I’m delighted to learn that Helena Bonett’s film of Barbara Hepworth’s Trewyn Studio — now a Tate St Ives museum — includes a clip of my 2006 video (above) and is now out doing the rounds. Next screening 15th June at Porthmeor Studios in St Ives. From the DVD cover: Trewyn Studio in St Ives, […]
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Abandoned Adopted Here — SOAS 7 pm.7th April 2016. DLT Lecture theeatre. SOAS. London. WC1H 0XG. The first public screening of the acclaimed documentary – Abandoned Adopted Here by Lucy Sheen. From 50s, 60s Colonial Hong Kong to pre-multicultural UK, a group of Hong Kong foundlings were transracially adopted. Lucy interviewed a few of her
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… instead we get lies, damned lies and government spin. A simple placard tells us what the forces of ehvul and their media wing don’t want us to know. Madam Miaow says … visit Anna’s food blog here: http://annacheneats.blogspot.com/
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Peter Foo writes in his Change.org petition, addressed to Home Office Minister Theresa May, seeking justice for men who risked their lives for this country and Allied interests in World War Two: We are seeking an acknowledgement and apology from the Home Office for the 1946 Forced Repatriation of thousands of Chinese Seamen based in
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I’m back! I saw pandas running. I saw pandas rollin’ and a tumblin’. I saw pandas sprawling with a filthy “come ‘n’ get me, boys ‘n’ gurls” look in their over-kohled eyes. I saw marzipan pandas and made short work of them. I saw flaming pandas off the shoulder of Orion. And, yes, I saw
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The kind people at the Bookworm Literary Festival have invited me to speak at their events this year, in Chengdu, Suzhou, Ningbo and Beijing. Which is why I’m waiting for the cab to take me to trains and airport. The longest journey begins with the first taxi, grasshopper. I’ll be talking about Anna May Wong
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