Kings day

 The Arts Hole - 

"let's AV it !" - exhibition and workshop series

Amsterdam- 101 😎

Nieuwmarkt 2023 xxx

PATH - Shekinah - PCC what an effin bunch

 I just noticed that my correspondence with PATH post seems to have not uploaded ...

So I'll do it this way fuck em 

Food for thought 🤔

I'm getting the feeling that every interned asshole that works for these ' institutions ' is nothing more than a mortgaged deplorable 

Commodity

 Ok , 

Out of the bric a brac in the image below ...

Can anyone guess what's worth the least ? 

Obviously I couldn't fit a politicians career into the image , so just out of the things you can actually see below 

Answers on a postcard to someone that gives a shit 🙊🙉🙈

Set lists and anxiety

I'm supposed to be doing an exhibition circuit this year ...

How the hell did I get roped into this ....

A little bit different to usual - well open with the exhibition and a little talk about the work and  individual sovereignty, 

A couple of musician friends that really want to work over this weekend - suggested I sing (well, publicly growl at a microphone ) seeing as the sub title of the exhibition is 

' tower of Song ' we were going to close the evening with a little bit of music ...

That's now an 8 - 12 song set list ...we've got a pianist , a saxophonist , and at least two female vocalists 

Anyone else want to jump on the tour bus ...give me a shout x

Adminz ....

 HMRC / Aaron Valerio

AV

Artby Valerio

To:

artbyvalerio@hotmail.co.uk

Tue 03/11/2020 09:21

Summary of misunderstanding to date : 

Aaron Valerio Complaint Reference :

Following on from the very courteous Phone conversations with the HMRC complaints and resolve departments please find attached a copy of the requested paperwork 

the ' outstanding ' tax returns as can be demonstrated are rendered non applicable due to my attempts at self-employment in a bad economy, rendering turnover well below the relevant threshold. 

I have had a valid working tax credit claim during the entirety of the tumultuous trading time and yet I am currently being penalised for this on a weekly basis from my now valid and meagre  fit note based U.C claim ! rendering additional unnecessary hardships on top of what has already been such a trying time as to have rendered me clinically depressed 

3 years this agency has been seemingly completely unable to process any aspect of, presumably very simple yet unorthodox circumstances, it has cost me housing , relationships and of course such a tentative trepidation as to how to proceed with even a basic model of trade as to have cost contracts demonstrably worth thousands of pounds !! effectively compromising my progress from the subsidy aspect of this sad rattled economy 

Due to the length of this dispute , the unbelievable scale of confusion , effectively rendering my addled state , I have formally requested a transcript of our communications to date, and although I have been contacted by a member of your complaints department in a much appreciated albeit belated attempt to wrangle in this nonsensical case, I have yet to receive the information as requested 

Thankfully at last , a member of your complaints team has been good enough to try to walk me through the unknotting of this debacle, however and thanks to these communications I am informed that I am owed an outstanding £209 for payments wrongfully made to the self employment account 

I do believe that I should indeed be due the VAT back on the necessary purchases surmounting to the approx. £6000 per year that I have been attempting to muster a producer's trade out of this estate agent's economy, as well as a full reappraisal of the Tax credit status and eligibility to ESA under the current paradigms, confusing such as they are ?

assuming I can find no financial value to the stress incurred , the tenancies lot , relationship breakdowns or potential work lost !! I do believe that some renumeration should be forthcoming for the basic aforementioned 

I Look forward to hearing from you and the subsequent overdue closing of these matters 

Aaron Valerio 

Correspondence with Shekinah

 Dated :

Re: Safeguarding investigation meeting

AV

Artby Valerio

To:

John Hamblin; Peter Woad

Fri 25/03/2022 11:59

Good morning John 

I fail to understand your capacity to be affronted by what was a relatively concise , albeit abrupt response 

Your perfectly reasonable question wasn't received until after the point of the proposed meeting had taken place  ( as disclosed and as formerly mentioned , is common knowledge amongst your staff ....that my means of picking up and or responding to email correspondence is limited wholly to the facilities at Shekinah 24 , ) ....can you see the failing here ? 

