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(Ex-sar-ruh or 'X') Artist Leverhulme PhD Scholar, BAFTA Scholar Alumna Hon MA Radio St, Transdisciplinary #ArtsBasedResearch Neurodivergent www.xsara.co.uk/academic
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'In Pursuit of Silence' is a meditative documentary on our relationship with silence, sound and the impact of noise on our lives. Beginning with an ode to John Cage’s ground-breaking composition 4’33.

youtu.be/yDWqA5SSVd4?...

#noise #sound #silence
In Pursuit of Silence
YouTube video by Arif Zainal
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Grateful to have my first published poem 'To be Unmade' in Issue #9 of the literary and arts journal, Indelible (theme: Awakening) by the London Arts-Based Research Centre (@labrc.bsky.social).

Out Oct 11 → indeliblelit.com
Cover artist: Pamela Chrabieh

#poetry #ArtsBasedResearch #PaR #poetry
Artwork shows a woman’s face against a red background. Her neck transforms into green grass, and her head blossoms into flowers. One eye is bright green and visible, while the other is hidden beneath petals.
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Yay for #JCRM journal launch and cupcakes, with @edwina-thorn.bsky.social Sophie Woodward Harriet Shortt and @drhelenkara.bsky.social @bupjournals.bsky.social
Journal of Creative Research Methods flyers on the publisher's stand with a JCRM cupcake JCRM editorial team
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Registration is open for 'Women Transforming Classical Music', a free 6-week online course to diversify
repertoire by including more works by women composers.

Launch will be held online, Friday, Sep 19th, 10am- 12pm (UK/ROI time)

www.open.edu/openlearn/hi...

#music #classicalmusic #womeninmusic
Women transforming classical music
Women transforming classical music is a free course aimed at helping individual performers, ensembles and organisations within the classical music industry to diversify their repertoire by ...
www.open.edu
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'Brave New Worlds: Women's Work In Music' Conference, Trinity Laban.

#artsresearch #music #womeninmusic
Building of the Naval College in Greenwich, London. Conference pack Photo of talk at the conference with Dr. Jo.Hutton speaking on Daphne Oram Photo of talk with Dr. Liz Gre talking about listening as a method.
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📣 Coming soon: The Journal of Creative Research Methods📣
We’re a home for researchers who are thinking, questioning, or approaching research in a creative way 💡
Learn more bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/jou...
#RGS2025 #RGS25
Journal of Creative Research Methods. 
We accept submissions of: 
Creative, qualitative, quantitative, or multi-modal research;
Creative arts-based research;
Creative digital research;
Creative research using transformative research frameworks;
Creative adaptations of existing methods.
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'Reflections of Being' by artist Max Cooper @barbican.bsky.social from their 'Feel the Sound' immersive exhibition.

#sonicart #art #sound
xsarahelmi.bsky.social
I was touched to be mentioned in the acknowledgements of my friend's second book in his debut series. Very kind. 🌸

'The Weapon and the Fruit: Any Body Can Murder'
A quirky caper – darkly comic mystery @lebendon.com

www.amazon.co.uk/Weapon-Fruit...

#DebutNovel #MurderMystery #IndieAuthor #Whodunit
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Was reading Tolstoy’s 'What is Art?' this morning- unexpectedly funny. His tirades against Wagner are so gloriously petty, it’s hard not to admire. We should all write books like this when the world gets on our nerves- dressing up irritation as intellectual rigour.

#aesthetics #tolstoy #wagner
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Edge of salt,
breath of ancient gods-
grains, silent witnesses,
carrying the light
of endless tides.

#everydayaesthetics #aesthetics #sand #beach #poem #theopoetics #poetry #photography
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#photography #everydayaesthetics #aesthetics #swamp #nature #lake
xsarahelmi.bsky.social
Playing with clouds.

#photography #everydayaesthetics #aesthetics #clouds
xsarahelmi.bsky.social
And on the Sixth Day in Manchester,
the earth hummed beneath the concrete,
music threaded through brick and rain,
and only those who listened heard it rise

*Corner of Piccadilly and Gore Street, Manchester *

#photography #Manchester #Streetart #everydayaesthetics #aesthetics
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Thank you to the London Arts-Based Research Centre for the chance to present my first PhD paper @ox.ac.uk on May 11th, as part of their inspiring conference on the sacred & spiritual in #artsresearch

#artsbasedresearch #auraldiversity #phenomenology #aesthetics #mysticism #autism #consciousness
xsarahelmi.bsky.social
I was drawn to this rusted bench overlooking the sea. I wonder how many memories happened here... Even in decay, there is beauty, perhaps just transformed.

#photography #wabisabi #aesthetics #everydayaesthetics #decay
Rust and rust inverted. A weathered, rusted bench overlooking the sea. Rust.