Three Forgotten Early Soviet Sound Films on the Electrification of the USSR (This is a revised version of the talk I gave at the BFI Southbank on 1st June 2011 as part of the Soviet season, to introduce Macheret’s Men … Continue reading
What is going on, culturally speaking, when a person finds themself reading a classic text from say the 16th century, like Montaigne’s Essays, in the form of a 21st century electronic book?
What the mainstream media didn’t show you on Saturday. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/21673355[/vimeo] On Saturday I saw and filmed two demonstrations: the official march called by the TUC, culminating with a rally in Hyde Park, and the unofficial alternative, which spread out across … Continue reading
Government faces calls to overhaul visa rules for foreign performersDemands of ‘creative and sporting’ category of points-based immigration system leading to cancelled events, say organisers…
…since 2008 an audacious project to change the future for Raploch’s young people by immersing them in classical music has been working with 80% of children at nursery and primary schools. And now a new report commissioned by the Scottish … Continue reading
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Students take to the streets [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/14966533[/vimeo] Students in Buenos Aires have taken to the streets in protest against the appalling conditions to be found in many of the city’s schools. A lack of heating in the cold winter just coming … Continue reading
The new ministers at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport: Someone help us!
And now here’s my video diary of the workshop at Lucca which I wrote about earlier (see Creative Therapies in Lucca) [wpvideo tsPinwMY]