Press Release: Springboard Festival

Press Release: Springboard Festival

COMING VERY SOON: SPRINGBOARD FESTIVAL! 25th March to 1st April 2023     Springboard Festival will be a week-long string of performing arts events over eight days from Saturday 25th March to 1st April. Held at the Criterion Theatre, amongst the restaurants...
REVIEW: VIV FOGEL’S ‘IMPERFECT BEGINNINGS’

REVIEW: VIV FOGEL’S ‘IMPERFECT BEGINNINGS’

REVIEW: VIV FOGEL’S ‘IMPERFECT BEGINNINGS’       By Stella Backhouse   I was not orphaned at age ten but my father was; and even though I have since childhood mourned the grandparents I never met and felt the gaping void that was their absence, I...
INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS VRON MCINTYRE

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS VRON MCINTYRE

INTERVIEW: FIRE & DUST MEETS VRON MCINTYRE     When you look for patterns, there they are. Till I reached forty, when all patterns fell apart, and there behind the patterns, the stunning random beauty of what is, patterned to a point, but much more truth and magic...
REVIEW: JOHN MCCULLOUGH’S ‘PANIC RESPONSE’

REVIEW: JOHN MCCULLOUGH’S ‘PANIC RESPONSE’

REVIEW: JOHN MCCULLOUGH’S ‘PANIC RESPONSE’     By Stella Backhouse   John McCullough’s 2022 collection Panic Response is a delicate and moving evocation of grief, mental breakdown and eventual re-emergence. Although primarily a frank and deeply personal memoir,...