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INTERVIEW: Pete the Temp – combatting climate change with captivating comedy
Pete the Temp’s remarkable ‘spoken word’ show is challenging, inspiring, terrifying and amusing audiences across Britain. But it’s performance with a purpose – to engage people in a positive fight to protect the Earth from catastrophic climate change. And so far, it seems to be working … ‘Multi-talented’ doesn’t do environmental activist and spoken word…
FEATURE: Celebrity video games – in pictures
Celebrities have been happy to grace video games with their presence. So ask no more what Snoop Dogg and Kevin Spacey have in common… This piece was published in print in The Observer Tech Monthly and online on Guardian Technology in October 2014. Please follow this link to read the article online http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/13/celebrity-video-games-in-pictures.
FEATURE: Farm waste and mushrooms challenge plastic, concrete, steel
Isn’t it daft to use plastics that last for centuries to make short-life packaging? Now there’s an alternative – using fungi to bind farm and forestry waste into strong, non-toxic, complex forms. When the job is done, the material can be safely burnt or composted – and it even works for buildings … An unusual…
Huge turnout as thousands march against climate change in People’s Climate March – London 2014
Tens of thousands of Londoners and hundreds of thousands of people worldwide took to the streets on Sunday to raise awareness of climate change as part of a global initiative which has been deemed the largest environmental demonstrations ever seen. London’s version of The People’s Climate March, which was organised by environmental organisations and NGOs,…
INTERVIEW: An escort’s voice on London’s sex-scene
What is it like to work in the sex industry? And what might it mean if the recent law reforms around Europe reach the UK? A working girl talks to Sophie Morlin-Yron about the stigma, fear and dangers of a high-risk environment. Hooker, prostitute, call-girl, working-girl – it all means the same to 43- year-old…
NEWS: Sales break records at Battersea Affordable Art Fair
Originally posted on Arts Uncovered:
Londoners who could spare at least £40 flocked to Battersea Park last month to pick up a piece of contemporary, and affordable, art. Sophie Morlin-Yron reports Arts sales hit record levels at the latest Affordable Art fair (AAF) in Battersea Park. The fair, which took place last month, drew over…
FEATURE: The People Show 121: The rise of devising and collaborative theatre as actor and playwright become one
Originally posted on Arts Uncovered:
What is devising and how is it changing the way we produce theatre? The People Show has been doing it since the late sixties, but more and more devised shows are making it onto the mainstream market. Sophie Morlin-Yron reports It’s 7.30 on a typical autumn evening and The Old…
FEATURE: A guide to unregenerated London
The regeneration of London began long ago in the 1990s, however the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games have pushed the process even further. All good you might think, but there is a historical and nostalgic beauty about some of London’s derelict buildings and architecture. Whether you have come to see the Olympics or are…
FEATURE: Song Dong, Waste Not – your 10,000 reasons to spring-clean
Chinese Artist Song Dong’s first major London exhibition Waste Not is now on at the Barbican Centre. The entry is free and the show runs until 12 June this summer. The exhibition is something out of the ordinary indeed. I walk around the endless piles and stacks of over 10,000 of the artist’s mother’s belongings…
