There is so much pressure that comes with the fear of being alone on Valentine’s Day and finding that special someone to celebrate this romantic day with, that sometimes we forget about the perks of being single. Why not appreciate you living your best life by popping on a cheerful, upbeat film that celebrates everything…
Arts
This on-stage couple just doesn’t make sense!
I’ll preface this article with the fact that I love Shakespeare’s plays, truly. Twelfth Night, Othello and King Lear are all brilliant. But Romeo and Juliet’s love story is just… bizarre. We all know the story. Romeo and Juliet are from two feuding families. They meet, fall in love, marry the next day, and then…
Arts
This artwork made me fall in love: ‘The Lovers II’ (1928) by Rene Magritte
Magritte’s ‘The Lovers II’ is a lesson in falling in love, in getting closer and closer to a person and suddenly realising that you can never truly know them. It represents the conflict that exists between the image of a person conjured in the mind of their lover and who they actually are. We are…
Creative Writing
I’m Yours
i think i’m falling in love I’m canot drowning in an abyss but ascending into heaven, waiting by cupid’s gate closed an instant – waiting for love to come greet it. it feels like a dream, falling in love with you thinking i don’t deserve it – fate hidden in the crevice of my ear…
Creative Writing
Home
do i greet you with a yellow blue or pink kiss? soft arms and warm embraces, you taste like home. dirty blonde hair half toned with no great success (it’s the thought that counts) blue eyes melting with specks of gold, your snug gaze planting a kiss on my happiness. Follow Concrete on Instagram to…
Fashion, Venue
Make your hair an afro
I read the note passed to me as I sit in my year nine French class. I’m the only girl of African descent in a sea of white. I am hyper-aware the instruction is meant for me. I read the note again and glance up to see if anyone’s looking at me. They are. All…
Music
Blossoms Foolish Loving Spaces “stories of love, heartbreak and confusion”
It’s been four years since Blossoms broke through and provided us with hit singles like ‘Charlemagne’ and ‘I Can’t Stand It’. The music they released in 2018 had a range of influences, such as New Wave. I particularly liked it because it was recorded whilst they were touring for their first album. Their latest LP…
Features
Have a hand in being heard: the importance of course representation.
Over the course of the last few months, it has become apparent that in order to help improve the environment around campus, student voices need to be heard. One bottom-up initiative is the Student Staff Liaison Committee (SSLC), where elected student representatives and faculty members meet to discuss any issues, concerns or praise they have…
Arts, Venue
A book that makes me happy: Like Water for Hot Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
This is a book that once opened wraps its pages around me. My copy is old and battered and borrowed from my mum, but the vibrancy of the words has never faded. It’s the story of Tita, a young woman in a large family on the De La Garza ranch during revolutionary Mexico. She, the…
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