Connected Cultures

Royal Shakespeare Theatre. April 2022. Review. Finally! Two years, two lockdowns and two postponements later, these two Shakespeare plays...

by Armando Alemdar Ara, at the Zari Gallery, Fitzrovia, London. From realism to surrealism to abstract and back to realism. This is...

by Elif Shafak Review When viewing Edvard Munch’s painting The Scream, the conventional response is that the skeletal subject in the...

Review. Swan Song is one of those movies that is simply not one of those movies. This film is extraordinarily powerful and moving. At...

Interview with Ishika Guha. For the first major feature of 2022 I have chosen to explore a style of painting that is increasingly...

Revival / Review. Celebrating a classic, rip-roaringly entertaining musical then and now. Stopping off in the West End, a dash across to...

The fourth annual virtual ceremony, celebrating excellence in Artistic Creativity and outstanding contributions to Social Justice. This...

Edited by Nancy Adimora and Ore Agbaje-Williams. Published by the Borough press. Review. I turn to books to learn, to engage, to enjoy....

The Tower Theatre, Stoke Newington, 4th September. Review. “All that glisters is not gold, Often have you heard that told...” ...but this...

The Journey North. The summer of ’21 and everything is getting back to normal. Except it isn’t. Still, we felt bold enough to take a tour...

Sheep and the Forgotten Lion. Given the pandemic, we have chosen somewhere as remote as possible. Full of beautiful countryside and...

Bring Me Sunshine. Morecambe Bay sounds pleasant. Given a high tide and a sunny day it might be quite perfect for a day at the seaside....

25th Anniversary Event. In many ways Connected Cultures is inspired by The South Bank Show. Melvyn Bragg is the ultimate role model as a...

The latest English fiasco? Or just another one of those things we aren’t very good at? The latest being penalties. Again. This time just...

by Nadifa Mohamed. Review. I try to curb my expectations when it comes to new novels by favourite authors, but for The Fortune Men I...

By Maggie O’Farrell. Review. Like the troubled prince, I am a little hesitant. I have no will to give this story away. Which is strange,...

by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. Review. The Perfect Nine is a glorious retelling of the story of the birth of the Gĩkũyũ people, featuring Gĩkũyũ...

Celebrating excellence in the Creative Arts and Society, as selected by the Connected Cultures editorial board. 2020 has been an...

Retold by Anne Louise Avery. Review. Reynard the Fox is the master of the grand entrance and he is true to form in this brilliant...

I’ve long had a fascination with foxes. Early on, I always loved family outings to the countryside to collect blackberries. One time, we...