Kenneth Olumuyiwa Tharp
@kenneththarp.bsky.social
British/Nigerian Arts & Culture Professional / former professional dancer / loves music, dance, theatre, art, literature, tennis, sea-kayaking, outdoor swimming.
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The African Concert Series
The African Concert Series (ACS) founded by award-winning Nigerian-Romanian pianist Rebeca Omordia reflects the depth of African art music, a richly diverse genre that forms a bridge between Western ...
www.colourful.com
In 2021, I had the privilege of hosting a series of conversations on @colourfulradio.bsky.social, with six amazing trailblazers in classical music, all featured in The African Concert Series, founded and curated by @rebecaomordia.bsky.social
You can listen here: www.colourful.com/podcasts/afr...
You can listen here: www.colourful.com/podcasts/afr...
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One more sad tale of poisoning on these nature-depleted islands, with #biodiversity in a parlous state
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Swans and several thousand fish die amid Kent pollution incident
The affected area is Sarre Penn and the adjacent River Wantsum, near Canterbury, say officials.
www.bbc.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:45 AM
One more sad tale of poisoning on these nature-depleted islands, with #biodiversity in a parlous state
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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When reality bites: the rapid rise and chaotic fall of Reform UK in Cornwall
When reality bites: the rapid rise and chaotic fall of Reform UK in Cornwall
Resignations, suspensions and infighting lead to party losing crown of highest number of seats in the county
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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★★★★ Review: The Hunger Games: On Stage – Conor McPherson and Matthew Dunster’s stage adaptation of the hit YA story is ambitious and spectacular.
Read The Stage's review 👇
Read The Stage's review 👇
The Hunger Games: On Stage at Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre, London
Read our review of The Hunger Games: On Stage at the Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre, London: Conor McPherson and Matthew Dunster’s stage adaptation of the hit YA story is ambitious and spectacular
www.thestage.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
★★★★ Review: The Hunger Games: On Stage – Conor McPherson and Matthew Dunster’s stage adaptation of the hit YA story is ambitious and spectacular.
Read The Stage's review 👇
Read The Stage's review 👇
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Sometimes one needs a little cheering up… but then something pops up and does the trick. So let me share this utter delight: Petula Clark - now 93, for heaven’s sake - singing her glorious Downton.
In German.
Our measureless thanks go to @stephenfarrow.bsky.social for posting it. Wunderschön!
In German.
Our measureless thanks go to @stephenfarrow.bsky.social for posting it. Wunderschön!
November 16, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Sometimes one needs a little cheering up… but then something pops up and does the trick. So let me share this utter delight: Petula Clark - now 93, for heaven’s sake - singing her glorious Downton.
In German.
Our measureless thanks go to @stephenfarrow.bsky.social for posting it. Wunderschön!
In German.
Our measureless thanks go to @stephenfarrow.bsky.social for posting it. Wunderschön!
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This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 PM
This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
November 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
Housing secretary tells Labour MPs to vote down planning bill amendment
Amendment restricts protection for animals to allow faster house building
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Watching Labour MPs take a wrecking ball to nature makes me so angry & so sad. Their action tonight voting down amendments to the #PlanningBill intended to protect wildlife & habitats from destruction is so reckless & so counterproductive. People didn’t vote Labour for this 👇
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Under Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson crime has plummeted. Murders are at historic lows. This is due to his meaningful investment in communities to combat poverty, homelessness, & hopelessness.
And now the Trump regime is trying to pretend it’s due to their ICE infiltration. Absurd!
And now the Trump regime is trying to pretend it’s due to their ICE infiltration. Absurd!
November 13, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Under Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson crime has plummeted. Murders are at historic lows. This is due to his meaningful investment in communities to combat poverty, homelessness, & hopelessness.
And now the Trump regime is trying to pretend it’s due to their ICE infiltration. Absurd!
And now the Trump regime is trying to pretend it’s due to their ICE infiltration. Absurd!
Meanwhile in the USA 🇺🇸…
Calvin Duncan was cleared of murder after he became a legal authority in prison. Now, he is running for clerk of criminal court in New Orleans, a city with one of the nation's highest rates of known wrongful convictions.
Calvin Duncan, Self-Taught Jailhouse Lawyer, Runs for Court Clerk in New Orleans
Calvin Duncan was cleared of murder after he became a legal authority in prison. In New Orleans, his campaign for clerk of criminal court has struck a nerve.
nyti.ms
November 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Meanwhile in the USA 🇺🇸…
It just gets murkier and murkier…
The accuser demands accountability of the BBC, but is seeming guilty of his own, equally serious editorial misdemeanours.
