MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review 2000 Meters to Andriivka, Savages, The Legend of Ochi, and The Naked Gun
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Portraits of rebellion against injustice in tune with the times
GORDON PARSONS advises you to get up to speed on obscure ancient ceremonies to grasp this interpretation of a late Shakespearean tragi-comedy
DENNIS BROE enjoys the political edge of a series that unmasks British imperialism, resonates with the present and has been buried by Disney
STEVE JOHNSON speaks to DJ and singer/songwriter Mark Radcliffe
JAMES WALSH takes advantage of an evening of comedy snippets to pick out which clowns will make it in Edinburgh
MAYER WAKEFIELD is swept up by the tale of the south London venue where music forged alliances across race, class and identity
The Liberation Music Collective
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IN THE heart of Trump's cruel and buffoonish US, the troubadours of freedom are still making music, as evidenced by The Liberation Music Collective — two young scientists from Indiana who are also jazz musicians.
Bassist Hannah Fidler is a neuroscientist and trumpeter Matt Riggen a biologist and, in 2015, they gathered together a group of comrade musicians to give testimony to “a better, safer and freer world for us all,” using the messages and humanism of jazz.
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