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A Night of Climax
Hidden beneath the rattle of the passing trains from Glasgow Central, something big is brewing. People are gathering, the throb of electronic music is spilling onto the streets, carried aloft on the chatter of excited groups arriving to the clatter of heels and departing ubers. Tonight is the night GUCFS has been working towards for eight months. Tonight is their climax…
Longing, Belonging
Just over two months ago, I packed my bags and flew a few thousand miles, leaving everything familiar, everything that I grew up with, that I have been accustomed to - the sights, sounds and the people, to land in a bustling city in the UK, that I had never been to before….
The Great Structure
The room was large and oppressive. It’s bones stood tall and lurked high above those few men who found themselves inside. The great glass walls formed a broad and rigid square around them…
Why is nobody talking about midsize girls?
Mid-size. What is it? Why have you maybe not heard of it before? For decades, the modelling industry represented the smallest of bodies, creating an unhealthy obsession with remaining slim and unrealistically small…Now, more plus size models frequent runways, photoshoots and magazines. However, with this great and inclusive representation, an important group seems to have been missed..
This Moment in Time
It’s necessary, sometimes, to take a moment to simply pause, reflect and appreciate. I’ve found that, as a student, we’re usually all so busy with studying, part-time jobs, socials, checking in with the family, partying (this could be an inexhaustive list), that often the only photos we take are just posing with mates before your make-up sweats away into the night…
that kind of drama student
Another piece for our Outsider series. The prompt was the following: outsider. How does it feel to feel different all the time? Capture the feeling of this obscure type of loneliness in a short poem. What do you wish you were a part of? Why aren’t you a part of it?
Depression: The account of a boy with no problems
It took me until coronavirus happened to realise that not everyone spends ¼ to 1/3 of every month feeling empty and the rest of it fearing the moment when that emptiness will strike from the blue. I am writing this piece because I’ve been mildly depressed for at least 10 years now. I don’t curl up into a ball on my bed…
Modern Lives Part III:The Language of Nature & the Power of Quiet – a Private Space for Connection
As the paradigms of our new reality shift around us, the changes we’ve become used to seeing in our surroundings begin to reflect in the linguistic world around us. Jera Toporis explores the ways in which the Covid-19 pandemic has begun to influence the way we interact with language: through a triptych focusing on the language of our new reality; the development of language in isolation and the role of silence in shaping language. We end this triad with a reflection on “The Language of Nature & the Power of Quiet – a Private Space for Connection”.
The Bam’s Apologia Pro Vita Sua
Part of the Outsider series: outsider. How does it feel to feel different all the time? Capture the feeling of this obscure type of loneliness in a short poem. What do you wish you were a part of? Why aren’t you a part of it?
Modern Lives Part II: Constructing Parallel Realities through Language in Isolation
As the paradigms of our new reality shift around us, the changes we’ve become used to seeing in our surroundings begin to reflect in the linguistic world around us. Jera Toporis explores the ways in which the Covid-19 pandemic has begun to influence the way we interact with language: through a triptych focusing on the language of our new reality; the development of language in isolation and the role of silence in shaping language. The second piece in this triad is called ‘Constructing Parallel Realities through Language in Isolation’.
Modern Lives Part 1: An Illusion of a New Reality Before the New Reality
As the paradigms of our new reality shift around us, the changes we’ve become used to seeing in our surroundings begin to reflect in the linguistic world around us. Jera Toporis explores the ways in which the Covid-19 pandemic has begun to influence the way we interact with language: through a triptych focusing on the language of our new reality; the development of language in isolation and the role of silence in shaping language. Starting this triad off is a piece entitled ‘An Illusion of a New Reality Before the New Reality’.
Isolation Diaries: The God of Empty Spaces
We invite anyone who has channelled any creativity during isolation/lockdown to show face and share it with us. The idea is to inspire and to be inspired by the isolated/in-lockdown community. The first input is The God of Empty Spaces.
He Had a Dream.
It is now 57 years after Martin Luther King, Jr., shared his dream with America and the rest of the world. What was an empowering, impassioned speech rocked the nation in many ways, and to this day acts as one of the most famous speeches in the world…the thing about the Civil Rights Movement, the acts of 1964 and 1968 didn’t stop discrimination. Still remaining legal and societal inequalities dominating Black lives, racism still has a firm grip on America and the world in many cases. So what would be the dream today?
An Artsy Event Guide (Coronavirus Style)
A guide that will get you through this lockdown restriction blues!