Are You Creative?
Sangita Mittra and Nick Hearne explore Essex creativity. Talking with fascinating creative people to find out what makes them do what they do. Can they inspire Sangita to be creative?
Based in and around Essex, UK
Supported by NGDA and Lawker Media
Episodes
69 episodes
EP69 - CULTURAL DRAWING MOVEMENT FACILITATOR - Helen Girling
Helen is the founder of Sketchface, a creative drawing movement based in Chelmsford that helps people rediscover the joy of drawing. She’s also an unapologetic early bird, often waking at 4:44am and using the hour between 5 and 6am as her creat...
EP68 - ESSEX CONTENT CREATOR - Olly Thatcher
Olly Thatcher AKA Olly Thatchh is a content creator from Basildon (or Bas Vegas, depending on who you ask). Starting out behind the camera as a photographer, videographer and music video creator, he built a production company creating on-brand ...
EP67 - VINYL TOY CUSTOMISER - David Bishop RUN DMB
David Bishop is a adult vinyl toy custom artist. Originally from Billericay. Basically, he draws and paints on expensive collectible figures - like Dunny and BearBrick. David got into collecting through vinyl records, the magazine Straight No C...
EP66 - NSFW MINOR INTERNET HIT SINGER - Kunt
NSFW episode. NOT SAFE FOR WORK, KIDS, SHOPS. Warning! This podcast contains strong adult themes and very rude swearing from the outset. Kunt is a minor internet musical celebrity from Kunt & The Gang, The Kunts, The Krackpots, The Krown Je...
EP65 - IMPROVISING VOCALIST - Jo Morrison
Jo is an improvising vocalist who grew up in Basildon.. What even is that? Musicians and non-musicians will get together and improvise with voice, sound, objects, instruments. Performing with no rehearsal or planned outcome. Performances can la...
EP64 - PRELOVED MODERN CLASSICS RETAILER- Matt Love
Pre-loved modern classics seller. Matt runs The Good Love in Brightlingsea with his wife Laura. He might look like a sexy train driver, but he is a retailer. Previously above Roots And Grooves in Colchester. A shop with ‘everything in it’. Find...
EP63 - GIANT INFLATABLES MAKER - John Spence
Owner of Megaflatables, a manufacturer of giant inflatables. Megaflatables designed the giant monsters that were all over the city of Chelmsford. They’ve designed giant Squid Game characters for Netflix promotion, including a giant 15 metre inf...
EP62 - INTERDISCIPLINARY ENVIRONMENTAL ARTIST - Lora Aziz
Lora is an Egyptian–British interdisciplinary artist, writer, and researcher whose community-led work moves between environmental storytelling, walking-based arts, and cultural practice.We are channeling full moon energy in the studio. ...
EP61 - CHILDREN'S BOOK ILLUSTRATOR - Tom Knight
Children’s book illustrator from Mersea Island, Essex. He recently got a selfie stick and will throw it in a ditch if he sees anyone else on his walk. Mark Strong and his sexy microphone voice. Tom had just been doing an online schools event fo...
EP60 - BROADCASTING LEGEND - Steve Lamacq MBE
LIVE from Patch Place, Chelmsford for Essex Podcast Festival. Disappointingly Steve isn’t wearing his MBE medal. Talking The Meffs and MeffFest at Charter Hall. Steve grew up in a small village near Halstead, Essex. He discovered music at Xmas ...
EP59 - STORYTELLER AND ADVENTURER - James Lawrence
AKA Man About Country! Our first walking podcast along the banks of the River Chelmer through Chelmsford City Centre to Essex Records Office. James aka Man About Country. Born in Chelmsford, raised in Kelvedon. He loves telling stories about Br...
EP58 - EXPERIMENTAL SOUND ARTIST - Frazer Merrick
Sound artist from Colchester. Studied Music Tech in Huddersfield, and could straddle music and engineering departments and experiment for four years. Learning the recording process as well as making music - a great place for a curious mind. Fra...
