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The Maya Café – A Secret Getaway

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Originally posted on CariocaNow – RioDeJaneiroNow:
The Maya Café is a cute coffee shop, where the locals meet. Although close to Flamengo and Botafogo and the Christ statue of course, it’s located in Laranjeiras, a little off the beaten track,…

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“And now we are plastic”

Originally posted on HSP :
? The Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester is in the middle of displaying its “And Now We Are Plastic” exhibition.  I spoke to Peter Nwabuokei- a young curator for the exhibition about the concept of this…

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Dream Catchers and How They Originated

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The Birth of House & Acid House

Originally posted on words by watts:
House music grew out of the disco movement of the early 1980s, with club DJ Frankie Knuckles being widely credited as helping to establish the genre. It was during his tenure as musical director…

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Photobook: Thomas Paine’s Writing Table, Lock of Hair, and Death Mask at the People’s History Museum, Manchester, England

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Scrub Transmissions No.2

Originally posted on Adventures in Political Landscapes:
The Scrub Transmissions series is an occasional installation project run by Julie Campbell aka LoneLady, in which she ‘cements an MP3 device into the fabric of a structure, somewhere in the city or…

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2018: Trinidad and Tobago Carnival Begins.

Originally posted on Reality Fragments:
A lone drunk walks down the trace where I live, shouting, “Pay the devil jab jab” at 3 a.m. this morning – lost from a J’ouvert somewhere in South Oropouche, I’m sure, where WASA water…

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It’s Mother Flipping Pancake Day! But What Do Pancakes Have to Do with Carnival?

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Animation Ireland- Cartoon Saloon

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Originally posted on Sián Boyle:
As part of our animation project we were tasked to look into the website Animation Ireland and from their research one of the various studios that are featured on their website. Of these, I…

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An electric new £20,000 art commission launched in Manchester – Deadline this week!

Originally posted on Power Culture:
A new £20,000 art commission to explore the vital, yet invisible, force of electricity is up for grabs thanks to the Museum of Science and Industry, in partnership with Electricity North West, and Manchester Science…

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