ARTISTS TALKING

# 114 [1 October 2007]

How the world has speeded up!
Decide this Monday morning I would have to "bite the bullet" and approach the Welsh Heritage Lottery Fund for money. So I "googled" the site looking for a phone number to ring up. Instead I click on "pre-application" form" and in less than a minute I have a hard copy in my hand.
A couple of years ago this would have taken days.

# 113 [26 September 2007]

The "Children of Craig-y-nos" project started less than a year ago as a blog, an attempt to piece together 40 years of missing Welsh history. I am amazed at how it has all snowballed with the final focus being (a) print-on-demand book (b) multi-media website and (c) permanent exhibition and museum.
The current photographic exhibition has already gone into The Wellcome Trust Library archives.

# 112 [24 September 2007]

Radio 4

Had a researcher from Radio 4 on. She is going to put forward a proposal for an hour long programme for the Saturday evening Archives slot. Have to confess have never listened to it but am assured it is a highly prestigious slot.

# 111 [24 September 2007]

Craig-y-nos Castle

Have had a couple of messages left on my answering machine from Craig-y-nos Castle wanting to discuss a possible future projects, web-site links etc. but I have been in Wales so only now picked them up.

Discussed it with Dr Reeves. We think one way forward would be if the Castle would be prepared to allocate an outbuilding for a permanent museum to The Children of Craig-y-nos.

Will put this idea to them. Certainly the Castle is not short of space and it would increase tourism in the area.

# 110 [18 September 2007]

Have just had it pointed out to me in another email that The Wellcome Trust will be able to do a print on demand book, and there is a designer already lined up, but its a question of funding it. We are well and truly into the murky waters of funding... Dr Reeves is optimistic however that this problem can be resiolved.

# 109 [18 September 2007]

Researcher from Radio 4 has e-mailed me. They are interested in doing a programme on the Craigynos Project.

# 108 [16 September 2007]

Digital Curator

Yesterday I had to sign a form giving the Digital Curator at The Wellcome Library permission to archive my online exhibition "Children of Craig-y-nos".

They also want to archive my daily blog but there is something in the way that Blogger.com software is constructed that doesnt allow this.

Same thing with You Tube. Had an request from an American production company wanting to look at my videos for an American television programme only they cant download them from You Tube. They want copies on DVD.

Well, that's a little technical problem that can wait for a few days cause I am off to Wales today. (DVDs made for the American market have to be constructed differently.)

# 107 [15 September 2007]

Here goes.

I am going to try and put in some links to my online photographic exhibition which mirrors the real one in Wales.

The site is: http://www.childrenofcraigynos.com/

and the links are:

http://www.craigynoscastle.com/children_of_craig.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/mid/sites/abercraf/pages/annshawphotos.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/mid/sites/abercraf/pages/annshaw2.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/mid/sites/abercraf/pages/annshaw.shtml

There are also links to the South Wales Evening Post sites too but I think the above sites give a better flavour of the project.

# 106 [15 September 2007]

Big parcel arrived this morning with more photos and documentation for the Children of Craig-y-nos project from Dr Carole Reeves, the Outreach Historian who is helping me.

Help! am snowed under with work and got to fly to Wales again tomorrow.

Still feeling miffed that The Wellcome Trust will not consider me for a "Peoples " grant because the project is half way through.

How was I to know that an appeal in a local newspaper would have opened the floodgates to a whole community's repressed memories dealing with a taboo subject?

# 105 [14 September 2007]

Just heard that The Wellcome Trust will not fund a print on demand book because the project is halfway through and I have had money from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
So its back to square one looking for funding for a print on demand book.
Am tempted to try Lulu.com