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
Posts by Martin Clark
Some “Green Men” of Cyprus
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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.
Refugee Crisis? Or Opportunity?
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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?
Shepherd Inspired Fashion
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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,…
Red Tiles
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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
Corona Induced Creativity
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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…
Rural Revival
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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…
Europe, People & Shared Culture
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_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…
Let’s Do What the Vikings Did
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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…
