It's getting more and more difficult to maintain a sense of reality. In seems an extended period of quarantine involving complete lack of external stimulation somehow leads to insecurities you thought you'd buried since puberty being constantly brought up by the increasingly aggressive voice in your...
Step outside of yourself inside. 10) At Home With the Auditorium: Ensemble Español Spanish Dance Theatre 13th April What: This livestream, presented by the Auditorium Theatre (a landmark venue in Chicago) features dancers from Ensemble Español performing the company’s work from their own homes. This is part of the Auditorium's...
Let us rattle your cage. 10) Wi-FEST 12th April What: Kicking-off on Sunday, LIVIT, a curated live streaming mobile app where entertainers, performers, artists, influencers, and rising stars broadcast their own live shows, will be hosting an exclusive, live streamed indie performance series with proceeds going to the WHO and...
An idle mind is the devil's playground. In other words, the perfect mental state. Playgrounds are a font of childlike optimism and opportunity and the devil's only vice was the pursuance of knowledge. Unfortunately, we no longer have the opportunity for an idle mind because every other...
COVID-19 makes for strange bedfellows. In quarantine, previously unknown aspects of the people with whom you share a space and perhaps blood can emerge as a result of lack of external stimuli and under a harsher light than usual, because you're dealing with your own aching,...
Self-actualisation is a poisonous concept. And you can see how truly insidious the worded notion of addressing one's true potential is by how many American self-help books and cults and combinations of the two use it often in their weird passive-aggressive parlance. It may seem like...
At least for a few more weeks, we will have to become more acquainted with the sections of our mind we had originally walled off in order for us to be able to deal with the outside world. Sure, we now have access to most facets...
Sipping Drambuie from the Millennium New Year is a perfectly healthy pastime. 10) Taronga TV 5th-11th April What: Wonder what the animals are up to while the Zoo is temporarily closed? It's zoo-as-usual for the 4,000 animals in Taronga's care - and they're giving you a sneak peak! Over the...
Whisky, anyone? 10) Charli XCX: Live 5th April What: After a week off, the pop singer Charli XCX is back for another week of streaming programming. This live Instagram edition will feature a makeup tutorial with Zara Larsson. Why: It can be genuinely heartening to discover the hidden facets within yourself or...
These are interesting times. That's something people used to say when something mildly odd happened as a way to spruce up the slow, milquetoast march towards obsolescence and eventual quiet death we were facing in 2019. Sure, some truly interesting and horrifying events happened during 2019 and...