Culture In Mind

It's my birthday today 🎂
Thankfully FB has not said how old I am but looking forward to a relaxing day with family and friends x

Check out the excellent exhibition at the British Museum on Indigenous Australia (April to August 2015) highlighting a wide range of aboriginal art, films and talks on the language and music of this amazing culture. Looking forward to a great Australia late evening on 13th June 2015 as part of the Origins festival with some authentic didgeridoo. All free! Yey!

Indigenous Australia Indigenous Australia: an exhibition at the British Museum. Buy your tickets now. Adults £10, members free.

Looking forward to tonight talk by Noel Lobley on the relationship between music and culture in the East African rainforest. I adore this photo www.therai.org.uk

For all lovers of music out there, coincidentally the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI) has two great research seminars coming up: On Wed 15th October there's a talk on Ethnomusicology which explores the relationship between music and culture and on 23rd Oct a fabulous talk by Noel Lobley who looks at the concept of curating sound from the West African rainforests to the community streets. Whats not to like? All free from 5.30-7.30pm. Further details and bookings here. https://www.therai.org.uk/events-calendar/eventdetail/220/-/rai-research-seminar-noel-lobley?filter_reset=1

RAI Research Seminar: Noel Lobley The website for the Royal Anthropological Institute.

By far the most rewarding part of taking a photograph is the moment when you get to show it to somebody else…
Come and join us on an expedition to Western Mongolia: http://tinyurl.com/4cybac6w

Photo by: Timothy Allen

Martin Parr, the visual ethnographer of our times. Great photographic exhibition recording the everyday and ordinary of our lives...

90s Household Scenes In Martin Parr’s Photography Beetles+Huxley gallery's new show.

Now were talking... Can Rainforests think? Is there an anthropology beyond the human? What is the relationship between people, the sense of space and their indigenous landscape? Great article about the Runa living in the Ecuadorian rainforest...

Anthropology Beyond the Human: An Amazon Tribe's Deep Connection With the Rain Forest Living with the Runa in Ecuador's rain forest is also about living with all the other kinds of beings the Runa live with.

Beautiful global photography...

Travel Photographer of the Year - International Photography Award - Home Page Travel Photographer of the Year (TPOTY) - the premier international travel photography awards for amateur, professional and young photographers

A view of the complete Kalachakra Sand Mandala constructed for the 33rd Kalachakra Empowerment in Leh, Ladakh, J&K, India on July 8, 2014. (Photo by Manuel Bauer)

Just one day to go until the awesome super cool annual Open Docs festival commences at UCL. If you are into documentary film whether for fun or serious film maker or ethnographer, looks like this is the place to be for the next 6 days from Tues 17th June - Sun 22nd June. Tickets flying fast...

Open City Docs Fest | Open City Docs Fest

Great exhibition of Banky's Street Art painting on show at Sotheby's S2 gallery, London. The interesting question this raises is does it matter whether its an authorised or unauthorised show? Me thinks it depends on who you are, the artist, the curator or the audience-punter... Either way it looks fab!

London hosts first unauthorised Banksy exhibition More than 70 pieces of work by the world’s most famous and most mysterious street artist, Banksy, are going on display in London, some of them never seen by the public before. The walls of…

Great to see the great contemporary master of Indian art MF Hussain currently on exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum. A wonderful fusion of Indian traditional landscapes and modernity ranging from religious imagery, Mother Teresa, politicians, rural villages, women, festivals and ceremonies. Go see...

Exhibition - M.F. Husain: Master of Modern Indian Painting - Victoria and Albert Museum M.F. Husain (1915-2011) is one of the most celebrated and internationally recognised Indian artists of the 20th century. Indian Civilization comprises a series of monumental triptych paintings which represent Husain’s vision of the richness of Indian culture and history. Capturing India’s vibrant ci…