MANAGING director, art director, travel writer and photographer, broadcaster, filmmaker - is there anything Tony Pletts (ColA 72-79) can't do? (7 mins):
Sunday, 6 February 2011
Hang on Tight
THIS unusual book by Sue Davies-Jenkins (Wilson, 2's 57-65, Governor), a mixture of photographs, original poetry and prose, is not exclusively about CH (though that's where the profits are going) but shows how the school's unique ethos has permeated her adult life. It includes contributions by CH teachers and a current pupil, Dominic Parker, and has earned write-ups in the Sussex press and the Welsh press too.
France, Mauritius, and London in the rain
VERY much liked this interview with painter and art dealer Anick Purmessur (ColA & LHB 89-92), with four of her paintings thrown in for good measure. She plans to open a London gallery before the year is out.
Saturday, 5 February 2011
At the heart of the vote
THE people of Southern Sudan have been voting in a referendum on whether to part company with the North and become an independent country. In the state of Western Equatoria, the person running the poll is reportedly a certain "Forojalla Sibrino". This could well be Sibrino Barnaba Forojalla (LaB 68-70) (pictured), formerly Vice-Chancellor of the University of Juba, the capital of Southern Sudan. If, as expected, the vote goes in favour of independence, it'll be interesting to see what responsibilities he takes on as the new state is born.
A humanist requiem
LAST November the Newbury Chamber Choir gave the world premiere of the Rossetti Requiem, composed by their musical director Edward Lambert (Wright, ThA 61-70) with lyrics by Christina Rossetti. Listen to it here; this admiring review may whet your appetite.
Friday, 4 February 2011
Final peal
VERONICA HYDON (1's 63-70), vicar of Bollington in Cheshire, says goodbye to the bells of St John's (90 secs):
Perhaps a perfect team
A POWERFUL Observer article about the adventurers James Hooper and the late Rob Gauntlett, both of whom were in Maine B & Grecians East from 1998 to 2005.
Nature's traditions
OPENING today at the Eagle Gallery in London EC1, the exhibition Natural Histories explores "how contemporary artists are referencing traditions associated with 17th and 18th century botanicals, herbariums and natural histories, to comment on current economic and environmental issues." One of the six artists is Mich Maroney (1's 73-78), whose Solstice is a photographic record of a nature reserve, inspired by medieval books of hours and the Garden Kalendar of Gilbert White; it documents the passing of time through the changing atmosphere of weather, landscape and tides.
Religion and science
Highland bling
TWENTY years ago she collaborated on an Edinburgh exhibition, The Art of Jewellery in Scotland, and she's never lost interest since. Now Diana Scarisbrick (Wood, 5's & 6's 41-47) has produced a spectacular monograph on the subject.
Prepare for misery
IMMINENT changes to the housing benefit system will do real harm, predicts Oxford councillor Ed Turner (MdB 88-95).
Not entirely silent
BEST of luck to Piers Maxim (PeA 81-87), whose cantata Song of the Silent Land is one of two finalists for the cantata prize at this year's Longfellow Choral Festival in Portland, Oregon, where both will be premiered on 26 February.
The Word of the Lord
ROMAN Catholic priest Paul Uwemedimo (PeA 75-83) reads from Luke's gospel at a conference in the Philippines last year (4 mins):
Bloody-mindedness is next to godliness
AFTER his pilgrimage to Rome last year (see exclusive photo above), Joshua Bell (PeA, GrW 02-09) has written a book about the experience.
And blimey, he's in Wikipedia too.
"A quiet presiding authority"
PETER AGULNIK (BaA 48-55), left, commemorates his fellow psychiatrist Bertram Mandelbrote, right, with whom he created the Ley Community in Oxford.
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