Stealing Genius: Examining the Exploitation of Black Artistry in the Arts
Words by Blaise Peters The issue of black authorship and ownership in the arts is a long-standing one that has affected countless black artists and writers throughout history. From the…
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch: “I Can Safely Say That Cello Saved Not Only my Life but my Sister’s Life as Well.”
Words by Amélie Bodnar-Tunnell Anita Lasker-Wallfisch was the youngest daughter born into a Jewish family in Breslau, Germany – now Wroclaw, Poland – in July 1925. Her father was a…
Review: Glyndebourne’s Autumn Concert
Words by Amélie Bodnar-Tunnell The Glyndebourne Autumn concert was made up of two parts; the first was the narrative and music from Joseph Bologne, Cavalier de Saint-Georges’ opera The Anonymous…
IDLES – ‘Ultra Mono’ review: Do you hear that thunder? That’s the sound of strength in numbers
IDLES: Ultra Mono, an album that 2020 desperately needed. The album’s restless energy and upbeat anger reflects the chaos and uncertainty of our current world. This album is filled with…
‘Never Cross A Picket Line’ – Three Songs of Solidarity and Struggle
Words by Ryan Bridgewater As our lecturers go on strike from Monday to defend their pensions, now is the perfect time to reflect on the history of workers’ and trade…
The Music of The Shining
Words by Ryan Bridgewater From its opening helicopter shots of the Rocky Mountains scored by Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind, music is fundamental to Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror classic The…
Review: Charli XCX’s Charli
Words by Farley Green Charli XCX strips back to Charli in her newest and most personal material to date. By peeling back, on a personal level and temporally—taking inspiration from…
Black British female talent you should know
Words by Monica Namug There is a new wave of Black British women who are carving out new creative platforms that centre the Black women experience. From Black Girl Fest,…
Drill Music: Looking Through the Hole
A view on the significance of drill and grime music and why we should support it, not oppose it Words by Joe Pearce Musical expression, to many, exhibits democracy and…
Review: MAHALIA’s Love & Compromise
Mahalia’s rise to alternative R&B supremacy comes as no surprise. Atlantic saw the potential in her when she was only 13 and in 2012 she released her first EP, Head…
The LGBTQ+ organisation inspiring creativity
There are many great LGBTQ+ inclusive organisations across Brighton, but one creative group do amazing work providing a safe space for people to share their work. The Write Release are…
Why a Urinal Can be Art
Why mundane objects are sold for millions and why you think you like Banksy. At a lecture an art auctioneer was asked ‘what makes a piece of art good?’. His…
Go See a String Quartet: Globally Renowned Artists Play for Free on Campus
Classical music can be obtuse. It is easy, especially at free concerts occupied largely by octogenarians, to get lost between movements and melodies. This is especially true of symphonies, where…
Where did you come from, where did you escargot? Martlets Snailway appears in Brighton and Hove
Colourful snail statues have appeared across Brighton and Hove. The Snails are part of an art trail turned fundraising initiative by Martlets, a hospice charity. Fifteen of the snails were…
Books Every Fresher Should Read
Starting university comes with both exciting but potentially daunting changes, with both moving away from home and studying at degree level posing to be two new challenges. Here’s The Badger’s…
Verve Couture – Musicality, kitsch & ignition: the beginning of a series
Pictured: Zac Black At Proud Cabaret audiences were spellbound as if at night at the circus, yet this was not like Angela Carter’s magical realist novel; Verve Couture enthralled its…
Fleabag on stage at The Old Market – review
Last Monday at 8pm at Brighton’s The Old Market, I sat myself down in my theatre seat eagerly awaiting the start of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s celebrated Bafta-winning Fleabag. Having been an…
Fleabag preview
Following the mass success of the Bafta award-winning BBC Series, DryWrite and Soho Theatre are about to hit the stage with Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s cult hit Fleabag, next week at Brighton’s…
The Tempest review
As the sun begins to set over Hove Green, tinnies of Red Stripe are cracked open, tartan blankets are strewn, and families tuck into their picnic hampers. It’s an unusual…
A Glass Half Empty review
For those of us coming to the end of another year of university study, the prospect of careers, marriages and babies may seem a long way off. It comes as…