Q+A with Julien Planté of The Convention: Brexit and the Political Crash
From left to right: The Convention co-founders Henry Porter, Rebecca Ashton, and producer Julien Planté
UK Green Film Festival director Dan Beck breaks down 2017’s programme
From When Two Worlds Collide, as part of the selection of this year's UK Green Film Festival
Back for 2017 with another bevy of stunning titles from around the world, UK Green Film Festival (UKGFF) arrives in cinemas next month, with climate change, food and resources front and centre of its concerns.
Q&A: Kit Caless on Influx Press and the History of London Hidden in Spoons Carpets
Kit Caless is a writer, broadcaster and co-founder and editor of independent publisher, Influx Press. He created the cult blog Wetherspoons Carpets, a photographic record of the carpets unique to Spoons pubs up and down the country, which has been turned into a book. He is also fiction editor at Minor Literatures.
“Within that ordinary space were hidden the building blocks of the universe”: Susan Eyre on Laboratory of Dark Matters
“We crammed into a narrow container, descending the shaft for seven long minutes into blackness before arriving in a hot and dusty subterranean world.” Photo taken of a particle trail from a test run by the Laboratory of Dark Matters.
Strap in for this one, as artist Susan Eyre takes us on a journey that wouldn’t sound out of place in the best Doctor Who episodes, but is in, fact, entirely factual.
The legacy of Secret Garden Party: Speaking to Head Gardener Freddie Fellowes
Parties have a way of enrapturing us that few other entities command. Distilling every detail, every commotion, into a sum of parts is always reductive. The magic is in the motion of the thing- it’s in the conga line, snaking through town, bending around on itself and back through the front door where an implausible amount of people just surfaced from.