Culture
Edinburgh Festival screening for Darwin’s Footsteps
Glasseye Films have arranged for Darwin’s Footsteps to be screened during Edinburgh Arts Festival. The viewings will take place at Venue 46, The Garage: 51a Northumberland Street, Edinburgh. Info about exact viewing times and other exhibiting artists can be found on www.edinburghnewtowngarage.blogspot.com
Established Poets invitation to support Evolving Talent
Dear poets and writers, please visit the Evolving Collection and take some time to read a couple of the poems, watch a film or live performance and leave some words of encouragement for the evolving talent who have been exploring the impact of Evolution on our lives 150 years after the publication of On the [...]
Polarbear’s new show – Return – highly recommended
I went to see it last night at Battersea Arts Centre and loved it. For information go to http://www.homeofpolar.com/ It’s on until 25 March, it’s form is orginal and the story will strike a chord with anyone who has moved away from home or left a world behind. Elizabeth
Music: The folk-rockers who sing about Darwin
“Steeped in the past, but evolving with every step, the Low Anthem are anything but folk revivalists” writes Stevie Chick -http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/feb/04/low-anthem-charlie-darwin Here is an extract from the article: Charles Darwin, meanwhile, provided not only the title to the record and its opening and closing songs, but also the theme for the entire album. “We were wandering through [...]
Film Festival – Evolving Words films to be screened
Darwin, Evolution and the Movies Darwin influenced fiction as well as fact and authors such as HG Wells, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Charles Kingsley were all directly inspired by Darwin’s theory of evolution by the means of natural and sexual selection. The work of Wells, Kingsley and Burroughs paved the way for future generations of [...]
Creation – a new film about Darwin
Who has seen Creation? What do you think?
A poem in lieu of…….. Ansuman Biswas
Thank you Elizabeth. I’m honoured to be invited to such an exclusive event. I would have loved to come but I’ll be on stage at the Donmar Warehouse. I’m doing a play there – ‘Life is a Dream’, a Spanish Renaissance play about a man locked in tower for all his life who ponders the [...]
National Poetry Competition 2009
National Poetry Competition 2009 First prize £5000 enter online at www.poetrysociety.org.uk Deadline 31 October 2009
Evolutionary Manufacturing by Mark Adams
Mark shares his views on evolutionary manufacturing and the government’s failure to understand design in the summer edition of the RSA journal, www.theRSA.org “Nature doesn’t have trade fairs each year where it unveils a whole load of species and some of them survive and others don’t. That’s what the manufacturing world is locked into.” “I [...]
Darwin inspired animation
Check out this short animation at http://www.johnhendicott.com/ A piece written for the ‘Ditto’ weekend at the Roundhouse on the theme of Darwin and Creation. Visuals – Mark Hunter @ Flawless Media Sound – John Hendicott
