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Tag: Night / Shift

‘Kindling healing’ and other poems by Kashiana Singh

1st March 20211st March 2021  Kashiana Singh

Kashiana Singh’s tightly knit poems, ‘Kindling healing’ and ‘The night spills’, explore night and day in all their haunting nuance and mesmerising movement.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: day, Kashiana Singh, love, Night / Shift, night shift, Night Sky, night time, Poet, Poetry

Women of the Night, Chapter 3: Vrăjitoare, Romania’s Witch Business

25th November 202026th November 2020  Toni Roberts

In the third chapter of her mini-series, Toni Roberts discovers that witchcraft is alive and well in Romania. Looking at Lucia Sekerková Bláhová’s photography series, Vrăjitoare, the modern, technologically savvy face of magic and witchery is revealed.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Arts EssaysTagged: Lucia Sekerková Bláhová, Magic, Night / Shift, Romania, Toni Roberts, Vrăjitoare, witchcraft, witches, Women of the Night

The Doll of Divine Discovery: Nocturnal Revelations of the Wild Woman in ‘Women Who Run with the Wolves’

26th October 20206th November 2020  Emma Hanson

Clarissa Pinkola Estés’ classic work, Women Who Run with the Wolves, encourages readers to embrace their inner ‘wild woman’ using myths from around the world. Here, our writer Emma Hanson explores the importance of night in one of the book’s tales, ‘Vasalisa’.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Baba Yaga, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, La Llorona, Mythology, myths, Night, Night / Shift, non-fiction, Russian Folktales, Vasalisa, Wild Woman, Women Who Run with the Wolves

Women of the Night, Chapter 2: Nocturnal Mothering

23rd September 202025th November 2020  Toni Roberts

Looking at the work of photographer Ana Casas Broda, poet Muriel Rukeyser and musician Sherri Dupree-Bemis, Toni Roberts considers night from the perspectives of mothers, reflecting on their nocturnal experiences and reveries.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Arts EssaysTagged: Ana Casas Broda, Breast feeding, Eisley, Kinderwunsch, Louder than a Lion, maternity, milk, Motherhood, mothers, Muriel Rukeyser, music, Night, Night / Shift, Photography, Poetry, Sherri DuPree-Bemis, Toni Roberts, Women of the Night

‘Gold Top’ by Rym Kechacha

21st September 202021st September 2020  Rym Kechacha

In this beautiful creative non-fiction piece, ‘Gold Top’, Rym Kechacha uses Remedios Varo’s painting, Celestial Pablum, to explore her own experiences of breastfeeding her baby daughter through the night.

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Posted in Art and design, Arts, Creative Writing, Non-FictionTagged: art, Breast feeding, Celestial Pablum, creative non-fiction, dreams, Janet Kaplan, Motherhood, mothers, Night / Shift, painter, painting, Remedios Varo, Rym Kechacha, Sleep, Surrealism, unconscious

Women of the Night, Chapter 1: Lorca’s “Rural Trilogy”

3rd September 202025th November 2020  Toni Roberts

Sympathising with the marginalised, Lorca wrote spirited plays featuring aspirational but oppressed women who sought freedom, pleasure and solace under the cover of night. Here, in the first essay of her mini series, Toni Roberts explores Lorca’s rural trilogy, reflecting on his heroines’ relationship to the night – and day.

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Posted in Arts, Books, TheatreTagged: Abortion, Billie Piper, Blood Wedding, Duende, Federico Garcia Lorca, Flamenco, Johan Persson, La Barraca, Lorca, Marc Brenner, National Theatre, Night / Shift, Rural trilogy, Southern Spain, Spain, The House of Bernarda Alba, Theatre, Toni Roberts, Women of the Night, Yerma, Young Vic

Josephine Baker by Catel and Bocquet – a triumph of research and astounding detail

22nd June 202030th June 2020  Gabriela Frost

Dancer, singer, actress, activist and spy: Josephine Baker took both the stage and lectern by storm, as beautifully and boldly conceived in Catel and Bocquet’s graphic novel. But when it comes to her queer relationships they’re decidedly silent, writes our reviewer Gabriela Frost.

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Posted in Arts, BooksTagged: Biography, Bobino Theatre, Bocquet, Cabaret, Catel, Catel Muller, comic, graphic novel, Into the Night: Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art, José-Louis Bocquet, Josephine Baker, LGBTQ+, Martin Luther King, Night, Night / Shift, Pride, Queer Relationships, SelfMadeHero, UK Black Pride

Seeing Science in the Stars: Constance Naden’s sonnets and the night sky

20th May 202020th May 2020  Clare Stainthorp

When nineteenth-century scientist, philosopher and poet, Constance Naden, contemplated the night sky, she saw a universe full of vitality. Here, Clare Stainthorp, reflects on Naden’s sonnets and the starry cosmos that inspired them.

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Posted in Arts, Books, Poetry, STEMTagged: Clare Stainthorp, Constance Naden, History of Atheism, New Woman, Night, Night / Shift, Night Sky, Nineteenth-Century Britain, Nineteenth-century poetry, Poetry, Sonnets, Star, Starry Night, Victorian Literature

‘The Go-Get-Gone’ by Judy Darley

1st May 202017th May 2020  Judy Darley

Amanda is out for the night with her new school mate, Lea. But when her so-called friends – an assortment of symptoms from her Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) – turn up, she finds it hard to determine who and what is real.

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Posted in Creative Writing, FictionTagged: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Fiction, Judy Darley, Night / Shift, nightclub culture, Nightclubs, Short Stories, Short Story, Teenagers, The Go-Get-Gone

‘Twelve Verses to Make You Rot’: Ultimate Dancer’s Hevi Metle at the BALTIC, Gateshead

21st April 202016th May 2020  Gwen Dupré

Gwen Dupré responds to Ultimate Dancer’s Hevi Metle, a durational sonic performance of six hours, six minutes and six seconds which draws on a feminist approach to alchemy.

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Posted in Arts, Dance, TheatreTagged: alchemy, Black Sabbath, Hevi Metle, Juliana Capes, Leah Landau, Night / Shift, The Baltic, The Baltic Centre of Contemporary Art, Ultimate Dancer, witchcraft

‘Familiar Spirit’ by Sammy Weaver

20th April 202020th April 2020  Sammy Weaver

Sammy Weaver’s poem, ‘Familiar Spirit’, is a visceral and spellbinding response to Rebecca Tamás’ collection of poems, WITCH.

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Posted in Creative Writing, PoetryTagged: Night / Shift, Poetry, Rebecca Tamás, Sammy Weaver, spells, WITCH, witchcraft

British Surrealism at Dulwich Picture Gallery

15th March 202016th March 2020  Jennifer Brough

After viewing Dulwich Picture Gallery’s latest exhibition, British Surrealism, Jennifer Brough reflects on one of the west’s most disruptive art movements, its elitism, and how women surrealists are gradually being given the space they deserve.

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Posted in Art and design, ArtsTagged: André Breton, British Surrealism, Dora Maar, Dorothea Tanning, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Grace Palithorpe, Ithell Colquhon, Leonora Carrington, Marion Adnams, Night / Shift, Salvador Dali, Surrealism

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