Councillor Smizz relives the impact of arts & culture on her formative years and ponders how events like ArtBomb can do the same in Doncaster… The Art Bomb Festival felt like it was a chance for artists to take back the streets and the towns & villages; to reimagine life through multiple lenses. To listen …
What follows is Doncopolitan’s new creative director, Olivia Jones’s, editorial for this month’s email newsletter. If you haven’t subscribed already sign up here for more heartfelt and informative content like this… A few months ago, whilst mindlessly scrolling through twitter, I stumbled across a video of a ‘white passing’ (predominantly Eurocentric features with lighter skin – …
The Delicious Doncaster Food & Drink Festival took place in difficult circumstances this year, but as Doncopolitan’s roving reporter Kylie Noble shows, it still packed flavour… The Delicious Doncaster Food and Drink Festival returned to the town centre 23rd – 25th July. The local festival spanned across the town centre located at both the Marketplace …
Caroline Tanner examines the richness of mixed heritage… ‘I would never have known.’ Such an innocent remark, yet it left me feeling ‘not quite’ – not quite White but not Black enough. Teetering on the brink of two identities. As I’ve gone through life I have transitioned through many different stages relating to my ethnicity …
Doncopolitan’s new Creative Director, Olivia Jones, speaks to Evie Muir, founder of the Peaks of Colour walking group and takes her first steps into hiking… Through out lockdown and the nations collective loss of sanity, many of us decided to take on new hobbies to keep thoughts of the societal collapse away. Some of us …