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Words & Pictures #nine – Friedrich & Cage
As part of our new virtual salon for artists; the salon:scape, we are launching the Words & Pictures feature. Every week our online group of artists will be inspired to take a piece of writing and find its visual soul mate. This week we have paired a quote from American composer, music theorist, writer & artist, John Cage
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All’s Fair in Love & War – New Shakespeare show at The Cockpit
This month we bring you something quite special: a new one-night-only show. Our popular Shakespeare:Bites course for actors always ends with a public performance. Last year Occupy: Love for Valentine’s Day saw a cast of angry and lovelorn demonstrators pitch camp on stage and play out their passions through Shakespeare scenes and sonnets. This year, we have transported our actors to a
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The Sewing Workshop: New Class with Twelfth Night costume designer, Noelle Claude
Noelle Claude took our breath away as costume designer for our production of Twelfth Night at Hoxton Hall. She resurrected old fraying wardrobes, revolutionised basic staples and created a wonderworld of Victorian Music Hall. Corsets, hats, dresses, military blazers…no job was to big, no detail too small. We are proud to announce that Noelle will be running
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Words & Pictures #eight – Leibovitz & Emerson
As part of our new virtual salon for artists; the salon:scape, we are launching the Words & Pictures feature. Every week our online group of artists will be inspired to take a piece of writing and find its visual soul mate. This week we have paired a quote from 19th century American essayist, poet and philosopher, Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Tears for Queers – Responding to the BFI Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
The 27th London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival might have served its last box of popcorn for this year, but writer and film fanatic Shelton Lindsay is still all aglow at the memory… My, now coffee-less large takeaway latte cup is filled past overflowing with the tissues and rags I’ve been using to dry my
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Back once again with The Renegado master
Got all the Jacobean drama you need from Shakespeare? Think again, fool, says Kim Gilchrist. In this installment of his romp through early 17th Century theatre, Kim introduces us to a little-known gem… Massinger’s play, The Renegado, tells the tale of Grimaldi, a murderous corsair terrorising the Mediterranean with his dastardly crew. Deal with it:
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Words & Pictures #seven – Khnopff & Siri
As part of our new virtual salon for artists; the salon:scape, we are launching the Words & Pictures feature. Every week our online group of artists will be inspired to take a piece of writing and find its visual soul mate. This week we have paired a quote from author and essayist, Siri Hustvedt, about the freedom of
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Words & Pictures #six – Adams & Becher & Becher
– Words & Pictures – As part of our new virtual salon for artists; the salon:scape, we are launching the Words & Pictures feature. Every week our online group of artists will be inspired to take a piece of writing and find its visual soul mate. This week we have paired a quote from Ansel Adams, the Grand-daddy
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Words & Pictures #five – Reportage 50′s America & Gogol
– Words & Pictures – As part of our new virtual salon for artists; the salon:scape, we are launching the Words & Pictures feature. Every week our online group of artists will be inspired to take a piece of writing and find its visual soul mate. This week we have paired a quote from Gogol about the madness
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Words & Pictures #four – Delano & Rumi
– Words & Pictures – As part of our new virtual salon for artists; the salon:scape, we are launching the Words & Pictures feature. Every week our online group of artists will be inspired to take a piece of writing and find its visual soul mate. This week we have paired a quote from Rumi about the human spirit,
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