I join the debate as a keynote speaker on the role of Commercial Creativity and finds a few kindred spirits too.
Archive for 2006
Nappies, Floods, and Civil Unrest
Our travel logistics are crazy at the best of times, but this trip really took its toll and me and the others with me. By the end, I was knocked so flat with a high fever, that I went deaf for the day!
A day with the Dalai Lama.
What would you talk to the Dalai Lama about?
Preparing to meet his Holiness the Dalai Lama and finding out about his new centre
Despite it being 4am on my body clock I join the other participants for welcome drinks, having just flown into Vancouver.
The Dalai Lama brings together business and social leaders.
“Have you not received the invitation, we’ve sent it three times?”
Creators can’t wait to change the world!
People Tree has always been a place for ‘cultural creatives’ and creators whether permanent, full time staff, volunteers and interns, freelance designers or customers.
Bombolulu Workshops, Kenya
I love Mombasa. It’s really bustling and finally I am warm. Summer has come to Kenya. All around me the Bombolulu workshop artisans are rushing about and busy – some in wheelchairs, some on crutches. The atmosphere is dynamic and people stop to ask a question or two and explain how they are making things.
Visiting Meru Herbs
Meru Herbs is situated on Mount Meru, a bumpy five-hour drive from Nairobi. As we jolt about and skirt around the pot holes, the driver, James Mwaniki, tells me this is a ‘great’ place for big snakes! The anaconda can hypnotise dogs and even swallow a goat – whole. The blog photo of me half consumed by an anaconda flashes ominously through my mind…
‘Make it Biashara Ya Haki, please!’
‘Biashara ya haki’ is swahili for Fair Trade, and these words are being heard more and more in the rural areas of Kenya where I’ve been this week.
Long time no see
It’s been a pretty busy couple of months, hence being so quiet on my blog. Not only have we moved house in Japan, with summer holidays the kids are back in the UK visiting grandparents and I’ve been based in the London office.
