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The Summit
There’s this thing they would repeat all the time at the camp, about freezing the evil out of us. The self-righteous and apologetically...
Brandon Mead
Jul 6, 20244 min read
Hay Festival: queer places, writing as flying & monstrous plants
Just outside of the world’s first ‘book town’ Hay-on-Wye, the Hay Festival takes place each year. The green landscape is broken up by...
Finn Brown
Jun 12, 20247 min read
Nectarine
Soft bodies lay stretched out on sun warmed rocks, surrounded by turquoise water. Waves came in, gentle. Water kissed the edge of rugged...
Jess Moher
Jun 12, 20243 min read
Purple Kisses
The tent is a body bag. I zip it up and walk away from the remains of my life. As the park gate clangs shut, pushed by December’s icy...
Rebecca Miles
Jun 12, 20243 min read
Slipping
‘Stand back,’ the man tells you through the glass, through the protective plastic, through his mask. Hand him the reference letter from...
Hiten Chojer
Jun 12, 20244 min read
Canning Prunes
It started at the public market on a September Saturday morning. Harvest time for fall fruit. Pears, apples, and my favourite, French...
Diane Funston
Jun 5, 20244 min read
Charleston Festival: on gardens, outsider artists and culture wars
Charleston House is one of my new favourite places, since I first visited a few months ago. The house was lived in by artists Duncan...
Finn Brown
Jun 5, 20248 min read
What’s the point? Is there value in the needle?
The Pietà by Michelangelo I recently asked some family members to describe a tattooist in relation to a tattoo artist for me. I got a...
Sean Colgrave
Jun 4, 20245 min read
An Interview with Writers' HQ: on community, being the weirdest weirdos, and stories as radical acts
As most writers know, writing can be the most wonderful thing in the world. But it can feel inaccessible and isolating. That's why...
Finn Brown
May 22, 20246 min read
Potluck: On Curating Contemporary Surrealism
Last week artists and first-time curators Milly Aburrow, Daisy-Drew Smith and Lilly Foster-Eardley brought contemporary surrealism to...
Finn Brown
Apr 27, 20246 min read
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...
Finn Brown
Apr 26, 20243 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...
Finn Brown
Apr 19, 20244 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...
Petit Printemps
Apr 17, 20247 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...
Finn Brown
Apr 10, 20248 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...
Anna Winslow
Apr 7, 20247 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...
Ikechukwu Henry
Apr 4, 20248 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...
Victoria Brooks
Apr 3, 20245 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...
Lucie Arnoux
Apr 3, 20247 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...
Finn Brown
Feb 28, 20246 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...
Finn Brown
Feb 28, 20247 min read
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