Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
Harry Belafonte 1927 - 2023
JOHN GREEN pays tribute to the activism of a man of political fearlessness
Belafonte
ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
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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
HARRY BELAFONTE, who died today, aged 96, is hardly the first person who comes to mind when you think of great individuals who have changed the face of history, even though he did.
Younger generations have probably never heard of him and even older ones are more likely to recall him as a singer of Calypso tunes rather than a political activist.
How historical narratives can distort and erase!
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