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trubaitsi: wetland spirits
and night spirits in a Ukrainian village
A video podcast from the village in the middle of Ukraine that is the deep inspiration for the Kupala Brighton project, August 2025.
Watch on YouTube or Spotify; listen on Apple, Amazon or Audible; scroll down for more about Kupala Brighton.
meanwhile, in the other half of europe...
For the 80th anniversary of VE
Day, 8 May 2025: What
was happening in Warsaw and Prague as
Londoners and New Yorkers celebrated the defeat of
Nazi Germany.
go with the flow
The
neuroscience and psychology of speed. Goodwood
Spring 2025
dope girls 2025!
It's a hundred years and more since the period I
explored in Dope
Girls: The Birth of the British Drug Underground,
which first appeared in 1992 and was reissued in
2003. Now the book has inspired a BBC drama series
of the same name, and that's provided the cue for a
major update. Among other upgrades, the new edition
has an introduction that reflects on how attitudes
to drugs have changed over the last twenty years,
and some sensational new historical revelations that
have come to light during that time.
I visited
the Bureau
of Lost Culture for a podcast chat about
Dope Girls, 1 September 2024.
What lies beneath
Discovering
new connections with ancient Sussex
landscapes, illuminated by lasers. Goodwood
Summer 2024
kupala BRIGHTON / RAZOm
kupala BRIGHTON: EXPLORING A UKRAINIAN MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL IN AN ENGLISH CITY
Kupala organiser Vladyslava Bondar and I wrote this article for Gramarye, the journal of the Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction, Summer 2024.
'kupala is coming home to
europe'
An interview
with me and Kupala organiser Vladyslava Bondar about
the Ukrainian midsummer festival and its new home in
Brighton, for Lossi 36.