The resurgence of local choirs in Britain, is almost entirely due to the work of choirmaster Gareth Malone, whose television programmes have garnered much praise and high viewing figures over the past two or three...
World history is full of stories of loss and longing for home. One has only to think of all that has preceded the Arab Spring or the devastating destruction of towns, villages and smallholdings in...
Dance is one of the earliest and most natural ways for humans to express conflicts and emotions. Throughout history, dance has been performed as a celebration of life, love and sexuality. According to a book...
Both gardeners to the rose and lily Queen Transported now themselves, sleep here, and when Angels shall with their trumpets waken men And fire shall purge the world, these hence shall rise And change this...
Sofia editor Dinah Livingstone has written, ‘It is one of life’s great pleasures, in a city like London … to walk about and listen to the sound patterns of ordinary, everyday speech.’ Curated by David...
In Britain, today, we seem to be experiencing a surge of interest in the live arts, with much exciting and innovative work occurring in unexpected places. The Old Vic company recently acquired some abandoned tunnels...
Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. Just what is the ‘here and now?’ of our existence? What exactly is this moment and...
After the Second World War ended, like most English children of the time, I was spared of any knowledge of the horrors of the Nazi holocaust. When a German woman, with two young children, came...
One man who has made a major change to his life is the Rev. Richard Coles, whom I first met in the 1980s when my daughter played violin in the ‘Communards,’ a highly political, left-wing...
Cicely Herbert is one of the trio who founded and continue to run Poems on the Underground. She is a member of SOF. How It is Cicely Herbert visits Miroslaw Balka’s Installation at the Tate...
