Resort, an exhibition by acclaimed documentary photographer Anna Fox, gives a fascinating insight into the family activities which Butlin’s resorts are famed for. With Chalet Lines opening this week we’re loving these beautiful, bright images which give a visual slice of contemporary Butlin’s life at the Bognor Regis resort. We’re asking Bush audiences and staff to send us their own Butlin’s holiday snaps which will be displayed in our front of house during the production’s run.
This talented Bush Associate artist will perform at the Battersea Arts Centre prior to her run at the Bush.
Great mental fodder for writers interested in form. If you’re not sure where to start, check out ‘Short Imagined Monologues’ or ‘Open Letters to People or Entities Unlikely to Respond’.
Mohammed “Aerosol Arabic” Ali: One of my heroes. A beautiful film produced by the Language of Light team.
Your daily dose of TED. From Palestinian refugee camps to universities in Beirut, from foster homes in Portugal to cities across the Americas, he transcends citizenship identity to break borders and wage beauty across continents and through culture.
The playwright/artist/performer that gave us the beautifully poignant “Little Baby Jesus” (Dir. Che Walker). Currently working with the Lyric Hammersmith, I look forward to seeing this dramatist’s next stage offering and anticipate the opportunity to work with him in the future.
If the extremely talented Sabrina Mahfouz has not yet come across your radar, you should feel guilty. Sabrina is, in my opinion, the Charlie Parker of new writing. Be prepared to hear a lot more from Sabrina in 2012—I predict this will be a very important year for her.
As the French Senate approve a ban on burqas, BABELGUM.COM profiles the anonymous Parisian graffiti artist whose work “hijabizing” adverts raises the question of why hiding a face behind a veil is considered to be more of a repressive act than hiding one behind airbrushing and media gloss.
