Cutting a long story short, after over a year of saving up, a couple of friends and I arrived in Costa Rica to volunteer at an animal sanctuary. To give a quick indication of the nature of the next three weeks, almost immediately one of the members of our group began copiously vomiting. Once the…
Arts, Venue
Pizza Shop Heroes at Norwich Theatre Royal
Pizza Shop Heroes is an hour-long piece of autobiographical theatre; the four actors on stage, Tewdoros (Teddy), Goitom, Emirjon and Syed told their stories of being refugees, their dangerous journeys to England and the displacement they feel in the UK. This isn’t the first play by Phosphorous theatre company, who have been creating exciting refugee…
Arts, Venue
How I changed my approach to art on social media
I’d like to say that I spent my summer in a beautiful exotic country, reclining on a sunlounger and sipping a Mojito. Unfortunately, this dream did not become a reality: my non existent wage as an unpaid intern meant that my funds stretched just far enough to buy the occasional Kinder Bueno from the Co-Op. …
Arts
Q&A with poet and UEA alumnus Luke Wright
You’re touring with your new show Luke Wright, Poet Laureate which must be massively exciting for you – in what way is this show similar or different to the many other shows that you’ve toured with? Fundamentally speaking, I do two different types of shows. Frankie Vah – the last one that I toured with…
Arts
New Primary Colours report urges Government to increase arts education funding
A recent Primary Colours report by British socialist organisation The Fabian Society has stated that there is significantly less arts education in primary schools now than in 2010. The report calls for immediate changes to be made to arts education, suggesting that ‘a greater priority for the arts in the English national curriculum’ and that…
Arts, Uncategorized
Review: Daughters of England at the Maddermarket Theatre
Written by Katie Stockton and directed by Molly Farley and Magda Bird, “Daughters of England” is a stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s lesser-known short story “A Society”. Similarly to Woolf’s narrative, the play follows a group of female friends who aim to venture into 19th century society in order to discover how well men are…