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Monthly:March 2021

Five Quick-fire Questions for Kate Saffin

Alarum March 23, 2021
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Our 5th anniversary blog series continues with another interview, this time on Alarum’s other co-founder: Kate Saffin. Alongside her projects with Alarum, Kate is a writer, storyteller, and actor. Currently living on a narrowboat, she’s a proper boater too. In this quick-fire interview, Kate looks back on Alarum’s achievements and the historical facts, found along the way, she treasures. What is your earliest boating memory?  Been around boats of various sorts since childhood – canoes, a series of motor catamarans […]

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Five Quick-fire Questions for Heather Wastie

Alarum March 8, 2021
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Today, March 8th, is International Women’s Day and, rather appropriately, marks the 5th anniversary of Heather and Kate’s first phone conversation. The moment they decided that, yes, Heather’s work Idle Women and Judies and Kate’s solo play Isobel’s War would make a rather good double bill and it might be fun to take the show on tour… The fact that Kate had been contemplating a boat trip along the very canal that goes through the village where Heather lives – […]

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Walking Through Waterways History

Alarum March 4, 2021
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We are delighted to announce that we have been commissioned by Creative Black Country to run a project to engage and connect local people during lockdown. Leading the project is Alarum Co-Director, writer and musician Heather Wastie, who was involved with her family in campaigning for the restoration of canals in the Black Country from the 1960s onwards. She is joined by vocalist, harpist, theatre maker and sound designer Sam Frankie Fox, who is based in Smethwick. Audio trail The […]

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