COLISEUM CONFRONTATION FOR COVID 19 By Norman Warwick Oldham Coliseum Theatre and commissioning partner HOME Manchester have commissioned Associate Artist Hafsah Aneela Bashir to create a project as part of the Homemakers initiative. Hafsah Aneela Bashir is a poet and spoken word artist who completed an MA in Postcolonial Literary and Culture at the University […]
CORONAVIRUS SIDE EFFECTS AT SxSW By Norman Warwick On Wednesday, June 10, a number of famous faces will join together for ‘A Night For Austin,’ a two-hour live-stream raising money for those in the Texas capital struggling in the COVID-19 age. Spearheaded by Paul Simon with Edie Brickell, and Willie and Annie Nelson, the evening […]
WRITING OUR TIMES? By Norman Warwick I was further reminded of the notion that so many authors seem to somehow ´write their times´ when reading Steve Cooke´s recent post on a similar subject. On his blog at www.allacrossthearts.com he stated that ´novels have the dual functions of helping us to make sense of, and to […]
SHE WASN´T BAD FOR A GIRL Jazz Camp for Girls By Helena J Summerfield. As a young, female saxophonist I lost count of the number of times that I was told whenever I played that ´you’re good for a girl´ or ´you don’t sound like a girl.´ Now, I’m sure these comments were only meant […]
OF CONCERTS IN CASTLES Yul Ballesteros Quintet – Castillo de San Jose a review by Norman Warwick The Castillo De San Jose stands on the waterfront of Arrecife. Once a lookout point to warn off the sailing vessels of invading Moors it now overlooks a re-gentrified area, with huge cruise liners standing proudly in the […]
INALA: A ZULU BALLET By Norman Warwick The a capella group, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, were first put together by Joseph Shabalala in the early nineteen sixties and won the love of their national audience, before sharing with Paul Simon an increased global recognition after being invited by him to work on his nineteen eighties Graceland […]
THE SONGSMITHS: a crowd-funded success By Norman Warwick We have reported on these pages, in the past, one or two spectacularly successful crowd-funding initiatives. Some of these appeals really do deliver vibrant outcomes, leaving a lasting legacy. The album that came about for two musicians, Pablo and Humberto, widely known through the Canary Islands and […]
STORIES WRITTEN FROM THE ART a compare and contrast by Norman Warwick When we recently published Eileen´Earnshaw´s article about her ´virtual´ creative writing workshop delivered from the UK recently we had no idea that a similar event had been undertaken here on the island of Lanzarote. We have since learned, though, that a competition organized […]
A THOUSAND TIDES TO ANOTHER PLACE A Personal View of Laurence Edwards’ ‘A Thousand Tides’ and Antony Gormley’s ‘Another Place’: By Andrew Moorhouse The human body. From swaddled birth to shrouded death. Flesh and blood. Growth, maturity, decline and decay. ´How noble in reason, how infinite in faculty, in form and moving how express and […]
A BROADCAST FROM FRIENDS IN BERLIN Natalija Nikolayeva (left) has been a good friend of this Sidetracks and Detours blog since we reviewed a concert of Romantic Souvenirs she played in Tias earlier this year with her musical partner, violinist Iya Myaeva. The performance was reviewed on these pages and on Lanzarote Information on-line and […]
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