THE GIRL AND THE DRAGON, BY SUITCASE STORYTELLING COMPANY – REVIEW

Posted on January 17, 2022 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged Arts Council, children's theatre, compassion, displacement, featured, Minnie Wilkinson, Niall Moorjani, performance, Suitcase Storytelling Company, The Girl and The Dragon, theatre.

By Sarah Edgcumbe

The Suitcase Storytelling Company are magicians. There is no other way to describe them. On a recent wet and mizzly Sunday afternoon my partner and I took his eight-year-old daughter to a nearby community theatre, expecting to fidget our way through being mildly entertained, but hoping his daughter would enjoy the show. The set consisted of a screen painted with a rudimentary set of train tracks set against mountains in the background. In the foreground, a painted electronic sign indicated we would be transported onto a railway station platform as soon as the show began. A tannoy announcement repeatedly announced that the train was delayed, before politely asking passengers to keep their umbrellas next to them and report any sightings of dragons to train staff.

LAST WORD FESTIVAL – LAUREATES: CECILIA KNAPP AND ALEXANDRA HUỲNH

Posted on July 30, 2021 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged agency, Alexandra Huỳnh, Amanda Gorman, artist, Caroline Bird, Cecilia Knapp, compassion, featured, imposter syndrome, introversion, Kendrick Lamar, language, laureateship, literature, london, music, National Youth Poet Laureate, objectification, online events, poetic form, poetry, poetry education, read women, Roundhouse Poetry Collective, Sacramento, Safia Elhillo, self-care, self-employment, songwriting, Steve Camden, Terrance Hayes, the last word festival, uk, USA, Vietnamese, Vietnamese American, Warsan Shire, women, young people, Young People's Laureate.

By Carmina Masoliver

This year’s Last Word Festival at The Roundhouse has been a mixture of online and in-person events. Although I had hoped to be able to attend more events, and accessing the festival hasn’t been easy, it was a pleasure to listen to poets Cecilia Knapp and Alexandra Huỳnh in conversation as I tucked into my dinner at home.

THE DEATH OF EUROPE AS IT ONCE WAS

Posted on June 1, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Borderlines, Inter|national, Perspectives and tagged compassion, Egypt, ethnocentrism, Europe, featured, France, iraq, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, marie rose, nationalism, refugees, Syria, turkey, vigilantes, war crimes, xenophobia.

By Sarah Edgcumbe

Since the beginning of the conflict in Syria in 2012, over three million civilians have fled the country. The vast majority are currently living in Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt and Libya. Afghanistan has been subjected to war for four decades resulting in Afghans comprising the second highest refugee population in the world, yet the vast majority of Afghan refugees live in Iran and Pakistan. This resettlement of Syrian and Afghan refugees in neighbouring countries is no anomaly: the majority of refugees around the world reside in countries neighbouring their own. These countries often have poor economies and fragility of peace and governance, yet they often accommodate millions of refugees.

BEYOND BURNOUT: TOWARDS COMPASSIONATE ACTIVISM

Posted on August 14, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged activism, burnout, campaigning, compassion, competition, cooperation, featured, grassroots, health, identity, mental health, movement, neoliberalism, politics, postgraduate, protest, social comparison.

By Anonymous

Being an ‘activist’ is a crucial part of my identity. It can be a difficult thing to be, in a society where ‘politics’ is a dirty word and its practice is often at best frowned upon, but I’m glad I’ve made it to this place. To be part of wider movements, making friends with incredibly talented, dedicated and inspiring people and, in my own flawed, stumbling way, trying to make the world a little bit better, is an enormous joy and privilege that not everyone gets to enjoy.

“HI, HOW ARE YOU?”

Posted on September 12, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts and tagged alcohol, anxiety, clubbing, companion, compassion, conflict, creative writing, death, depression, dog, family, guardian, guilt, homeless, homelessness, Kev Walker, kitbag, maybe, mental health, night out, pain, poem, poetry, pride, PTSD, rough sleepers, saturday night out, solider, special brew, substance misuse, support, tramp, veteran, war, words, writing.

by Kev Walker

Content warning: mentions substance misuse, mental health, homelessness, conflict

It’s all bling and totter, down the lights of the highstreet, drunk by the train journey there
Cackles and shouts, tales of shagging and swearing, cosmetics squeeze out the air
Bravado and vanity, beer and wine, heading for the first open club
Boys strut with their chests out, showing a leg, only thoughts are of getting a rub.

He’s crouched in the corner, a-top a damp box, wrapped in a half soaking doss-bag
A dog by his side, as companion and protector, a mucker to share a sparse nose-bag
He shakes with the cold, but also the comedown the cider has long since left him
A blot-out, a release, from the pain in his mind and the mess he now finds himself in.Continue Reading

A FUNNY THING ABOUT AUTISM

Posted on February 23, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Perspectives and tagged aspergers, aspergers syndrome, autism, autistic spectrum, compassion, creativity, dan akroyd, differences, einstein, emotions, equality, external, mozart, newsfeed, relationship, social media, stand up, steve jobs, susan boyle, women.

by Aaron Hood

Article mentions gun violence, death, ableism, and contains strong language.

I’m taking my meme lord hat off for a second for something a bit more serious. Recently my newsfeed has consisted of dank memes, depressing Trump based shenanigans and salacious nonsense about what celebrity has indulged in whatever inanity this week. It’s strange how little chance anything that the algorithm that dictates my social media viewing has of showing me something that holds any real interest to me.

I came across a study via my newsfeed showing that we’re not far off eradicating Autism from children in the womb or whatever witchcraft those science people do now.Continue Reading

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A LIBERAL CONSERVATIVE PARTY

Posted on October 10, 2015 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged capitalism, compassion, conservative party, conservative party conference, conservatives, crisis, david cameron, economics, general election, george osborne, immigration, liberal, liberal politics, politics, poverty, prejudice, progress, refugees, rhetoric, unemployment.

by Natasha Senior

When George Osborne took to the stage at the Conservative party conference, he had an air of confidence that spoke volumes. He tapped into a sense that has been palpable for a while now, the widely held belief that he is the saviour of the British economy. Soaked with ambition, he painted for us his bold and vibrant vision for Britain, creating a northern powerhouse and putting the working, taxpaying people at the heart of his plans. He decreed his party the builders of Britain and the only true party of labour whilst unapologetically championing his more liberal politics. Then as the applause rolled in, showering him with reverence and adoration, the next five years unfolded in front of me and I could see this man winning the 2020 general election. The thought of it made me feel sick to my stomach.Continue Reading

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THE GIRL AND THE DRAGON, BY SUITCASE STORYTELLING COMPANY – REVIEW

By Sarah Edgcumbe

LAST WORD FESTIVAL – LAUREATES: CECILIA KNAPP AND ALEXANDRA HUỲNH

By Carmina Masoliver

THE DEATH OF EUROPE AS IT ONCE WAS

“HI, HOW ARE YOU?”

THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A LIBERAL CONSERVATIVE PARTY

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