For six months, up to the end of January 2020, we were blessed @Griot to have in the team a young Spanish editor and filmmaker called Malva Soler. She took time out to travel to the Canary Islands for a few weeks, before visiting her parents, in mainland Spain. Our intention was to welcome her […]
I was triggered this morning by Facebook. It often happens. And it’s generally the unsolicited ‘memories’ that start it. Today, it was pictures of Easter travels to the Balkans. My son Madoc and I would visit Bulgaria – partly for pleasure, partly to take care of our ‘affairs’ in the country. Nine years ago, nearing […]
Guatemala grits its teeth – #underthemask As the virus crosses the world “like a back-packer” today’s blog post concentrates on the impact of the virus in Guatemala. On the day we should have landed in Central America to look at a programme of work based on sequestering carbon and building a cycle of funds for development […]
In today’s blog from the frontline of the COVID crisis, we are coming a little closer to home. One of the new members of our team here at Griot is Lette Batten-Turner. She is a remarkable addition, coming from a background of study in international development and participatory communication. Lette was about to launch a […]
If you think there are challenges at home, picture social-distancing in a country with over a billion people. India has many memories for me, one of the most vivid is what seemed to be a totally eccentric sense of spatial awareness! To the extent that, in my favourite state, a burn on the ankle from […]
If you’re going to be locked down anywhere there may be fewer more interesting places to choose than Peru – but lock-down is lock-down, no matter how breathtaking the scenery and charismatic the people. I have been watching with interest the journey of drummer and musician Aaron Meli on facebook in recent days. He is a […]
So far the continent of Africa has got off lightly in terms of numbers of cases of COVID-19 – but how long will it last? The most recent figures we have seen here at Griot Creative suggest the virus has now been confirmed in 39 of Africa’s 54 countries. There were just over 2,500 cases by […]
MOVING ON – PEOPLES VOICE We have spent considerable time, energy and resources in empowering groups, individuals and communities to take ownership of the tools of media expression in recent years. Across all of our commissions we have worked around the world – from Bangladesh to Peru, from Tristan da Cunha to Greenland. When we […]
The St Clair Legacy Betty St Clair Clay takes a salute In 1908 Boer War hero Robert Baden-Powell published the global best seller Scouting for Boys. It sparked the birth of a Movement that has spread all across the world and created a current membership of 50-million! […]
