Category: Arts
“We Are All In This Together”: A She-Files Exclusive With Singer/Songwriter Joss Stone
London/Nashville: Like countless others across the globe, Joss Stone is preparing for a more pared-down holiday season this year. That's in part, of course, because of Covid but also because…
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Theater in the Time of Covid
LONDON--Katie Posner and Charlotte Bennett, the joint artistic directors of British touring theater company Paines Plough, have been mentors to each other for over a decade. So when the job of artistic…
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Pollyanna: A Literary Heroine For Our Time
LONDON-All my life I have constantly battled between being an optimist and a realist, teetering on the verge of being a glass-half-empty or glass-half-full kinda gal. And in these upsetting…
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Women Who Write: An Ode to Female Travel Writers
LONDON--When I was a little girl, I loved reading the tales of rural life in Kenya by Elspeth Huxley and Isak Dineson. I also adored "At One with the Sea:…
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One Woman at a Time: Kinga Błaszczyk-Wójcicka
WARSAW--Making good food is a challenge. Styling food to make it look appealing is an even greater challenge. And capturing the beauty of food with a camera? Art. After mastering…
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From Iceland With Love: The ILC Artistic Collective On What Drives Their Work
Reykjavik, Iceland and London via email--I am obsessed with BBC World Service radio. It's on in my car all the time and I have it also often in the background…
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Opera Singer Francesca Chiejina Journey to Carnegie Hall
LONDON--My journey to Carnegie Hall began in January of 2015 when I first met Joyce DiDonato in London. She was artist-in-residence at London's Barbican Centre and agreed to give a Masterclass…
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Rocking Out in Belfast at Women’s Work Festival
BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND--It’s 2016, launch night of the first ever Women’s Work Festival in Belfast. I’m sitting in a taxi with Annie Nightingale, the pioneering female DJ of BBC Radio…
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An Unlikely Center for Chinese Women’s Contemporary Art in U.K.
MANCHESTER, ENGLAND - Nestled within the record stores and alternative cocktail bars of Manchester's Northern Quarter sits an impressive piece in the world of the Chinese contemporary art scene. The…
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Landscapes Where Art Meets Action
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT—Alyssa DeLaBruere, a teaching artist and activist based out of Vermont, is acutely aware of the grave dangers the United States' national parks and monuments face under the…
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