At Gail's, what is the human cost behind a £5 loaf of bread? The economics and migration behind the Gail's expansion. Words by Sasha Patel and Ben Jacob. Illustration by Kruttika Susarla.

www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/at-gails-w... (free to read)

RALLY TO SAVE MEANJIN

Thursday 11 Sep 9am
Outside the Melbourne University Publishing office, 715 Swanston St, Carlton.

A number of Australian writers and editors will speak in support of this vital cultural institution

Diary of a Popcorn Seller A week in the life of a popcorn seller in a multiplex cinema. Words by Lucy Fitzgerald. Illustration by Liam Cobb.

Very fun piece in @vittles.bsky.social today!

www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/diary-of-a...

Creating growth: Labour’s plan for the arts, culture and creative industries Published in Cultural Trends (Vol. 34, No. 3, 2025)

This paper was just made open access. I wrote it just as the new UK Labour government was elected. Some people thought I was being too pessimistic. I'll let you decide.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Co-op joins growing list of brands boycotting Israel The decision follows an earlier move in to stop selling Russian products after the invasion of Ukraine.

The Co-Op is now boycotting Israel

📢 Our friends at bookhaus have built one of the country’s most vital radical bookshops—a cultural hub rooted in activism, community & resistance.

Now the shop is up for sale. Support the crowdfunder and keep bookhaus in radical hands: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bookhaus--...

@bookhaus.bsky.social’s owners are retiring, and the manager - the brilliant Darran McLaughlin (alongside the equally brilliant Phil Wrigglesworth) are crowdfunding to buy the bookshop - they deserve all your support: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bookhaus--...

For 26 years, Senses of Cinema has made uncompromising film criticism free and accessible to global audiences, connecting us through a shared love of cinema. Supporting us with a donation helps keep us free and independent (donations over $2 tax deductible for Australian residents) buff.ly/btcHgEC

Artists/Illustrators/Designers! We need YOU!

Edinburgh’s Radical Book Fair returns 6-9th of November 2025 : we need a poster!

This year’s theme is ‘Ecosystems of change’ or ‘Constellations of Change’. As an artist, we invite you to respond to whichever of the two speaks to you most.

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If you make chapbooks, pamphlets, zines, artists’ books, mail art; publish editions of fine press work; run a small- to mid-sized independent press; or edit a literary journal in Ireland, the UK, mainland Europe, or farther abroad, we would love you to be part of the Fair.

I'm sort of jealous of your first watch of Harold and Maude. It is such a special film and the first time is the best.

Belfast folk! Don’t miss your chance to catch Glasgow’s finest, The Tenementals first Belfast show at the Black Box 31st May!

Bringing earthy Scottish working class culture to Ireland!

Don’t miss it!

Making & Breaking Issue 04 Out Now! Psychogeographies of the Present

A new edition of Making & Breaking, re-imagining psycho- Geography for a digital age.
makingandbreaking.org

Join us Wednesday 7 May for the first week of our tribute to ‘the Queen of Scream’, Barbara Steele (1937–). At 7pm we’ll be screening Mario Bava’s BLACK SUNDAY (1960), followed at 8:45pm by Roger Corman’s THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM (1961). Full details of the program available on our site.

Erin Maglaque · Frog-Free: Conception Stories I can take a home pregnancy test only eight days after ovulation and discover that I have conceived, the wondering...

‘It is one of those unaccountable facts of modernity: Nasa launched a chimpanzee into space before women had access to reliable, frog-free home pregnancy testing.’

@erinmaglaque.bsky.social on the history of pregnancy and conception: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Katherine Rundell · Consider the Hare ‘The cat of the wood,’ Heaney calls them. ‘The stag of the cabbages.’ If there is magic in this world, some part...

‘The Easter bunny was a hare long before he was a rabbit; the hare was sacred to Eostre, the Saxon goddess of spring – no rabidly cute bundle of fluff.’

