A 900-year-old work gets an immersive update in Bitter Visions: By Order of Hildegard. Presented by Ololyga as part of Grimeborn Festival 2026. Bitter Visions: By Order of Hildegard I’ve lived in London for quite a long time now, and yet until yesterday had never been to either Glyndebourne or Grimeborn Festivals. Glyndebourne, you may […]
My second outing to this year’s Camden Fringe is to see Gammelstad, a historic drama exploring social and religious life in 19th century Sweden in the context of one family. Gammelstad As long-time readers know, I really enjoy theatre where I learn something. This is the case with Gammelstad, a one act historical play which […]
Curator Jacqueline Springer addresses a historic imbalance by celebrating the importance and influence of Black British music. Come with me as we visit The Music is Black: A British Story. The Exhibition Space at V&A East – the Museum’s Main Draw? In my last post, I introduced the new V&A East museum at Stratford. A […]
I visit one of London’s newest museums, V&A East, part of the development of Stratford as a cultural quarter. London, I Can’t Keep Up No, I’m serious. Between exhibitions, theatre, other sights to see in London – before you even start thinking about doing things outside London once in a while – I can’t keep […]
A speculative insight into the mind of one of America’s most famous writers in Edgar A. Poe’s Last Call, written and performed by Scott Robinson. Caution: spoilers ahead. But spoilers for real events in the life of Edgar Allen Poe – can you have spoilers for things that happened more than 150 years ago? Poe’s […]
A final museum visit in Hong Kong takes me to Flagstaff House and its Museum of Tea Ware, a mix of colonial architecture and Chinese tradition. A Final Museum Stop in Hong Kong Thank you for joining me as I packed in as many cultural activities as possible during my recent trip to Hong Kong. […]
The Hong Kong Heritage Museum covers a broad range of topics that make this place so special. A Final Day in Hong Kong – What to Pick? I’ve already given you a teaser for this museum: we walked past it as I visited Sha Tin and went on to Ten Thousand Buddhas Monastery. It was […]
I get to know more of the West Kowloon Cultural District with M+, built to rival the great museums of modern and contemporary art. A Visit to M+ In recent days you have joined me for three walks in different parts of Hong Kong, where we explored aspects of the territory’s history. We started in […]
On my final day in Hong Kong I learn more about the territory’s 20th century development by walking around Sha Tin. A Walk in Sha Tin So far on this trip to Hong Kong, we have stretched our legs in Wan Chai, and taken an excursion to Lamma Island and Aberdeen. On the former, we […]
Making use of Hong Kong’s ferry network, I spent my free day in Hong Kong exploring Lamma and Aberdeen, where aspects of fisherfolk culture are still in evidence. Hong Kong’s Fisherfolk I was explaining in my last post that my primary purpose in visiting Hong Kong this time around was not tourism, but I nonetheless […]
