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For this week's column I wrote about the young artists painting a truer picture of Black Tudor England Selly Manor Museum ruthmillington.co.uk/black-tudor-ar…

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I’d love to be at this event Carol Morley but q n a’ing that day SCALA!!! The Movie with Jane Giles + Outta here, see you on BlueSky Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) cinema Dave Baldwin

Looking forward to q n a’ing with dirs Jane Giles + Outta here, see you on BlueSky later today Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) when their doc’ #Scala gets screened, 5.30pm….

Great seeing SCALA!!! The Movie at Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) tonight. The MAC, along with The Electric Cinema were my Scala during my formative years in the late eighties/early nineties, seeking out less mainstream movies and forming fascinations that last to this day, so this felt a bit full circle.

Excellent news + Excellent Work, BFI Pact John McVay OBE Ben Roberts screendaily.com/features/uk-fi…

Delighted to have collaborated with prolific academic Ruxandra Trandafoiu + prolific film maker Khaled el Hagar on Ruxandra’s new book out in June/July

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So pleased to see Benjamin Zephaniah's flags flying high in his memory on Colmore Row, ahead of 'The Brighter Flame' exhibition arriving in Victoria Square on 5 July bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… 🔥

And another….from Pink Floyd about Ian Emes…..

Useful reflection here from Charlotte Higgins "Nandy will have much to read, but she could do worse than starting with the pioneering arts minister Jennie Lee’s 1965 white paper on the arts. The language may be dated, but the overarching sentiment is evergreen..." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Timely publication of relevance edited by Ruxandra Trandafoiu Edge Hill University Edge Hill ICE incl the first academic overview of filmography Khaled el Hagar (by Roger Shannon / Ruxandra Trandafoiu )

World premiering today at Venice Film Festival, HARVEST, adapted from the Jim Crace novel

Thanking cinema Midlands Arts Centre (MAC) for screening #Blitzfilm last night Opener London Film Festival BFI - Blitzs were started by Steve McQueen’s cinematic epic of war time story telling.