Podcast feedRacheal Ofori discusses her new play So Many Reasons
‘This idea that women are secondary just doesn’t really add up to me’. So says Racheal Ofori when she discussed her new play ‘So Many Reasons’ with CCRadi’s Lavinia Butt.
‘So Many Reasons’ headlined this year’s Feminist Festival, Calm Down Dear, at the Camden People’s Theatre. A comedy about youth development, marriage, sex and gender roles told through the experiences of a young British-Ghanaian woman. Racheal’s play received 5-star reviews and then went touring the UK.
Package by Lavinia Butt.
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Homelessness: a fair system?
Since one of our colleagues became homeless in Camden, we have been thinking about the issue of homelessness in the borough. In this show Freddy Chick speaks to some of the homeless people in Camden about their experience of the system that is in place to help. We hear from Ian Bangay, head of Camden Safer Streets Team, the street outreach team for Camden Council.
What rules are in place surrounding the system of help and how does it work? Is it fair?
The names of the people interviewed in this piece have been changed.
Package by: Freddy Chick
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Whats On in Camden, week beginning 19th February 2017
‘Loudest Whispers’, the Camden LGBT history month exhibition, is at St Pancras Hospital, Irish LGBT lives are the focus at Gay’s The Word Bookshop on Monday, community safety the theme at Out4Coffee at 42 Beans Cafe on Wednesday at 11am while its “No Fats, No Blacks, No Fems’ is at 184 Royal College Street on Thursday. There is lot and lots more – see the Camden LBGT Forum brochure.
Also this week, Acting Gymnaseum are at Theatro Technis until 26th February, with four great plays – Romeo & Juliet, Lady Windermere’s Fan, Platonov and Three Sisters.
Theatro Technis is sixty years old and os extending into a planned new development on Crowndale Road.
Somers Town and St Pancras Area Action Group Wednesday 22nd at the Community Hall, 82 Godwin Court, Crowndale Road.
Package: Marian Larragy
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What's on in Camden Xmas 2016/ New Year 2017
Tricycle Theatre hosts String Quartet Concert on Sunday 18th December. It’s panto with two performances per day throughout the season at the Shaw Theatre with Snow White. On 22nd, Fitzrovia Youth serve a meal at the Indian YMCA as a fundraiser. To book a place call 0207 388 7399. The Royal College of Surgeons free lecture for young people is on skin! Book a place for 3pm on 22nd December. 02030752389. Swiss Cottage Gallery hosts Millie Rice’s imaginative and clever exhibition on King’s Cross. Walk off all that XMAS food with walks in Holborn and Grays’ Inn Road, call 07502563578. Family Winter Takeover at Camden Arts Centre on 30th December; Blackbox: ‘Obama and Me’ by Sylvia Arthur at the Etcetera on 4th and 5th January, 6.30pm
Read by: Cale Hubble, Freddy Chick, Joe Hughes, Julia Gaulon, Marian Larragy & Zoe Stegosaurus
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What's On In Camden 20th November
Camden People’s Theatre, the Fitzrovia Centre and New Diorama are coming together to bring you Camden Youth Theatre. There’s an opening event at the New Diorama studio this Monday; a talk on Elizabethan Camden will be given by Camden archivist Tudor Allen at the London Irish Centre; London soul singer Al-Vincent will launch his debut album in Camden this week; the Charles Dickens museum is offering a walk in the footsteps of Charles Dickens.
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