Category Spoken Word

In Conversation with Amy Englehardt

Reading Time: 4 minutesThe show IMPACT, presented at London’s Voila Festival, is a personal narrative blending memory, music, and multimedia. Inspired by a poignant trip to Lockerbie, it explores themes of grace amid tragedy. The performance, featuring original songs, aims to foster community through storytelling while maintaining an uplifting tone despite its serious roots.

REVIEW: The Annual Charles Simonyi Lecture

Reading Time: 2 minutesAnil Seth's 2024 Charles Simonyi Lecture explores consciousness as a brain's predictive mechanism, emphasizing its significance in understanding human perception and psychiatric disorders. He argues that consciousness relates more to life than intelligence and discusses implications for AI and ethics, robustly outlining its importance across various fields for societal decision-making.

REVIEW: Soliloquio (I woke up and hit my head against the wall)

Reading Time: 2 minutesIs it possible to find a place for true artistic expression in a world dominated by economic interests and systemic power imbalances? Soliloquio by Tiziano Cruz does more than pose this question—it invites us to sit in the tension between personal suffering and the structures that profit from it in a provocative anti-art project.

REVIEW: The Rest is History: Mozart and Beethoven with Live Orchestra

Reading Time: 2 minutesWell received by millions, The Rest Is History is a popular podcast that delves into fascinating historical events and figures with a lively, conversational approach. This time at the Royal Albert Hall, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook explore the lives of two most famous composers throughout history: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven.