...2014 is truly exciting! As this new year begins, I find myself truly in the thick of it. Having taken up a new post as a Graduate Teaching Assitant for Middlesex I find myself support the new commitee who are fantastically organising this year's Literary Festival. Already we have so many exciting pearls to display [...]
Waterloo, London on a crisp Winter's morning, is it winter yet? If it is the last day of sunshine I am sure of it. As my photojournalism module kicks off the enthusiasm for the visual side of life has seeped back, finally! It's been two years of living in London and turning me back on [...]
Ten days until Middlesex University is a-buzzing with poetry, authors, and would-be writers for the North London Literary Festival 2013. It is also 10 days until the acclaimed play 'The Thrill of Love' comes to London, at the St James Theatre. Commemorating the sensational story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged for [...]
This years North London Literary Festival's programme is out! Publishers, authors and a psychotherapist commentator have all been lined up to speak about the amazing and exhaustible application of language. So check them out and head down to hear them speak and even participate in fantastic workshops! Tuesday 26th of March 2013 12pm: Speed-pitch Two [...]
Sometimes the best events come from the simplest of ideas. Ahead of the North London Literary festival, Middlesex students are hard at work at many creative endeavours. Though we hunger for news on the highly anticipated app, other creative committees and students are conducting their events earlier in more public forums. On the 1st of [...]
Having always wanted to see a Shakespeare Production at The Globe theatre, I was a bit disheartened by this production at a small theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue. However as with all my pre-conceptions I should not have wasted an ounce of worry. Not only was Stephen Fry playing a whimsical Malvolio, with his luxurious voice [...]
So in October, just before my anniversary, I had a little relationship bump. My amazing but at times irritating boyfriend seemed as all men do distant. Now I admit at times I am not the best person, I may not always know or want to talk but I do want action! He did his best [...]
Although in the end we didn't get the full day of hanging around the Victoria area of London due to other commitment, the musical itself was a masterpiece of emotional involvement. The only photograph I had time to take. Having heard lots of opinions and thoughts about this piece of modern theatre, I tried to [...]
..Give me a while to process it.. Skyfall was the window into the heart of Bond. But a modern, disillusioned and realistically reserved Bond. His life pre and post-Bond status and his fears are written out by a mediocre script but amazing action scenes. Oh and some scenes bring tears, others a very British nod [...]
Imagine a collection of densely pack streets, full of warm, friendly people, neon signs, gay sights and enticing smells and you have started to get a small inkling of what it means to find yourself In Soho. In my present state I can't really explain the excitement of treading those semi-cobbled pathways. But I do [...]
Mariam Kauser 