Author Archives: Emma Puente

About Emma Puente

A believer in having many strings to one’s bow, I am a freelance video producer, ESL tutor, and gardener based in the West Midlands and I am always looking for new projects and opportunities. I’ve yet to find one that combines all three of these things, so if you have something like that for me you might just make my day. ^_^ Contact: mail (at) emmapuente (dot) com

Booster jab blues

I was pleased to be able to get my booster jab this side of Christmas to get it out of the way, but the following day I’ve found myself in a state of full potato – headaches, fatigue and general … Continue reading

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That whole pandemic thing

Oof, been a while again hasn’t it… 2020 me: “Wow, now the world has basically shut down I have so much extra time! I can update my website, write some blogs, do all those online courses I signed up to … Continue reading

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Hello and goodbye 2018!

Yes, I am just going to waltz back in here as if I haven’t neglected to write a blog post for the last two years… Don’t worry, you didn’t miss anything. ^_^ Just the usual documentation work for some of … Continue reading

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Stations of the Cross project – update

Stations of the whatnow? If you don’t know what I’m talking about, check out my original blog post here. Don’t have time to read two whole blog posts right now? Well here’s a quick reminder: Stations of the Cross is an exhibition currently taking place … Continue reading

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Analysing story structure with small folks today

Using Frozen as an example, I asked my youngest afternoon group at PQA what messages they thought the film was trying to send its audience: “Don’t fall out with your sister” “Don’t trust men” …then after some debate… “Don’t trust bad … Continue reading

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Stations of the Cross project

It’s always fun to have something new to get one’s teeth stuck into, and at the moment I am in the process of producing a series of short videos – vignettes if you will – to document the progress of … Continue reading

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Documentary – Every Child Is An Artist: Digital Arts

Every Child is an Artist At the end of last year I was one of a group of artists taking part in Every Child Is An Artist, a project created by Mercurial Dance which aims to develop the skills, ability and imagination of … Continue reading

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Every Child is an Artist project

This term I have been one of a small group of artists working with pupils at Oasis Hobmoor Academy, Birmingham as part of the Every Child is an Artist project, an initiative led by Oliver Scott of Mercurial Dance which … Continue reading

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Documenting the Apocalypse

Even if threatened with an impending apocalypse I don’t think I’d get it together to get these blog posts out in a more timely fashion… still, better to be doing than writing about doing eh? Late last year artist extraordinaire Michael Takeo … Continue reading

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Still here!

So I went off the grid for a while there, sorry about that… a few weeks ago I hooked up with my pal (and far superior blogger) Stu, the mind behind London street art blog Inspiring City, and he quite rightly gave … Continue reading

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