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6 February 2025
Gig Review: Kickback with Choked and The Humdrum Express, Ludlow Assembly Rooms
The first Kickback night at Oscars, Ludlow Assembly Rooms, presented psyc-funk and post-punk Choked and The Humdrum Express.
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21 January 2025
The Responsible AI Summit: Charting a path for ethical and responsible AI
The Responsible AI Summit, organised by Joaquin Melara and Clara Lin Hawking through the Swarm Community, brought together diverse voices to address the critical challenges and opportunities of artificial intelligence (AI).
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6 July 2024
SouthWestFest
Our Festival Day is back on Saturday 6th July 2024 in St. George’s Square. Ending the Festival Day will be Show Tunes in the Square featuring over 100 local children and full orchestra. We can't wait to see you there!
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1 November 2022
Pay as you can bakery is the icing on top of the cake for Birmingham!
I visited Lil's Parlour CIC Birmingham's first award winning pay as you can bakery in Northfield and interviewed founder and director Lucy Scott to find out more.
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25 June 2022
North Kensington Youth and Community Festival
NKYCF unite for the #onecommunity festival in honour of the Grenfell tragedy.
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9 August 2021
Aliza Nisenbaum at Tate Liverpool
In this post, I discuss the exhibition by artist Aliza Nisenbaum, which is currently held at Tate Liverpool,. The artist is most famous for her colourful and bright portraits of community groups.
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6 August 2021
Summer Showcase: Fashioning Our History
The Fashioning our History Project explores diversity in fashion and art, through a series of workshops, and talks, culminating in an
exhibition of participants work and a fashion installation at Willesden Green Library Centre.
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3 May 2021
The importance of radio during lockdown
During lockdown, we have all had to adapt to the changing conditions of a pandemic. For myself and numerous others, online radio has offered musical discovery and much needed connection with others.
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19 November 2020
The New Vic: Establishing community through the power of theatre
I explore the historic nature of the New Vic theatre and how it is rooted in the community, and what work the theatre is doing to reach out.
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11 August 2020
Sleeping Beauties: British theatres have been left to rot
Two parallel communities fight to save their forgotten theatres. From bingo to backstage toilet buckets, both theatres have a rich history that may well just save their future.
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8 July 2020
Forging community from crisis
In our post-pandemic world, we need to support the people around us.
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5 June 2020
Instaviews with Artistic Director David Slater
Find out how we can champion inclusive communities when we chat with David Slater
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5 May 2020 – 16 July 2020
Get online & create music this summer!
BOOK NOW & JOIN US for a fantastic range of online courses for over 16s, starting Tuesday 5th May 2020.
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23 April 2020
How staying at home is helping us connect
How the lockdown is making one nihilist change her ways, because maybe, just maybe, humans aren’t so bad after all
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3 January 2020
Voice Views: What have you always wanted to try?
From origami to a new musical instrument, martial arts to a new film genre, this Janaury we would love to know: what have you always wanted to try? Let us know and join in with this month’s #VoiceViews series.
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20 June 2019
National Freelancers Day
Connecting, collaborating and creating community
The day will included keynote speaker sessions, seminars, panel discussions and workshops all designed around 4 key streams: Health and Wellbeing; Digital; Winning Work and Finance.
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2 April 2019
Is Theatre Inclusive?
With top end ticket prices on the West End having risen by 19% to an average of £117.52, is theatre becoming less accessible and more elitist?