Last chance to see what’s hiding in the light
Playable City Award winner, Shadowing, comes to an end on Halloween This Friday, on 31October 2014, marks the last day of Shadowing, the brilliant winner of this year’s Playable City Award that’s given memory to Bristol’s city lights, allowing … Continue reading
Read OnInside Out Festival presents Women Of The World and other stories…
Since Monday (20 October 2014) the 2014 Inside Out Festival has been running events all over London to explore the fascinating contribution made by London’s universities to the capital’s cultural life. The Festival comes at a time when universities are exploring … Continue reading
Read OnDon’t miss Movements…
You learn something new every time you situate a piece of past knowledge in a new context (Prof. Stuart Hall at the ICA screening of The Stuart Hall Project, 2013) It was just one week ago when The June Givanni … Continue reading
Read OnDo you remember the Moomins?
Roundish fairy tale characters with large noses that resembled hippopotamuses? The Moomins were the central characters in a series of books and comic strips by Finnish illustrator and writer Tover Jansoon released between 1945 and 1993. The Moomins have since … Continue reading
Read OnHarvard Professor’s new interactive site uncovers hidden slave histories in Jamaica and Virginia
Betty was born in Jamaica in the summer of 1739. She married and had seven children. When Betty was 46 years old, Joseph Foster Barham, British absentee owner of a Jamaican sugar plantation, bought her for just £40 along with … Continue reading
Read OnA navigation scheme for the Russian state library, drone shadow handbooks, hacked musical instruments, a heartfelt letter to Scotland, and the future of everything…
Brilliant, clever, fun, playful, surprising, inspiring, creative and beyond the imagination… this is Blurring the Lines; an exhibition curated and produced by Watershed for The British Council, which opened the other week, on 2 October 2014, at their headquarters on … Continue reading
Read OnPassing Through
Ninian Gomez, freelance at Ladbury PR, on the willow wonders of artist Laura Ellen Bacon currently exhibiting at National Trust’s Mompesson House in Wiltshire I have always been fascinated by architecture and the merging of my organic sort of muscular … Continue reading
Read OnMy brother crossed the Atlantic in a row boat
Alice Birch is a history student at Edinburgh University currently working as a summer intern at Ladbury PR, these are her reflections on her brother’s resolve and the impact of his big ocean row When my brother first announced that … Continue reading
Read OnGoing African Street Style with the Dandy Lions…
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 … Continue reading
Read OnIn memory of my mother
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 … Continue reading
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