HITCHCOCK’S EMD CINEMA - Injustice in Art & History
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It’s one of those injustices we see too often in the world of art and history… An integral monument to the cultural structure of a society being sacrificed in the name of some unfulfilling, commercial purpose.
The EMD Cinema in Walthamstow was a celebrated building. It is acknowledged as one of London’s finest art deco cinemas […]
THE PLANETARIUM - The Artvaults Project
Below the post war redevelopment that characterises Southampton’s city centre lies a labyrinth of over 100 underground vaults dating back to the twelfth century. For the second year seven of these spaces are being opened every weekend through the summer as exhibition venues. Last year the project, organised by ‘a’ space, attracted 15,000 visitors.
Three artists […]
JAZZ IN THE CITY - Exploration of Jazz & Art
Nina considers the musical language of jazz to be one of her greatest inspirations. Her exhibition, Jazz in the City is the culmination of a life’s work for this innovative and unique artist.
It also begins a tour featuring Nina as an artist in residence, to include The International Jazz Festival in Moscow, during which Nina’s […]
RAHMANIAN RHAPSODY - Letting his Work do the Talking
A. R. Rahman, having scored for over 75 movies and sold over 150 million albums, is almost worshipped as a god in some parts of India. However, despite his huge success he is ever the reluctant celebrity, preferring to let his work do the talking. Rahman will bring his Live, 3D Concert to Wembley Arena […]
Artist, Bollywood, Classical, Concert, Director, Film, History, Lover, Magic, Movie, Music, MusicianTHE RISING - Aamir Khan’s Influences & Politics
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The latest Indian blockbuster featuring an International cast and aimed at a crossover audience released recently in the UK. Sangeeta Datta talks to Aamir Khan about his influences and politics.
Bollywood is now India’s biggest calling card in the ever growing business of entertainment. It is the new buzzword and mantra in Diasporic cross cultural worlds […]
THE COLONISTS COMPROMISE - The Sugar Wife
The Sugar Wife is a play set in Dublin’s Quaker community of 1840. Written by Elizabeth Kuti, an English-Hungarian writer who moved to Dublin in 1993. Maureen McManus interviewed the playwright to explore the process by which the play was written.
The Sugar Wife tells the story of four characters, the main one being Hannah […]
LIBRARY OF THE PEOPLE - Whitechapel Library
Whitechapel Library - that great library of the East End - finally closed its doors on Saturday 6th August 2005, after more than a century of use.
To those who used it down the years it was much more than a simple storehouse of books, as the poem here by Bernard Kops well shows. From its […]
ISMAIL KADARE - Man Booker International Prize Winner 2005
“Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible… The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship”
Ismail Kadare, Albanian writer of broad international reputation who has been living in France, has won the first ever Man Booker International Prize recently. He has received the prize of £60,000 and a trophy at the Award Ceremony on 27 June 2005 […]
FLIGHT 5065 - Live Arts Festival at the London Eye
This is the first time ever that the London Eye has been used for a live arts festival and was sold out well in advance of its opening. It seems an African summer breeze has blown in over the UK, with weather temperatures soaring, bringing with it a feast of unforgettable experiences.
How ironic then that, […]
BIG LIFE - A Thoroughly Enjoyable Musical
A tightly delivered and highly professional musical offering. Set in the British black community, musical production The Big Life is one of two well-received plays running in the West End.
The Big Life was created at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, from where it transferred to its current home at the Apollo Theatre, having had two […]
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