An Arts Council England grant of nearly £50,000 can be game changing if wisely invested. After securing this prize for their upcoming 'Egham Visions: Changes in Time and Perception', Egham Museum have chosen to spend it on New Zealand born artist Estella Castle. Could a non-local artist threaten to turn the museum's focus away from the local community which has always supported it?
Read MoreWe as readers are asked to decide ‘Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster?’.
Read MoreI am filled with a longing and hope, that one day, maybe in my lifetime this will be available for me to try at home. That it will be a regulated system, that there will be no fear of criminalisation, of who has made this product, hell, maybe you’ll even be allowed to grow your own! One day, I hope that this will be the case, so I no longer watch the benefits from across the ocean and can openly experience them myself, in a legal, supportive environment.
Read MoreMany have learned more about Colston’s legacy from his tumble rather than his plinth.
Read MoreA statue signifies a celebration and is a way of creating a legacy, but certain historical figures do not deserve to be remembered not valorised, despite their impacts in the world. We all love a statue, just not one of an imperialist slave trader.
Read MoreHas lockdown got you dreaming of an epic continent spanning adventure? Maybe you’re longing for sandy beaches, sky scraping mountains or cities steeped in rich cultural history. Though these places may seem impossibly out of reach right now they’re actually right at your fingertips, and you can go there with your friends right now.
Read MoreAnd so just as a calf demands milk, a statue of a slaver demands to be toppled or graffitied or scrawled on by the hands of those it (and more importantly the legacy it represents) makes an absence of
Read MoreAt last, after years of asking nicely, the people of Bristol took the situation into their own hands, rectifying some of our wrongs; they said enough is enough, we will create our own history. They turned the statue’s very existence into an act of rebellion that should be remembered for years to come.
Read MoreEvery country and their cities have their own cultural and political leanings on a whole bunch of things; religion, food, work, you name it…Though one thing you might not think about every day yet still causes a lot of controversy is --- drugs.
Read MoreThe resurgence of spiritual and holistic practice has driven a collective desire to understand ourselves better in order to transcend physical blockages and reach higher levels of consciousness. This is a tale as old as time, with people using psychedelic drugs to tune in closer to God/Spirit/the Universe for hundreds of years, from the American Indian Shaman burning Ayahuasca on the Plains to the LSD loving Hippies of the 70’s.
Read MoreWe, as a society, are seeing the worst in people, but we are also seeing the very best. Where there has been a fracture within ‘normal’ society, the kindness of others has rushed to fill it. This kindness, it often seems, can come from complete strangers.
Read MoreWe have a work culture that has been flipped on its head, pre coronavirus, many of us would wake in the morning, put our working clothes on and, grabbing a coffee for the journey, head out to start our day. Traditionally many office workers slogged away from 9-5 before packing up and heading home, repeating the same routine from Monday to Friday.
Read MoreCovid 19: or how I stopped worrying and learned to love Zoom. As Zoom has been the flavour of the month for almost every month since time began (do you, reader, also yearn for the golden era before quizzes), we are spending an inordinately large amount of time staring vacantly into the little fishbowls of each other’s homes.
Read More‘I think my phone is trying to take me down’, I thought to myself, paranoid, as I laid sprawled out on the floor staring at its screen from across my room. We were just together a few minutes ago, why is it already luring me in for round two? It seductively waves me over, winking and stroking my ego with all the ways it can fill my boredom.
Read MoreIn the past three months, volunteering has been seen as something that each one of us can do, rather than an activity reserved only to ‘charitable’ souls. The pandemic has forced people to think about what community - big or small - they are a part of, and what they could do to help keep others safe.
Read MoreSince the UK went into lockdown, and the world went crazy, it’s been difficult adjusting to the ‘new normal’. Some days I am the most productive, running 5k’s and baking banana bread, whilst other days it's a miracle I even leave my bed at all. On the days I am at my least productive, it is hard not to feel like I’m wasting time;
Read MoreI started mine about 10 minutes before a group of my school friends & I were due to perform our very energetic dance at a rival school’s competition. I was not prepared and was ushered to the office in silence by a teacher I didn’t know and handed what can only be described as THE BIGGEST SANITARY PAD IN THE WORLD.
Read MorePrior to the lockdown I felt like I had been running on ice for months. Since finishing University, I had felt like I had been moving frantically in a desperate attempt to stay balanced, but I couldn’t find a way to step forwards in the direction I wanted to go in.
Read MoreOur society has been built on the idea that time is linear, that we are constantly evolving and developing our ways of living and creating - however, Hauntology presents an alternative, that perhaps time is something less one-dimensional and in fact, the past, present and future are able to coexist through the acts of recycling and repetition.
Read MoreWhen nurtured, these sensitive characters (often highly reactive when young, seen to present physical excitement at stimuli that warranted a mere smile in the future extroverts) are referred to as orkidebarn, or ‘Orchid Children’. People that if brought up in nurturing and guided environments will bloom into flowers of unusual beauty, especially if given greenhouse care.
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