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Preparations for the Storytelling tent at Crystal Palace Festival move on apace. Specifically, this last weekend, creating the physical setting for Storytelling. We have a bona fide Bedouin tent and lots of speculation about a magnificent Storytelling Chair. The tent … Continue reading
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So to the current exhibition at the British Museum – Hokusai beyond the Great Wave (£12 entry, concessions £10). Katsushika Hosukai, also known as Iitsu and Gakyo Rojin Manji, was a painter from Edo (modern-day Tokyo) painting in late eighteenth … Continue reading
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From Common Reading at Clapham Book Festival to Common People ’17, lots of free music and the spoken word on a Bank Holiday weekend in south London. It was thirty degrees and sunny as we lounged in deck chairs to … Continue reading
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…sang Elvis Costello back in the ’70s. But I do and have – been going to Chelsea that is – for twenty years and more ( twenty five actually, I first went in 1994 ) But not this year. It’s … Continue reading
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The first chapter of Peter Ackroyd’s London Under is entitled Darkness Visible and it begins ‘Tread carefully over the pavements of London for you are treading on skin, a skein of stone that covers rivers and labyrinths, tunnels and chambers, streams … Continue reading
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