Arts & Culture Professional / former professional dancer / loves music, dance, theatre, tennis, sea-kayaking, outdoor swimming. @kenneththarp.bsky.social
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Between Jan and March 2021, I had the privilege of hosting a series of conversations on @colourfulradio, with six amazing trailblazers in classical music, who were all featured in The African Concert Series, founded by @RebecaOmordia.
You can listen here: colourful.com/podcasts/afric…
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How despicable and disgusting of @UniofOxford to host the eugenicist at the core of the Prof Jason Arday lynching? In 2026 they are asking if hiring Black and Brown people weakened university. I got out of my sickbed for the @makeitplainorg pod. Watch: youtu.be/6zzOLjVMgzE
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Jamaican reggae singer and producer Derrick Harriott has died, aged 87. 🇯🇲🇯🇲🕊️
Through his Crystal record label, Harriott helped develop and produce records for some of Jamaica’s most celebrated musical talents, including Keith and Tex, The Kingstonians, The Chosen Few and Dennis Brown.
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Harriott achieved significant success in the United Kingdom both as a performer and producer.
Rest in Peace Mr. Harriott.🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
Kenneth Olumuyiwa Tharp CBE, FRSA retweeted
Dr Fortune Gomo: The victim of an 'alleged' brutal racist murder by a white male - whilst with her 4 yr old daughter, slaughtered in broad daylight on a British high street.
And you don't know who she is?
Now ask yourself why? #SayHerName #Justice4Gomo
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🤖 Made with AI
Kenneth Olumuyiwa Tharp CBE, FRSA retweeted
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Takes about 5 seconds to find clips online of me exploring exactly the history that you say it's so unlikely I would discuss. Just how lazy are you!
I'm wondering if @DavidOlusoga or the @bbc will manage to make a programme on Finding Britains Who Stopped the Slave Trade?
Highly unlikely for two who are so anti-British I would guess. 🤷🏾♂️
Kenneth Olumuyiwa Tharp CBE, FRSA retweeted
Shame on you @Google.
You preach “don’t be evil” while illegally clear-cutting 250,000 trees in Finland for a data center—turning ancient forest into a mud wasteland without even doing the required environmental checks.
Tech giant. Nature zero.
#GoogleGreenwashing
Kenneth Olumuyiwa Tharp CBE, FRSA retweeted
Brexit has been catastrophic. It's time to rejoin the EU.
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Kenneth Olumuyiwa Tharp CBE, FRSA retweeted
Lots to enjoy @BBCRadio3 on this wet and windy weekend, including a very special edition of Private Passions with @MichaelBerkele2 — who'll be discovering all about Eric Idle's love of Elgar, Haydn and more. Midday Sunday or any time via @BBCSounds: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00330j…
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One of the most spectacular ceilings in Rome, Italy. 🇮🇹
Inside Palazzo Barberini, the vault of the main salon comes alive with Pietro da Cortona's Triumph of Divine Providence, painted between 1632 and 1639.
Almost 600 square metres of figures, movement, light and illusionism seem to dissolve the boundaries of architecture, creating the sensation of an open sky above the visitor.
At the centre, Divine Providence dominates the composition, surrounded by allegorical figures and crowned by the Barberini coat of arms a celebration of divine providence and the power of the family under Pope Urban VIII.
This is Baroque at its most theatrical: monumental, dynamic and designed to be experienced with your eyes turned upwards.
Such brilliant use of a string orchestra! 🎵🤎🎵
Go Barry! 🔥
#BarryWhite
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A deserted Kelvin Way in the West End of Glasgow turned golden by autumn leaves stripped from the surrounding trees by Storm Boelo as it passes across the city this afternoon.
#glasgow #kelvinway #stormboelo #autumnleaves #glasgowtoday
Environmental criminals …
#Google
This is what Google's AI expansion looks like on the ground 🤬
Forests destroyed, topsoil stripped and brown runoff reportedly flowing into a local stream, all before environmental impact assessments were completed. Finnish authorities had to step in and order work to stop.
So much for Google's green credentials. Its sustainability advertising means very little when the reality is this. Corporate hypocrisy at its finest.
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An 1860s Glasgow tenement in the early morning light on Argyle Street in the Finnieston area of the city. It was originally known by the rather wonderful name of Excelsior Place.
#glasgow #architecture #tenement #finnieston #architecturephotography
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Tenements lining the rather steep Gardner Street in Glasgow, which connects the areas of Partick at the bottom of the hill to Hyndland at top.
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#glasgow #pubs #hyndland #partick #glasgowhistory
Experts say that AI poses ‘ catastrophic or existential risks to
humanity’.
Are we going to just sit back and let tech giants and oligarchs decide the future of the human race?
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Guyana's President has described slavery as “as the worst indignity to humankind” ahead of King Charles’ visit to the Caribbean.
“As a country, we will continue to champion the issue of reparation because slavery was the worst indignity to humankind,” Dr Ali said during an interview with ITV news.
King Charles III and Queen Camilla will visit the Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas and Guyana from 27 October to 4 November. Caribbean in October, Buckingham Palace has announced.
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"Burnham urges officials to come up with more radical options for Thames Water."
Well done Andy Burnham @andyburnham
There are ultimately just two answers to Thames Water, put the company into Special Administration and restructure - refinance it or give in to the demands of the New York vulture capitalists exposing tax payers and bill payers to yet more decades of exploitation.
The latter of course is unacceptable.
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