Mick Greer graduated in English Literature from Cambridge University in 1983 and teaches at the School of Arts and Humanities at Lisbon University, where he is an Assistant Professor. He has a PhD on James Joyce and theatre, and is a researcher at the University’s Centre for Theatre Studies, where his main interests include James Joyce, Contemporary British and Irish Theatre, and Shakespeare in Performance.

In Creageivity 40 Mick shares his encyclopedic Joycean knowledge, and reads from the ending/beginning of Finnegan’s Wake. He also treats us to an unaccompanied song (a first for Creageivity) - The Parting Glass.

Mick is an active member of both the Lisbon Players and Já International Theatre, and is a founding member of the Dublin-based Balloonatics Theatre Company. He is also a voice-over artist, and appears in adverts, TV series and films.

A true raconteur, Mick Greer is a highly engaging teller of tales!

Intro Music: Celtic Winds by Psychronic - with thanks
Outro Music: The Parting Glass - traditional, performed by Mick Greer

Balloonatics website: https://balloonaticstheatre.com/

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Maia Eden is a multi-talented creative professional based in the Scottish Highlands. She is best known for her work as an independent musician and singer-songwriter, releasing her EPs New Horizons and Little Triumphs.
In Creageivity 39 we hear snippets of Maia’s songs New Horizons, Home, and Starting Over Again.

Beyond music, Maia is also a multidisciplinary artist and maker. She works across various mediums, including jewellery making, mosaics, and carnival structures. Her passion for sustainability is showcased through her upcycled furniture, where she revives and reimagines second-hand pieces.

In the podcast Maia talks of her deep love for the natural world, especially the Highlands, having been born and raised in Scotland, before a lengthy stay in England. Now back in her homeland, she can’t imagine not creating, and describes some of her methods to keep things flowing. These include journaling, and playing with materials in her idyllic studio space.

A wise and witty session, with inspringly beautiful music - what’s not to like!

Music by Maia Eden, used with permission.

Website: www.maiaeden.com/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/maiaedenmusic/
Furniture upcycling: maia@maiaeden.com
YouTube clips: www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKTnYOtt6l8

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With memories going back to hiding under a table during World War Two air raids, actor, poet and food entrepreneur Maya Waterman recalls vivid moments in her life. Her path from a blitzed London was eventually to take her to the English town of Tunbridge Wells (at the casual suggestion of a friend) where she started a very successful baking business. Baking and feeding people remained a theme throughout her career, and when she moved to Los Angeles, she started several successful businesses, including food deliveries to the Hollywood creative industry.

It was here that Maya began to have her childhood dreams of an acting career encouraged when she was invited to take classes, in exchange for managing the affairs of a theatre company. She was then spotted - at a relatively late age - by two Producers looking for a lead character actor for a TV series, with her film and TV career only taking off in her 60s. At the same time Maya was becoming an in-demand face in commercials and music videos, including for Thirty Seconds to Mars and Sam Fender songs. She also took the lead in Joyride, an Amazon commercial which she says is now recognised as ‘a classic’.

As a poet Maya had an intense and highly creative period of writing, and in Creageivity 38 she reads three of her pieces for us.
Acting opportunities continue, and Maya has also been very active in social justice and support projects - a truly rounded artist with fascinating stories to tell!

Maya’s website: https://mayawaterman.wixsite.com/maya-waterman-1

The Amazon Ad: https://share.google/AaWjaJSX3QqAkRDSq

Music used via Pixabay with thanks:La Nuit from Playhouse Sound
Portrait photo of Maya by Travis Tanner

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Artist RAMON KUBICEK speaks to us from his home in Gibsons, Canada, where he is a prolific painter and writer. He describes how he has always worked at whatever comes his way in order to continue as an artist. Day jobs have included running wine tasting sessions and construction work. Throughout, he has created, and in recent years has also become interested in how art and healing can be merged, but with his own very specific viewpoint. Indeed his views on what makes art and artists are very carefully considered.

As he remarks of earlier years, 'My life was hard but filled with wonder.' That sense of wonder continues with his current paintings combining myth, magic, and a vivid use of colour, often with vivid and poetic titles.

Examples of the artwork - and writings - can be viewed on Ramon's website at: www.ramonkubicekart.com

and on instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/ramonkubicek/

For a conversation about masterful painting and a life lived in art, tune in to Creageivity 37!

Music is 'Salmon Ladder / Resting Pool' from good friend of Creageivity, OLD MAN THOMPSON: https://souterrainsounds.bandcamp.com/

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In Creageivity 36 we meet AMANDA BOOTH, Voice Actor, Actor, Translator, and Children’s Author, who also performs a one-woman show Countless Lives about the fascinating Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa.
Amanda has lived and worked in Portugal for over forty years, with her first children’s book being published in March 2026, in three languages. The Donkey Who Wanted to Know Things is beautifully illustrated by the Portuguese artist Artur Varela.
In the podcast Amanda reads a sample of her work Imprints, based on the technique of Method Writing. It’s a very real and personal piece, a snapshot of her life at the rural ruin she has restored over many years.
She finishes the podcast with a poem by one of Pessoa’s most notable ‘heteronyms’, Ricardo Reis.
You can also hear how Amanda and Adrienne first met… in Bed.

