Photo credit: Sara Shamsavari Moroccan themed ‘Salon’ curated by celebrated artist Hassan Hajjaj, catwalk show by Nigerian designer Samson Soboye with stylists from the London College of Fashion, a Capoeira masterclass with Mestre Pastel from Raizes de Rua, and a live photo session with photographic artist Sara Shamsavari introducing the Shantrelle P Lewis’ Dandy Lion…
Freya Stewart, 34-year-old Legal Counsel at Christie’s London, on losing her mum too soon, on the power of memory and the embracing arms of the arts in keeping her legacy alive… My mum, Veronica, was full of energy. She embraced life through her love of family and friends, and overall through art, in all its…
This week The Culture Capital Exchange announced the first tranche of events to form part of this year’s Inside Out Festival. Returning this October with a characteristically sagacious and diverse mix of debates, performances, walks, talks, symposiums, screenings, and exhibitions, the Inside Out Festival 2014 in association with The Times Higher Education, invites the curious…
From a champion of the arts and community theatre in abandoned buildings in downtown Bogota, to the creator of UAE’s first Arabic and English graphic design studio, thirteen pioneering entrepreneurs have been selected from ten different countries around the world to receive the British Council’s 2014 International YCE Culture Award This week 13 young creative…