Charleston Festival: From Pottery to Politics
Surrounded by green fields there is a house full of paint. Walls and doors and bathtubs have been used as canvases, history has been...
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Amelia Brown
Apr 194 min read
Hay Festival: The Events We Can't Wait For
Every year Hay Festival brings together thinkers, writers and creatives to talk about their work, and reimagine our world. The festival...
Petit Printemps
Apr 177 min read
A look back at another year of BFI Flare, London LGBTQIA+ Festival
The Festival It's the single most exciting LGBTQ+ event that I look forward to every year. Yes folks, I said it, more than Pride! In...
Amelia Brown
Apr 108 min read
An Interview with Yi Wang (Queer East): on representation, cinema and discovery
Queer East is a cross-disciplinary festival that showcases boundary-pushing LGBTQ+ cinema, live arts, and moving image work from East and...
Anna Winslow
Apr 77 min read
Wind Opera
In a dark and rotting town built into the cliffs overhanging a black sea, the fisherman and merchants, tall and glowing like angels in...
Ikechukwu Henry
Apr 48 min read
Of The Dream We Can't Have
You once believed it was a solitary battle, you against the world, but then you came to realize it was an internal conflict, you against...
Victoria Brooks
Apr 35 min read
So much more than a toy: the healing power of wearing the strap
I came out as queer in my thirties, and even though I’d had queer sex before that point, I didn’t discover my relationship with my...
Lucie Arnoux
Apr 37 min read
An Interview with Shahd Mahnavi: on poetry as activism, Palestine and hope
We interviewed Shahd Mahnavi, poet and artist, and recent performer on the t'ARTopia stage. Shahd uses her poetry to campaign for freedom...
Amelia Brown
Feb 286 min read
An Interview with Scarlett Whispers: on the craft of burlesque, glitter hangovers and Cabaret Volt-Air
We have been delighted to welcome the wonderful Scarlett Whispers to our t'ARTopia stage, not once but twice! We spoke to Scarlett about...
Amelia Brown
Feb 287 min read
An Interview with Georgie Mason: on creating from the inside out, sculpture and oysters
Georgie Mason is a multi-disciplinary artist who explores the unconscious mind, inner barriers and healing, often through found objects...
Amelia Brown
Feb 236 min read
The Alternative Book Fair: on accessibility, breaking down barriers & independent publishing
If you have attended the London Book Fair you'll know it's an expensive and overwhelming behemoth. So when we found out that...
Lizzie Rose (they/ them)
Feb 67 min read
Wave after wave: reflecting on the role of water in our literature, lifestyles, imagination and experience
I put off writing this article for a long time, afraid that there could be nothing original left to say about waves, water, or why we are...
Amelia Brown
Jan 317 min read
Ivy Raff on generational memory, artistic ecosystems and writing her debut poetry chapbook
We interviewed Ivy Raff about her writing process, her journey as a writer and the themes that her new poetry collection delves into.
Amelia Brown
Jan 312 min read
t'ART Reads: January
The t'ART team love to read all sorts of things. From the fantastical to the political, graphic novels to fiction, we are going to be...
John RC Potter
Dec 22, 20237 min read
The Manhattan Club
In the early 1990s I had just emerged from a long-term relationship (my first as, and with, a young gay man) that ended with more of a...
Cynthia Close
Nov 18, 20238 min read
My Mother’s Mink Coat and the Afterlife of Things
The eminent art writer, critic, and political commentator Lucy Lippard, exploits the detritus of her life, the inconsequential things...
Lorna Wood
Nov 18, 20234 min read
Bloodbath
The bath is a good temperature today—the blood steamy but not cooked. Also, the color is a rich dark red. To keep in the heat, he closes...
Anna Yovka
Nov 13, 20233 min read
WAR. LOVE. ME
TW: Violence War There is no concept of "war". This word was invented to hide behind, like behind a blanket, to wipe the tears of mothers...
Amelia Brown
Nov 7, 20232 min read
Queeriosities Fair is Back this Winter
Haggerston's Museum of the Home will host the Winter edition of curator Davy Pittoors’s Queeriosities fair on Saturday 2nd and Sunday 3rd...
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