Archive for February, 2010
Photos by Sarah Hickson
Back from Bamako and sunk into the London rain and cold, it has been brilliant to look through Sarah’s beautiful pictures from Bamako. She has really captured the colour, characters – and kung fu moves – that make the workshop so special!
Check out the images in the gallery.
A huge thank you to Sarah, and best [...]
Hand in hand
I met up with Drissa today, the man who is the reason I ever came here. We first wrote to each other when we were eight (read the story) and today he took my hand and lead me through Bamako.
We slid through the market, past wax prints and soap stacks, mounds of drying shrimp softly [...]
Space to play, time to learn
The bags finally arrived! There was another race out to the airport in a borrowed car on Saturday morning, past tracts of shacks and drying grasses, through tight, crumbling neighbourhoods and flashing by huge Chinese construction projects.
It took a bit of hunting to track down the bags, which I found in a room at the [...]
Doné, doné!=bit by bit
It has been incredible to be back here. Sitting out at the Workshop as the sun sets and the dust sinks slowly to the cooling earth is beautiful. The blackboard has the day’s kindergarden lesson chalked on it and the slates have been cleaned and stacked. Kids appear out of the trees on their way [...]
Bamako and Baggage
I arrived in Bamako last Sunday. I was only three hours late and I stumbled happily into the dark heat of a Malian night, pen ready for the forms they give you in a room without a biro in sight… the queues for a pen I could tell you about!
The other passengers drained away and [...]