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Posted by Gnattie on April 02, 2021

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Review article of the 2024 GAP Summit: Censorship in the Arts and Culture

The excitement of returning to this year’s GAP (Global Art Point) Art Summit (15th Sept.) at Luckan premises in Helsinki this year was made all the more provoking with the topic Censorship in the Arts and Culture. Follow the link to programme: https://www.globeartpoint.fi/2024/05/14/gap-art-summit-programme-2024/ . This year’s programme was compact yet thorough. Two significant panels in the morning & two in the afternoon with 3 parallel workshops regarding the use of AI in various aspects of the Arts. Image taken from www.globeartpoint.fi This time a participant, I stayed for the morning panels but then joined in the workshops in the afternoon. The opening performance was a stunning execution of the Peruvian classic: 'El Cóndor Pasa' by an acapela group one by one taping their mouths shut until voices became fewer and ultimately silenced altogether. This simple idea made a powerful start statement demonstrating the impact of censorship. The mor...

PORTFOLIO

Nathalie Sallegren is an Australian spoken word artist based in Raseborg, Finland. British born/ French origin/ Papua New Guinean raised, writing and performing in a rhythmic Australian accent, where she spent her youth. Performing regularly in Finland, collaborating online in the UK, including recent feature set at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Online. Gnattie’s work dissects issues: examining culture-shock, migration and integration, isolation and disconnection and the vulgarity of small-mindedness. Trained at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) in Perth. With a degree in English, experience within Academic libraries and a trained teacher Nathalie has a passion for sharing and enabling the greater joy of creativity. Photo: Kevin Stewart SOCIAL MEDIA Instagram: @gnattie75 Blog: https://gnattie.blogspot.com/ Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5l8to9hq8Kca4uFWExoB4g?view_as=subscribe PERFORMANCES 2023 Feature Artist: Oooh Beehive...

Nostalgia

My mum keeps sending me photos of my childhood but they’re all wrong. In one of them, the angle I was sitting is not quite the one I remembered. The feeling associated with the moment does not seem to be represented this time. I start searching inside. I do remember sitting on the roadside, yes. Waiting for the bus, yes but I don’t remember my neighbour’s little sister would be in the picture as she was too young yet to go to school. Actually, when I think about it, I only ever remember that one time when I was the only one in my group catching the bus home and the bus driver was decisive enough not to bother driving me down my road to my bus stop. This time, I got off.. and started shouting and swearing uncontrollably at him, for dissing me. But really, it wasn’t such a long walk home and in my rage of entitlement, considering I had access to international standard education in a 3 rd World Country, I should have really, just put my head down and just said: “Thank you”. My r...

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