Leeds Creative Timebank

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Meet Sue Johnson

Sue Johnson is a timebank member and timebroker whose creative practice revolves around website design.

Originally a freelance graphic designer and artworker, she began designing and developing websites ten years ago.

She mainly develops websites based on the popular and easy to use platform WordPress. She designs and creates custom themes for the websites. Her clients include non profit groups and small businesses.

Her recent work includes a website for Urban Angels Circus featuring a system to book and pay for classes: https://urbanangelscircus.com/ She has also created a website for The Human Aquarium: https://humanaquarium.co.uk/ featuring an activities section built with WordPress custom posts.

You can see more examples of her work at: https://suesdesign.co.uk/

Twitter: @suesdesign https://twitter.com/suesdesign

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Four Ways to Spend your Time Credits!

So you have given some time to one or two projects and have saved up some hours, but you are not sure how to spend those hours. Here are four ideas of ways to spend your time…

1.Make a film just for fun. Yorkshire Life Aquatic spent time credits making a this film in a fountain in Doncaster: Maria Spadafora filmed it, Annabeth Robinson edited and gave it the 1950’s film reel look/ background music, and Ivor Tymchak did the voice over. A total of 12 hours

What small project could you put together on time credits?

2. Spend time with another member. This is a photo from an exhibition Wave by artist and Timebank member Jo Lee. In asking her to photograph some objects, I found out lots of things about her work and how she works with small objects. Spending a couple of hours to meet someone or see their approach to a creative task is very interesting.

3. Participatory Art Cycle -Walk – Member Caleb, (now time banking in Bristol), paid members time credits to cycle in shared pedestrian-cycle walk spaces across the city. Maybe you have an idea you want to test with members or have them help out with public workshops.

4. Moving Premises – Members helped Live Art Bistro move into their new building. This included de-rigging lighting/sound and a whole lot of general moving and lifting.

Don’t have enough credits? Maybe another member will gift you some?

That is just a few to be thinking about. Over the next few months, we will share more ideas from members about how they use the Timebank and about their work as we’ll as ideas of how to spend and earn time credits.