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Reading Contemporary Art Fair – An Interview With Sarah McAllister

Reading Contemporary Art Fair - An Interview With Sarah McAllister

This has to be one of the hardest but exciting things we have to do – select the work to be exhibited. In an effort to get an inspiring tenant mix of medium we choose artists and galleries that bring both quality and innovation.

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A Powerful Twist in The Reveal

A Powerful Twist in The Reveal

This photograph touched me so deeply, and even more so when it was fully revealed.

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How Long Is A Piece of Spring?

How Long Is A Piece of Spring?

This project has found me at the most curious crossroads, one that has found me searching, reaching, assimilating and rejecting beliefs I’ve held for some time. It is something which has quite literally taken away the spring in my step.

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Ed Stafford’s Long Walk Into History, An Interview From The Trail

Ed Stafford’s Long Walk Into History, An Interview From The Trail

Ed Stafford came to the attention of the world in 2010 when he became the first man to walk the length of the Amazon from source to mouth and Hannah Masters Waage spoke to him back then..

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From Hong Kong Orphan to Brighton Artist of the Year

From Hong Kong Orphan to Brighton Artist of the Year

Art is the freedom to express. I am shocked that some countries are restricted to do any form of art, music, writing etc.. and I feel lucky to be able to paint in the UK. I may have come from China for all I know.

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Reading Contemporary Art Fair – An Interview With Sarah McAllister

by Angela Woods
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This has to be one of the hardest but exciting things we have to do – select the work to be exhibited. In an effort to get an inspiring tenant mix of medium we choose artists and galleries that bring both quality and innovation.

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I Love My Village: The Gargoyles Of Ayora Village

by Angela Woods
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The girls came up to the house one dark winter evening with a 5 litre bottle of used olive oil, a bottle of sosa cáustica (lye), a large plastic bucket (extra strong) and a bottle of inexpensive perfume. “We are going to show you how to make soap the campo way,” they said. The fire [...]

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Waiting For The Perfect Wave

by Dean Feltimo
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I could see by the look on their faces, they were experiencing the same feelings that I was. Eyes staring at the water, waiting, just waiting for a special moment.

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How Did We Get Here?

by Andi Reis
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There are two thousand miles between Edward Cozza and me right now. I am leaning on my elbows at my desk in Texas, making dents in my boring At-A-Glance calendar, and I’m chuckling into my iPhone, yet again.

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Mark Eitzel; 30 years in Music

by Sam Wise
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Eitzel and his band are a study in pseudo-shambology; the drummer looks like an aging Michael Caine, and is playing one-handed with one arm in a sling after falling over, breaking it, and contracting gangrene.

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An Interview With Artist Martin Williamson

by Angela Woods
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my final exam mark in the subject was just nineteen percent with the teacher’s lofty comment, “He appears to have lost interest in the subject”

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Christianity = Humanity

by Father Michael Smith
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Religion should not ever be about separation it should be about cooperation – it should not be about exclusivity it should be about inclusivity

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An Elf-like, French, Buddhist Artist – Annick McKenzie

by Melanie Gow
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Annick McKenzie, is an elf-like French Buddhist, as bright and as colourful as her bold and exciting contemporary paintings

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I Love My Village: El Entierro De La Sardina

by Angela Woods
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“Are you going to the Burial of the Sardine?” I asked Bea. “Ha ha! No!” she said, “We’re going to Valencia for the weekend.” And she added, rather ominously, “Angela, better you stay in your house!” El Entierro de la Sardina or The Burial of the Sardine is a very Spanish affair. It’s to do [...]

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A Powerful Twist in The Reveal

by Becky Young
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This photograph touched me so deeply, and even more so when it was fully revealed.

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How Long Is A Piece of Spring?

by Richmond Harding
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This project has found me at the most curious crossroads, one that has found me searching, reaching, assimilating and rejecting beliefs I’ve held for some time. It is something which has quite literally taken away the spring in my step.

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The Falling Garden – Installation Art

by Angela Woods
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“Installation art”,  also known as “project art”or “temporary art”. Love it or hate?   The “new” three dimensional contemporary art form as it is understood today has been around since the 1950’s when Allan Kaprow used the term “Environment” to describe his transformed indoor spaces. Essentially Installation Art asks us to use all our senses [...]

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The Elephant Bridesmaid: Children’s Theatre Review

by Divya Alexander
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The Elephant Bridesmaid is a magical musical about weddings and wombats and the loveliest elephant the world has ever known.

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“Is The Poet Wearing Thongs”

by Angela Woods
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Cecelia needs little introduction to the many who follow her on facebook, attend her Open Mic performances and have children who are involved in her workshops in the schools that she visits.

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Timmy Mallett Talks Art, Football and Marmalade

by Melanie Gow
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Timmy Mallett is opening the 3rd season of the Windsor Emporium on Sunday, March the 3rd 2013, 10 am, at the historical Guildhall, Windsor.

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Midway Film, Environmental Tragedy And Kickstarter Success

by Melanie Gow
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Chris Jorden’s ability to harness your attention with a simple visual that finds meaning in global mass phenomena is what makes his work so powerful.

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An Interview With British Film Producer, Jonathan Sothcott

by Ed Roberts
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Jonathan Sothcott, Independent British Film Producer, talks about his movies and the state of the British Film Industry.

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A Man Who Just Keeps Getting Up One More Time Than He Falls

by Melanie Gow
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Justin Miles, a man who has set himself just the challenge to overcome everything, every time.

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National fiction writing prize shortlist announced

by The News Desk
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National fiction writing prize shortlist for the HWA/Goldsboro Debut Historical Fiction Prize announced at the 3rd annual 14/4 Literary Dinner 2013

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The Arts And Culture Answer To “That” Economy Question

by The News Desk
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arts and culture generate more per pound invested than the health, wholesale and retail, and professional and business services sectors.

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Throw Those Curtains Wide: Art Exhibition In The City of London

by The Events Desk
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By likening the picture frame to the window frame, Throw Those Curtains Wide provides a welcome invitation to explore paintings as you might a scene from an open window. When you take your time to watch, or stare even, what is it that you see?

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An InstaGlow Review Of ‘The Anatomist’s Apprentice’ By Tessa Harris

by Carol Dixon-Smith
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An eighteenth century Oxford murder mystery, with hero Dr Thomas Silkstone, an anatomist from Philadelphia in England to study, and whose unconventional methods only serve to underline that he is an outsider. With the death of her brother Sir Edward Crick the subject of gossip in all quarters, and her husband suspected of his murder, [...]

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TRBPC 2013 Third Poem: ‘Unsaid, But Present’ By Sophia Dale

by The Events Desk
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Does the day know it’s blessed?

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The Lone Gun Manifesto – The Facebook Note That Became A Movement In Film Making

by Becca Heaton
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Most cast and crew do no-budget movies in order to get exposure. Filmmakers who hang onto the rights, often make movies that never really get seen by anyone.

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Why I Picked Dylan

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Why I Picked Dylan by Sid Griffin

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TRBPC 2013 Runner Up Poem: ‘Auster’ By Jim Cowling

by The Events Desk
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Along the spume-strung, gritty shore
the south wind flicks and sighs

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TRBPC 2013 Winning Poem: ‘Birdsong (A Sestine)’ By Ann Beecher

by The Events Desk
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I wet your cracked fallow tongue
(it is the end of the age of miracles)

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A Very Fantastic Journey: An Open Mic Night At The Hay Literary Festival 2011

by Julie-Ann Corrigan
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It took me no more than five minutes. I felt like I was there for hours. My bare toes hurt where I’d been digging them into the wiry carpet.

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