Having sent an email instruction to attend a meeting with yourself  , despite severing the means to intercept said email with the request to not attend the premises while this questionable investigation was being undertaken ( without suitable opportunity for rebuttal to date ) 

So in the interim weeks I have been making suitable use of my time with extraneous projects , not checking my emails ....but managing to conduct suitable business without being reliant on this single means of communication , but in lieu of hearing any feedback from your organization other than the assumption that I should have received an email via telepathy presumably I have been left in a confounded state of frustration , given the nature of your organisation I would feel you might have resilience to accommodate an emotionally charged response resultant from such poor handling 

My concern for your attempt to de legitimise my pursuits while in this state of imposed hiatus is limited ... And I have no need to offer additional justification to assuage the palpable distrust that comes across in your discourteous handling of this debacle 

Seeing as I am not being given suitable opportunity for defense against this ' complaint ' which still has not been fully explained to me , I'll write out my concerns here and we can see where we end up 

The allegations : 

As I understand it , It was considered a 'safeguarding ' concern , that some of the images displayed in the art room 

From the cursory discussion I had with Roseanna in the office of 24 the week before the suspension occured , she raised concerns , based on a site visit from a member of Plymouth city council ( an absurd organisation I have a chequered history with ...including the specific individual that has snowballed this triviality to its current state ) that impressions of ' life drawing nudity ' within the art room were able to be deemed as inappropriate , potentially triggering materials for specific individuals that may well be attending the proposed course 

The images themselves : charcoal renderings of figurative studies - by no means gratuitous of expletive ....on this count I did concede ! I agreed to remove the potentially offending art works ( despite it being a perfectly valid visual demonstration of some of the skillsets I have become proficient enough in to actually be able to offer instruction for ) 

I finished up that week , concluded the Thursday and Friday sessions 

By the following Wednesday , Roseanna had attempted to contact me via e mail , but was able to use her good sense when she hadn't heard from me via that means to follow up with the courtesy call that same afternoon to ensure that I had received to instruction to not attend the following day ( that would be the usually scheduled Thursday on to Friday rotation that I have maintained despite zero encouragement for the entire 3 years of our ' working relationship ' 

Another aspect of concern was I believe a visual ' probably ' one of the semi political signages that I have had to use in genuine real world international pop up scenarios that have demonstrably ensured that I have remained clothed, fed and housed at times that social support structures have left a great deal to be desired , again this would equate to an aspect if a tried and tested portfolio that offers a means to attest that I am in fact qualified to offer insight or suggestion within the discipline i am offering instruction 

I understand that ' eat out to help out ' and even 'Brexit refugee ' are issues being contested , in previous conversations with Nabs regarding these same issues I have issued the ultimatum " if you wish to offer a written list of things that I am not allowed to broach - then I would certainly be willing to consider those terms " but this was sidestepped and no formal resolve was reached 

Chronology : 

I feel that if you were actually investigating this issue ...the fact the ' street art signages ' i.e what I am assuming the other potentially offensive materials to be have in fact been in situ since they were originally stuck to the wall ....about 8 months ago , when we were in a nonsensical lockdown and any bit of humour was worth its weight in gold .... I simply did not have the time to censor my own creations , I didn't consider it a priority as for every single one of those 8 months we have been working in the assumption that we are dismantling this building and moving to another asap 

The fact that I don't actually have any contractual terms , despite being in receipt of payment for services rendered is really the original point of my offense to this whole scenario, the level of assumptive disciplinary authority despite the fact that I am not beholden to any contractual obligations ,

As it stands , I am not impressed ! And as such would be more than happy to take this opportunity to cease all and any collaborative measures that have been taken to date ...

But these are trying times , and I do believe in maintaining civility as and where possible 

So if you are willing to discuss this matter further , sensibly and with suitable structure then I certainly would be too and indeed feel it would probably be the most prudent course of action for all parties concerned 

I look forward to hearing from you

Regards 

Aaron Valerio 

---

From: John Hamblin <john.hamblin@shekinah.co.uk>
Sent: 24 March 2022 15:32
To: Artby Valerio <artbyvalerio@hotmail.co.uk>; Peter Woad <peter.woad@shekinah.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Safeguarding investigation meeting

 

Dear Aaron

Thanks for getting back to us. After considering your comments I would like to respond.

Firstly, I have to say I am disappointed at the tone of your email. You were asked a perfectly reasonable question (i.e. why you had not attended the meeting), in view of the fact that we had not heard from you. I see no reason for the discourteous response.

Secondly, the email inviting you to the meeting was sent on 10^th March, the day after you were requested to stay away from work whilst the safeguarding issue was investigated. Since I was on annual leave last week, the meeting was arranged for as soon as was reasonably practical. 

Thirdly, I am not persuaded by your explanation for failing to attend the meeting. The invitation email was sent to you nearly 2 weeks in advance, thus giving you more than sufficient opportunity to see it. You were also requested to let us know if you were unable to attend.

I have however been able to complete the safeguarding investigation to my satisfaction and have concluded that the safeguarding complaint should be upheld. In view of this, I have decided that it would not be appropriate to use you to deliver training courses at 24 going forward. 

If you would like to arrange an appointment to see me, I am more than happy to discuss this further. 

