The space for public debate created by the media is our source of information, our insight into what is happening in the world around us. But just like the world around us, the space for public debate, also known as the public sphere, is becoming increasingly globalised. With, a...
This week Brighton Journal spoke to local artist and author, Miguel Amortegui. Miguel uses different media including painting, sculpture, film and photography to share stories with a social conscience. He also works as a Participatory Photography Facilitator, teaching photography and digital storytelling skills to those who have been victims...
On their own, sex and drugs are cultural taboos. Combining them only adds to our reluctance to talk about them. But understanding how sex and drugs are connected isn’t something we should shy away from or perceive as deviant.
Humans have intentionally used drugs to facilitate and enhance their sexual...
This week Brighton Journal spoke to Brighton-based artist Amy Isles Freeman. Amy paints murals, hand turned wooden bowls, printed illustrations and preloved denim clothing. Her work explores female sexual identity, and she describes joy as the centre of her practice. Amy told Brighton Journal that her work's thematic origins...
Due to lockdown 2.0, the biggest shopping day of the year will be held entirely online and before you press the buy button, you should run through the checklist below.
Online shopping is undoubtedly the best available option this year due lockdown. Coronavirus has managed to change every other event...
spent the day today catching up on Michael Yeadon’s take on the government’s, particularly SAGE’s handling of the pandemic, especially the lockdown in November. Like to be abreast of the news and keep in touch with the latest developments around the pandemic.
So here is my overview on the...
This week Brighton Journal spoke to Lucy Finchett-Maddock. Lucy is a speculative artist whose work explores “artificial and formal divides” through painting, sculpture, sound, data, vibration and video. Her recent projects include a personal account of her pacemaker implant. We discussed how Stanmer Park became a source of inspiration...
Douglas Stuart’s debut novel Shuggie Bain has won the 52nd Booker Prize. The ceremony, normally a glitzy affair with long speeches, readings from shortlisted books and a lavish dinner, was held in a relatively empty Roundhouse Theatre.
The few in attendance included BBC Front Row’s John Wilson, the 2020 Booker...
During the COVID-19 emergency, contact with others for many of us is conducted through windows. We talk through them but also use them to display our hopes, emotions and frustrations. The windows on my own terraced street have become a gallery of rainbows, thank-yous to diverse workers, climate worries,...
Subconsciously, when we think about the ‘twenty-somethings’ we ultimately think of the cast of Friends. Okay, I love love love Friends, it is my go to guilty pleasure, although I have to admit there’s not much guilt there. When Friends aired in 1994, I wasn’t even born, but somehow...
