9 Words Podcasts: Kindness
Beautiful Brain by Sue Brisco
KINDNESS – Sue Brisco & Kanj Nicholas
In this podcast Sue & Kanj discuss expressions of kindness. Why kindness is important in society right now. And how it’s informed their respective Offsite9 projects.
“I really enjoyed talking to Sue & Kanj on a wet Saturday morning in the restored Rococo room at Wolverhampton City Archives. They’re such eloquent speakers complementing one another as they share their views on kindness. The bird-like quality of one’s voice made me smile.” Bobby
Portraits by Kanj Nicholas
Extracts from the podcast:
“It's there, it's alive and well in Wolverhampton and that makes me happy to see.”
“The lenses with which we view our world has changed completely for the better. We’re looking at our world, our communities in a different way and I guess it's the pandemic that's done that.”
“I couldn’t help thinking that sometimes it was like Christmas Eve but it kept repeating.”
“When someone smiles everyone starts to feel more relaxed.”
“When you do give it's something that seals relationships, you feel that the moment you step out and make that decision to do something for someone else that relationship changes forever.”
“But I've done it with love, darling because I felt like doing this for you guys and it's my language of love, pure and simple.”
“They were not be able to see their families. They had no one to talk to, so the corner shop became their place to come into contact with other human beings and have a person who was willing to look at them, listen to them and speak to them and let them speak and share their problems.”
“I’ve looked at Wolverhampton as it’s not the most attractive place to live in but we do have a fabulously rich community. You can’t walk away from people like that.”
“Be kind to yourself because you can't pour from an empty cup.”
“One of my images is looking at the beautiful structures in the brain… the hypothalamus is bright orange.”
Download the transcript of the podcast here.
Kindness Credits
Artists Sue Brisco & Kanj Nicholas
Presented and produced by Bobby Tiwana
Sound design, engineering and editing by Duncan Grimley
Commissioned by Creative Black Country
Funded by Arts Council England
Supported by Wolverhampton Arts & Culture and Paycare.
Want to learn more about Sue and Kanj’s project?
You can watch the videos here with Kanj and here with Sue and read an interview with them here. You can also see images from the launch here.
Kanj, Bobby and Sue