I have never considered myself to be a visual artist. As an English Literature graduate and lifelong lover of words, my strengths always lay with written media and art forms, and I’m incredibly proud of that. However, when my course finished during lockdown I found that these skills inevitably became tangled up in the post…
Gaming, Venue
Breaking into the Gaming Industry
Video games are a common form of entertainment in many of our lives, so it is no surprise that the industry is a competitive one. Players want to give back to the industry which gave them their favourite pastimes, and learn more about game creation from a creator’s perspective. However, the industry can seem elusive,…
Arts, Venue
Arts favourites of the year so far, from new releases to old loves
My choice of the year is The Lost Future of Pepperharrow, by UEA alumni Natasha Pulley: a delightful sequel to her debut novel The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, which could not have come at a better moment to whisk you away from the strange times we find ourselves in. Gentle, witty, and beautifully crafted as…
Main Stories
Concrete Awards 2020
You can see the winners of the Concrete Awards at the bottom of this page and on our social media accounts on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. Editor-in-Chief Chris Matthews: I am immensely proud of what Concrete has achieved this year. From running a successful mental health campaign to investigating stories on campus and being shortlisted…
TV, Venue
To binge or not to binge?
Binge watching content has become a normal part of our culture. The concept of binge watching has been around for a while, with people able to watch hours of continuous content uninterrupted on YouTube, or on DVD box sets of popular TV shows. Recently, the ability to binge watch has been worsened by the introduction…
Arts, Books, Venue
Isolation reads
As an avid reader, isolation is almost a dream for me. Restricted only by university summatives, it has been dictated by the government that my time cannot be spent going to work or doing anything that involves going outside. For the first few days of isolation, I focused on getting through my remaining reading lists…
Gaming, Venue
What we’re playing in isolation
Hello everyone, hope you’re all keeping safe in these weird times. As you can see, Concrete and Venue have gone completely online for this year’s remaining issues so thank you for taking the time to keep on writing for and reading us! A lot of us have suddenly found ourselves with an increased amount of…
Features
Volunteering whilst at university
I’ve been involved in some kind of volunteering for most of my life. Due to living in a seaside town, my family was involved in the RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) charity for my childhood and teen years. By the time I came to university, I was no stranger to volunteering, both for charities and…
Travel
Come fly with me, or don’t
I wrote in an article earlier this year which revealed that, despite living in five different houses and three different countries in the first decade of my life, I didn’t get on a plane until I was twenty. Although I hopped around Europe for much of my early life, I always travelled by car or…
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