Regards

John Hamblin

John Hamblin​ Chief Executive t. 01752 203480 m. 07889683010 Website    Email

Consider the environment. Do you really need to print this email?

Shekinah Mission (Plymouth) Ltd is a company registered in England number 04687832 & a registered Charity number 1097409. The company's registered office is Bath St, Plymouth, PL1 3LT. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the intended recipients. If you are not an intended recipient you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version.

To donate, please click the banner.

---

From: Artby Valerio <artbyvalerio@hotmail.co.uk>
Sent: 24 March 2022 09:09
To: Peter Woad <peter.woad@shekinah.co.uk>
Cc: John Hamblin <john.hamblin@shekinah.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Safeguarding investigation meeting

 

Good morning Peter , 

I have found your adopted standard procedure as somewhat lacking in efficaciousness 

It was quite by chance that I happened to phone Rob in the office of 24 yesterday afternoon as I have found the lack of engagement over the passed weeks to be somewhat disconcerting , it was I am you can imagine quite a surprise to me to hear that I had in fact had a meeting scheduled with yourselves for that same Wednesday morning ! Remarkable that almost every member of staff seemed to be aware of this meeting other than myself ....

Do you not consider a confirmation of a meeting to be a pre requisite to said meeting ? You might find this to be a beneficial step when conducting these proceedings in the future

I think a cursory aspect of your investigation should have rendered the common knowledge , that due to a series of administrative failings during the pandemic I am located out if the city and that my usual practice for e mail correspondence is to use the facilities at Shekinah 24 for these purposes , I do not have a reliable signal due to transience and indeed there are extended windows where I am unable to access online content at all , which is why I always insist on a follow up call for matters of urgency ( all if this is ,as I say common knowledge within the Shekinah administrative staff )  

First and foremost I take exception to the erroneous nature by which these claims have been made and also the seemingly haphazard follow up in this unfathomable protocol 

Second of all , Wednesday 23rd I was flying back from Amsterdam so it would certainly not have been possible for me to attend your presumptuous summons 

In light of the three year history and in some cases progressions that have been made in that time , I would be willing to meet to discuss these and additional matters but I hope you find the means to entertain how prudent it might be to ascertain a mutually suitable window 

I can offer you Monday afternoon or Wednesday morning at a time to be determined by yourselves 

I have subsequently had to take great pains thus morning to secure a suitable terminal with adequate signal to be able to compose this e mail , but I do feel that at least one if us should be seen to be making suitable efforts to resolve this utterly absurd hiatus 

Regards 

Aaron Valerio 

---

From: Peter Woad <peter.woad@shekinah.co.uk>
Sent: 23 March 2022 15:54
To: Artby Valerio <artbyvalerio@hotmail.co.uk>
Cc: John Hamblin <john.hamblin@shekinah.co.uk>
Subject: Fw: Safeguarding investigation meeting

 

Dear Aaron

Please could you let me know why you did not attend the safeguarding investigation meeting this morning with John and myself.

Regards

Peter

Peter Woad​ HR Manager t. 01752 276923 m. 07582 583705 Website    Email

Consider the environment. Do you really need to print this email?

Shekinah Mission (Plymouth) Ltd is a company registered in England number 04687832 & a registered Charity number 1097409. The company's registered office is Bath St, Plymouth, PL1 3LT. This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the intended recipients. If you are not an intended recipient you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please notify the sender immediately by e-mail if you have received this e-mail by mistake and delete this e-mail from your system. E-mail transmission cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or contain viruses. The sender therefore does not accept liability for any errors or omissions in the contents of this message, which arise as a result of e-mail transmission. If verification is required please request a hard-copy version.

To donate, please click the banner.

---

From: Peter Woad
Sent: 10 March 2022 15:11
To: Artby Valerio <artbyvalerio@hotmail.co.uk>
Cc: John Hamblin <john.hamblin@shekinah.co.uk>
Subject: Safeguarding investigation meeting

 

Dear Aaron

As part of the Safeguarding investigation currently in progress, I am writing to invite you to attend an investigation meeting on Wednesday 23^rd March at 10.00 a.m. at Shekinah Mission, Bath Street, so that the matter may be discussed with you.

In attendance at the meeting will be John Hamblin, and myself to take notes. Please bring with you any information that you think might be useful to the investigation.

If you wish, you may be accompanied by a trade union representative or a colleague. However, your companion will not be able to answer questions on your behalf.

To ensure that the investigation can be conducted as fairly as possible we request that you keep the matter, and anything discussed at the investigation meeting, confidential. Any breach of confidentiality may be considered to be a disciplinary matter.

If you are unable to attend the meeting please contact me as soon as possible, so that alternative arrangements can be made.

Yours sincerely

Peter