Successful Nakba event in Amsterdam
Share An event was held in Amsterdam at Argan Youth Centre on May 12th, in commemoration of the 64th year of the Zionist Nakba against the Palestinian people. The event was organized by the Musical Intifada’s central committee in cooperation with Argan, and featured a unique line-up of speakers and performers. Overall, approximately 90 people...
Endellion String Quartet – Britain’s finest quartet in Bath
Share Bath is currently hosting a series of afternoon concerts by the world-renowned Endellion String Quartet in the elegant surroundings of the Guildhall. The Flaneur attended their May 13th performance featuring quartets from Mendelssohn and Beethoven as well as Haydn – the father of the String quartet. The Endellion quartet was formed in 1970 and...
Naked footballers, theatre and Kookaburras
Share You don’t often get to see naked footballers in the theatre. Some would say this is a very good thing and one of the reasons they frequent the South Bank rather than Stamford Bridge. Others would opine that there is a time and a place for everything except Morris dancing and happily pop along...
From Body to Soul – and Back by Maria Anna Potocka
Share Sport is one of civilization’s most spectacular inventions. In spite of this, its role has never been sufficiently explored. It is difficult to justify such neglect, and all the more difficult because sport is one of the important prostheses for our complicated imperfection. The Triumph of the Spirit over Biology Over the course...
Hereford Cathedral tower – 43 metres of Mediaeval history
Share If you find yourself in Hereford, you will have to visit the 12th century cathedral and see the Mappa Mundi. But that’s not the only sight worth seeing. If you have the energy to climb the 218 steps why not climb the tower?! Hereford Cathedral tower – Only one survivor Hereford cathedral used to...
From a File to a Fortune: the self-publishing experience
Share In April 2012 my debut book, Statue in the Square, entered two best-seller charts on Amazon, the world’s leading bookstore. It peaked at no. 7 in the States and no. 11 in the UK in its listed genre, placing my book alongside renowned international bestsellers. This was achieved without a PR company, a publishing...
Filmshare – follow our DVDs as they travel round the world
Share The Flaneur has collected many DVDs over the years and it is time to let them make their way in the world instead of sitting on the shelf waiting to be watched again. Yes, we’ll be sad to see them go, but we’re doing it for them. DVDs want to be watched. They don’t...
On Becoming an Artisan Cheesemaker
Share Becoming an artisan cheesemaker was a choice, and a dream. It wasn’t a line of work bestowed upon me by being a part of a dairying family. In October of 2008, my girlfriend at the time convinced me (which admittedly wasn’t that difficult), that we should leave our office jobs in the Bay Area...
Lawnfest – One day of music, arts and food in Sevenoaks
Share Lawnfest is a boutique, family-friendly festival which will be held in Sevenoaks, Kent on the 30th June 2012. You can tell it’s a bit special when you hear it features a farmers’ market and vintage afternoon teas. There’s also a food shed with an assortment of organic foods prepared by top international chef Nicole Walshaw....
Sparrows by Ali Abdolrezaei
Share After a Thousand and One Nights reading sleeping a couple leave the house Sparrows swarm the alley with their twitter up to the bus stop by the tree – swarmed by tweet in tweet On the cheek spot on a beauty spot the man lands a kiss To hide a show...
Writer interview: Martha Haversham
Share Martha Haversham is an English artist and writer. She has just published an ebook entitled Haversham in your Head. What is your name? Martha Haversham Where do you live? Wivenhoe What is your website address? www.marthahaversham.com What is your latest book? Haversham in Your Head Where can we get it? Amazon How long have...
Free Reel Romania – bringing free films to rural Romania
Share Free Reel Romania is a non-profit project proposed by Free Reel Mobile Cinema, an initiative of Cinephilia Services Ltd. The project will carry out a series of free film screenings and filmmaking workshops in rural communities across Romania that have little or no access to cultural activities throughout June and July 2012. Romania is...
Hearing the voice of the voiceless at Betty Abah’s Abuja reading
Share The April edition of the Abuja Writers’ Forum’s Guest Writer Session had a poet whose work captured, not just personal, but some of the far-reaching effects, on ordinary people, of the challenges that confront the nation, TUNJI AJIBADE writes. “I planned to read the poem, and I had thought that maybe it would make some in the audience cry.”...
Sport in Art – at MOCAK Krakow
Share Sport in Art after History in Art, the second exhibition in the series which shows how artists see the issues that matter in people’s everyday lives. Sport performs a terrific therapeutic role, relieving us of layers of animal aggression. Mankind has hit on a great idea: how to fight and triumph, without causing any...
Tempest by Giovanna Lucarelli
Share Tempest And all the world is threatening. Thunderstorm. Black Clouds of imperfection Loom immanent. Imminent, like the Angel Of Death, himself. Killing, your foetal rhymes Dead, before they’re even born. Giovanna Lucarelli is a soon-to-be-graduate of an English Literature and American Studies degree from the University of Birmingham. She’s a culture vulture, writer, dreamer,...
Architecture in the North West of England
Share To deny the so-called north/south divide in England is to deny a deeply held belief amongst many in our population. The concept goes way back in our history; back to the days of the industrial north as compared to the more genteel rolling hills of a southern landscape that was filled with gentleman farmers...
Sadly not supported by the arts council ? Get the badge!
Share It’s been a difficult time for arts organisations. Cutbacks and recessions have made funding even harder to come by. And it was hard to come by anyway. If you have had to remove your supported by the arts council links and don’t know how to replace them… Never fear! The boffin known as artistx,...
Buying cut price laser eye surgery from a spammer…
Share Spam glorious spam. I know it’s bad and we should frown on it, but sometimes it just cheers you up. I was greeted in my inbox this morning with the following title: Pay up to 2,195 GBP for laser eye surgery. Normally I know the routine with spam, don’t open it, bin it. But...
Piecing Together Los Angeles: An Esther McCoy Reader
Share edited and with an essay by Susan Morgan “No one can write about architecture in California without acknowledging her as the mother of us all.”—Reyner Banham McCoy was a keen literary stylist and attentive witness to the birth of midcentury modernist design. She lived from 1904-1989, her impressive writing life spanning sixty years and charting...
Film production: Help fund short film Journey Men
Share The road down the unknown will take you home… Elsa is a bully and a nightmare to everyone around her. She is also elderly, is recovering from a stroke and lives in a care home. While people struggle to put up with her antics, Elsa struggles with her fear of death, holding on...
Join the Flaneur art tweeters and be an art and culture opinion-former
Share Fancy joining our Twitterati team? If you have views on art and culture but don’t feel up to writing full length articles, why not join the Flaneur Twitterati and tell the world what you think in just 140 chararacters? More art tweeters needed! We have a new team of art and fashion and design...
Artondsquare by Razak Awofeso, Johannesburg
Share The artondsquare (pronounced “art on the square”) project emanated from a passion for drawing which I’ve always been doing from time to time. It’s a skill I’m scared of losing as an artist because I came from a background where drawing is elementary to your art foundation. As I tend to do more and...
The Art blog list: Ten to read in May
Share The internet is full of fascinating art blogs that try and convey a sense of what it is like to be an artist. Every month we highlight ten interesting art blogs that capture in different ways the lives of creative people around the globe. Linda Leviton – Linda is an artist whose medium is...
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