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These temporary webpages are under construction. www.plusiarts.co.uk Chris Freudenberg
WILLIAM ALLEN SOCIETY (see link above "c1978:Soresen idea: William Allen Society")
Michael Sorensen's ideas for the founding of the Willian Allen Society were published in 1986 in a book edited by Richard Grover of Michael Sorenson writings "WORKING ON SELF RESPECT: WRITINGS ON OFFENDERS & OTHER HOMELESS PEOPLE" published by the Peter Bedford Trust, Legard Works,17a Legard Road, Highbury, London N5 1DE
MY LIVING & ARTS STUDIO WORK
In 1980 I became involved with the William Allen Society. I joined in activities & began renting a flat which was one of six flats in a William Allen Society house. What began earlier were Michael Sorensen's ideas for the founding of the Willian Allen Society. In a book, published later there istext of the first explanatory leaflet (see link above "c1978:Soresen idea: William Allen Society").
1980/90:
Living & studio work. Having resided in my William Allen Society flat since 1980, in 1984 I set up the The William Allen Society Pottery which I convened till 1990, an arts project in a community care context, supported by the voluntary work and donations of participants.
1990-to the present:
In 1990 I moved from one workspace to another nearby. More than ten years before this, I had moved into a new phaze in my life, making new friends taking up new tasks including overseeing the rebuilding of an old car at my elderly parents in Surrey (later completed in London), taking then car about to old car events and on journeys.
I carried on, experienced in certain practical respects of my life, underpaid, as social anthropologist (post graduate qualified) and as artist-craftsman workshop convener of an open studio in a community care setting, later getting the further acknowledgement of completing art therapy post graduate study. I am rarely without lists of things to do in various respects of my life.
I had set up myself up in the early 1980's associating with a community that that was not Community Care as the statutary and volunary agency work had become known as, but for the time being (c1980-90) was a loosely connected group of people, caring in (and as) a kind of communty (of community caring), some in residence living in William Allen Housing Co-op accomodation and me in addition working as potter at the William Allen Society Pottery which was on the premises of a non statutary/voluntary Community Care agency, the housing and employement scheme The Peter Bedford Trust.
In 1990, as well as having moved my house, I moved from my work space at the William Allen Society Pottery at the Peter Bedford Trust to setting up my workshop nearby in Highbury. As well as taking up in an abandoned cellar space which had been full of junk, I set about to train to become a registered art therapist and put the accomodation, part of five flats that I had come to have partial responsibility for, into better order. The restoration of the old car came to completion in local London garage accomodation (this restoration work having previously taken place in borrowed space in Surrey). I continue painting & working with clay.
Elsewhere on my webpages is written some of perspectives that occurred to me regarding intentional communities and caring (see http://homepage.mac.com/mountpleasantry/written/Personal134.html ). Richard Grover wrote the book "Communities that Care: Intentional Communities of Attachment as a third path in Community Care" published 1995 by Pavilion Publishing (Brighton) Ltd. I have done quite a lot of my own art work as well as convening art work doing sessions and continuing reading/personal research and attended summer courses of The Champernowne Trust (courses on psychotherapy and the arts).
© C.D.Freudenberg revised 24.01.05 / work in progress / www.plusiarts.co.uk
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