Finlay Hall Podcast

Greeted by a grey sky, I'm back in Norway, and It's Easter. Everyhthing is shut during Easter in Norway. I speak about teaching and learning, and try and acquire some food.

Finlay Hall podcast is back after a beautiful and, what might have been, the best summer ever (!) In this episode, I travel from Scotland to Norway, waste some time sampling some whisky at the airport, buy some cigarettes for Belen, then come up with a completely reductive theory about the political scale.PS.New things coming for the podcast, over the coming months. I'm going to attempt to do one of these episodes a week, and another kind of episode a month.

Myself and fellow Wooosh Gallerist Jamie Donald were asked by Cooper Gallery, to speak to the Student Curatorial Team about our art gallery in a car park, Wooosh Gallery.A real institutional mashup!Thanks to Peter Amoore of Cooper Gallery for hosting us and leading the conversation about our collaborative curatorial approach. Thanks as well to the students for asking lots of great questions and listening to our mad opinions of art and organising!!! and best of luck to all of them with all their future projects. :)This was recorded in an art gallery so the sound is kind of echoey and there is the sound of a video installation playing in the background but I got sounding as good as possible.Enjoy!ps.I'm going to continue updating these episodes over the summer, and hope to catch up completely. I've stopped recording everyday for now as I needed a break after my year at university.I think when I return I will change to a weekly format.Hope my listeners are well X-Finlay

This episode takes place on a a rainy Monday in Scotland. North Berwick > Edinburgh > Dundee.I take a trip to visit my Grandma. Then I'm joined by my good friend, talented photographer/youth worker Ben Douglas aka. Burnt Bongo.This year he was a judge on the Scottish Phone Portrait awards. (Sadly the deadline has passed but details can be found here-> https://www.scottishartstrust.org/scotland-now )Ben also tells us about his work making podcasts with young people and all about the Scottish Portrait Awards.He takes some lovely photographs for the podcast out of his window. HUGE THANKS BEN!Check out more of his ~award winning~ photographs on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/burnt_bongo/

I speak to my sister Natalie about her work with bees and young people. She tells me about some of the social mechanics of beehives and how her work at the North Berwick Youth Project revolves around curiosity.The book she references is titled "The Bees" by Laline Paull.Warning: this episode contains the sounds of cows in labour

Jamie and I get a train form Dundee.