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clinical corners.. but it’s NOT what it looks like, it’s what you make happen in it.

Rita – Because they have policies and a board you know, I mean the great thing about this is that you can just do it.

Chemaine – That’s the reason why the Playhouse exploded creatively because there wasn’t that glass ceiling. When I was in Newcastle I saw so many artists leave because they didn’t feel loved by the home that was meant to house them. So they left, myself included. That’s my rant.

Rita – It’s the people who come to it.

This is a big dream - Rita and her company are at home now with dreamers in a city that makes things happen. We have an invitation to explore, learn, play and make; the people of Bradford are the kind of people who can and do make ugly beautiful.

Douglas – So lots of people ranting dissidently together?

Sam Musgrave, Douglas Thompson, Chemaine Cooke.

Rita – Exactly!

Douglas – What fascinates me about this city is that it’s a melting pot. If you can get that group.. and get that group.. and pull down that wall.. and that wall; even though it’s Bradford it’s no different from Paris in the 1920s, New York in the 1960s, you’ve got to be romantic about it! Rita – Yeah! Yeah! I joke around but when we first came here I was like, ‘My space is going to be like the Judson Church, I mean why the fuck not?’ This is what was happening in New York, it was just an abandoned loft. Douglas –Why not reframe and re-envisage Bradford? Create a new frame and a new way of seeing. Jean McEwan is doing it with ‘Make ugly beautiful’.

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www.pointblank.org.uk www.instantdissidence.co.uk theartfarmers.blogspot.com strawhousecreative.blogspot.com

Rita – People are going to be writing history books about this! – it was a FUCKING ugly building, with fucking ugly ceilings!

Sam – But is it the people or is it the place? It’s the people. The fact that you have a space here is crucial, but what it looks like is not important. We got spoilt when we had the Playhouse as our home, it was a spiritually powerful place, a beautiful temple. So for us to come to a place that was built 37 years ago with cold