This is the place where you find news and events around all things 26, from July’s Pecha Kucha, to Wordstock on film to a new project called 26 Letters and the ripple effect of 26 Treasures of Childhood. Pecha Kucha It’s 26… it’s the Betsey Trotwood… it can only mean more of that pecha [...]
There’s no hibernating for 26’s members; the month is brimming with creative projects, conferences and book launches. And after work, comes play with news of sunny Spain. Mudlarking on the Thames foreshore The other day, Andy Hayes gathered together his 26 Milers at the Samuel Pepys to celebrate the project’s online launch. The pub’s [...]
News and announcements from this parish, including revisiting our first project: 26 letters, Throwaway Lines the Second, 26 Miles putting on its slippers and Norwich editors chomping at the bit (cf Black Beauty) 26 presents Tessa Ross Join us at The Free Word Centre, Farringdon, London on Wednesday 5 June at 6:15pm to hear [...]
News and announcements from this parish, including 26 Miles in the pub, a corporate membership deal, how to update your 26 profile, and – ooh, too exciting – a date for Wordstock 2013. 26 Miles crosses the finish line They’ve made it! The writers who took part in 26 Miles have covered every last inch [...]
Our project with D&AD, The Story Works, has started in style. Fiona Thompson bravely led the way with her affection for the audio driven narratives of director Jacques Tati and his 1958 film Mon Oncle. (If you’re on Twitter follow @dandad and @26characters and you’ll be told when a new post appears.)
You’ve seen the objects. You’ve read the sestudes. Now get ready to watch the movie. Here’s Sarah Farley to introduce 26 Treasures of Childhood on film. In December I met up with the lovely Faye Sharpe and Gillian Colhoun to spend a day exploring the Modern British Childhood exhibition at the Museum of Childhood. 26 [...]
John Simmons gave out copies of ‘26 Treasures of Childhood’ to various clients before Christmas. One of them, from a London law firm, passed her copy of the booklet to her old school teacher in Australia. This is an email John received from that teacher. Dear John, Congratulations on your 26 Treasures anthology. It is [...]
Here’s a feature that’s running in the January issue of Unfiltered, the magazine of the Scotch Malt Whisky Society. It’s about a project based around a special collection of whiskies – 26 Malts, which all started with a spirited conversation between writers Stuart Delves and Jamie Jauncey, and designer Damian Mullan. Over the past 30 [...]
For our project ‘26 Miles’, writers have teamed up with collaborators to celebrate each and every mile of the London marathon. Here Sarah Butler tells us what she and her team mate are planning. Next week, I’ll be standing at the entrance to St James’s Park for a day. My plan is to capture passers-by [...]
Our storytelling project with D&AD is under way, with the first piece to be published in January. It has been a very popular project among 26ers. Here’s a word from John Simmons on how he turned 12 into 26. When we invited 26 members to take part in a storytelling project with D&AD, we had [...]
BIG, NEW and FREE No, we’re not talking about an AMAZING deal on a new gadget – we’re talking about two new projects coming the way of 26 members. Watch out, we’ll be emailing details to everyone but you’ll have to react fast. Don’t be shy about putting yourself forward because these are exciting ways [...]
The ‘litterati’ were out in force at the launch of the Throwaway Lines exhibition at The Free Word Centre in October, proving that rubbish is not only good to write about, it’s also worth hanging on the wall. I’m no stranger to trash. I lived by the sea for a while and beach clean-ups were [...]
Throwaway Lines, From Litter to Litterature, is launching very soon, with a private view for 26 members on Tuesday 30 October. Andy Hayes and crew are busy with the final touches. We’ll be spending Friday 26 (that number again) with screws, rawl plugs and rope hanging our 15 framed scraps at the Free Word Centre. [...]
Sarah McCartney, writer and perfumer, has a fragrant project for you… Is scent an art? It’s the Victorians’ fault; they thought our sense of smell was a tawdry, animalistic thing, an inferior anachronism. Perfume was something you lavished on your handkerchiefs and waved around to blot out the odour of poor people. Your sense of [...]
‘26 Miles’, the latest 26 project, was launched at this year’s Wordstock festival. 26 members will be teaming up with visually inclined friends to celebrate each and every mile of the London marathon. Here’s Andy Hayes with a word on how to get involved. You don’t need to run. But you do need to walk [...]
Rhian Harris, director of the Museum of Childhood, is the brains behind the Modern British Childhood exhibition where 26 writers and local schoolchildren have been paired with childhood treasures from the last 64 years from Star Wars figures to a ration book If you could write about one object in the Modern British Childhood exhibition, [...]
The Throwaway Lines launch night for ‘From Litter to Litterature’ has moved to Tuesday, 30th October. It still starts at 5.30pm and ends at 8.30. And, we’ll still be at The Free Word Centre on Farringdon Road. We’re limited on numbers, so book your free place soon by emailing andyinfinity@hotmail.com with Throwaway Art in the [...]
Announcing the launch of our book, ’26 Treasures’, published by Unbound, featuring ‘sestudes’ inspired by treasures at four national museums.
Come October, Throwaway Lines will morph into throwaway art as The Free Word Centre hosts our exhibition, ‘From Litter to Litterature’. Andy Hayes has the story. …more
Ah, childhood. Happy days… or were they sad? Loved, or maybe loathed? The 26 Treasures of Childhood project is giving writers an unusual opportunity to explore their own early days, as part of a major exhibition at London’s Museum of Childhood. Neil Baker gives us an update on how it’s going. …more
