Features

Our features explore the connection between the arts and social change. We amplify voices too often silenced, commissioning and covering stories from communities at the forefront of sustainable and inclusive development to highlight the creative endeavours bettering our world. Our online archive is free and open to all, showcasing a range of features excerpted from our print publications as well as specially curated digital pieces that further these conversations, highlighting creativity’s role in shaping a positive future for all.

Features

"Sudan has one of the biggest national film archives in Africa. Many of the more than 13,000 films are the only existing copies."
Audio-visual artist Shadwa Ali explores the withdrawal of nature, prompting questions about the future of her hometown of Alexandria
Filmmaker Iain Henderson looks back on a trip to Occupied Palestine and his ongoing collaboration with Palestinian poet and feminist Alice S. Yousef
"As long as poverty exists, you’re not rich. As long as despair exists, you are not happy. As long as prisons exist, you are not free."
Arguably the original Muirhouse rebel, Garry Fraser’s life story makes for shocking reading. From the depths of deprivation to working alongside Danny Boyle, we salute the poster boy for a life transformed – and hear what really goes on behind the scenes.
"Art and culture as a fight against injustice and forgetfulness."
By combining art with science, Invisible Dust maps new pathways necessary to open up environmental conversations and imagine shared futures – as explained by Founder Alice Sharp
Focussing on the design and engineering of synthetic biological systems, Tal Danino and Soonhee Moon of the Danino Lab highlight the symbiotic relationships we have to each other and the complex, invisible world of bacteria.
Tchalé casa Figueira // Mindelo Carnival // Mindelact
Rupi Kaur’s poetry takes readers on a journey through some of life’s most bitter moments and finds sweetness in them.