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• Hana S. Sharif: Curating Conversations at Arena Stage

  16-01-2025 23:52 via artsjournal.com
  
  
  A conversation with Hana S. Sharif, Artistic Director of Arena Stage since August 2023. Sharif discusses her transformative first year at the helm and her inaugural season as Arena’s producing artistic director. She reflects on the vibrant theatrical community in Washington, D.C., and her commitment to amplifying dynamic voices in American theater. With an ambitious 2024/25 season featuring eight new works, including her directorial debut at Arena Stage with the world premi
  
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• What the Romans did for us at school | Brief letters

  16-01-2025 19:00
  Latin lover | Liz Truss | York Minster | Mispronounced surnames | Ryanair | Frank AuerbachA teacher in my school once asked: “What was the greatest achievement of the Romans?” One enterprising lad answered: “They could understand Latin” (Letters, 14 January). Sadly, he was rewarded with several strokes of the belt.
  Harry D Watson
  Edinburgh• If Liz Truss had any real understanding of the world she lives in, she would have sent a cease-and-desist lettuce to the prime m
  
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• ‘The loom has a beauty and rhythm’: textile artist Diedrick Brackens on making poetry out of yarn

  16-01-2025 09:00
  In his first exhibition in the UK, the American weaver threads political and personal themes into vibrant tapestries that merge the everyday with the allegoricalIt is tempting to see it as a happy ending. In Diedrick Brackens’s Ttowards the greenest place on earth, two Black men in the artist’s signature silhouette form throw an arm about each other’s waists, while holding opposite ends of a broom. Perhaps they’re about to enact the wedding folk ritual and jump 
  
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