The Donkey Who Wanted to Know Things: https://daisyeditions.com/catalogue/the-donkey-who-wanted-to-know-things/
Countless Lives - Introducing Fernando Pessoa: https://www.fernandopessoalisbon.com/
Music: Fado da Moureiria by Free To Use

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Sculptor, painter and vocalist LUCIANNE LASSALLE comes from a long line of artists. Her grandfather, Henry Valensi was founder of the Musicalisme movement in Paris and - as we hear in this podcast - showed Walt Disney his work which the American then ‘borrowed’ for the movie Fantasia. Lucianne’s grandmother was a painter who raised her children on a remote French island, while her aunt was a muse to Picasso. Parents Mélinda and Léonard were a potter and painter respectively. Little wonder with this rich heritage that Lucianne is so dedicated to pursuing her own art!

Her bronze and ceramic sculptures are classically figurative, echoing Bernini and Michelangelo, with a verve and contemporary dynamic, and can be found in public and private collections around the world. “Lucianne is one of the best figurative sculptors in the UK,” says the Chair of the National Galleries of Scotland. “Lucianne bridges the gap between hip-hop and Michelangelo,” says writer Howard Male. She was born in Paris, and now lives and works in Bristol, England. Her enthusiasm and creative joy are abundant in this episode of Creageivity.

Lucianne’s website: www.luciannelassalle.com/
facebook.com/lucianne.lassalle.sculpture/
Music by Geoff Leigh and Lucianne Lassalle used with permission

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Pioneer of electro and electro-pop KAREL FIALKA has never stopped working in music, as a performer, writer and producer. He had significant chart success with his singles Armband, Hey Matthew and The Eyes Have It, and in our Creageivity session he also mentions - and features - his song Alphaville with Tilda Swinton on vocal duties. There’s also the tale of how his friend and tennis partner, Colin Blunstone of the Zombies created a successful demo for a Cliff Richard orchestral album.

Karel’s self-recorded song Hey Matthew was heard by music mogul and manager of The Police, Miles Copeland, who signed Karel to IRS Records. The single became a top ten hit in the UK and also charted strongly in Europe. Karel recorded the LP Human Animal while at IRS.

He has collaborated with and written for a wide range of artists and fellow travellers including Nick Magnus, Jona Lewie, Paul Roberts, Colin Blunstone, Martin Stephenson, along with Cliff Richard, as well as taking production duties on various projects.

He makes light of his somewhat exotic upbringing, and vividly describes the impact of hearing life-changing rock’n’roll in the movie The Girl Can’t Help It, and how Bob Dylan has been a lifelong influence right up to the present day. Our (re)connection to Karel comes through Tim Fraser, our songwriting guest on Creagivity 3.

KAREL FIALKA is a raconteur with many a story from the sharp end of music and creativity. We also hear snippets of Still Life from his debut album, as well as Alphaville, and a soon to be released track, French Reggae.

website: https://www.karelfialka.com/

Tracks Still Life, Alphaville and French Reggae used with permission.

Karel photo by Mike Ross from the album PEACE V WAR

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The poet WENDY KLEIN believes profoundly in the curative powers of dancing, dogs, and reading poetry out loud, and hopes someone will humanely destroy her if she ceases to enjoy these pleasures! Fortunately no destruction was necessaary as Wendy engaged us deeply with her life story, reading three of her poems - a real treat.

Wendy describes herself as ‘The Crone Poet’ and writes highly personal poetry which develops into universal themes. She comes from a family background where if you didn’t write, you were the odd one out.

Born in the USA, Wendy studied drama and English at the University of Utah and San Francisco State University before leaving the USA in 1964. She was later to renounce her American citizenship. In England she qualified as a social worker in 1983, then as a family and couples psychotherapist in 1992. Her only novel, Listening for Nightingales, was published in 2002, after which time she has concentrated on poetry, with many of her poems winning awards and prizes.

A ‘very difficult project’ which Wendy talks about in the podcast is her video Let Battle Commence about her Confederate Great Grandfather’s role in the American Civil War. Wendy also mentions how being ‘a kind of hippy’ in her younger days saw her travelling around Europe and leading a highly independent life. He poem Three Dog Night which she reads in the podcast is a reflection on this time.

To hear powerful poetry and thoughts about aging, self-criticism, assisted dying and why dogs are generally better than humans, this podcast is a must-listen.

Wendy Klein's Poetry Website: https://www.cronepoet.com/

Let Battle commence video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2JlbpAdUcU

Music: Acoustic Motivation by Yuri Semchyshyn via Pixabay with thanks

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