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Crikey, I’ve been busy designing the North West’s Annual Report for this academic year. It’s been a whirl of writing, editing and Photoshop. Anyway, one week later and it’s finished. Hurrah! Our trusty printers, Pelican Press, did a great job with a really fast turnaround; the design was emailed on Monday morning and the finished brochures were delivered on Wednesday, which meant I could take some with me to Greg’s talk on ‘What’s the Point of Adult Education?’ in the evening at City South Manchester Housing Trust. Job done.

By the way, on our weacreative page on issuu, you will also find online copies of the Peripheral Vision project report, the Peripheral Vision magazine of students’ work, and the Just the Ticket project report. Happy reading!

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Hwa Young (above) talks geek and bio

Isn’t it great when a bunch of interesting, creative people get together in one room?

Friday’s event at the Cornerhouse was such an occasion. Community partners, WEA staff and tutors, prospective learners, film makers and cultural partners all gathered in the Cornerhouse annexe to meet and mingle and learn more about Peripheral Vision.

Apart from a slight glitch with my beloved MacBook (well it is four and a half years old), which decided, on a whim, to go mute. “What?” I said, “What?” staring in disbelief at its white, shiny loveliness. “Today, of all days,” I scolded. Thank goodness Hwa Young had brought hers along and I’d had the foresight to pop my presentation on a memory stick. Crisis averted we got on with the presentations:

Thank you

Thank you to everyone named above, and to Jenny from MCC, Niall from City South, Amanda from the Booth Centre, Zoe from Manchester City Council, Harriet from Manchester Camerata and the film-makers Barney and Liz for attending.

Also thank you to my colleagues, Fiona, Mandy, Andy, Susan D, Susan A, Karen and Catherine for being there too. Finally, thanks go to Pat at the Cornerhouse for organising the room (which everyone loved) and the teas and coffees.

Looking back, from my perspective the morning was a success. However, I sort of wish I hadn’t mentioned the pickled gherkin and plum tomato nibbles, while telling an anecdote about a male life-model…

We send our best wishes to Connie from Manchester Art Gallery who had a cycling tumble and couldn’t attend. Get well soon Connie x

Today I had a great meeting with Nick and Adam from Healthy Ardwick based in the Coverdale Baptist Church building. We talked about WEA’s courses in general, and the Peripheral Vision project in particular. Nick produces an interesting and colourful newspaper full of information for the local residents, in which I will be able to advertise future courses. I am sure that some of the Ardwick residents will enrol on Peripheral Vision courses over the coming months.

To Do:

  1. send Nick the Peripheral Vision PDF
  2. Inform Nick of the costs of PTLLS, Community Interpreters’ courses and ESOL courses
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