Spare Tyre

Celebrating the Covid Cafe

Rebecca Manson Jones with Monique Jackson

09 June 2023

To mark the closing of the spring 2023 series of the Covid Café - the Drop-Ins and the Connected Conversations, we commissioned Monique Jackson, author of the StillIllCorona diaries and one of the...

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Hanging out at an Old Friend's House - work with Lewisham Mencap

Sophie Holland

03 April 2023

The past few weeks have seen us, Sabir, Elly Rutherford, Flavia Bertram and me Sophie Holland, reconnecting with our friends at Lewisham Mencap. In 2022, we had the joy of working with the folks...

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Things that I can learn from my younger self

Rebecca Manson Jones

18 March 2023

For the last couple of days I've been eye-deep in thinking about my sensory self. Who am I when I stop thinking with words and spoken language? How am I communicating with other parts of myself and...

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The Size of My Shoes Is Not Negotiable – a blog for International Women’s Day and Social Prescribing day.

Rebecca Manson Jones

08 March 2023

In 2020 I had the idea about a Covid Café, a space for people living with Long Covid and other long-term conditions to connect through Zoom and their creativity. A space to find ways to imagine how...

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On the Beach… an Access Support Worker’s View

Lara Marshall - Creative Support Worker

20 December 2022

Between October and December, a small team have been working with Rebecca on research and development rehearsals and workshops for our next touring show On the Beach. The project is for older people...

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Spare Tyre continues in the ACE National Portfolio Organisations

Rebecca Manson Jones

09 November 2022

Everyone at Spare Tyre is delighted that we’ve been awarded a grant by Arts Council England to stay in the National Portfolio of organisations for 2023-2026.  The change to the #LetsCreate strategy...

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If you see/meet me...

Rebecca Manson Jones, Artistic Director

06 October 2022

Audio Version

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21-22: A year in numbers

John Holmes, Executive Director (Joint CEO)

11 July 2022

We don't always enjoy describing our work in numbers. After all, there are many intangibles and things that are hard quantify about being involved in and experiencing creative activity. Most of our...

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An Escape from the Everyday

Lisa Muten, Associate Artist & Freelance Artist Facilitator with Spare Tyre

23 June 2022

Lisa Muten was one half of the partnership that led our long running project with artists in residence work at the Haynes Dementia Hub from 2016. The Together Project is in partnership with Haynes...

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Changing the tyres!

John Holmes, Executive Director

15 June 2022

Time flies... except possibly in a pandemic. A lot has happened in the three years since I was appointed Spare Tyre’s Executive Director, not just Covid-19 but also becoming a father for the first...

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And we call it Tyre Pressure

Rebecca Manson Jones - Artistic Director, Curator Tyre Pressure

01 June 2022

Content warning: contains references to and examples of ableism

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We Will Be Happy Here social story

Neelam Chhara

08 April 2022

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