โจ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Theatre,Milo Rau,Political theatre,Stage,Peter Thiel,Austria,Culture,Festivals,Europe,Switzerland ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: MIlo Rau, once the enfant terrible of continental European theatre, is less cheerful these days. The Swiss theater director did something he said he openly hated: he canceled a guest. โYes, we hit a wall,โ he says. โBut at least it made the wall visible.โAs artistic director of the Wiener Festwochen theater festival, Rao, at the end of last month, invited and then rescinded the invitation from American tech billionaire Peter Thiel. The Austrian weekly newspaper Falter described…
โจ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: The Beatles,Paul McCartney,John Lennon,Ringo Starr,George Harrison,Pop and rock,Music,Photography,Art and design,Culture ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: TThe Beatles gave their last official concert on August 29, 1966 at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. Jim Marshall's photographs capture the group at a pivotal moment, when they are already feeling nostalgic for what they left behind.Two months ago, the Beatles finished pre-recording Revolver, a sparkling collection of pop gems. The next day they boarded a plane to embark on a world tour during which they would play none of the…
๐ฅ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Shania Twain,Music,Country,Pop and rock,London,Culture,UK news,England ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: IAt the Shacklewell Arms in east London, the usual crowd of hipsters and indie music fans has been replaced by a crowd wearing cheetah print, double-breasted jeans and cowboy hats to honor the night's headliner: Shania Twain.Jack, 28, who came with his sister Amy, said: โWe thought we might have been scammed when we saw the ticket advert.โ โWhy would you set up a bar that small?โThere was a collective feeling of disbelief among the 200 lucky ticket…
๐ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Books,Blackpool,LGBTQ+ rights,Grandparents and grandparenting,Older people,Life and style,UK news,Children,Culture,Society,World news โ
**What Youโll Learn**: A search is on for two lesbian grandmothers who inspired a new children's book after a chance encounter with a pantomime lady at Blackpool Pride.The women, whose names were not known, attended a reading by popular artist Mama Ji in 2021, and complained to her about the lack of diversity in young adult literature.Mama G said she was reading children's books in Blackpool Winter Gardens when she asked the women if there were…
โจ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: David Gray,Music,Culture,Pop and rock ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: The first song I fell in love withWhen I watched Night Boat to Nile by Madness on Top of the Pops when I was 11, something happened to me on a molecular level. There was something about the way they moved.First song I boughtโI Don't Like Mondaysโ by the Boomtown Rats, from Swales Music in Haverfordwest, is a 15-mile bus journey from the small fishing village in west Wales where I lived when I was eight.The song to…
๐ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Arts Council England,Dawn Airey,Media,Channel 4,Channel 5,Television,Arts funding,Culture,Television & radio,Television industry ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: When dawn iri While running Channel 5, she described the channel's core strengths as the three Cs: "movies, football and sex".The comment from the veteran TV executive, who has just been appointed chairman of Arts Council England (Ace), has set a career path defined by audacity and commercial instinct.Airey will replace Nicholas Sirota in August, with a new mandate to do more to support, nurture and protect the arts. Her appointment follows an…
๐ฅ Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Theatre,Stage,Social media,Internet,Culture,Pornography,Women,Society,Technology โ
**What Youโll Learn**: gGeorgie Detmer's gaze is unwavering. Nothing is held back in Are You Watching?, her rage-filled interrogation of our twisted relationship with sex and violence, and the emotional distance we hide behind when we watch them on screen. This honesty can seem inaccurate, but it's also admirably unintimidating.Two teenage girls (Kausar Ali and Abby McCann) sit on a bunk bed and talk about the worst things they've ever seen. Throughout the rest of the show, these stories are broken up in…
๐ฅ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Television & radio,Culture โ
**What Youโll Learn**: Kevin Bridges: In Search of the Beautiful Game10.30pm on BBC OneFootball has changed dramatically since Scotland last qualified for the World Cup in 1998. But does the game still brim with the same raw emotion? To find out, comedian Kevin Bridges embarks on a global journey, visiting the US, Brazil and Birmingham in search of the essence of the global game. Along the way, he spends time with Sao Paulo ultras, World Cup winner Cafu and Scotland vice-captain John McGinn.…
๐ฅ Check out this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Dance,Stage,Culture,Sadler's Wells ๐ **What Youโll Learn**: toLast year, four choreographers competed for the Turner Prize, the Rose International Dance Prize, for dance's answer to the ยฃ40,000 prize. One of these finalists was Portuguese choreographer Marco da Silva Ferreira. He didn't win, but he certainly distinguished himself as the voice of the moment. His work bears echoes of those of Hofesh Schechter and Sharon Eyal, but with a clear agenda: protest through parties; Activity meets collective dances. Beautiful, sexy, isolated people, danceable tunes, a somewhat 3am atmosphere…
๐ Check out this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian ๐ ๐ **Category**: Music industry,Music,Brexit,European Union,Culture,UK news,Europe,World news,Business ๐ก **What Youโll Learn**: More than a quarter of British musicians have lost all their EU gigs since 2021, according to new research.The report by European Movement UK, a cross-party campaign group calling for closer ties between the UK and the EU, found that nearly half of British musicians have seen less work in the EU since 2021, while more than a quarter have stopped working there altogether.Average touring revenues fell by 45%, with 59% of musicians saying touring in Europe…
