According to the dictionary the word Circa means, approximately. There is however nothing approximate about the show featuring at the Barbican until the 14th of March. If anything, it should be renamed ‘Do not try a home’ for what appears to be a program centered around the form of the human body bridges the gap between entertainment and the outrageous.
The vast majority of us who grew up in the latter part of the last century will have come across muppets and puppets, in specific, sesame street, a show which brought to the masses a particular genre of entertainment; a blend of education and fun. Having heard the praises of Avenue over the years, I thought to indulge in a trip back to my youth, to capture a moment of past. To those more familiar with the show ...
Many years ago, when, living as an expat child in Saudi Arabia, my father once took me to a concert. Unlike what many of us here in Europe refer to as classical music, this was a traditional Muslim-Indian-Pakistani style of folk music. I have two memories of the event. First that the constant wailing by the vocalists was both annoying and crude. Second, that I never want to listen to it again.
Hot on the hells of London Fashion Week, the women's fashion boutique, Rous Iland, ran a fashion show to benefit Unicef. With the recent crisis in Chile media focus has begun to shift away from Haiti, this initiative, reminded guests that long term efforts in Haiti, particularly those managed by groups such as Unicef, are on-going with support needed continually.
Hot on the hells of London Fashion Week, the women's fashion boutique, Rous Iland, ran a fashion show to benefit Unicef. With the recent crisis in Chile media focus has begun to shift away from Haiti, this initiative, reminded guests that long term efforts in Haiti, particularly those managed by groups such as Unicef, are on-going with support needed continually.
Emdad Rahman - David Miliband visited Tower Hamlets last Friday where amongst other engagements, he met a group of pupils at Stepney Green School.
