A CAMPAIGN has been launched to help raise the £1m needed to plug a 40-year-old Swindon charity’s Covid funding gap. Prospect Hospice has kicked off its first fundraiser of the year, called Thanks A Million, after being hit hard by the pandemic. The Wroughton charity, which has been providing end-of-life care for four decades, has had to close its shops and cancel its fundraising events because of Covid-19. And CEO Irene Watkins is now urging the community to get behind the charity in order for them to deliver top-class services and support people suffering from terminal illnesses over the coming months.
Reverting to Type exhibition features protest posters by 100 letterpress artists
The online exhibition features a mix of famous names and less-heard voices, who all use letterpress techniques to express their feelings on a range of contemporary issues 28/01/2021 8:03 am
Organised by letterpress studio New North Press, the exhibition was originally held at the Standpoint Gallery in London, where it opened in December but then had to close due to the latest UK Covid-19 lockdown. It has since reached people online and via a catalogue of the works featured.
While the events of last year make an exhibition about protest very timely, planning for it actually began in December 2019. “That’s when we chose the subject of protest,” says Richard Ardagh, who curated the show alongside Graham Bignell. “We had no idea at the time the significance this would take and the world-changing events round the corner with Covid-19, the murder of George Floyd, Black Lives Matter and the gener
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A box set of the UK pop/punk quartetâs 12 7 singles comprehensively documents the bandâs rapid evolution, capturing the groupâs energy in short, controlled bursts.
Over the past few years, Domino Records has put welcome effort into the continued canonization of UK pop/punk quartet Buzzcocks. The label has lovingly reissued the groupâs studio output from its inception in 1976 to its initial split in 1981, including a formerly bootlegged collection of demos, the self-released debut EP,
Spiral Scratch (both featuring original vocalist Howard Devoto), and three studio albums.
To kick off 2021, Domino returns to the well with