DANCE / THEATRE

Jungle Book Reimagined

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Akram Khan’s magical dance-theatre retelling of Kipling’s classic tale is a moving piece which weaves in modern themes of climate change and migration to a traditional favourite revisited.

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PHOTO

Our Worlds Through the Lens of Alessandro Punzo

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Alessandro Punzo started his working life at sea as a trainee officer onboard a mammoth petrol tanker bearing the Italian flag. He describes this experience as having opened his eyes to the dreadful inequalities of capitalism and its detrimental effect on the environment as well as showing him:

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CINEMA

A Window to the World

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Andrew Thompson executive chair of the Arts and Humanity Research Council states “film has an ability to make distant people, places and ideas immediate, visually accessible.

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MUSIC / SCIENCE

Shama Rahman: fusing art & neuroscience

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Antarctica has underwater sound recordings of whales and seals and the very ice of Antarctica popping and glaciers calving.

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ENVIRONMENT

Sand plunder and human survival

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Multinationals and mafia organizations are relentlessly plundering the depths of our oceans to supply the insatiable Gulf monarchies with the sand required to manufacture reinforced concrete so that soulless skyscrapers and islets can be built for phantom billionaires.

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ENVIRONMENT / SCIENCE

Everything you want to know about invertebrates – Interview with Vladimir Blagoderov, Curator

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People rarely realise that more than 80% of all living species on Earth are invertebrates. Our biosphere simply would not function without them. There would not be any milk because cows could not digest grass without the help of single-cell animals, protozoans; there would not be any grass or any plants apart from lichens or mosses.

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