Merseyside not-for-profit BrazUKa International have been awarded Arts Council England’s Emergency Response funding and are now launching a brand new online drumming and movement project. With a programme of activities that was based around public-facing community rehearsals, performances and workshops, the organisation was hit hard by the effects of Covid-19. Now, with this funding, BrazUKa – and its highly visible combined arts project “Katumba Drumming and Movement” – can increase their digital capacity to contribute to the wider public’s health and wellbeing. Katumba already successfully transferred their Drumming and Movement classes for members online, which have been well received during lockdown. Shortly, a digital version of their Drumming…
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The Liverpool charity behind the new Nelson Mandela memorial in Princes Park have launched a crowdfunder to provide emergency food and hygiene parcels to the most vulnerable and elderly in our communities. Mandela8 have begun co-ordination of the project with Granby Toxteth Development Trust to ensure volunteers will be delivering parcels to those in desperate need for support during the ongoing pandemic, particularly families and individuals from refugee and migrant communities. Chair of Mandela8, Sonia Bassey said “We’ve had a great response to the project so far but we need the support of the people of Liverpool to make sure we reach as many people as possible.…
ShinDigger Brewing Co are launching their highly rated on-demand beer delivery service across Liverpool and The Wirral this bank holiday weekend. Drinkers will be able to place an order via www.shindiggerliverpool.delivery and receive delivery to their door in under 3 hours. The delivery service will operate evenings and weekends. The delivery zone covers Liverpool, The Wirral, Bootle, Crosby, Litherland and Formby. Pre-Covid-19, 85% of the beer ShinDigger produced was packaged into kegs for bars and pubs. The Salford based beer company quickly adapted to lockdown by offering rapid home deliveries across Manchester. The new service has taken off, gaining rave reviews with…
Businesses across the world are coming to terms with the revelation that daily procedures are quickly changing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Whether your company has temporarily halted all business or has decided to implement a telework routine, how you approach your digital marketing presence should be adjusted in response to this current health crisis. Message tones, current campaigns, and the effect that the pandemic has on your industry should all be carefully considered before posting or sharing digital content. Here are a few tips on navigating your digital marketing presence during COVID-19: Be Mindful of Your Tone…
Fitness Enthusiast Abhishek Agrawal is helping break Indian stereotypes in the Fashion world. Born and brought up in India, Abhishek is a model who’s thrived in the race of Fashion & Fitness modelling, creating a landmark in these fields with his work rate, and his scrupulous actions make it all look perfect. Currently, residing in London, He’s someone your eyes wouldn’t miss! When it comes to looks, he’s renowned for his striking features and his peak body fitness is something many young aspiring models will aspire to be. Aswell as a fashion & fitness, Abhishek is also a been a…
Online contact lens website contactlenses.co.uk who specialise in the human eye ran this global experiment and survey: STATEMENT: We decided to survey our coloured contact lens customers and we discovered that 1 out of every 5 of them have called in sick at work in the past because they had run out of their coloured contacts*. We kind of get it too, if everyone has always known you as blue eyed and you suddenly one day turn up with brown eyes that would be an awkward situation. Considering this statistic we decided to conduct an interesting global experiment: In almost…
On a particularly average Tuesday morning, an editor’s phone vibrates with a new Instagram notification. A private message including a forwarded post from Armando Cabba’s account with no other details. The coffee has just been poured and the day has just begun. Up until this point there’s nothing strange or completely out of the ordinary at 10:07 AM until the post is revealed to be a very clear realistic erotic painting. After the sudden rush of excitement, viewers typically ask all the what, why, how, and who about the work before visiting Cabba’s profile itself. The collection of beautifully rendered…
Boston celebrity fashion designer Steves Peeps revives Surf fashion. Celebrity designer Steves Peeps is prepping for his fashion line. The looks include everything from hard rock and emo to surf inspired and glam. A few pieces are going to be early 2000s surf inspired. Some pieces take inspiration from early 2000s hits The OC and Mtv’s Laguna Beach. The necklaces designed take inspiration from the 2002 movie Blue Crush. Steves Peeps was discovered by Lady Gaga’s best friend Lady Starlight on the old social networking website Myspace.com. Follow Steves Peeps here: https://www.facebook.com/StevesPeeps https://twitter.com/StevesPeepsNews
Tsvetta Kaleynska is a CEO, an author, TV commentator and female empowerment leader and she seems to do it all. Women immigrants have played a dynamic role in transforming societies globally, in every aspect we can think of. URBANISTA strives to continually promote inspirational stories from around the globe, this time coming from New York, USA. We recently had the pleasure to connect with Tsvetta Kaleynska and hear more about her incredible story and work. Tsvetta is a well-known social media intelligence guru globally, an immigrant CEO and TV commentator on the topics of A.I. and female empowerment. She has…
Video killed the radio star, her career role model Hans Zimmer and his The Buggles bandmates prophesied. We learnt from model turned filmmaker and film score composer Nicole Russin-McFarland, the Internet killed the oughties Hollywood star making method of “don’t call us, we’ll call you.” Nicole, who wants to hop to it working for the studios after the COVID-19 rubbish passes, is a household name from promoting her shoestring budget filmmaking and orchestral scores “like it were Gone With the Wind. I can’t stop until people finally pay attention to my work, and when they do, I do it again.”…