Tag Archives: Spark

The stress of university life, particularly if it’s, say, your final year, can affect people in many different ways. For me, it makes me want to revisit the things that I enjoyed as a child, perhaps as a poor attempt to relive the days when I wasn’t even sure what a dissertation was, much less what it involved. It was this kind of thinking, childish in itself to be frank, that made me revisit an old favourite recently: High School Musical.

Poem by Zana Nassah

Music in the lives of Filipinos is very important, music is sufficient to eliminate boredom and liven up any day or occasion.

Steven Claydon has exhibited his sculptures everywhere, from the Tate Modern and Art Basel to a tiny shed in the Swiss Alps, but the latest venue for his work is a little closer to home: The Museum of English Rural Life (The MERL). It seems like an unusual choice for the high profile, London-based sculptor, but it was suggested by Reading International, and Claydon explained: “With my work which deals with the nature of the thing, the alterity of the thing and the migration and transformation of things it seemed like the right place to be.”

As an Algerian it is possible that I may be somewhat biased in telling you to visit Algeria, but hear me out, because it really is the hidden gem you’ve been looking for.

I think it's fair to assume that audio books have been around since we discovered how to record voices, but with companies like Audible and Strathmore Publishing in the mix, audio books seem to be on the rise. 

Blood and Ice comes to the Progress Theatre this week, and it is definitely worth a watch!

It seems strange that it's been only 2 years since the Obamas were in the White House, but then time doesn't fly when you aren't having fun. One could argue that Michelle Obama's book, Becoming, has done so well because of the nostalgia for the Obama administration post-Trump, but it's also just a really good book.