The following interview was recorded in August 2021, with the outgoing Director for the Belong organisation, Tracy Paine, the Project Facilitator for Where The Arts Belong, Tabitha Moses, and Laura Yates, Head of Participation for Bluecoat. 

Where The Arts Belong is a project that brings artists and people with dementia together through a unique partnership between Bluecoat and Belong. The project has happened mostly in the villages run by Belong across the Northwest and continues to do so until December 2022.

Find out more: https://www.thebluecoat.org.uk/projects/where-the-arts-belong
A Transcript is also available on the Bluecoat website.

Tracy Paine In Conversation With Laura Yates And Tabitha Moses

Transcription by Ryan Wheeldon (Feb 2015): “I have stuck to the audio as far as possible. Where things are uncertain, I have researched and provided as accurate a transcription as possible. Some of the names are also my best guess as to the spelling, apologies for any errors.”

Further edit by Bryan Biggs, Artistic Director at Bluecoat (Feb/March 2015). A copy of this was sent to George Hall who supplied the tape and who appears on it as one of three Sandon members interviewing Herbert Tyson Smith. 

George was an architect; Roderick Bisson was a painter and art critic for The Daily Post; the third interviewer is Edgar Grosvenor, who did the cartoons on the cover of the Sandon Sound LP. George and Evelyn Hall helped on a further edit in March 2016.

The recording was made one evening at Bluecoat, by the fire in the Sandon lounge outside the dining room. The location is where Kernaghans books is now situated.

Tyson Smith Interview Part 1

In this talk the British-Nigerian historian, broadcaster and film-maker David Olusoga draws on his academic research into Liverpool and the transatlantic slave trade to interrogate the ongoing legacies of the ‘triangular trade’. Profits from this, and from the goods that it enabled – cotton, sugar and tobacco - were among the funds donated by merchants to the Blue Coat charity school in the 18th and 19th centuries. Addressing a collective amnesia about the slave trade, Olusoga asks, ‘at what point does an admission start to feel like a lie?’ 

The talk is introduced by Artistic Director, Bryan Biggs, who sets the scene in relation to Bluecoat's 300th anniversary programme the previous year, as well as the arts centre’s interest in the building’s postcolonial resonances and its ongoing work with artists and academics exploring these through a contemporary lens.

David Olusoga talk

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