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Tag: Frida Kahlo

Adopting an Additional Identity

10th December 202011th December 2020  Toni Roberts

Little did Toni Roberts know that her decision to study Spanish at school would turn into a life-long love for a language that has since given her confidence, creativity and, above all, joy.

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Posted in Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: Christine and the Queens, Federico Garcia Lorca, Flamenco, French, Frida Kahlo, GCSE, Languages, Life in Languages, Life writing, Rosalía, Spanish, Spanish songs, Toni Roberts, Translation

Postcards in Isolation 10: Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, 1940

28th June 202028th June 2020  Isabel Radford

Isabel Radford reflects on one of Frida Kahlo’s best known works, Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird, 1940, and sees the artist as a source of empowerment for our current times.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: art, Covid-19, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up, Isabel Radford, Lockdown Living, painting, Postcards in Isolation, Rochelle Roberts, Self Portraits, self-portrait, Self-Portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird

Postcards in Isolation 5: Frida Kahlo by Nickolas Muray, 1939

15th May 202016th May 2020  Rachel Ashenden

On removing a postcard of Frida Kahlo from her wall, Rachel Ashenden began to reflect on past loves, the feelings postcards evoke and the liberation one can feel, even in lockdown, towards old relationships.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: Dada, Frida Kahlo, Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up, Nickolas Muray, Photography, Postcards in Isolation, Rachel Ashenden, Rochelle Roberts, Surrealism, The Debutante

In conversation with award-winning writer, Sinéad Gleeson: ‘We need to pay homage to those women who didn’t have as much autonomy and freedom as we have now’

29th October 201920th January 2020  Laura Hackett

Laura Hackett talks to acclaimed writer Sinéad Gleeson about uplifting the literary voices and stories of Irish women, art as a means to communicate pain and the role of storytelling during 2018’s historic referendum. 

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Posted in Arts, Books, InterviewsTagged: Anna Burns, Anne Enright, Constellations, Eimear McBride, Emilie Pine, Feminism, Frida Kahlo, Hélène Cixous, Irish Literature, Lisa McInerney, Mary Costello, McGill Pain Index, Picador, Sally Rooney, Sinéad Gleeson, The Eighth Amendment, The Glass Shore, The Long Gaze

Elizabeth Warren, Coretta Scott King and the women leading the English National Ballet’s latest triple bill, She Persisted.

8th April 201921st April 2020  Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou

Enduring misogyny in the Senate Chamber, Elizabeth Warren was then championed by feminist allies around the world with the ubiquitous tag #ShePersisted. Here, Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou looks at the dance works inspired by this phrase and the women who, through their art, persevered.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, DanceTagged: #MeToo, #ShePersisted, #TimesUp, A Doll's House, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, ballet, Broken Wings, calacas, Contemporary dance, Coretta Scott King, Crystal Costa, Diego Rivera, Elizabeth Warren, English National Ballet, Feminism, Francesca Velicu, Frida Kahlo, Henrik Ibsen, Igor Stravinsky, Katja Khaniukova, Kurt Jooss, Laurent Liotardo, Le Sacre du printemps, mexican art, mexico, Mitch McConnell, Philip Glass, Pina Bausch, She Persisted, Stina Quagebeur, Tamara Rojo, Tanztheater Wuppertal, The Rite of Spring, Trek Mukamedov, US politics
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