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Social, community and sports groups across Jesmond have become familiar with meeting online during this latest lockdown, but concerns remain for residents who may lack internet access or the necessary skills to operate video calling platforms such as Zoom.
Chris Clarke of Friends of Jesmond Library told
JesmondLocal he is “concerned about the plight of those older people who aren’t IT savvy, either because they don’t have access to the correct kit, or they don’t have good wi-fi, or just aren’t very good at using the features on their computer, tablet or smartphone”.
As technology becomes more integral to community life, the gap between connectivity and isolation has widened too. Though internet use among 65-75 year-olds increased from 52% in 2011, to 83% in 2019, the Office for National Statistics recently found that less than half of people aged 75 and over are frequent internet users.
Porgy and Bess classic celebrates the legacy of Anne Brown and Black History Month.
Watch the premiere of Women of Color on Broadway, Inc. s âSummertimeâ music video in honor of Black History Month, sponsored by MAC Cosmetics, above. Todd Duncan and Anne Brown in
Porgy and Bess
âSummertime,â with its unforgettable soaring melody, immediately launches audiences into the world of George and Ira Gershwinâs
Porgy and Bess. The opera-musical, which premiered on October 10, 1935 at Alvin Theatre, follows the lives of the titular characters and other residents of the all-Black neighborhood of Catfish Row in Charleston, South Carolina. Both Ira Gershwin and the author of the original 1925 novel DuBose Heyward (who also was a co-writer of the 1927 play adaptation with Dorothy Heyward) wrote