Fondness for arts, digital, audio and books. Often in that order.
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Joined March 2010
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Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris appeals for help – in pictures theguardian.com/world/galler…
Wonderful to have been part of this project - creating an online space to celebrate the art of audio. Dive in...
✨Soundhouse: Intimacy and Distance✨
Enter Soundhouse to listen to experimental podcasts and radio from around the world and explore different ideas of intimacy and distance
Tune in: bit.ly/3mvpx2U
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After 2 weeks of multiple health screens and asking everyone to quarantine, I surprised my closest inner circle with a trip to a private island where we could pretend things were normal just for a brief moment in time.
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✨ New podcast✨
In this four-part podcast series, @stephenfry talks to @GunnessChris about music, mental health and the powers of art, taking Beethoven's 'Heiligenstadt Testament' as a starting point for conversation
Listen & subscribe aca.st/6428f0
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There’s nothing louder than the silence on a video call when nobody’s speaking
The most calming thread we've done in a while 🌱
We're missing the tranquillity of our Conservatory🌴🌷
So we're starting a thread of houseplants, big and small -reply to this with a picture of your houseplants 🌵#WellnessWednesday
Went for a run. Two people said hello. Like back up north. These are indeed strange and unprecedented times.
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In our new podcast series, #SoundUnbound, @JosieLong talks to creative minds about the music that moves them, with some help from @GernonBen
In this ep, @SteveReich speaks about the impact hearing Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring at 14 had on him
Listen bit.ly/36WjZGt
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"But I feel that between weight and lightness, I choose lightness and I feel I’m dancing. The dance of cinema."
-Agnès Varda
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Back in 1896 men didn’t call women sluts.
They called them “bicycle face”.
Why? Because bicycles <gasp!> helped women 💪 make their own dating choices.
IOW bikes were the first dating app. That scared men.
Let’s talk about it.
Hold on to your bodices people, THIS IS A THREAD
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‘I was a woman, Jewish, a widow, a damn good painter, thank you, and a little too independent…’
We celebrate artist #LeeKrasner on this #InternationalWomensDay - meet the formidable artist & pioneer of Abstract Expressionism in our long read ✨👉 bit.ly/2EWEact
I cannot stop doing this quiz.
What does the way you speak say about where you're from? If you were raised in the UK or Ireland, answer 25 questions to see your own custom dialect map. nyti.ms/2DEY8Xo
Lovelovelove that the Hampstead ladies pond made it into the @NewYorker newyorker.com/culture/person…