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Global crises change the way we think about work. That might be an oversimplification, but by and large, it stands up to interrogation. The classic example is Europe and America following the Second World War. Women entered the workplace en masse for the first time, mechanisation and technological production accelerated – fuelling the so-called Green […]
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Image Description: Entrance to the Oxford Playhouse The UK government will provide a £1.57 billion rescue package to help cultural, arts and heritage institutions through the detrimental financial impact of the coronavirus, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak announced in a tweet on Sunday evening. The news of the “world-leading” lifeline comes as a relief […]
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Image Description: Oxford student jumps joyfully in front of the Rad Cam 5th week is now well underway, and although 5th week blues often set in about now and we begin to miss home, I for one am greatly missing Oxford. Nevertheless, there’s plenty to be happy about and lots of positive news from all […]
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Image description: Player characters from The Adventure Zone: Balance. Image credit: “The Adventure Zone” by Nicholas Kole is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Like many of my peers, I’m hungry for queer stories that aren’t exclusively about being queer. Coming-of-age and romance stories, while great on their own terms, are not my favourite genres, and I have little hope […]
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Nathan de Giorgi, a second year music student at Hertford College, made a name for himself last year off the back of several successful musical theatre appearances including ‘A Little Night Music’ and ‘Made in Dagehnam’. As the President of the Hertford Music Society (HCMS), choral award holder, and conductor of the Hertford Orchestra, Nathan […]
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On walking into the auditorium at the Old Fire Station, the aesthetic which greeted us was uber millennial feminism: fur coats, crop tops, fluffy cushions, flares, and lots and lots of pink. In this intimate space, our reflections gazing back at us on the mirrored wall, we were to watch HOTTER, Ell Potter and Mary […]
Continue ReadingBlavatsky’s Tower is a claustrophobic family drama. Leaving the Michael Pilch studio, it felt as if the apartment’s internal tensions had been taxed and strained for years, long before I ever walked in. Two of its four inhabitants are obsessive, blinkered theorists and three unable to leave. The confined, hemmed in studio space serves as […]
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Ruskin events are always good-value, even if the Art isn’t. Often, it’s more fun to observe the attendees than their work; and I wasn’t disappointed on entering Modern Art Oxford’s strangely swanky basement to find a sea of people fitting the same description. Wishing I’d worn darker, better-cut clothing and a (slightly) ironic hat, I […]
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Ankita Saxena is a second year English student at Jesus College, and is president of this year’s Turl Streets Arts Festival, a collaborative effort between the colleges of Turl Street- Exeter, Jesus and Lincoln- to hold an annual festival celebrating and embracing the arts. The Turl Street Arts Festival is in its 19th year and […]
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I was in a café with my fellow section editor, Chloe, last week, telling her how I’d become a part of the Arts Committee at my college. To which, Chloe replied, “What’s that?” I was aware not all colleges have Arts Committees, and went on to explain that the Committee is there as an extension […]
Continue ReadingThis term brings a wealth of art and theatre to our doors in the form of three arts festival, TSAF (Turl Street Arts Festival), Somerville Arts Festival, and Keble Arts Festival. Coming up first is TSAF with its programme just officially released, which takes place in 5th week. The festival is a combined effort between […]
Continue ReadingThe inevitable mocking faced by arts students from their science counterparts (usually along the lines of “what, you sit around drinking herbal tea and reading plays all day?” and “what use is the ability to decipher rhyme and rhythm when we can blow things up?”) may occasionally hit a bit close to home. The financial […]
Continue ReadingAdam Leonard reports on the growth of performance poetry, and interviews Oxford’s own musical poet Nick Hampson
Continue ReadingFuse Twilight and Gossip Girl, plonk them down amongst the clock towers in Oxford, and you get Oxford Blood. The novel revolves around Harriet French, a fresher reading History at the fictional Lilith College. Facing mild unease as it is, settling in amongst the numerous sets of cutlery at Hall having come from a “working […]
Continue ReadingOnce, on a brief excursion to drop off overdue books, a friend described the English Faculty Library as full of people with terrible knitwear and no job prospects. For the sake of my own sanity/future livelihood I have to deny that there’s any truth in the latter description, but the knitwear situation has empirical visual […]
Continue ReadingThe Hayward Gallery’s ‘Light Show’ does what it says on the tin. It puts on a show. A bright, glittery, shiny show at that. Exploring the ways in which artists have experimented and employed artificial light in works from the last fifty years, the show is dazzling both in appearance and scope. Light is an […]
Continue ReadingFrankie Goodway previews “The Two Cultures”, opening Thurs 17th Nov (tomorrow) in the Michael Pilch Studio.
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