BARACK OBAMA - Iowa Speech Excerpt 2007
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“…We don’t need more heat in government, we need more light … Hope … That thing inside us that exists, that despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better is waiting before us around the corner; but only if we are willing to work for it and fight for it. To shed our fears […]
Awareness, Communities, Concepts, Contemporary, Culture, Events, Freedom, Function, Human rights, Inspiration, News, Philosophy, Political, SocietyGEORGE GALLOWAY - Dinner with Portillo Excerpt 2003
George Galloway:
“I could run through the world now, tyranny by tyranny and virtually every one of them is backed by the United States. It only stays in power, because of the United States. The Pakistan example, which is the perfect crystallisation of this; a soldier called ‘The General’, called himself a president, you’ll remember that, […]
BIG BROTHER - Cruelty TV As We Knew It
Sure it feels like the end of the road for what is a light entertainment/Factual show…
Or Cruelty TV as we knew it…
Racism was the last taboo, these type of show had never tackled. While class war, sexism, etc…had already been through the big brother machine… Having said that…Isn’t it the very function of CBB and […]
FOLK BRITANNIA AT BARBICAN - 21st Century Folk Music
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FOLK BRITANNIA provides an idiosyncratic snapshot of British folk music in the 21st century.
A year ago, the festival Jazz Britannia was such a success that the Barbican along with BBC Four are bringing to us this year, a 3 day festival which celebrates the evolution of British folk music from the end of the Second […]
TOM HUNTER - Living in Hell and Other Stories
Currently exhibiting at The National Gallery is an east London artist depicting real life stories taken from The Hackney Gazette.
Tom Hunter tells these stories using carefully staged, large format photographs, restaging them in compositions that often directly refer to classic paintings of the past, many of the paintings to which Hunter has referred for his […]
TERROR IN THE UK - Survey on Muslim Communities
The survey on Muslim communities by Channel 4’s Jon Snow in the light of the events of the 10/08.
The survey published by Channel 4’s Jon Snow on the 7th of August, highlighted what a certain section of the Muslim community made of the last events in Heathrow on the 10th of August. Coincidence, coincidence on […]
LOIN DU VIETNAM - Far From Vietnam
Loin du Vietnam (Far From Vietnam) is made up of seven short films made in the ‘60s at the time of the occupation of Vietnam by celebrated political directors including Jean-luc Godard and Alain Resnais.
Paulo Gerbaudo looks at the parralels between film and war then and now Loin du Vietnam is both a failure and […]
ZINEDINE ZIDANE - Head Case
The post World-Cup hangover is not over yet…and it requires that we all handle the Zidane-gate with the necessary cautious approach favored on the other side of the Alps.
Those events just showed us that words can be as hurtful as actions. From Aragones the Spanish coach calling T. Henry a ‘N…r’ on a training pitch, […]
FLIRTING AT CANNES 2006
Friday May 19th
Meeting at the UK Pavilion. Dealing with passes and accreditations. Sorting out the usual mumbo-jumbo required to cruise through the festival.
‘Volver’ from eternal ‘enfant-terrible’ Pedro Almodovar is on show and has the usual red-carpet treatment. Penelope Cruz - gorgeous in a white Balanciagga dress, or is it? - and Carmen Maura, the co-stars […]
VISIONS OF UTOPIA - Utopianism & Post-Ideological Art
Ambitious beyond its means, an international line up of some 150 artists, designers, musicians, writers, thinkers and performers wrestle with the theme of utopia in and around the birthplace of William Morris through exhibitions and installations.
News From Nowhere: Visions Of Utopia promises to be one of the largest art events in London this year. A […]
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