Spare Tyre

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  My thoughts on the current trends in magic

  By David Munns, Supported Artist

  08 July 2025

  David Munns is an artist, magician, performer, and writer. His involvement with Spare Tyre goes back nearly 20 years with such performances as I'm an Artist, Let me In! and The Art Room, and more...

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  Some blog posts are harder to write than others

  Rebecca Manson Jones

  20 June 2025

  This is one of the tougher ones so before we get started on that, I thought I’d cheer us up with some of the good things that are happening in the Spare Tyre Universe.

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  Our culture is built around and continues to welcome the expression of gender difference.

  Crin Claxton

  08 May 2025

  1st May 2025.

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  Why I’m tired of hearing that what I do isn’t art.

  Rebecca Manson Jones

  16 April 2025

  Two weeks ago, I emerged from an intensive period of development of not one but two shows.  An increasingly rare and rather nice problem to have, albeit tricky to manage, especially with a health...

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  Vanishing Point and the Lost and Found

  Rebecca Manson Jones

  12 March 2025

  You wait years to work on a project and then suddenly two come along. I’m at the very unusual situation of having two creative processes running in parallel. In April, we’ll be going into the...

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  What Will Happen to the Cat? - Participatory Workshops Q&A with the creators

  Lisa Muten and Rebecca Manson Jones

  24 January 2025

  Lisa and Rebecca came up with the idea to make a show about real life experiences of elder abuse. Rebecca asked Lisa a few questions about why she wanted to involve other people ?

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  Introducing CAFE and The Kinder Producing Model

  Rebecca Manson Jones

  13 January 2025

  Happy New Year!

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  And the Award Never Goes to...

  Rebecca Manson Jones

  02 October 2024

  It’s award season again  this Autumn and here's a piece I rewrote last March (and didn't get to post because I was sick) when it was also an award season plus it was Covid anniversary time for many...

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  2023 - Spare Tyre the Year in Pictures

  Rebecca Manson Jones

  22 December 2023

  During August we welcomed the return of Rose Chorlton from maternity leave as our General Manager and said a heartfelt thanks for Adam Line who was Rose's maternity cover. We also said thanks to...

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  Conversation with Ali

  Ali and Rose

  07 December 2023

  Ali Newton is an artist who came to our attention via the Covid Café programme - a series of creative, inclusive online sessions for people living with Long Covid, or other long-term health...

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  On Seeing and Being Seen

  Rebecca Manson Jones

  14 September 2023

  INVITATION

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  Remembering Claire Taylor 1982-2023

  Arti Prashar

  20 June 2023

  It is extraordinarily difficult to write about a colleague and friend who is so dearly loved. It is hard to even conceive that Claire T is no longer with us. It was Bob Quinton - a longstanding...

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  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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