This the season for gingerbread lattes, red berries on sticks, trees, and getting white-girl-wasted at the company Christmas party (four checkmarks for this chick so far)– and it’s also, apparently the season for giving! Now as a personal rule, I do not purchase from UK Amazon for a variety of holier-than-thou reasons, and as a […]
Last year I made my own Christmas cards by hand and individually. It was an adventure I was able to undertake owing to my being off work with a busted foot, and an adventure I quickly realised I was *not* going to have time to replicate this year. This year I opted for handmade origins, […]
Every year my alma matter William Allen High School has a fundraiser for the Allentown Arts Academy. The Arts Academy is a program within the school that allows high schoolers to enjoy and benefit from nearly 3 hours of arts education every school day. It’s a wonderful initiative, and in a world of cuts to […]
I was very very lucky this year to get to do some interactive work with an incredible dance company, IJAD dance. The project was to be observing and responding to an inside look at one of their performances, which fused social media with arabic dance and examined the idea of a work having an infinite […]
I finally got to go to Tube Mecca. On November 3rd, 2013 I visited the holy land for tube geeks, and it was wonderful. The London Transport Museum Depot at Acton is – as the name suggests- an extension of the excellent London Transport Museum. It hosts extra objects that are not always on display […]
Halloween’s Immersive adventure was part theatre spectacle, part history lesson. It was a “ghost walk” of sorts, put on by UnrealCityAudio to introduce us to the “Ghosts of Fleet Street.” The tour weaves its way around Fleet Street telling the story of the press and publishing through the ages. Along the route we meet several […]
On October 30th the nearly month long embedded journalism project with @IJADdance culminated with watching the performance of the piece at the Science Museum’s Late Night. The stage is set in a carpeted and heavily pillared area of the building. Interlocking taped circles adorn the floor, and hoops are held at waist height by taunt ropes […]
For Headlong Theatre Company’s performance of 1984, Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan have brilliantly brought to life Orwell’s novel of a watchful dystopian world. The setting is fantastic. Wooden panelled walls and doors set the stage for an office building and canteen. Grey box files line the walls, and windows allow for teasing glimpses of […]
I’ve been working as an embedded journalist with IJAD dance company for the past few weeks while they rehearse and develop their performance for the Science Museum- which is tonight! As part of that, I’ve found the movements and subject matter very inspiring to my own personal work designing and drawing. Since I had done […]
As part of my continued embedded journalism project with IJAD dance, I wanted to have a look at some of the origins of the dance ideas and how they fit into my own ideas about Arabic experiences. Since a lot of the performance on the 30th is supposed to be based on the astronomy objects […]
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