May 21, 2018
It’s another podcast from The Possibility Club, so thank you for choosing to join us wherever you are and whatever you’re doing. This week we have the first of a few podcasts in which we are putting a particular place and set of communities under the magnifying glass - that place in question being the seaside town of Worthing in West Sussex. Worthing has been identified in a number of recent reports as being one of the most at-risk towns in England once the UK leaves the European Union, mainly because of its small and micro-business economy, its elderly population and seemingly that it has not received the major public investment of other equivalent places in recent years. This RoundTable conversation is about creativity in Worthing, and towns like Worthing. Where does creativity come from and who owns it? What opportunity does creative thinking bring, and how can it build the identity, purpose and character that any place needs if it is to be a place in which people are proud to live and work. This conversation was recorded in March 2018, when always possible and The Possibility Club took up a pop-up residency in the Colonnade House creative hub, just a 100 meters or so from Worthing’s much-admired beachfront. At the start of the conversation, you'll hear always possible CEO Richard Freeman; former media lawyer and TV executive Tony Dillon; artist and film-maker Adam Seaman; graphic designer Roger Harrison and technology consultant Hesan Yousif - and then part-way through, we are joined by illustrator Richard Manders from Colonnade House. We may be light on females - which was definitely not by design - but we are certainly not short on ideas. Useful links: https://colonnadehouse.co.uk/ https://www.asdescribed.net/ https://www.zazaraconsulting.co.uk/ https://discoverworthing.uk/creative-worthing/ --- Our big thanks to Colonnade House for hosting us, and to Tony, Adam, Roger, Hesan and Richard for their wisdom and debate. We are building a community of creative thinkers, do-ers and adventurers at The Possibility Club, and we have big ambitions about how to galvanise big ideas. If you’d like to join in, then visit www.thepossibilityclub.org and sign-up today. The presenter was Richard Freeman for always possible and this podcast is produced and edited by CJ Thorpe-Tracey for Lo Fi Arts.