Katherine Rundell considers the hare: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Raise a glass to the hugely talented director Ted Kotcheff, who has died at 94. He might have been Canadian born, but he made what is still one of the best Australian films ever, WAKE IN FRIGHT (1971), among his many other screen achievements. Gone to that great Yabba in the sky.

Save The Prince Charles Cinema The iconic Prince Charles Cinema in London’s West End future is under serious threat! We are beyond disappointed that our landlords Zedwell LSQ Ltd and their ultimate parent company Criterion Capital...

#SaveThePCC

Some of you may have read about the situation regarding our new landlord wishing to add a new redevelopment break clause, with only 6 months notice to our lease.

For now, we're simply asking you all to share & sign the petition below;

you.38degrees.org.uk/p/princechar...

a woman wearing sunglasses and gloves is standing on a city street ALT: a woman wearing sunglasses and gloves is standing on a city street

I have probably watched DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN more times than most people ever will and I feel no guilt at all.

The Quest for a New Narrative on Culture: Foundations, infrastructures, Public Goods (and Bads) — Culture Policy Room Justin O’Connor argues that we need a radical repositioning of culture as a core area of public policy, moving away from the technocratic pursuit of ever more impact metrics and advocacy efforts desig...

The Quest for a New Narrative on Culture: Foundations, infrastructures, Public Goods (and Bads).

New article for Culture Policy Room by Justin O'Connor @oconnorjustin13.bsky.social

www.culturepolicyroom.eu/insights/the...

We took over the giant screen at Farage’s big rally in Birmingham

Astronomers Fight Ads in Space Astronomers are racing to protect the dark skies as private companies seek to place large advertisements in Earth orbit

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An Oscar winner urged us to keep cinemas alive. These Australians already are More Australians are swapping the small screen for the cinema, embracing the big-screen experience that faces an existential challenge in the age of streaming.

Great to see our co-curators Adrian Danks and @cinemelo.bsky.social quoted in this article in today's edition of THE AGE newspaper on the importance of the in-person cinema experience & Melbourne Cinematheque's role in helping to keep it alive. Long live cinema!
www.theage.com.au/culture/movi...

Join us Wednesday 5 March for the start of our season of Roberto Rossellini films, co-presented with Italian Cultural Institute of Melbourne. At 7pm we screen ROME, OPEN CITY (1945), followed at 9:05pm by IL GENERALE DELLA ROVERE (1959). Full details of the program are on our website.

Meta could have solely funded the ENTIRE WORLD'S 2022 CLIMATE FINANCE GOAL instead of this

A black and white advertisement for a forthcoming talk about historic cinemas

On Thursday 6th March I will be at Preston library, North Melbourne, talking about why some of us go to incredible lengths to save old cinemas.

It's free, and I am hoping to meet lots of lovely 'cinema people', so please come along 📽️.

A picture of a camera negative showing a man in a 19th century outfit performing a visual trick

A very thorough and satisfying long read on the innovative work of British cinema pioneer William Friese-Greene, by Peter Domankiewicz

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Shared Futures: Culture as infrastructure “Infrastructure is everything you don’t have to think about”. Until you do.

At ACMI on Saturday 15th Feb, Deb Chachra, Dan Hill and myself discuss Culture as Infrastructure

2pm, book here:

www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/fut...

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#FACT2025 #Melbourne

Historical black and white photos showing a person with a projector, a crowd of people seated in rows, and a street with a theatre.

I will be giving a free talk at Preston library in Melbourne next month.

I will be talking about very old cinemas, especially the Hyde Park Picture House in Leeds and Harwich's Electric Palace.

7pm, Thursday 6th March.

Book with Eventbrite here:

libraries.darebin.vic.gov.au/News-and-eve...

Shared Futures: Culture as infrastructure “Infrastructure is everything you don’t have to think about”. Until you do.

For those in Melbourne 15th February, talking culture as infrastructure with Dan Hill and Deb Chachra at ACMI
www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/sha...