Sad loss of Peter Cheeseman

Peter Cheeseman, former Artistic Director of the New Vic, Newcastle Under Lyme died on Tuesday 27th April. Both Caroline Smith (founder of InterAct) and Nirjay Mahindru, worked extensively with Peter, and he was an inspirational and completely original figure in the world of British Theatre. He will be sorely missed.

Ruth Rendell Short Story Competition Awards Lunch

Baroness Ruth Rendell judged InterAct's Short Story competition, now renamed as the Ruth Rendell Short Story Competition. The winner this year was Vicky Paine for her piece FLAMES. Highly commended runners up this year were Deborah Mulhearn for her piece DIAMONDS and John Clark for his piece SUPERGRASS.
Once again, our awards lunch was held at the October Gallery Bloomsbury. For a brief film on the event, captured on our new flipcam, here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQj-DI3OrpI

Sad Demise of Whittington Stroke Ward

We did our final reading at the Whittington Hospital recently. Having read there for over 8 years it was sad to say goodbye to a great team at the hospital. Hopefully, we shall be moving onwards and upwards to Homerton Hospital in the near future! Our last reading at the Whittington was on Tuesday 30th March and members of the team went along to a local pub for a goodbye drink. We all thanked Christine Collins for being such a brilliant Admin leader for the Whittington, and Rose Sawkins, on behalf of the team, gave her a few parting presents including a one years subscription to the Renoir Cinema!! The whole team have always been fantastic and InterAct thanks them all for being such wonderful readers!

1st Ever Blog for InterAct

This is my first attempt at a blog for InterAct Reading Service. Today, Wednesday 21st April 2010 we heard that we've been selected to be in the Independent Newspaper on Sunday, as an organisation that is one of the top 100 to make people happy.

Sarah and I have been busy sorting out details for the Short Story Competition on Monday 26th, and we've just invested in a new flip cam which will hopefully allow us to record and upload video onto the website!