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Peter ackroyd

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Kounter Kulture

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give Me Shelter

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fujiya & Miyagi

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leeds international film festival

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features Peter ackroyd

The intriguing blend of fact & fiction

Sadie Jones

Journeys, narratives & recent success

david Shrigley

Deadpan humour, conceptual art and a rat

roberto cuoghi

The pagan ceremony of a people abandoned by Gods

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Kounter Kulture

The latest art fair to hit the London circuit

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give Me Shelter

A Marriage of Man & Nature

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golnaz fathi

The blend of traditional calligraphy with contemporary painting

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fujiya & Miyagi

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A unique take on modern pop music gregory and the hawk 42 Growth & collective inspirations

alina orlova

Music, art & the individual

gang gang dance

Painting with sound

africa in Motion

Universality and specificity

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get out of the multiplex

Leeds International Film Festival Mashirika

Theatre against genocide

live on stage

Theatre round-up

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new books catherine o’flynn

excerpt of What Was Lost

reviews Books

Music

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