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Dr Penny Hay
@penahay.bsky.social
Artist Researcher, Professor of Imagination Bath Spa University, National Teaching Fellow, Cofounder Forest of Imagination, FRSA, FCCT 💚🦋
https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/our-people/penny-hay/
Oceanic Underwater
Howardena Pindell
November 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Roses for you 💖
November 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
November 21, 2025 at 7:15 AM
I have some news! 💚 #wts
November 19, 2025 at 8:49 PM
‘Let the beauty we love be what we do.’ Rumi
November 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
This was so incredibly moving, thank you Portia and all guests.
The Neurodiverse Academic: Poetic Troublings and Academic Glimmers in Higher education with Portia Ungley
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November 19, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Today! Please join us 🐙
The Neurodiverse Academic: Poetic Troublings and Academic Glimmers in Higher education with Portia Ungley
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November 19, 2025 at 6:33 AM
‘I know that hope is the hardest love we carry.’

Jane Hirshfield
November 18, 2025 at 9:45 AM
‘The Uses of Sorrow

Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.

It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.’

Mary Oliver
November 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
My Inaugural Professorial Lecture has just been published, thanks to everyone who has been part of this journey.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=JNti...
PROFESSORIAL LECTURE PENNY HAY
YouTube video by Bath Spa University
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November 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Imagine if education was multi-disciplinary, inside and outside, supported by innovative, creative pedagogies with clear values that nurture children and young people’s love of learning as active ecological citizens engaged in participatory democracy.
Image: Morag Myerscough, Birdsong 💚
November 17, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Garden hedgerow
November 16, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Autumn Rosebuds 💖
November 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I met the amazing birdgirl, Dr Mya-Rose Craig, at Avon Wildlife Trust AGM.
November 16, 2025 at 11:57 AM
‘My hope is that the sculpture has something of the kind of rightness of form which we perceive in nature and that it will speak to others by virtue of our common experience and understanding of the natural world.’
November 16, 2025 at 9:45 AM
‘Art has always been the raft onto which we climb to save our sanity.’
Dorothea Tanning ‘Quiet-willow window’
November 15, 2025 at 9:10 AM
William Scott’s Pears, another reason we need more high quality arts education 🖤
(WS also taught at Bath Art Academy)
November 15, 2025 at 8:54 AM
November 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Today! Tales from the Forest. Please join us if you’re in or near Bath 💚 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rsa-x-fore...
November 13, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Delighted to help make this happen! I studied Jann Haworth and Peter Blake’s Looking Glass School when I was an art student. Jann and I shared a friendship with Sir Ken Robinson and later we ended up working together on various experimental arts education projects. www.brlsi.org/whatson/jann...
Jann Haworth- My life with Sergeant Pepper!
Renowned pop artist Jann Haworth reflects on her extraordinary life & co-designing the "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" cover with Peter Blake!
www.brlsi.org
November 13, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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November 12, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Urban agriculture is reshaping European cities, turning unused spaces into hubs of community, culture and inclusion. From Trento to Cascais, local gardens are proving that growing food can also grow connection, empowerment and a new sense of democracy.
November 12, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Reposted by Dr Penny Hay
Check this out if you're wrestling with the challenges of living in our current times or trying to figure out what action means for you. Margaret has been a constant muse, foil and friend to me as I navigate life in service of the whole.
eARTh Spotlight: ‘Explorations of Poetic Activism: Inquiring into living & acting meaningfully in complex times’.
Join us on 25 Nov 12-1 GMT with our wonderful guest speaker @margigold.bsky.social co-chaired with the equally brilliant @lucyenglish.bsky.social
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November 12, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Today I’m teaching on the ‘Applied Theatre: Creative Education’ course at uni. sharing our learning from School Without Walls and Forest of Imagination, with a focus on progressive principles and creative learning. An experimental life as applied theatre ;)
Image: Bob and Roberta Smith
November 12, 2025 at 7:47 AM