Dark matter
The title of Sardul Gill’s exhibition refers to the unknown material whose presence physicists deduce from gravitational data. Like much
Tag: older people
A painful edge to oral history
The Light Ships is proving to be a revelation. An exploration of the church’s place in a community’s artistic life,
The Light Ships
This summer, a new regular marvel will unfold in the ancient and distinctive fenlands of south east Lincolnshire. The Light
‘Every day in life is beautiful’
‘Music is in the first place of art. It brings us on an island with peace, beauty and love. Music
Music matters
A quick post to highlight a radio programme called The Folklorist, about Izzy Young, who was central to the Greenwich Village
Dancing down the years
The pleasures of one generation are often incomprehensible to another. I first heard the phrase ‘Old Time and Sequence Dancing’
Bringing one’s self into the lab
An ethnographer’s perspective on drawing A few weeks after the publication of Winter Fires, I was contacted by the editor
Generating taste
Among the stories I heard, during my Fenland visits last month, were several concerned with artistic life in rural Norfolk
Late flowering
Originally posted on Parliament of Dreams:
Jean, flautist with Fred’s Folks Ceilidh Band Art and wellbeing in old age [This is the…
You’ve got to laugh
It’s an old-fashioned ladies hairdressers’, on a down-at-heel high road in the West Midlands. The owner – let’s call her
Regular Marvels 