MAYER WAKEFIELD applauds Rosamund Pike’s punchy and tragic portrayal of a multi-tasking mother and high court judge
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‘People are catching up to what Wac Arts has been doing’
CHE WALKER talks to Lynne Walsh about a unique training project in performance and media which is a beacon of diversity and innovation
Rooted in Wac: Che Walker
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FIONA O CONNOR recommends an unflinching depiction of child sexual abuse and its aftershocks, set in a working-class Liverpool family
New releases from Paul Weller, Wet Leg, and Dino Saluzzi
PAUL DONOVAN relishes the spectacle of a 1950s detective in pursuit of a 500-year-old murder mystery
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
THE PERFORMING arts in Britain are in flux. Nothing new there, but the gaps between the income-generating and the risk-taking is possibly more marked than ever.
And if you want to make a career in creative media, performing or writing, how on earth is that possible without a private income?
One charity answering that question is Wac Arts in north London. For four decades, as their mission statement has it, they’ve been “empowering young people to change their world through the arts” and, from July 26-28, they’re holding a special weekender to celebrate 40 glorious years of existence.
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This year’s Bristol Radical History Festival focused on the persistent threats of racism, xenophobia and, of course, our radical collective resistance to it across Ireland and Britain, reports LYNNE WALSH
LYNNE WALSH previews the Bristol Radical History Conference this weekend
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