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Creating Space: Youth Work in a World unfit for Purpose.

April 27, 2013by heronsfeet Leave a comment

Adapted from a presentation given at the 2012 CYC-NET Conference I apologise. You have caught me at a bad time… It will probably pass… But it will most certainly return. […]

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Home/Scotland, Indignations and Praises, News, resistance

Art that goes deeper than the paintwork

February 25, 2013by heronsfeet Leave a comment

One doesn’t have to be in Mexico for long to discover that her stories can be found on her walls: lining the poorly signposted calles and jam-packed metro stations; from […]

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Community Art, Indignations and Praises, Latin America, Mexico, News, Writing

Bolder Wings

July 21, 2011by heronsfeet Leave a comment

Casting off the cold steel strings: An escape that took much bolder wings, Than any tiny fleeting swift, Or any splendid swan could lift, Well still w’ll sing of freedom: […]

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News, Palestine, Poetry, Prisoners, Writing

Girls and boys

July 19, 2011by heronsfeet Leave a comment

Up against the cruelty machines ignite, With bloody noses from this Goliath fight, Well we are still just girls and boys, And love will always ache much longer. And far […]

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Palestine, Poetry, Writing

Loch-side

July 17, 2011by heronsfeet Leave a comment

Standing on edge on ageless fading loch – Still wearing two worn out second-hand shoes, And two odd socks – undoubtedly stolen: Water discovers these bruised and weary feet, And […]

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Poetry, Writing

Without Flinching

July 12, 2011by heronsfeet Leave a comment

If broken was a name, Given only to delicate things and never to fragile souls. If freedom was not merely anti-gravity, Buried within dissident imaginations of the young and the […]

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News, Palestine, Poetry, Prisoners, Writing

‘Go Home’

June 23, 2011by heronsfeet Leave a comment

During Refugee Week, I have been working in a community flat in a 22 storey tower block, in the South-West of the city.  It’s been a brilliant week with interesting […]

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News, Poetry, Writing

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Nicky Bolland is a Scottish arts practitioner, activist and artist involved in various community projects at home and abroad.
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