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5 Big Questions: LEMN SISSAY OBE
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Are you bad busy or good busy?
In this week’s 5 Big Questions interview we talk to poet, playwright, broadcaster and campaigner LEMN SISSAY OBE
Twitter: @lemnsissay
Known for:- Chancellor - University of Manchester (UK)
- Trustee - Foundling Museum
- Official Poet - London 2012 Olympic Games
- Winner - PEN Pinter Prize (2019)
- Guest Artistic Director - Brighton Festival 2020 & 2021
- Author - My Name Is Why
- Author - The Emperor's Watchmaker
- Playwright - Why I Don't Hate White People
- Playwright - Refugee Boy
- How do you measure the impact of what you do?
- How should people/businesses be preparing for the future?
- How do we build the workforce we need for that future?
- How do you use creativity to solve problems?
- How do you collaborate?
“I tried to take the word ‘busy’ out of my dictionary some years ago, because I’m doing what I love.”
"Art refuses to disappear because human beings refuse to disappear.”
“I’ve come to realise later in life that you’ve got to give it away to keep it. It’s the strangest thing but if you need help, try helping someone else.”
“I went from smoking thirty a day to none, on the tenth January. I’d been stinky most of my adult life.”
“I am proud to be a creative and artist and writer and I think that creativity is not only the monopoly of artists.”
“I’m learning to be quiet and to listen — and to listen beyond just the first idea. It’s a much more fulfilling way to work, with a group who are looking how to make an idea happen.”
“Teamwork isn’t just people that I choose.”
Useful links:
website: // www.lemnsissay.com/
Wikipedia: // wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemn_Sissay
Brighton Festival Director legacy page: // brightonfestival.org/about-the-festival/past-guest-directors/20202021-lemn-sissay-mbe/
Lemn Sissay — Don’t Ask The Dragon (children’s book) // hive.co.uk/Product/Lemn-Sissay/Dont-Ask-the-Dragon/26765413
Allen Carr’s Easy Way To Stop Smoking (Amazon link) // amazon.co.uk/Allen-Carrs-Easy-Stop-Smoking/dp/1405923318/
Jude Kelly (Wikipedia) // wikipedia.org/wiki/Jude_Kelly
Extinction Rebellion // extinctionrebellion.uk/
Sex Pistols — Never Mind The Bollocks (Spotify link) // spotify.com/album/6ggO3YVhyonYuFWUPBRyIv?si=CGb49HRcT_Wk3s7SpWqhpA
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Wikipedia) // wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Ferlinghetti
Leftfield — Leftism 22 (Spotify link) // spotify.com/album/60ZB7LXiHfzipDY4EME38o?si=6SwMMSw8S_-QwHCqiIfqOQ
City Lights books // citylights.com/
Lemn Sissay — My Name Is Why (memoir) // hive.co.uk/Product/Lemn-Sissay/My-Name-Is-Why/24742388
Lemn Sissay — Something Dark (memoir / theatre script) // hive.co.uk/Product/Lemn-Author-Sissay/Something-Dark/21234053
Lemn Sissay — Morning Breaks In The Elevator (poetry) // hive.co.uk/Product/Lemn-Sissay/Morning-Breaks-In-The-Elevator/2568872
This episode was recorded in April 2022
Interviewer: Richard Freeman for always possible
Editor: CJ Thorpe-Tracey for Lo Fi Arts
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Manage episode 327685054 series 2290666
Are you bad busy or good busy?
In this week’s 5 Big Questions interview we talk to poet, playwright, broadcaster and campaigner LEMN SISSAY OBE
Twitter: @lemnsissay
Known for:- Chancellor - University of Manchester (UK)
- Trustee - Foundling Museum
- Official Poet - London 2012 Olympic Games
- Winner - PEN Pinter Prize (2019)
- Guest Artistic Director - Brighton Festival 2020 & 2021
- Author - My Name Is Why
- Author - The Emperor's Watchmaker
- Playwright - Why I Don't Hate White People
- Playwright - Refugee Boy
- How do you measure the impact of what you do?
- How should people/businesses be preparing for the future?
- How do we build the workforce we need for that future?
- How do you use creativity to solve problems?
- How do you collaborate?
“I tried to take the word ‘busy’ out of my dictionary some years ago, because I’m doing what I love.”
"Art refuses to disappear because human beings refuse to disappear.”
“I’ve come to realise later in life that you’ve got to give it away to keep it. It’s the strangest thing but if you need help, try helping someone else.”
“I went from smoking thirty a day to none, on the tenth January. I’d been stinky most of my adult life.”
“I am proud to be a creative and artist and writer and I think that creativity is not only the monopoly of artists.”
“I’m learning to be quiet and to listen — and to listen beyond just the first idea. It’s a much more fulfilling way to work, with a group who are looking how to make an idea happen.”
“Teamwork isn’t just people that I choose.”
Useful links:
website: // www.lemnsissay.com/
Wikipedia: // wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemn_Sissay
Brighton Festival Director legacy page: // brightonfestival.org/about-the-festival/past-guest-directors/20202021-lemn-sissay-mbe/
Lemn Sissay — Don’t Ask The Dragon (children’s book) // hive.co.uk/Product/Lemn-Sissay/Dont-Ask-the-Dragon/26765413
Allen Carr’s Easy Way To Stop Smoking (Amazon link) // amazon.co.uk/Allen-Carrs-Easy-Stop-Smoking/dp/1405923318/
Jude Kelly (Wikipedia) // wikipedia.org/wiki/Jude_Kelly
Extinction Rebellion // extinctionrebellion.uk/
Sex Pistols — Never Mind The Bollocks (Spotify link) // spotify.com/album/6ggO3YVhyonYuFWUPBRyIv?si=CGb49HRcT_Wk3s7SpWqhpA
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Wikipedia) // wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Ferlinghetti
Leftfield — Leftism 22 (Spotify link) // spotify.com/album/60ZB7LXiHfzipDY4EME38o?si=6SwMMSw8S_-QwHCqiIfqOQ
City Lights books // citylights.com/
Lemn Sissay — My Name Is Why (memoir) // hive.co.uk/Product/Lemn-Sissay/My-Name-Is-Why/24742388
Lemn Sissay — Something Dark (memoir / theatre script) // hive.co.uk/Product/Lemn-Author-Sissay/Something-Dark/21234053
Lemn Sissay — Morning Breaks In The Elevator (poetry) // hive.co.uk/Product/Lemn-Sissay/Morning-Breaks-In-The-Elevator/2568872
This episode was recorded in April 2022
Interviewer: Richard Freeman for always possible
Editor: CJ Thorpe-Tracey for Lo Fi Arts
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