Here are the details and links to the information I will be chatting about in my ‘Creative Catch-up’ on BBC Radio Suffolk with @JournoJon tonight :)

Suffolk Steps…

Check out the collaborative project Suffolk Steps between Keep Moving Suffolk and the Association for Suffolk Museums

An perfect excuse to get out an about on your Suffolk staycation, why not grab a camera, a sketch pad or a notebook & pen… head off for a walk and capture the inspiring things that you discover.

Suffolk Steps is a collection of local historic walks and trails developed by museums and partners throughout Suffolk. The free walks are designed to help all ages stay active and uncover Suffolk’s hidden history from the lost city of Dunwich, to the largest Millennium Green in England.

Comedy from home…

Some of the areas of the creative industries that have been hardest hit during lockdown have been those that rely on an audience in a theatre or indoor space. The kind of places that are completely opposite to everything that society is trying to achieve with social distancing.

I have been enjoying my weekly (now monthly) visits to the #CovidArms. An LIVE online comedy night, hosted by the brilliant Kiri Pritchard-McLean, offering a wide range of household names and new faces to our virtual comedic experience.

There is now a new one on Thursday nights, with Jason Manford creating an online offering of comedy ‘Manfords Comedy Club’ for us to enjoy. Can’t wait to see who and what we get to see at this new gig :)

Creative Quiz Time…

After 15 weeks of my ‘Creative Catch-Up’ on the Jon Wright BBC Suffolk Radio evening show I thought it would be good time to test so general knowledge about the things we have discussed…

Q1 – What were the good creative folk of Bedfield creating during lockdown? Clue: Bedfield ______ Bees?

Q2 – What organisation can be found in an old school on Morton Road in Pakefield? Clue: It’s theatrical.

Q3 – Jon and Matt have continued to be ‘partially positive’ to each other… but what does the scientific sign look like? Clue: Some of it is positive.

Q4 – On what date(s) did this year’s online First Light Festival take place? Clue: Midsummer

Q5 – Model Maker Jim Parkyn was one of our phone guests, but what was the first project he worked on at Aardman Animations?

a) The Wrong Trousers

b) Chicken Run

c) Shaun The Sheep