Martin Clark – Sublime

No Trafficking For Me

Martin Clark — Wed, 04 May 2022 07:53:33 +0000

Martin Clark, director of the Grampus Heritage & Training scheme, shares the story of an upcycled denim initiative that is transforming lives of a new generation of refugees in Cyprus

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Some “Green Men” of Cyprus

Martin Clark — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 11:36:09 +0000

Martin Clark is Director of Grampus Heritage, an NGO involved in vocational and non-formal training in 32 countries. Since BREXIT, the developmental engine is based much more in Cyprus than the UK. Grampus and Martin have worked with Sublime for the last 14 years.

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Refugee Crisis? Or Opportunity?

Martin Clark — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 06:39:58 +0000

Since 2015 Europe crossed the line from being chiefly rural to more people living in cities. Young people especially, gravitate towards cities. The countryside empties, dereliction creeps in and older people that remain cannot cope. Using Cyprus as an example, rural refugees arrive from Africa, can they replace lost villagers?

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Shepherd Inspired Fashion

Martin Clark — Wed, 02 Jun 2021 09:06:08 +0000

Shepherding: a 12,000-year-old pastoral practice, what has it to do with fashion? The ‘nomad look’, tanned, windswept, touched by nature, confident in the landscape. Shepherds invented ‘layering’; early morning cold, loose layers to shed, as the day warms. Layering up for evening cold with local natural fibres and leather, dyed with earth colours. Grampus Heritage...

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Red Tiles

Martin Clark — Mon, 17 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Grampus Heritage, in partnership with Sublime Magazine, runs one of Europe’s most successful vocational training programmes. Funded by the EU's ERASMUS PLUS grant, organisations all over Europe receive students and teachers for cultural projects. In the past there have been some great stories – here’s one

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Corona Induced Creativity

Martin Clark — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

As for almost everybody, these past months have been difficult. The corona virus pandemic that has swept the world has had a devastating effect – as I write now, 7,113,020 people contracted the virus and 406,549 died from it, 5.7%. Some countries managed the situation better than others; Our “Green Village” European partnership is in...

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Rural Revival

Martin Clark — Wed, 05 Jul 2017 18:30:34 +0000

I first drove up the mountain from Skarinou to Kato Lefkara, Kato Drys and Pano Lefkara 18 years ago, and 15 years ago our European Union Mobility Programme sent the first group of learners here. Their objective was to learn skills in the traditional Cypriot crafts of lacemaking and silversmithing. Our organisation, Grampus Heritage &...

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Europe, People & Shared Culture

Martin Clark — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 13:18:07 +0000

_auto_generated_thumb_ Click to enlarge. Infographic from Debating Europe. The topic of whether a common ‘European identity’ is an utopia or an attainable goal has been debated heatedly during the last decade. Despite the conflicts and differences that may divide nations, people seem to recognise that there is a common value that unites European nations: its...

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Let’s Do What the Vikings Did

Martin Clark — Thu, 20 Nov 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The European project Green Village – featured before in Sublime – resulted in an explosion of innovation, giving birth to a whole set of new values, ideas and training materials. The main lesson learned is the realisation that for communities to prosper and thrive, sustainable development should be based on four pillars: environmental and economic sustainability (there is...

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Learning the Craft

Martin Clark — Tue, 12 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

In the last four years, a European partnership of NGOs, municipalities and public bodies from the UK, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Romania and Slovakia joined forces to investigate rural sustainability. Working under the banner of Green Village and supported by the European Union’s ‘Leonardo da Vinci’ programme, they investigated new ways of developing innovative cross-cultural...

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