Schreiben in anderen Sprachen

Wollt Ihr eine Geschichte lesen, die Euch in eine andere Welt versetzt? Habt Ihr Interesse daran eine Geschichte zu lesen, bei der Ihr Eure Spanischkenntnisse erweitern könnt und gleichzeitig Euch auf eine Suche begibt, wo Ihr an Seite der Hauptfigur auf die Spur geht, um ein spannendes Rätsel zu lösen? Dann würde ich Euch die kleine Geschichte empfehlen, die ich kürzlich geschrieben habe. Diese ist meine erste Kurzgeschichte, die ich auf Spanish geschrieben habe, die 'El Regalo Del Momento Presente' heißt. Ich hoffe diese Geschichte gibt Euch Anregungen darüber nachzudenken und in Eurem Leben zu begründen, was dem Leben wirklich Bedeutung gibt, während Ihr gleichzeitig eine spannende kleine Geschichte in einer anderen Sprache liest. Die Hauptfigur ist Julia aus Mexico, die mit ihrer besten Freundin Lola auf eine Familienfeier geht, wo sie verschiedene Perspektiven und unterschiedliche Erfahrungen aus dem Leben anderer Familienmitglieder hört and welche sie darüber nachdenken lassen, wo es im Leben wirklich geht. Sie hinterfragt dabei auch die Bedeutung des Geschenks, das sie am Tag davor von ihrer Großmutter bekommen hat, und das am Abend der Feier spurlos verschwindet. Wo ist das Geschenk and wo ist es verschwunden? Kann Julia das Geschenk finden, bevor sie auf der Familienfeier ihre Großmutter begegnet? Wenn Ihr eine kleine herzerwärmende Geschichte lesen möchtet, bei der Ihr Euch darüber Gedanken machen könnt, was Euer Leben wirklich bereichert, ist das Buch für Euch! Das Buch ist online erhältlich. Viel Spaß beim Lesen!

The Expanded Natural History of Song Discography, A Global Corpus of Vocal Music

The article 'The Expanded Natural History of Song Discography, A Global Corpus of Vocal Music' has now been published in OpenMind and can be accessed here https://direct.mit.edu/opmi/article/doi/10.1162/opmi.a.4/131815.

The Expanded Natural History of Song Discography presents an open-access of vocal music of over 1,000 song excerpts from many human societies, including metadata that give details about each song's area of origin, language (of the 413 languages represented) and one of ten behavioural contexts such as storytelling. The corpus is publicly available at https://zenodo.org/records/15725182 for members of research community to use for their research.

Celebrating Diamond Anniversary

As Harrow is celebrating 60 years of becoming a London Borough, the HAC has invited its community to share with everyone what Harrow means to them. The result is the 'What Harrow means to you' Exhibition where thirty artists have contributed to illustrating this theme as part of the Diamond Anniversary Programme. Why not come in and have your brain marvel at the beauty of art? The exhibition is open and free to all. Take a look at the different art pieces and the story underlying each.

 

Psychology of music - Global corpus of vocal music

As someone with a background in music and languages and acoustics, it is a pleasure to be involved in and contribute to a study that aims to better understand how the acoustical structure of song evolved culturally. In the spirit of the blog that aims to explore and support ventures that allow art and science to join hands, I am excited to see a preprint on a project I contributed to that is the 

The Expanded Natural History of Song Discography, a global corpus of vocal music

 - You can read more here: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/d2ftg_v1

A CELEBRATION OF ART EXHIBITION

Am honoured to have had my art accepted at the 'A CELEBRATION OF ART EXHIBITION. This exhibition at HAC features a range of art items by diverse artistic talents of different ages. It is running between 7th-28th February and is free to view. Please have a look if you happen to be there. You can also have a look at the following link where some of my art has been made available for purchase https://www.etsy.com/shop/UniqueArtStudioUK?ref=dashboard-header&section_id=46569376

Tamil Heritage Art Exhibition

To celebrate Tamil Heritage Month, please have a look at the Art Exhibition where I contributed as an artist to the HarrowArtsCentre's exploration of the Tamil community's rich heritage and culture. The exhibition is running between 8th and 29th January and also features some workshops by some exhibitors on 'Talking Streets' and 'Kolams', more details about which you can read below.

Happy National Poetry Day 2024!

Happy National Poetry Day 2024! This is a very special National Poetry Day because it marks the 30th Anniversary of National Poetry Day that was created by William Sieghart in 1994 in an effort to promote poetry who said:  "There are millions of talented poets out there and it's about time they got some recognition for their work. They shouldn’t be embarrassed about reading their work out aloud. I want people to read poetry on the bus on their way to work, in the street, in school and in the pub."

                             

With that spirit in mind, learn more about what is on today and later this week anywhere within the UK on the website of the Forward Arts Foundation charity that usually coordinates National Poetry Day events at https://forwardartsfoundation.org/national-poetry-day/whats-on/ where you can see that you can join any event from a traditional open-mic to a multilingual poetathon! Here is where you can read more about the Forward Arts Foundation: https://forwardartsfoundation.org/

As you can see, there is something for everyone to intellectually stimulate yourself at different levels and if you rather like to listen to some innovative poetry, why don't you please join me at the Writers' Forum Workshop in Pimlico Library this weekend where I will be reading from my second collection of poetry called soulgrowth to celebrate National Poetry Day. The Writers' Forum Workshop is a workshop series for experimental poetry and is free and open to all. Everyone welcome!