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Music as a Source of Unity: When Rory Gallagher Came to Belfast
History & The Arts

Music as a Source of Unity: When Rory Gallagher Came to Belfast

...everyday life in Belfast with jubilant scenes inside the Ulster Hall as people on both sides of the debate come together and sing. It is also accompanied by a voiceover from Gallagher stating how much Belfast means to him. The powerful clip shows how music can create “amicable cross-community interactions”, bridging the sectarian divide and building a new sense of...
Refugee Creativity and Communities of Solidarity
Society, Politics & Law

Refugee Creativity and Communities of Solidarity

...everyday life at Pikpa. Its beautiful images combine with a provocative argument about the power and practice of solidarity. The photographs of world-class, professional photographer Knut Bry are presented alongside those by young refugees living in the camp. This envisioning of solidarity with refugees is radically unlike mainstream media images of refugees because they...
Eco-art, Sustainable Art, art as activism
History & The Arts

Eco-art, Sustainable Art, art as activism

...everyday decisions were evaluated through an environmentally conscious lens, I realised that the traditional ways of making art do not align with my views anymore. Therefore, my next challenge was to try to find creative ways of expressing them using both the material itself and the object concept. My work is not intended to look beautiful, to be defined as a decorative...
Britain’s dark history of criminalising the homeless
Society, Politics & Law

Britain’s dark history of criminalising the homeless

...are restricting homeless people’s freedom and turning everyday activities into punishable offences. Yet survival defines the daily lives of homeless people, and in the face of oppression, they will find new ways to expose the violence and prejudice they encounter every day. Transcript This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
Machiavelli and Political power
Society, Politics & Law

Machiavelli and Political power

...everyday life. For example, if you send an army to war you are consigning people to their deaths. That’s the kind of difficult choice that I think Machiavelli was referring to, and yes, sometimes you have to make choices which are way outside ordinary experience. Jon: But if you’re worried about your conscience, don’t be. Machiavelli has it covered. Tip 3 is that...
Earth Day on OpenLearn
Nature & Environment

Earth Day on OpenLearn

...everyday. Read more: Exploring economics: the secret life of t-shirts (Free course) Is your wash day polluting the ocean? (Article) Too much of a good thing? Choice challenges in sustainable clothes shopping (Article) Transport A huge contributor to carbon emissions worldwide, petrol cars equate to roughly 33% of C02 emissions in the United Kingdom alone (Source). Review...
The Ageing Well Public Talks
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Ageing Well Public Talks

...everyday lives to support healthier lives when this is needed. As a public health intervention, Ageing Well Public Talk Series has the potential to make an impact on health and social care economies via the expected reduction of preventable disease, and support the management of chronic as well as acute biomedical as well as psychosocial conditions via behaviour change....
Why I'd say yes, yes, yes to the Bad Sex award
History & The Arts

Why I'd say yes, yes, yes to the Bad Sex award

...everyday living doesn’t usually include trips to the loo – though in my first novel I did have an explicit weeing sequence, written from the point of a man. And vomiting is relatively underexplored. Orgasm has had far more literary attention than the ungovernable heave. Which brings me back to the Bad Sex in Fiction Award. Given that both Booker prize winner Richard...