BLOGS

Stefan Freedman
Stefan Freedman’s Dance Wise Book Everyone can dance. This book makes it easy, with enjoyable start-up exercises suitable for complete beginners. The inner response is as vital as the visible movement. Internationally celebrated dancer and choreographer, Stefan Freedman, describes how dance enriches the psyche, drawing on 38 years of facilitation. Witness dance assisting with recovery […]

Rohanah’s Peace Cards
Green Shoots at SICA Britain Rohana Darlington writes about signs of new life. After a period of turmoil in Subud Britain, focused on heated disagreements about a proposed property purchase, I was heartened to learn of some more encouraging developments. With the pandemic still rife in our country, people are nevertheless trying to discover how to […]

Maurice Baker
Maurice Baker Singer-Songwriter Maurice began playing in folk clubs around London and the South East during the Sixties. As a schoolteacher in the Seventies, he also wrote and produced music for various educational projects. Leaving teaching in the Eighties he formed Sunshine Express, a band performing in schools and theatres, etc. He also directed music […]

The Taste Rainbow
THE TASTE RAINBOW Eating to Ease Chronic Illness * T H E * T A S T E * R A I N BO W * offers delicious recipes, insights and tips to increase energy naturally! Join the online seminar on Fri 14th May, 2021 at 11.00 EDT (16.00 BST), with Caroline Osborne, food nutritionist. […]

Marius Exhibits Abstract Photo-Art
Marius Grose – SICA Britain Coordinator – has a wonderful selection of his creative photography on this website. He comments: These images are a sample of unofficial street art derived from the scratchings and scrapes of paint that are around us all the time. Paint on walls, on the roads, on rusting sheets of metal […]

Recent Work by Sofiah Garrard
My work gradually changes all the time without a lot of ‘intellectualising’, as long as I keep working the ideas keep coming. My previous experience as an etcher and textile designer seem to creep into the pictures more and more. At the moment I’m working on some collages of Rochester Cathedral and waiting for a […]

New Kindle Book by Rohana Darlington
Lady Of The Ascendant Today is my launch day. I sent publicity material to Professor Bernard Capp of Warwick University who is one of the UK’s leading authorities on 17th century history. It was partly due to his encouragement for my project that I began the novel some years ago. I hope he’ll like it […]

Mashud and Shokunin
I’m Mashud Darlington and I live in the beautiful limestone White Peak District in East Cheshire with my wife Rohana. I’ve had a lifelong love for wood as material with its subtle textures and aromatic scents. I was fortunate in my introduction to woodworking. I recall as a school boy over fifty years ago approaching […]