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10 online arts and culture events to stream whilst social distancing this weekend.
Find out what online events to look join over the weekend.
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A Few Words on Lockdown in Northern Italy
I keep thinking ahead to when this will be a memory. The worst spring. The spring when the blossoms and the birds were oblivious to our cries.
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From Stubborn Archivist
She stood up. Her parents had already left the house for work. She touched her belly over her blouse and felt its bubbling.
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500 Year Anniversary: Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre
In some ways, it’s actually better than viewing the real painting behind its thick bullet-proof glass covering at a distance, usually behind a bustling throng of visitors.
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Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Interviews, Uncategorised
In Conversation with Adetokumboh M’Cormack and Raphael Corkhill: Africa, the Power of Storytelling and The German King
Adetokumboh M’Cormack & Raphael Corkhill talk about their lives, the journey to becoming storytellers, the role films need to play in changing the narrative of Africa and their ...
Chasing Tedine
I must admit I wanted to turn my nose up at the knock-off candle, ignore it, move on, and sneer at the spuriousness of it
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Her Misfortunes
The kitchen, like the rest of her house is filled with multifarious clutter, but as she neither cooks nor has dinner guests, it is particularly difficult to understand the large ...
Ugly in yellow: Memory as fallible
Finding your own “reality” in memories of childhood trauma.
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Book Review: Map of Another Town, by M.F.K. Fisher
Best known for her food writing, in Map of Another Town the American writer M.F.K. Fisher takes us on a virtual tour of the French town of Aix-en-Provence.
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A Minute with Zack de la Rocha
There was an edge to it, a whiff of violence and unhinged possibility. In those days, the style of Leftist street protest was carnivalesque
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Some Sunken Cities
That’s what she’s doing now, on the train, for her boyfriend. You could come in on it if you want.
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Ballet Preljocaj’s La Fresque at Sadler’s Wells
La Fresque is a mesmerising show, and one to enjoy precisely in its mysterious haziness.
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Radio Four
His humming in the kitchen quickly leads to the scent of freshly ground coffee, and the clatter of various pans signals that she’ll be getting something far more exciting than ...
PRINCE.SSE.S DES VILLES at Palais de Tokyo
The curators are keen to point out in the program, however, that the megacity provides the exhibition’s context but not its content.
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Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Theater
Warheads at Park Theatre
What Warheads captures well is the naïveté of young soldiers and the strain that modern civilian life thrusts upon them.
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Nigerian Teens creating amazing SF movies.
A collective of Nigerian teens afrofuturist filmmakers have created The Critics Company a collective making incredible, science fiction movies with camerawork from old, damaged mobile phones and VFX generated ...
Arts & Culture, Column, Editor's Pick
Lucille and her Owner
He’s not anywhere near as attractive as his pictures had led her to believe. She thinks, You don’t look 6’5.
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Arts & Culture, Column, Editor's Pick
Souvlakiland
At the end of the video, he grins and she sees that he has a tiny gap between his two front teeth. This is the most excited she’s been to ...
Arts & Culture, Column, Editor's Pick
Queen Awkward
He leans down and they kiss. She touches his tongue with hers for a second. It’s a good kiss.
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Arts & Culture, Editor's Pick, Literature
Book Review: Good Day?, by Vesna Main
Vesna Main’s latest novel, Good Day?, is a masterpiece of understatement and inquiry into intimacy, fidelity, memory, and the business of fiction itself
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