EP57 - SECRET FESTIVAL ORGANISER - Ben Wass
Ben and his friends run the Secret Island festival on Mersea Island in Essex. An independent music festival - previous headliners have been Mike Skinner from The Streets, Orbital, and Faithless. Ben’s Dad was an oysterman, his brother is an oys...
EP56 - ALGORITHMIC ARTIST - Nik Rawlinson
Algorithmic artist from Chelmsford, Essex. Specilaising in using technology to create art. Previously a radio technology news and features journalist, London news, and politics, Nik knows his way around a microphone. He’s also written a load of...
EP55 - WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER - Vai Meng Chan
Wildlife photographer Meng was born in Macau, grew up in Hong Kong, now in Romford from 2006 working as a graphic designer. Hong Kong cinema, Jackie Chan, Drunken Master and dubbing voices in different countries. Jaiden is back in the house, br...
EP54 - COSTA MAN AND PR CREATIVE - Nick Hearne
A special episode about Nick’s epic Costa To Costa walk to raise £5000 for Chelmsford Foodbank. Disclaimer: Nick doesn’t know about coffee or bleaching beans or anything - Costa Coffee DO NOT bleach their beans, but it sounds funny. Nick visite...
EP53 - VOICE ARTIST AND CREATIVE AUDIO PRODUCER - Helen Quigley
Podcasts, audio drama, recording, editing, mixing, Helen does it all! And is in the studio judging us! Helen’s voice is YouTube famous because she narrates a school sex education film - in the style Julie Andrews reads 50 Shades of Grey! Helen ...
EP52 - COLOMBIAN VISUAL ARTIST - Catalina Carvajal
Colombian visual artist and illustrator living in Essex, via Mexico and Suffolk, it’s a complicated story! She paints murals, creates digital illustrations, picture books and everything in between. Fine art and snobbery in art. Catalina blames ...
EP51 - RADIO PRESENTER - Rob Jelly
Radio presenter for BBC Essex, event host and all round comedy man. A Romford boy gone Chelmsford. How do you say ‘Up and not crying’ in Icelandic? Sangita ACED her guess of what Rob does. Rob Jelly was born as Rob Jelly, it’s not a stage name!...
EP50 - THEME PARK CONTENT CREATOR - Kip Hakes
A man of many talents from ‘near Colchester’. Kip creates content around theme parks and technology, not both at the same time. Kip is proud of his honest reviews, he’s not ashamed to call out things that aren’t working. Creators have a respons...
EP49 - BRITISH INDIAN POLITICAL PUNK - Paul from Pieces
Lord Shiva is in the building! Paul from the band Pieces has amazing arm tattoos for all of his passions. Born and raised in Chelmsford. Now he writes and sings for his British Indian punk band Pieces. They write songs about politics, race, the...
EP48 - MULTIPASSIONATE MULTIPOTENTIALITE - Rebecca Carter
The Face of Chelmsford. The future mayor of the City. The future of creativity (FULL STOP). Rebecca described herself as multi-passionate when it comes to creativity. She hosts women’s circles - a safe space for people to turn up authentically ...
EP47 - URBAN MUSIC EDUCATOR - Project Lando
Owen aka Project Lando aka Art of the Roadz. He’s got ADHD and the smoothest voice we’ve ever had on the podcast. He’s a music producer, radio host and he runs events. He runs workshops in Colchester for kids to learn about DJing and MCing with...
EP46 - ARTIST AND FACILITATOR - George Morl
Live from Firstsite Colchester (the Golden Banana). Exhibition programme manager George is born and bred Bas Vegas (aka Basildon) from Laindon Hills. His family grew up in a sel...
EP45 - BURGER AFICIONADO - Jake Willis
It’s National Cheeseburger Day and Sangita isn’t here, it’s the legend Adam on the co-host - He’s been at Rom Skatepark chucking coloured powder all over the kids for the end of skatepark summer season. Over to our guest… Jake ‘The Burgerman’ W...
