Podcast feedWhat's On in Camden, week beginning 9th April 2017
During the Easter school holidays, there are lots of things for children to do (most of them for free) at Camden Libraries, in Camley Gardens Natural Park, on Maiden Lane Estate and at Camden Lock. After Easter, classes start again. There is ESOL, IT, Digital camera use and lots more.
Package by: Catherine Carroll, Freddy Chick, Ikaba Koyi, Johanna Lynch, Lacky Ahmed , Marian Larragy and Violet MacDonald
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Interview with Sharon Sexton, star of 'A Fit Wife for a Revolutionary'
April 24th is the official one hundredth anniversary of the Easter Rising in Ireland. Commemorations are already underway to mark the week hundreds of people, mostly in Dublin, rose up to fight against British rule. After six days the struggle ended in an unconditional surrender. The seven men who planned the revolt were executed. But knowing that might be their fate they’d already chosen someone to carry on their work: Kathleen Clarke was the wife of one of their number, Thomas Clarke.
She was under strict instructions to stay home, guard the secrets, look out for the welfare of the fighters’ families and keep the flame burning.
What Kathleen endured during those days has been dramatised by Irish actress Sharon Sexton. She’s performing her one woman play “A Fit Wife for a Revolutionary” at the London Irish Centre in Camden Square from the 29th of March until the 2nd of April.
Sharon has appeared in London in The Commitments and is currently in Billy Elliott. She’s hoping to take her play around Britain and to Ireland later in the year. Sharon was keen to look at the role taken by women in the Rising, which has often been overlooked. She originally planned to follow a number of stories but as her research progressed she found there was just so much to say about Kathleen Clarke’s life that she had to focus on her. Catherine Carroll asked Sharon to describe the subject of her play.
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World of Whoa!
This month in the World of Whoa! the things that have been stopping host Catherine Carroll in her tracks are a play about the Easter Rising by Sharon Sexton, the sad closure of our favourite local café, and the return of 90’s girlband legends All Saints to Camden.
- A Fit Wife for a Revolutionary
- Sharon Sexton's play at London Irish Centre
- All Saints at Koko
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What's On In Camden - 28th March 2016
There’s a ton of fun this Easter in Camden. The London Irish Centre has a week of plays in commemoration of the Easter Rising. Maiden Lane Community Centre has a full program of activities to keep the school holidays fun; People Places and Things, a play about addiction and recovery, has transferred to the West End; the National Citizen Service are putting on a night in celebration of young people who transform their communities at the Roundhouse.
Written & Presented by: Denise O’Connor, Felicity Sylvester, Zoe Stegosaurus, Joseph Hughes, Freddy Chick
Recorded and edited by: Rosie Turner and Freddy Chick
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Whats On in Camden for the week beginning 3rd February 2013
On Monday, the Electric Ballroom hosts the NME Award Show 2013 at which ‘Dinosaur Junior’ will play and there is a 9pm show from the Rat Pack the same night at the Etcetera Theatre. There is an open mic Comedy night at Camden Head in the High Street on Tuesday and, on Thursday, there is a rare chance to listen to the North African and Middle Eastern music of Karama with Maya Youssef and Elizabeth Nott . Don’t miss Jurgen Teller’s photography exhibition ‘Woo!’ which continues at the ICA .
Read by: Mainga Bhima and Sophie Atkinson
Recorded by: DJ Rudeboy P.Tosh & Arsenio
Research & Editing: Sophie Atkinson & Mainga Bhimi
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