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Launching a £15,000 prize for writers from refugee and migrant backgrounds | books

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✨ Explore this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Books,Awards and prizes,Culture,UK news,Refugees,Fiction 💡 Key idea: Footnote Press and Counterpoints Arts have announced a new fiction prize celebrating writers from refugee and migrant backgrounds, offering a £15,000 prize and a publishing deal to the winner.The Footnote x Counterpoints Imagination Prize, which will be launched on Thursday, marks the second time the two organizations have collaborated on an award. In 2023, writers are invited to submit non-fiction, but the award will now focus on fiction for the first time.The award is open to writers living in the…

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Stranger Things Season 5 Review – This deluxe final walk-through will have you standing on your chair and screaming with joy | Strange things

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💥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Stranger Things,Television & radio,Culture,Television 💡 Key idea: Tim up for the weird stuff. The fifth and final season comes nearly three and a half years after a fourth run that felt like the end, not least because the kids seemed to have grown up. Having originally imitated beloved 1980s films where brave, stubborn kids avoid the end of the world, the franchise now starred young adults and the plot and dialogue were modified accordingly. I have learned life lessons. Their selves have been found. Teenage fears –…

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The Little Mermaid Review – Underwater Wonders Cast a Spell in the Air | stage

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🚀 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Christmas shows,Hans Christian Andersen,Circus,Dance,Fairytales,Books,Christmas 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: TThe Little Mermaid is big business this Christmas, with versions of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale at Hull Truck, Nottingham Playhouse and Newbury's Watermill, all supported perhaps by the Disney blockbuster of 2023. Converter Teresa Heskins and her assistant director, Vicky Della Amedum, pitched their show as an all-ages theatrical show. We're also introduced to each house band member located in the audience before meeting the main characters.Rhiannon Skerritt plays the title role, here named Coralie, in…

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‘Stay tuned’: Anne Rice’s new film could herald the release of an unpublished work by the late author Anne Rice

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💥 Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Anne Rice,US news,Books,New Orleans 📌 Key idea: TThe worst heartbreak and triumph of Anne Rice's life happened in relatively quick succession, each beginning when the American novelist's daughter — Michelle, who was three at the time — told her she was too tired to play.Rice had never heard such a comment from a child that age, and subsequent blood tests ordered by the doctor revealed that her beloved "mouse" had acute granulocytic leukemia, which for her was considered incurable.Mouse died in 1972 shortly before he was…

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Ring Ring Review – La Ronde reimagined as a carousel of modern concerns | stage

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✨ Discover this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Theatre,Gary Owen,Stage,Culture 💡 Main takeaway: gAri Owen's gentle dance of interconnected parts joins a long list of plays that follow Arthur Schnitzler's "La Ronde," an 1897 drama staged as a kind of musical chairs. With scenes interwoven between two actors at a time, rotating every few minutes. It's a useful tool for incorporating diversity into one story, such as coming up with a wide range of ideas. Despite great performances by a young cast, this fresh and modern hybrid from the writer of the incomparable Iphigenia in…

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Review – Flimsy Splendor Needs Deeper Thought | stage

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🔥 Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Theatre,Stage,Culture,Douglas Adams,Books,Science fiction books,Fiction 💡 Key idea: DDouglas Adams's sci-fi comedy about the destruction of Earth and Arthur Dent's intergalactic adventures has become a massive enterprise since the original radio series in 1978. That has spawned six books, a TV series, a film, comic strips, theatrical adaptations — and trademark bath towels.Business is booming indeed, but it's strange to see merchandise being sold as part of this immersive show (there's one kiosk selling branded merchandise inside the production and another in the lobby), plus a bar at…

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“Adults think with their mouths open”: five modern aphorisms that help us understand the year 2025 | books

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💥 Explore this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Books,James Baldwin,David Byrne,Culture 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: WWhen it comes to aphorisms, the biggest hits are familiar: “A penny saved is a penny earned,” “A picture is worth 1,000 words,” the ones about why teaching fishing is better than donating fish. These phrases have been around so long that they seem as old as language itself.But proverbs are not just historical artifacts. People regularly come up with new ideas, and even if they don't come from the pen of Confucius or Emily Dickinson, they can shed…

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Peaches: “We need lubrication to reduce the friction of the world” | Peaches

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🔥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Peaches,Music,Pop and rock,Electronic music,Culture,Canada ✅ Main takeaway: Why is your next Your first album in over a decade And who is "you" in the comeback song Don't have any of your work in your mouth? k4ren123I've been very busy - touring, working with dance groups, performing arts, sculptures, playing the lead role in a production of Bertolt Brecht's "The Seven Deadly Sins" in Stuttgart, etc. Then finally I got into new music. The "you" in the single are people who feel they have the right to have…

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Beethoven and Brahms: Violin Concertos album review – flexible and cohesive as ever as ACO celebrates 50 years | classical music

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🚀 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Classical music,Music,Culture 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: HeyOver the past quarter century, the Australian Chamber Orchestra has become a regular visitor to Europe, establishing itself as one of the world's most important chamber orchestras. Founded in 1975, this pairing of perhaps the greatest violin concerto in the repertoire was released on the occasion of the ACO's 50th birthday. The soloist and conductor in both works is Richard Tognetti, who has been the orchestra's conductor and artistic director for the past 35 years.The Guardian's journalism is independent. We…

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Sally Rooney says she will not be able to publish books in the UK during the PLO ban Sally Rooney

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🔥 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 Category: Sally Rooney,Palestine Action,UK security and counter-terrorism,Books,UK news,Culture,Ireland 📌 Here’s what you’ll learn: Irish writer Sally Rooney has told the High Court that she is unlikely to be able to publish new works within the UK while a ban on the PLO remains in place due to her public support for the group.On the second day of a legal challenge to the PLO ban, the impact on Rooney, who said her books could disappear from UK stores altogether, was held up as an example of its impact on…

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