Ten Feet Away International Podcast

This is about Roger who has been volunteering at the Union Chapel for several years plus he takes part in the poetry and visual arts workshops. As part of the Postcard project he produced an amazing piece.

The Dellow Centre�??s art group is producing a special commission for ten feet away international. International Voices is an installation telling the stories of London�??s internationalised homeless community. This is an excerpt, with Dellow Centre artist David Mills talking about arriving in London penniless.

Sasha is the Art Director of the excellent �??Put Domoi�?? - St. Petersburg�??s Street Paper. In this interview he talks about his journey, and in the second interview (coming soon) he will talk about the famous �??Art Squat of Pushkinskaya�?? which he helped found in the late 80�??s. This is the first time we have attampted simultaneous translation, so your feedback will be much appreciated.

In this short podcast interview, Arkady Tyurin of �??New Social Solutions�?? talks about new �??surviving technologies�??, solutions to tackling social exclusion within St. Petersburg�??s unregistered population.

I was meant to create something about the circus performance but it�??s not going to happen, no yet... In the mean time here is George, we always chat at his flat while having a coffee and taking pictures of his work. We are very good mates and respect each other. I really like his work and things fro him are getting very excited, not only in terms of making a living selling his work but the work itself is evolving in amazing ways�?�

OSW brought three groups - from Madrid, Paris and Budapest - to visit TFA�??s art workshop at Union Chapel in North London - we had a discussion of the festival. The conversation is between Csilla Horváth and Sebo from Fedel Nelkul and Jo and Ade from ten feet away.

Hi everybody, these are the interviews i did with two squatters that can give us an idea of how squats can be place for art. Listen to Diego, to Val from former X-vortex and to listen to what people think about squats as place for art.

Hi everybody! i�??m barti and i�??ve been living in london in the last 6 months and these are some audio files that i made speaking a little about my experience until now.

I want to introduce you to Jaqui Chin, I met her at the podcast training and we had a really good time. She is a great person and very talented. Music, drawings, digital arts, she is doing everything! please no more written words. Listen to an interview I made to her about homelessness, arts and life.

What can I say? she is adorable, I�??ve known her for four years now and she always brings you good feelings. I thing there is so much we could learn from people like her... but well, let�??s not get in the middle of it. Last Wednesday we talked about art, dreams and experiences, listen to a brief interview with Charmian, hope you enjoy it.

Hello world from Ten Feet Away International Art group. Last Tuesday we did a study in sound as in podcasting with a recording equipment someone brought. What a powerful medium! Learning to use this equipment is quite a skill. Getting use to your own voice coming out of the recording machine was shocking. As one can�??t beleive that it is their own voice that their are listening to. The manifesto consists of voicing are own interpretation of art and everybody had their own. We will produce more audio in the future; in the mean time, please listen to our manifesto...

Please listen how the story finished, as I mentioned at some point I didn�??t have time to prepare myself, one day I was in, the next it was over. Did it change my life? Yes, I think so. It wasn�??t as scary as I imagined but it was tough. I am happy to be out, I am happy to say good morning everyday to Marilo and Kalo, I appreciate my freedom as never and most important of all, I am a happier person.

Being in prison was good fun, new, exciting, it was horrible! Through my mind things like �??loser�??, �??useless�??, �??coward�??, �??irresponsible�?? came across all the time. The hardest thing for me to fight against was the image I had of myself. I was aware that my mind could take me down I�??ve always known that, but there wasn�??t any alcohol or drugs; no �??run away�??, no nothing�?� FACE IT! �?? I don�??t want to!! �?? There is no escape for you, GO ON! �?� and I did it and you know what, once you face your fears, they just vanished and things became less traumatic. This 3 minutes audio is about the first time Marilo (my partner) came to visit me and how things were going inside...

Please click here to listed to the next episode at Pentonville Prison, My Cellmates

The Folk visit their new studio space in South London...

You know, I think as soon as you are there, inside, in a cell, something inside "clicks" and some sort of process occurs inside which makes you capable to face the facts. Don�??t get me wrong, it�??s not easy whatsoever, but you can get good things out of it. I was lucky; I had a wonderful woman out there, Marilo and Kalo �?? my son - made things easier for me. I was about to start a journey that changed my way of relating with my family and my world. Listen how a life in prison is!

The continuing story of Crafty Folk (in full audio) - a collective of homeless and ex-homeless people who run a Friday stall at Spitalfields Market in East London. This episode: The Folk discuss their Christmas party, �??middle class bollocks�??, skills, the arts, experience, food and male prostitution.

That was it, there was no way I could avoid things. I managed to call Ade who works with me and I told him about the meeting with Steve Rushton, I could talk with Marilo (my partner). I was suppose to go to court on monday and it was friday, things didn�??t seem very well for me, a whole summer weekend spent in the cell of a police station. But things didn�??t happen that way and on saturday I was produced at court and sent to Pentonville. You know we normally think �??There is no way I can go away from what I�??m doing otherwise everything is going to collapse�?? but things are not that way, it�??s a trap of your mind, of my mind! Saturday was my first day ever inside a prison. Listen to the transition from one place to another, and another, and another...

The madness of Crafty Folk continues...

The explosion was horrible, 10 police officers broke into our little flat!! Kalo, my son was very scared although he was at the time only 4 months. When we were on our way down, everyone was already outside the place. I couldn�??t tell how many police officers were there, maybe 50 of them? As I mentioned at some point I had to live for 3 years with the burden of an unsettled issue with the law on my back; I knew that at some point I would have to face it, but when you are in front of it, that is a different story. The feeling of the handcuffs on my wrists and the sound they do as the officer locked them is something that keeps repeating in my mind, things happened fast, very fast and I was expecting the worst...

This is a story I never thought I would tell, but I am about to do it. It�??s my own story and when I say my own I mean myself and my family, I mean Julia and Thierry, I mean Selena, Jo and Paul and every single person who in a way shared those 4 and a half months with me behind those walls. You might think this was a negative experience, but let me tell you something, it was my redemption, a healing experience now grounded in my heart and in the heart of those who shared it with me. This all happened between June and October 2006, the way it started and finished was quite unexpected as you will see. All comments, questions and suggestions are welcome, I don�??t know yet if someone will read and listen this. Let�??s see what happens...

The first of a weekly serialisation of our adventures at the Friday market Eastenders style...

Ten Feet Away International began its podcasting and blogging project this week with two days of Citizen Journalism training...

Ten Feet Away International began its podcasting and blogging project this week with two days of Citizen Journalism training...

Listen to an interview conducted today with one of London�??s aspiring photographers, Jo de Haan.