Following the success of RBL Theatre Company’s sell out launch and their 5 STAR (Remotegoat) Twelfth Night in the Minster, Off the Block is back and once again Reading’s “premier professional theatre company” (The Reading Post) are hosting the competition that will see one talented local writer have their work performed by RBL. With a...
The Analogue verses Digital Pop-up Shop will be a retail space for products produced by independents in music, film, photography and literature. It will also form an exhibition space, a discussion space & a collaborative workspace. We hope to bring together creative practitioners and start-up businesses from different fields to cross-pollinate skills, opportunities, resources and...
Against the dim of the waning sun stands tall the shadow of the Yggdrasil. The Tree of Life dressed in dusk becomes the Tree of Death, a towering totem to the lives lived and spent- and lost- in the dark and in the night. The dark roots of the tree drill downward through the ground...

It was a feeling you usually draw lines to when considering “the last time I felt something before I realize where I am.” I never quite realized where I was and that could have possibly been my snowy, saving grace. The ideal was not to be and I fathom that the trajectory I was...
I first heard about National Novel Writing Month, also known as NaNoWriMo, on the BBC breakfast show, but it didn’t occur to me at that moment to actually take part in the challenge of writing 50,000 words in 30 days. I just thought it was a good idea to get that first draft written out, I never imagined doing...
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Mar 15, 2012 • “I have an arts degree, I’m trained for nothing!”-Friedrich Nietzsche, probably. I could describe to you the convoluted series of half-thought out decisions that ultimately led to my unemployment but they are incredibly tedious and more importantly make me sound like a completely ridiculous human being which is a first impression that is...