …

Some sweaty challenges

25th May 2015By Ilana MitchellBlog: What if... No Comments

In preparation for a trip to Junction Arts Festival later this year, I’ve been doing some more thinking about saunas. Turkish Salad Bath, anyone? After closing the City Pool in 2013, Newcastle City Council has opened up to offers “to …

The Wunderbairns Ethos

14th May 2014By Ilana MitchellBlog: What if... No Comments

With the launch of Platypus, our new project working with teens, this is a reminder – for us as much as anyone reading – of our ethos for Wunderbairns.    Following Haircuts by Children and the A SCHOOL projects plus two …

Sauna Nation

7th May 2014By Ilana MitchellBlog: What if... No Comments

It’s not just jumping on the Scandi-wagon, the Wunderbiz idea-in-development Sauna Nation was inspired by an incredible sauna experience I had in Latvia… The Idea Could the natural mood enhancing nature of a sauna offer an alternative to more traditional medical or talking …

A Book’s View

5th December 2013By Ilana MitchellBlog: What if... No Comments

Donna William‘s, one of our Bristol Human Library books wrote a blog about her experience for The Limping Chicken – the UK’s independent deaf news and deaf blogs website. With their permission we’ve reproduced it here.  Full blog, which has many interesting reader …