Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Taking the time to engage with the past
JAN WOOLF speaks to Richard Bradbury about his creative initiative in adult education, Riversmeet, and the political trajectory of the work
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ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
New releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ
JOHN GREEN relishes photography that unfolds a longstanding and poetic relationship with Leeds
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
NAMED after Richard Bradbury’s first novel about Frederick Douglass, the Riversmeet project combines literature with activism.
As the website declares, Riversmeet focuses on high-quality writing, performance and teaching which engages with contemporary issues by linking the past to the present.
Riversmeet is a quiet powerhouse; publishing books, producing theatre, short films and interesting blogs as well as running Slow Reading courses. Eschewing the tacky mission statement, it quotes Walter Benjamin: “In every era the attempt must be made anew to wrest tradition away from a conformism that is about to overwhelm it.”
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