Hello and Welcome to Issue 6 of Channelwebscene
Village Halls as Culutral Nexus... Ian McMillanExcuse me if I sound exhilarated, but I’m just back from a tour performing my poems with my cartoonist mate Tony in a clutch of village halls, and as usual each venue was superb and vibrant and gloriously different, superbly eccentric.
With Her Third Asian Film, Sacrifice,
Ellen Bruno Continues to Speak the UnspeakableMush buys a Belt... Ben Pleasants
Applegate's... It's one of those glittering men's shoe shops on Fifth Avenue, brown wood everywhere, walking sticks propped in the corner under a portrait of Winston Churchill. Been in business for more than a hundred years.Formula 1 Should Ditch the Internal Combustion Engine... Chris Goodall
Honda’s withdrawal from the hugely expensive world of Formula 1 motor racing is another illustration of the pressures on the world’s car-makers.Starfishsoul... Clare Danstead
shifting sands of time change, transformation, what I see affects how I feel, how I feel affects what I see, what I see around me is always changing,XDR-TB
XDRTB.org is an extraordinary effort to tell the story of extremely drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) and TB through powerful photographs taken by James Nachtwey.Robert Mitchell 3io at the Quarterhouse, Folkestone... Rayya Ghul
When Robert Mitchell stepped out to perform on Saturday night he was wearing a white T-shirt which gradually broke into blue at the bottom.
A Gentle Push Into The New Year... David Gaines
December 1972... I was losing interest in life (Nixon, you may recall, had just been re-elected by a landslide and the evil of Watergate was yet to be revealed) My second year in college and school seemed like a black hole of meaninglessness;
The Age of Stupid
The Age Of Stupid’ is the new cinema documentary from the Director of ‘McLibel’ and the Producer of the Oscar-winning ‘One Day In September.
Cameroons to Kinsangani... Nick Spurrier
I started from Blackheath in London on a rather damp September morning and finished in Blantyre in Malawi. Where I could I hitchhiked and where that was not possible and where it was the local custom – mostly ex-French Colonies – I paid for lifts on lorries or used local transport.
Marksons Pianos... Miriana Ponte
The Name to Note
Markson’s Piano showroom on Alberry Street, London, I learn, has a couple of practice rooms with voice-over recording facility. At this site too, you can go and have lessons.
One Cart Body and Three Broken Wheels... Nick Spurrier
You would think from early records, that the Spurriers of the middles ages who lived in Lichfield, a town south of the village of Marston-on-Dove in Derbyshire, were a violent and unruly lot.
Unbelievable But True... PirateRay
Can you imagine working for a Company that has a little more than 600 employees with the following employee statistics
Rochester Film Salon
The Rochester Film Salon has been celebrating the rich diversity of cinema since July 2008 and has steadily built up a large groundswell of support, with membership numbers now into three figures.
The Business of Creativity
A series of six free events at The Joiners Shop in Chatham's Historic Dockyard