‘Out Demons Out’......From ‘Emergence’ Magazine…..
by Bernie Bell - 08:54 on 06 May 2025
‘Out Demons Out’......
Mike’s reading a book called ‘The North Road’ by Rob Cowen, in which the author tells of how Margaret Thatcher was born and grew up in a flat over her parent’s Grocers shop in Grantham, which now has a Blue Plague on it commemorating the fact.
When Rob Cowen passed that way on his travels, the shop had become a therapy centre and Maggie’s old bedroom was to let to ‘any professional counsellor’.
I love the irony of this – and that maybe all those good vibes are clearing her bad vibes from the place.
I’m singing….‘Out Demons Out’ by the Edgar Broughton Band….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH8SyEExDss
For those who don’t remember Maggie Thatcher…..
https://www.derby.ac.uk/blog/margaret-thatchers-legacy/
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From ‘Emergence’ Magazine…..
by Mirelle van Tulder
“We have a past, no present, no future.
We live in neither or either, some say.”
In museums around the world, artefacts from distant lands sit silently, enclosed in glass, mounted on neutral walls. Many are stolen Indigenous artworks and sacred objects, extracted from their origins as the spoils of colonial ventures. They are held as part of “ethnographic” collections—a term that freezes them in the past and designates the cultures and traditions they emerged from as faded into obscurity or extinction.
Being Part European moves through the aisles and corridors of a secluded depot in the Netherlands belonging to the Wereldmuseum—an ethnographic museum in Rotterdam—which stores 97% of the 470,734 cultural objects held by this institution. This vast colonial inheritance fills shelf after shelf with effigies, pottery, sculptures, and textiles, each dislocated from its spiritual and cultural contexts. In this unsettling space, what memories do these objects continue to hold? What happens to the ancestral knowledges embedded within them? Making its online premiere, Being Part European, directed by artist and researcher Mirelle van Tulder and produced in partnership with Studio Airport, is guided by a poem of the same name written by Fijian poet Sam Simpson. Recognizing that these objects are not mere materials to be owned and stored, this film attempts to give them voice and remember their aliveness.
https://emergencemagazine.org/film/being-part-european/
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My tuppenceworth re. appropriation of other nations ‘valuables’……
https://theorkneynews.scot/2021/12/10/an-evening-with-dan-hicks/
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