Many thanks to all our friends, sponsors and supporters who are helping us to make ALL happen. We are a very lightly-funded organisation (‘agile’ I believe is the term?) and so every contribution is invaluable to us. Specific thanks go to: Rosie and her team at Waterstones for hosting our Shelf Life exhibition and ALL Shop on the Top Floor throughout the festival Paul at Agar Scientific for sponsoring our Panel Discussion at Trinity College on October 21 Malavika and Jamie from Festival of Ideas and Sidgwick Site for sponsorship and hosting so much art Cambridge City Council for supporting our grant application Chris…

In an exciting new departure, the youngest artists taking part in ALL this year are from the Reception Class at Spinney Primary School. Facilitated by lead artist Deb Wilenski and supported by Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination, the pupils have been exploring local woodland and documenting their encounters. True to the spirit of ALL – in which art, text and place collide – the resulting exhibition This tree is bigger than earth uses image and language to articulate some of the ways in which children perceive a small, wild, tangled part of Cambridge. I’m very much looking forward to it – should make for a fascinating…

Just over a month to go. Yesterday I received this annotated picture from Egidija and Collective Investigations, asking for the windows at the Sidgwick Site to be measured for their vinyl installation outside the Philosophy Library. It seemed like a good way to summarise the current state of play – all the scribbles, notes, ideas, daydreams and wish lists from the last few months are now being sized up, ordered, fabricated, drawn, made and  created. Which of course also means that they are also being worried about, obsessed over, changed, amended, deleted and re-made. With many thanks to Judith Weik, who…