Podcast feedInterview with Sally Buchanan about her FLUX Exhibition
Sally Buchanan, a local artist living in Camden, talks about her upcoming FLUX exhibition – her biggest project to date.
The exhibition is a ground breaking and new kind of art event – a collection of the most dynamic painters, performances artists and musicians, which presents an alternative way to encounter today’s new art.
It runs from 12th – 16th July at The Chelsea College of Arts, Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground (just opposite Tate Britain).
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Faith Leaders: Pratt Mews Kingdom Hall
Terry Eleftheriou is one of the members of the London Hampstead congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses that meet in the Kingdom Hall in Camden Town. Terry tells us the core beliefs of Jehovah’s Witnesses and how these influence everyday life.
This is part of a series of interviews with Faith Leaders from across Camden. Our aim is to learn about different religions and the part they play in shaping our community.
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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.
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Two and a Quarter Centuries of Conway Hall
Lacky talks to Jim Walsh of Conway Hall, which is run by the South Place Ethical Society that was founded (on 14th February) 1793 and is the last remaining ethical society in the UK and the oldest free thought organization in the world.
Jim knows all about the historic building and its fascinating artifacts of English culture, especially relating to free thinking and Humanism.
Conway Hall has been the jumping off place of important movements and causes – anti-apartheid, abolition of capital pubishment, where public figures such as Charles Darwin, Lisa Jardine and Tony Benn challenged current thinking.
Conway Hall has teamed up with Trunkman Productions to tell the story of Moncure Conway after whom the building is named. A documentary ‘The Empty Niche: The Long Lost Bust Of Moncure Conway’ is available from 25th February on YouTube. It tracks the history of Conway Hall and the mysteriously empty niche that has sat in its foyer since it opened.
Interview: Lacky Ahmed
Recording: Freddy Chick
Editing: Lacky Ahmed
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Interview with Leo Joseph on the Colour Assembly exhibition
Leo Joseph is one of six artists from the Camden Arts Centre putting on a show in a pop-up space provided by the Camden Council. Leo came into the studio to discuss the exhibition and living as an artist in Camden.
The show, Colour Assembly, looks at visual art’s most basic building block, colour, and also features work by London-based artists Beatriz Perez, Camilla Bliss, Emma Sywyj, Glynis Minors and Haydn Albrow. It runs from 11am-7pm Tuesday-Sunday at 18 Malden Road until the 21st of January.
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