REVIEW: TWO LITTLE DUCKS EDINBURGH FRINGE PREVIEW

Posted on August 8, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Community and tagged anti-establishment, bbc, Birds of Hell, border control, Brexit, Calais, child abuse, Edinburgh Fringe, environment, EU referendum, future generations, government, guilt, history, individualism, internationalism, Leave Campaign, Lewis Buxton, Matt Abbott, Michelle Fisher, norwich, Norwich Arts Centre, nostalgia, older people, performance, performance poetry, Pete Murdoch, poetry, politics, Radio 1xtra, refugee crisis, refugees, review, spoken word, The Roundhouse, tradition, TS Eliot, Two Little Ducks, violence, volunteering, Words First.

CW: Mentions violence against children

More than any other art form, spoken word performance art allows an audience to directly interact with the thoughts of the artist. This kind of interaction can often change minds more effectively than argument or statistic, making spoken word art a very progressive medium. As a spoken word enthusiast and an artist on a student budget, I was therefore excited to attend Matt Abbott’s pay-what-you-can preview of his Edinburgh Fringe show ‘Two Little Ducks’ at the Norwich Arts Centre recently. And my excitement was certainly justified – Two Little Ducks is a powerfully thought-provoking, politically driven work.

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POLITICS & CULTURE – THE AMIEL & MELBURN SEMINAR 2017

Posted on June 29, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Arts, Inter|national and tagged 7 Days, academia, access, activism, alpha male, alt-right, alternative media, Annie Kelly, anti-feminism, art, Athina Karatzogianni, Barry Amiel & Norman Melburn Trust, Chardine Taylor-Stone, class, corruption, critique, culture, culture war, curricula, digital culture, direct action, disillusionment, economics, education, fake news, far right, fascism, feminism, feminist allies, future generations, GE17, higher education, history, holding power to account, ideology, inequality, inheritance, Jo Littler, Judies, knowledge, language, mainstream media, male psyche, marxism, media representation, meritocracy, Michael Rustin, Milo Yiannopolous, Mod, Mod women, modernity, music, neo nazi, neoliberalism, peer-pressure, politics, Politics & Culture Seminar, politics of difference, progress, progress narrative, progressive media, public education, punk, Punk women, representation, Rhian E Jones, right wing, Rosalind Delmar, Roshi Naidoo, Skinhead, Skinhead women, social exclusion, social media, social mobility, socialism, society, strike action, subcultures, talent, Teddy Girls, tenant strike, trust, universities, working class movement, young people, Zahra Dalilah.

by Gunnar Eigener and Rowan Gavin

CW: mentions misogyny, anti-feminism, neo-nazism

Earlier this month, a writer and an editor from the Radical took part in the Amiel & Melburn Trust’s annual residential seminar. The Trust’s aims are “to advance public education, learning and knowledge in all aspects of the philosophy of Marxism, the history of socialism, and the working-class movement’. This year, the topic of the seminar was ‘Politics & Culture’, and the various intertwinings and intersections thereof. What follows are thoughts and reactions about the seminar from our contributors.

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OUR LEADERS ARE DRAGGING US BACK TO THE COAL AGE

Posted on June 8, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national, Student and tagged activism, barack obama, climate, climate change, coal, collectivism, COP 21, corporations, creative subjects, creativity, democracy, Donald Trump, Earth Day, environment, environmental literacy, environmental sustainability, environmentalism, equality, fossil free, free thought, freedom of expression, future, future generations, global warming, government, individualism, media, national interest, paris, Paris Climate Agreement, people and planet, people's climate march, Pittsburgh, progress, progressive, qualifications, selfishness, student activism, trade deals, UKYCC, USA, West, youth movements.

We expect time to encourage positive progression, as new minds surface and opportunities ripen. But recently we are seeing more of the opposite achieved by the leaders of some of the greatest western ‘powers’. Last week, the current president of the United States announced the country’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate deal. This will have seriously detrimental effects on the environment and the future of our planet.

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EASTER EGGS AND THE CAMPUS CONVENIENCE CONSUMERISM CONUNDRUM

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Student and tagged beauty, berlin, bins, chocolate, climate change, coffee, coffee cups, consumerism, convenience, Easter, Easter eggs, environment, environmentalism, excess, food industry, food waste, future generations, Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall, individualism, life, luxury, Milena Glimbovski, nature, NUA, on-the-go, Original Unverpackt, packaging, plastics, recycling, Sara Wolf, spring, student life, students, UEA, universities, Wake Up and Smell the Waste, waste, young people.

As spring approaches, so do the grasping hands of Easter and the shelves full of egg-shaped chocolate treats, in a hundred sizes and colours. But the main thing I notice as I walk through the supermarket is the quantity of packaging that comes with them. Each egg is sealed in plastic and stored in a cardboard box, and most come with other individually wrapped chocolates. The brightly coloured decorations upon the eggs and boxes are reminiscent of nature and the beautiful colours of spring.

The great irony, of course, is that the packaging boasting this decoration directly contributes to the destruction of that natural beauty. Through this attitude to resources, companies are investing in a ‘throw away society’, and future generations will have to carry the burden.

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