A sculptor recalls her fling with a restaurateur as the world succumbs to a deadly virus in Hall’s urgent lockdown taleThe pandemic novels are coming. While lockdown hovered just out of eyeline in Rachel Cusk’s Second Place and provided a coda to Sally…
Angeliena review – car park worker dreams of getaway in shallow South African drama
Thin characterisation and a superficial critique of wealth inequality post-apartheid keep Uga Carlini’s fiction in first gearThe colourful opening of Uga Carlini’s Angeliena suggests a giddy ride awaits: the camera follows a suitcase plastered with tra…
【ウェビナー参加募集】“食の主権”をコモンズによって取り戻す：フードイノヴェイションの未来像 第8回：サラ・ロヴェルシ（Future Food Institute創設者）
自分たちが食べるものを自らのコミュニティが選び、生産・流通するといった「食料主権」は、食の工業化に伴ってほとんどの人々が手放していった権利だ。食の循環がコミュニティの文化やネイバーフッドを醸成するだけでなく、地球環境にとって決定的なインパクトを与える時代に、リジェネラティヴな食のあり方をコモンズとして捉え、食の主権を再び自分たちの手に取り戻すことはいかにして可能なのか？ Future Food Institute創設者のサラ・ロヴェルシをゲストに迎え…
Does practice make perfect?
Prodigies such as Emma Raducanu spend thousands of hours honing their skills, but could anyone deliver a world-class performance with enough dedication?At the end of every edition of his children’s TV show Record Breakers, Roy Castle used to sing: “If …
Celebrating Cumbria’s west coast – in pictures
Internationally renowned photographer Vanessa Winship named emerging artist Phoebe Kiely as her pick of new talent, and the West Coast Photo Festival will bring them together for the first time Continue reading…
Jason Donovan on Kylie, coolness and cocaine: ‘I’m a survivor and I’ve made mistakes’
Fresh from a run in Joseph, and about to go on tour, the actor and singer reflects on superstardom, drug addiction and the steadying joy of fatherhoodDespite insisting that he likes to look to the future, Jason Donovan is confronted with the past much …
‘I went wherever there was fighting’: how Sam the Wheels filmed Brixton ablaze
From the tumult of the uprisings to everyday scenes, Clovis Salmon’s jerky camera captured Black British life. As his work hits the big screen, we meet the 94-year-old known as Sam the Wheels‘I used to keep my camera like this,” says Clovis Salmon, put…
How to Survive an Apocalypse review – dinner drama ducks deep questions
Finborough theatre, LondonJordan Hall’s play dips its toes into surviving global apocalypse but only explores romantic disaster This play will not teach you how to survive an apocalypse. Pitched as a romcom about the complexities of survivalism, this f…
‘The strangeness seeped into the music’: how Iceland’s midnight sun inspired Jezabels’ Heather Shannon
The Australian musician talks about creating her aching, jagged new album of solo piano compositions in the wake of chemotherapyAt the beginning of 2016 Heather Shannon of the Jezabels felt as though “someone had pumped cement into [my] veins”. Her ova…
Ridley Road review – fascism thriller resonates in our current dark age
Based on Jo Bloom’s novel, Sarah Solemani’s drama tells the story of amateur spies infiltrating neo-Nazis in 60s London. Despite some cartoonish moments, it is highly disturbingA sunlit bedroom in a country house in Kent, 1962. An adorable moppet is he…