Local artist Pete Kirby created this ‘Fakir’ deck for our 2012 skateboard design competition WHATEVER IT TAKES.  Here’s a web gallery of some of the other boards. Pete talking about his board: “Beyond the obvious comparisons with ‘fakie’, a simple skate manoeuvre and ‘f****r’, a sardonic term of affection, Fakir is a statement about the […]

A great day yesterday (Tuesday 26 February 2019) at the Elders’ Club at the Masbro Centre, Hammersmith.  People brought in their traditional dishes and talked about the background to the recipes. So many were taught them by their mothers – from the Caribbean to Bangladesh and southern India. We’re hoping to put together a book […]

It was lovely to be back in Estaires, northern France, last week (7 February 2019) – even briefly –  and see our friends from the College du Sacre Coeur, the local history society and the Town Hall.  We’ve been working with Estaires to mark the centenary of the end of World War One for nearly […]

We operate on a shoestring and are far too small to post our accounts up on the charity commissioners website. But we do produce annual accounts and a report which should be of interest to supporters.  Click on the following link to read our latest annual accounts and report: Bridging Arts annual report 2017-18 . Very […]

It was great to see Italian dancer Simone Sistarelli again yesterday (29 January 2019) for another dance class with people attending the Elders’ Project at the Masbro Centre in Hammersmith, London. Click here to watch a short clip. Simone started with warm-up exercises then moved on to dance. “Research shows that dance is a bit […]