Knowledge is power. While that’s true, the passive aggression of the wilfully stupid, those who choose a deliberate blindness to facts, suggests that a lack of knowledge… Read more “Knowledge”
Category: Performing Arts
English Passive Aggression
This piece grew out of a gently amusing thread I’d posted to Facebook on the subject of English passive aggression. Why?
Arts and Social Grants, tips and tricks
Arts and Social Grants, tips and tricks – if you work in the arts or with communities, or with a combination of both, this is probably something… Read more “Arts and Social Grants, tips and tricks”
Equal Stages
I’m featured in a book called Equal Stages: Standing Up for Identity and Integrity in the Performing Arts, Vol 1. It’s never going to be a best-seller, that’s… Read more “Equal Stages”
Taking Positive Actions
We’re at a point in time where taking positive actions has become a conscious choice. We need change. In three short months we’ve gone from a situation… Read more “Taking Positive Actions”
Erasing TV and Film
Erasing TV programmes like Little Britain, League of Gentlemen, The Mighty Boosh, Fawlty Towers, or films like Gone With The Wind and others seems very of the… Read more “Erasing TV and Film”
Theatre, arts and culture
Theatre, arts and culture are under attack. Creatives, artists, institutions and structures which foster theatre, arts and culture are facing down the immediate effects of the Coronovirus… Read more “Theatre, arts and culture”
The new normal
Nothing’s ‘normal’ any more. For all of us, what’s happening now can, to put it plainly, be a real headf*ck.
Imagining the future
In summer 2019, I was on panels discussing Decolonising Culture (Royal Academy) and Reimagining Britain (Queen Mary, University of London/ Wasafiri Magazine’s 35th anniversary). Many themes ran… Read more “Imagining the future”
The Moon Shines Bright
Sam Lee is a celebrated folk singer, collector, interpreter and revivalist of old folk songs. With ‘The Moon Shines Bright’, Sam borrows from the Gypsy and traveller tradition a song which asks us to stop and see what our increasingly standardised world is doing to us.
On ‘The Moon Shines Bright’ Sam’s joined by Elizabeth Fraser who weaves a magical fragment of the Scottish folk song ‘Wild Mountain Thyme’ into ‘The Moon Shines Bright’.
With themes of dark, short days, the end of one year and the start of another, of the Winter Solstice, of the impermanence of life and need to love, be loved, forgive, hope, nurture and connect with nature, this is the perfect song to herald the New Year.
Wishing love and peace.
Find out more about Sam Lee and the recording of ‘The Moon Shines Bright’ – here
Hear an earlier version of ‘The Moon Shines Bright’ recorded four or five years ago, sung at Winchester Cathedral without Elizabeth Fraser – here
Find out more about Sam Lee and his forthcoming tour – here
More about Elizabeth Fraser – here
