Due to popular demand I am now adding some additional delights to keep your soul warm. Some cultural chestnuts to roast on the open fire of inspiration. Or something.
Please do keep sending me through anything you hear on your particular grapevines and I also have the hope that you will want to write some little delicacies yourself. There is a comments section at the end of every post for you to do so or feel free to send me anything you have written and I will post it up.
This might be an event you are running, a curious artistic experience or a review of something on here that you have seen. Get involved and do the do, as it were. Be inspired and inspirational.
Anyways…
First up, a beautiful exhibition of sculpture at the Frith Street Gallery opens this week. Daphne Wright manipulates an array of materials in her work but in this show she has mainly worked with Marble dust and resin to create moving sculptures of the fragility and gentle grace of animals.
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Moving on to something that is right on many of our doorsteps, the Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club is hosting a programme featuring a series of 8 films by the experimental filmic artist, Michael Robinson, followed by a Question and Answer session with the man himself.
His body of work explores the exquisiteness of loss and he has shown this from New York to Hong Kong, from the Viennale to the ICA. Now he’s just up the road.
Tuesday 19th January 8pm
Tickets: £5/£3 members
On to the section where the whirlwind of social butterflies, creativity, experience, inspiration and, well, high jinks that are our friends, are melded to produce fabulousness.
The bastions of bass and defenders of dance that are Filthy Kicks are going to be ripping up the Hootananny in Brixton on the 30th January. A joyous collision of hip-hop, drum and bass, electronica and gypsy roots, they will be jumping with Alejandro and The Magic Tombalinos and The Don Bradmans.
Go see what all the fuss is about…
On a slightly more mellow tone, he of the excellently appropriate moniker, Theo Bard, is launching a new monthly night, The Dawn Chorus, at Passing Clouds in Dalston. The first of these soirees will be on the 28th January and will see Mr Bard debuting his new band including the incontrovertible talent that is Ewan Bleach.
For the opening night they have also invited along guests including John Langan and Max Baillie.
Tickets are £5 in advance or £7 on the door at 1 Richmond Road, E8 4AA
And, not forgetting…
Martina Ziewe’s newest pieces being exhibited at the cosiest and friendliest of coffee shops, Tina We Salute You. Beautifully crafted nests and sparkle adorn the walls while one can relax and sip exceptional coffee. What could be better for those times of hibernation?
To finish off this little cultural addendum, something that is always guaranteed to generate debate. The so-called ‘War on Drugs’.
Take your opportunity to have your say and hear the opinion of those whose business it is to know in a free debate, hosted by LSE, on the impact of the current prohibition policy and whether legalisation and regulation would work in practice. Go and jostle with a United Nations senior adviser…
Don’t forget, whatever your views, you can and should also participate in the KnowDrugs.net project that is being so valiantly and determinedly run. Bring the honesty…
My next full post will be next week and after some feedback, I’ll be making a couple of changes to the layout so as not to bombard you all with scary WORDS!
Keep it unreal.
A x
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