We Out Here: Thriving at a Music Festival in Your Thirties
As a seasoned festival-goer and music journalist, I’ve wandered through countless fields, endured endless queues, and witnessed the evolution of the British festival scene….
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Toilet graffiti: secrets, support and solidarity in the women’s restroom
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Surviving climate change means transforming both economics and design
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The surprising role cheese played in human evolution
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Book clubs and the Blitz: how WWII Britons kept calm and got reading
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It’s not just grime – council estates produce all sorts of art
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The Silent Treatment: Breaking cultural barriers through sign language
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Ancient Tattooing in Polynesia: World’s oldest toolkit found in Tonga
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How to assess political stability? Follow the bread path
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Far-right extremists keep co-opting Norse symbolism – here’s why
Payton Gendron, the suspect in the killing of ten people in a grocery store in Buffalo, New York, is the latest far-right extremist to…
Toilet graffiti: secrets, support and solidarity in the women’s restroom
Communicating has never been so easy; we can to send messages and texts to friends and strangers in an instant from a variety of…
Why do national anthems cause so much trouble?
Canadian MPs have voted in favour of making their country’s national anthem, O Canada, gender neutral, replacing the words “in all thy sons command”…
Surviving climate change means transforming both economics and design
What could be more important than sustaining habitable living conditions on Earth? Climate change, biodiversity loss and other environmental problems demand changes on an…
The surprising role cheese played in human evolution
A solid white mass found in a broken jar in an Ancient Egyptian tomb has turned out to be the world’s oldest example of…
From Palestine to Zambia: WOMAD’s Celebration of Global Sounds
WOMAD, now in its 42nd year, continues to be a unique celebration of global music, blending culture, politics, and art into a weekend of…
Book clubs and the Blitz: how WWII Britons kept calm and got reading
These are unprecedented times – but, even so, comparisons are being made to the second world war in terms of the magnitude of the…
It’s not just grime – council estates produce all sorts of art
The music video for grime artist Skepta’s award-winning single “Shut Down” is shot in the concrete courtyard of an inner city council estate. With…
The Silent Treatment: Breaking cultural barriers through sign language
One of the benefits of learning a second (or third . . .) language is to be able to travel the world more effectively….
Ancient Tattooing in Polynesia: World’s oldest toolkit found in Tonga
Four small artefacts found on the island of Tongatapu, Tonga are among the earliest tattooing equipment known. Two have been found to be made…
How to assess political stability? Follow the bread path
When Egyptians were protesting in 2011, they held up a piece of bread and demanded “bread, freedom and social justice”. Since the 2007-8 and…
Galleries continue to erase women artists in their blockbuster exhibitions
The National Gallery recently announced its summer 2023 exhibition, After Impressionism, claiming the show will celebrate the “towering achievements of Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gaugin…
Gurus, gas attacks and pubic hair: the strange history of Japan’s new religions
This summer, Japan finally executed six long-imprisoned former members of the now-banned radical religious group Aum Shinrikyo. All of them had taken part in…
We Out Here Festival Returns for 2024
We Out Here Festival, the brainchild of renowned curator Gilles Peterson, is set to return for its fifth edition from August 15th to 18th,…
