Valentina Gambaro
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Since 2009 Karen Aplin is a researcher in the Physics division at Oxford University. Before getting to manage the teaching laboratories of this renowned English university, Karen obtained a doctorate degree in atmospheric physics at the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading, but also a diploma in music performance from Trinity College, London. Metheorology
Janis, directed by Amy Berg, nominee at the Oscars in 2006 for the documentary Deliver Us from Evil, retraces the story of one of the greatest blues singer rock has ever had: from her private life with its troubled loves and excesses to her artistic life when she lived at the Chelsea Hotel, the legendary hotel in
Alpharita Costancia Anderson – or simply Rita Marley – widow of the reggae prophet Bob Marley, will be assigned the Living Legends Award and African Women of Excellence Awards (AWEA). During a ceremony that will take place in New York on 12 September, the reggae queen will receive this very important award from the United Nations’ Women
Stephen Orlando, a photographer based in Ontario, has always devoted himself to capture movement on a film through time and space, as if he was obsessed by it. So, in his last project Motion Exposure, he found a way of catching the movements of sound by photographing music. In effect, Stephen, by using LED lights carefully
Guitar and skateboard decks. If we consider these two objects we immediately think of distorted guitars, shabby clothes and evolutions in empty pools in California. But gutar and skateboard are also Nick Pourfard’s main hobbies, a 22-year-old young artist and designer from San Francisco. Nick has recently established his own company, Prisma Guitars, in which
On 16th June, there was released Neil Young’s latest album, The Monsanto Years, an obvious complaint against the agrochemical giant, leader in the production of genetically modified seeds and pesticides. But his campaign is not over. Since a few days, a ten-minute documentary entitled Seeding Fear and produced by the Canadian singer was released. The
Pierce Freelon is a US professor, journalist, and musician. Graduate in African Studies, he is founder of Blackademics – online community made of coloured young people debating on racial events – and of the hip hop group The Beast. Such mix of musical passion and academic education led him to become Professor of Political Sciences and
The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21) will be held in Paris from 30 November to 11 December in Paris. It will represent an important opportunity for international debate, aiming to establish agreements between countries to limit and reduce CO2 emissions in the atmosphere and fight climate change (for further information read: What is COP21 and why it is
The new documentary on Syd Barrett’s life and career, the Pink Floyd’s “crazy diamond”, is expected to be released by the end of 2015, but it may be distributed in theatres or in home video at the end of this summer. View image | gettyimages.com Passed away on 7th July 2006 after living
A few days ago Antony Hegarty, the lead singer of the band Antony and the Johnsons, participated in the Dark Mofo Festival, a music festival taking place in Tasmania. She sang her hits on the Odeon theatre’s stage in Hobart for an hour without saying a word. But when she got back to the stage for an