The accuser demands accountability of the BBC, but is seeming guilty of his own, equally serious editorial misdemeanours.
The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report
A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 6:41 PM
It just gets murkier and murkier…
The accuser demands accountability of the BBC, but is seeming guilty of his own, equally serious editorial misdemeanours.
The accuser demands accountability of the BBC, but is seeming guilty of his own, equally serious editorial misdemeanours.
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The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
EXCLUSIVE: Michael Prescott himself doctored Trump quote in his anti-BBC report
A report alleging Panorama broadcast misleading Trump quotes contains misleading quotes itself
www.thenewworld.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
The remarkable story we discussed this morning. (No paywall but do consider subscribing.) www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-e...
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UK Music, has released its annual economic report, ‘This Is Music 2025’.
The report outlines the huge contribution the UK music industry makes to the economy – but also outlines some of the major challenges the sector faces.
The report outlines the huge contribution the UK music industry makes to the economy – but also outlines some of the major challenges the sector faces.
🎸 The impact of Brexit is most acute amongst lower earners and those at the start of their career.
❌ Music creators at this level are micro-businesses, and with minimal resources available to them, Brexit often makes touring the EU untenable.
https://bit.ly/3XpLzIz
❌ Music creators at this level are micro-businesses, and with minimal resources available to them, Brexit often makes touring the EU untenable.
https://bit.ly/3XpLzIz
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November 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
UK Music, has released its annual economic report, ‘This Is Music 2025’.
The report outlines the huge contribution the UK music industry makes to the economy – but also outlines some of the major challenges the sector faces.
The report outlines the huge contribution the UK music industry makes to the economy – but also outlines some of the major challenges the sector faces.
Happy #WorldBalletDay !
A blast from the past …
‘Three Dances for Troi Gnossienes’
Choreography: Christopher Bannerman, for London Contemporary Dance Theatre (1988)
Music: Erik Satie
Dancer: Kenneth Olumuyiwa Tharp
Photo: Bill Cooper.
#WorldBalletDay2025
A blast from the past …
‘Three Dances for Troi Gnossienes’
Choreography: Christopher Bannerman, for London Contemporary Dance Theatre (1988)
Music: Erik Satie
Dancer: Kenneth Olumuyiwa Tharp
Photo: Bill Cooper.
#WorldBalletDay2025
November 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Happy #WorldBalletDay !
A blast from the past …
‘Three Dances for Troi Gnossienes’
Choreography: Christopher Bannerman, for London Contemporary Dance Theatre (1988)
Music: Erik Satie
Dancer: Kenneth Olumuyiwa Tharp
Photo: Bill Cooper.
#WorldBalletDay2025
A blast from the past …
‘Three Dances for Troi Gnossienes’
Choreography: Christopher Bannerman, for London Contemporary Dance Theatre (1988)
Music: Erik Satie
Dancer: Kenneth Olumuyiwa Tharp
Photo: Bill Cooper.
#WorldBalletDay2025
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The work of Diana Catchpole, contemporary UK based illustrator and printmaker
#ReframingWomenPrintmakers
#ReframingWomenPrintmakers
November 12, 2025 at 11:26 AM
The work of Diana Catchpole, contemporary UK based illustrator and printmaker
#ReframingWomenPrintmakers
#ReframingWomenPrintmakers
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If BBC News was a hotbed of left-wing wokery producing *systemically* biased coverage Jeremy Corbyn may well have been elected Prime Minister in 2019.
It’s not. He wasn’t.
And we got Boris Johnson instead.
It’s not. He wasn’t.
And we got Boris Johnson instead.
November 11, 2025 at 7:49 PM
If BBC News was a hotbed of left-wing wokery producing *systemically* biased coverage Jeremy Corbyn may well have been elected Prime Minister in 2019.
It’s not. He wasn’t.
And we got Boris Johnson instead.
It’s not. He wasn’t.
And we got Boris Johnson instead.
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One of the guests partying at Mar-a-Lago was Nigel Farage, by the way. For my British followers.
Guests eating fancy dinners in Trump’s Mar-a-Lago ballroom as American families stand in line at food banks
November 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
One of the guests partying at Mar-a-Lago was Nigel Farage, by the way. For my British followers.
