'I don't care what the doctor said, you're starting work at Nando's first thing tomorrow'

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Our Franz Kafka's 'Before The Law' short film is a non-commercial production, but we're still looking for a mid 20-something white male - average build, well-spoken, based in Greater Manchester - to play the medical student. Self-tape required. Email me theboltonnews.co.uk/news/24253518.…

'If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.'

― George Orwell

Eleanor Coppola, Emmy award winning director, dies aged 87

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Full article 'Dear River Thames' Culture Matters here: tinyurl.com/m5uu3d4k

Latest article: '[Rivers] are earthly phenomena for enjoyment and escape, conviviality and community, perspective and peace; venues of vitality where picnics are prepared, personal decisions are pronounced and marriages are proposed' culturematters.org.uk/index.php/cult…

Could not agree with this more - and the thing is when they tell our stories they always get them wrong-it takes an enormous amount of arrogance to think you can talk about things you have never experienced

Free workshop on Feminist Filmmaking in Cuba, Catalunya and Glasgow! May 8, 3-5pm CCA, hosted by Havana Glasgow Film Festival and ourselves. Part of the excellent Glasgow Trade Unions May Day programme. Supported by UofGCulture & Comunicació URV. All welcome! eventbrite.co.uk/e/feminist-fil…

Tish Murtha's grim, glorious visions of Broken Britain

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Fighting the good fight with Culture Matters one day at a time 🙂

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Perhaps you listened to our English/German version of Peat Bog Soldiers. But did you also listen to our full six-verse German only version? If not, here's the Spotify link - pass it on if you like it! open.spotify.com/track/1ph3Ckjg…

‘Zone of Interest' and Glazergate: The director’s challenge and the Zionist reaction culturematters.org.uk/index.php/arts…

Here's the audio and transcript of my latest Culture Matters interview with Giedre Kubiliute about her new book 'Protests and the Media' published by Routledge Books culturematters.org.uk/index.php/cult… Jamie Klingler Green & Black Cross Journal of Class and Culture David Archibald Leeds Beckett Valerie Houghton

German gallery fires employee for hanging own art in exhibition 🙂

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‘…the current and agonisingly ongoing Israeli seige of Gaza,and mass displacement of Gazans,which some term the second Palestinian catastrophe or Nakba,dominates this collection.’

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Poetry for Palestine: Testament / Sajél culturematters.org.uk/index.php/our-…

'Another studio head, however, was far less charitable in his assessment: “It’s so not good, and it was so sad watching it. Anybody who puts P&A behind it, you’re going to lose money. This is not how Coppola should end his directing career.' hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-n…

‘Twin Peaks’ Co-Creator Mark Frost Still Believes Laura Palmer’s Murder Was Solved Too Quickly
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‘These are polemical and activist poems written to predict and hasten the demise of our tottering government and—hopefully—of the Conservative Party itself.’ Please share (and buy a copy, if you can!)

Convulsions, 2021-24: a Trusstercluck culturematters.org.uk/index.php/our-…