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Julia Jess
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Onwards and upwards with words, music, theatre, film and 💃 Also #Breturn #FBPE 🇪🇺
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Victor Sjöström in "Wild Strawberries" - BOTD
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R.I.P. Hermeto Pascoal, the legendary Brazilian composer & multi-instrumentalist, who died today, September 13, 2025. He was 89. Miles Davis once said that Pascoal was "the most impressive musician in the world." Pascoal had played on Davis' 1971 album 'Live/Evil,' composing several studio pieces.
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My favourite expression to describe a lazy person, from Spain, is trabajas menos que el sastre de Tarzán. It means “you work less than Tarzan’s tailor.”
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Happy birthday to Maxine Brown. Here she is performing Oh No Not My Baby live at the Bitter End in NYC in 1968 (with a young Bernie Worrell on piano). The full song and interview is at youtu.be/UtY1Jj9uppU
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Final rehearsal ahead of my #BBCProms show! I can hardly believe that tomorrow night London Contemporary Orchestra, Robert Ames and I will be out on the Royal Albert Hall stage performing Chapters in its entirety.

Grab your last minute tix here! bit.ly/3J9twT9
I’ve been one of the reading duo for several episodes of BBC Radio 3’s Words and Music and there’s a last chance to catch The Emperor’s New Clothes while it’s still @bbcsounds.bsky.social

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 3 - Words and Music, The Emperor's New Clothes
Music and readings on our relationship with the clothes we wear - or sometimes don't.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Pause, and read...

• Edward Thomas •
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Cuban pianist Harold López-Nussa honors family legacy with his new single “Niña Con Violín” written by his uncle, acclaimed pianist Ernán López-Nussa, and performed in a trio with his brother Ruy Adrian López-Nussa on drums & Luques Curtis on bass: haroldlopeznussa.lnk.to/NinaConViolin
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Here's some news to celebrate.

🦋 One of the UK’s rarest butterflies, the heath fritillary, is seeing a significant rise in numbers and range on the Holnicote Estate, Exmoor. This is bucking the national trend of butterfly decline.

Photo: Matthew Oates
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Composition Florale (1930)
by Raoul Dufy
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From the series Through The Window
Untitled, Camden, London 2019

#streetphotography #Camden
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Cool exhibit of Victor Hugo’s drawings at the Royal Academy of Arts
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"Do you even own a black suit?"
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Catholic culture is Bar Italia in Soho showing the Pope’s funeral like it’s a football match
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'Blood and revenge are hammering in my head' 🩸

Your first look at Titus Andronicus onstage ⚔️
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Clerkenwell Green is looking blooming beautiful!

It’s been such a pleasure watching the beds come back to life, particularly with the addition of over 1300 daffodils.

🤝 Proud to be working in partnership with Islington Council and Central District Alliance
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Come to our strategy session and discuss how to best to focus our campaigns in these critical times for Europe and the EU

Marsha de Cordova, MP will open the meeting with a keynote speech.

www.europeanmovement.co.uk/emwandsworth...

May 08, 2025; 6-8pm

The Omnibus Theatre, Clapham
Europe Day with Marsha de Cordova
We're the UK's largest pro-European movement. Our goal is to reverse the calamity of Brexit and restore relations with our European neighbours.
www.europeanmovement.co.uk