Theatre is magic. One moment you’re walking across Waterloo Bridge to the National Theatre with vistas of modern architecture on either side and then, having found your seat for its production of Brian Friel’s “Dancing at Lughnasa”, an idyllic Irish scene places you in another dimension. Sean Sheehan […]
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Fixed mindset and authoritarianism
I recently received an email decrying people who were ‘fixated’ (possibly including this writer?). The writer of the email is a PhD (medical anthropology, London). She did not define what she meant. Except strong disapproval. What might a ‘fixated’ mind be? Why might it be so pathological? Une idée fixe? […]
Rethinking the link between diversity and oppression
They will never be equality, because all humans are different; this is an idea that is generally accepted in today’s society. Mabel Encinas However, the consequences of this diversity, are seen in different values and through a variety of actions. In other words, there are differences of perception […]
The woman and the city: unforgivable misogyny
The world was built on ‘machismo’ when it was said that God was a man. A concept from which Bogota never escaped: a warped city until it became a metropolis without a beginning or end, of which the Spanish conquistador arbitrarily changed the name, from Bacatá to Bogotá. . Armando […]
Vermeer: Gazing at the past
The current Vermeer exhibition in Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has long been completely sold out and were it to be extended for another four months it would probably sell out again. Sean Sheehan With no chance of seeing the largest collection of his paintings ever brought together in one […]
