‘Tim Davie, the BBC’s director general, is expected to resign after a former adviser to the corporation accused it of “serious and systemic” bias in its coverage of issues including Donald Trump, Gaza and trans rights.’
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
Tim Davie expected to resign as BBC director general
Corporation has faced accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias in its reporting
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
‘Tim Davie, the BBC’s director general, is expected to resign after a former adviser to the corporation accused it of “serious and systemic” bias in its coverage of issues including Donald Trump, Gaza and trans rights.’
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...
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October marks highest number of Israeli settler attacks since records began - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/un-agency-says-october-marked-highest-number-israeli-settler-attacks
October marks highest number of Israeli settler attacks since records began
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<div class="field field-field-text"><p>The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) released a report saying that October marked the highest number of settler attacks in a single month in the West Bank since records began.</p>
<p>The agency has been tracking settler attacks since 2006. </p>
<p>Accxording to the report, more than 260 Israeli settler attacks took place in the West Bank in October.</p>
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www.middleeasteye.net
November 7, 2025 at 11:05 PM
October marks highest number of Israeli settler attacks since records began - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/un-agency-says-october-marked-highest-number-israeli-settler-attacks
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Good riddance. A pet project, as was Brexit, of Michael Gove, the man more destructive of the musical health of Britain than anyone in our modern history.
The English Baccalaureate is likely to be scrapped in education secretary Bridget Phillipson’s long-awaited Curriculum Review, a change that would represent a significant victory for figures across the theatre sector.
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EBacc set to be scrapped after drama school leaders’ last-ditch plea
The English Baccalaureate is likely to be scrapped in Bridget Phillipson's long-awaited Curriculum Review
www.thestage.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Good riddance. A pet project, as was Brexit, of Michael Gove, the man more destructive of the musical health of Britain than anyone in our modern history.
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A historical moment in Parliament as Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy becomes the first Black person to ever answer a Prime Minister's question. 👏
November 5, 2025 at 12:21 PM
A historical moment in Parliament as Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy becomes the first Black person to ever answer a Prime Minister's question. 👏
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Playwright and screenwriter Jack Thorne, creator of Netflix’s Adolescence, urges political leaders to recognise the scale of challenge facing the British theatre sector and to act before it’s too late.
uktheatre.org/jack-thorne-...
FreelancersMakeTheatreWork #UKArts #SaveTheArts
uktheatre.org/jack-thorne-...
FreelancersMakeTheatreWork #UKArts #SaveTheArts
November 5, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Playwright and screenwriter Jack Thorne, creator of Netflix’s Adolescence, urges political leaders to recognise the scale of challenge facing the British theatre sector and to act before it’s too late.
uktheatre.org/jack-thorne-...
FreelancersMakeTheatreWork #UKArts #SaveTheArts
uktheatre.org/jack-thorne-...
FreelancersMakeTheatreWork #UKArts #SaveTheArts
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Businesses must respect human rights, labour rights and our environment — across whole supply chains, at home and abroad.
I’ll be pressing the government on how its review will ensure that.
#PeopleAndPlanet #ResponsibleBusiness
I’ll be pressing the government on how its review will ensure that.
#PeopleAndPlanet #ResponsibleBusiness
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Businesses must respect human rights, labour rights and our environment — across whole supply chains, at home and abroad.
I’ll be pressing the government on how its review will ensure that.
#PeopleAndPlanet #ResponsibleBusiness
I’ll be pressing the government on how its review will ensure that.
#PeopleAndPlanet #ResponsibleBusiness
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Anni Albers, Design for a rug, 1925. One of the best known Bauhsus trained textile artists of the 20thc #womensart
November 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Anni Albers, Design for a rug, 1925. One of the best known Bauhsus trained textile artists of the 20thc #womensart
“Hope is alive.
Hope over tyranny.
Hope over big money and small ideas.
Hope over despair.“
Zohran Mamdani
5th November 2025.
Hope over tyranny.
Hope over big money and small ideas.
Hope over despair.“
Zohran Mamdani
5th November 2025.
November 5, 2025 at 9:40 AM
“Hope is alive.
Hope over tyranny.
Hope over big money and small ideas.
Hope over despair.“
Zohran Mamdani
5th November 2025.
Hope over tyranny.
Hope over big money and small ideas.
Hope over despair.“
Zohran Mamdani
5th November 2025.