🎙️ The Emergency Room: Who gets to make? Craft, Courage and Creative Survival?🎤 Hosted by Selina Candengue & Ummi HoqueThis episode explores what it really takes to build a life in making — financially, emotionally, and socially — and how community spaces like Blackhorse Workshop challenge who feels allowed to enter that world in the first place. It becomes a conversation about creative survival, not just creative success.We’re joined by:✨Jo Clarke – Director of Blackhorse Workshop. She is an artist and maker with 20 years’ experience in the non-profit sector, leading creative community-based programming, mainly in East London. She has worked in social enterprise and cooperative development, and is the founder of London Green Wood CIC. She’s also a Trusteeat Rosetta Arts, with a focus on community participation.✨Lucy Martin – Creative Programme Manager (Schools and Young People). Lucy is an experienced creative youth practitioner and journalist who has worked with young people to produce documentaries, podcasts, and photography exhibitions alongside craft-based youth programmes. Having programmed and led multiple youth projects across East London, contributing to long term change for young people.Check out Blackhorse Workshop’s website. You can find a range of courses and events, studios, bookable open-access woodwork and metalwork workbenches, monthly memberships, and supported sessions led by expert technicians to help you get startedHere’s a network of open-access workshops across the UK. Whether your interests lie in ceramics or robotics, whether you consider yourself an amateur or a professional, you can explore the directory to discover an Open Workshop near you.