A Poetic Conversation: Abirami P. Kurukkal
By Ciéra Cree– Over the summer of 2019, I had the chance to speak with talented poet Abirami P. Kurukkal…
Category: Culture
Barista-Visa: Will Brexit Leave a Bitter Taste?
By Grace Martin – Has Brexit left a bitter taste for the coffee shop industry? At long last, the government has come together to create a new immigration system…
Global Week (2020) ft. Indian Society
By Ciéra Cree & Fatima Lakhani – Global Week 2020 has sadly come to a close, but what an amazing and memorable time it has been! Throughout the week students have had the opportunity…
The Ruskin Journal ft. Creative Writing Society Open Mic Night
By Ciéra Cree & Joshua Dowding – On Friday 21st February, both The Ruskin Journal and the Creative Writing Society co-hosted an open mic event as part of LGBTQ+ History Month…
Connected: Social Media & Online Friends – A Discussion
By Ciéra Cree & Soyeenka Mishra – Social media is everywhere – and I mean everywhere. In our hands, in our subconscious, and on the walls of our go-to coffee shops. It’s inescapable…
The Truth About Valentine’s Day
By Maria Cristina-Ionita – What if I told you that Valentine’s Day is a commemoration of a martyr? According to history, the Catholic Church celebrates three martyrs with…
Trip Report: Media Exhibitions in London
By Ciéra Cree – On Wednesday 4th of December, first-year students taking the Media Studies course were invited on their first university field trip – a day that played out to be both exciting and memorable for many reasons…
What’s On: Cambridge – Competitive Escape Room League
By Joshua Dowding – This is the first post in a new series covering some of the interesting events happening in each of the cities hosting an ARU campus – Cambridge, Chelmsford, Peterborough and London…
Holocaust Education Trust – My Experience
By Elle Haywood – The 27th of January each year marks Holocaust Memorial Day across the world, which is the liberation of notorious concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Institutions across the UK recognise this memorial and pay tribute through…
Dada or Dadon’t? An Exploration of Dadaism
By Ciéra Cree & Adam Clarke – Artists are breaking conventions more than ever before, so it’s no wonder that alternative art forms such as ‘Dada’ have risen in popularity in recent years. Prizing itself on its nonsense and irrationality…
All Aboard 2020
By Ciéra Cree – As 2019 breathed its last breath and the New Year came around to greet us with open arms, some of you may have been left feeling rather bittersweet about the year gone by…
Kodaline at the UEA
By Ciéra Cree – On Sunday 10th of November, I made my first trip to UEA LCR to see Kodaline on their tour. I’ve always been a person with a huge passion for music but I had never been to a smaller venue like that place before so I was curious to find out…
Local Vagabond Max Bianco Impresses Cambridge by Nearly Selling Out His Art Exhibition
By Josh Robins – Max Bianco looks and sounds like a man born rather in the wrong decade. He seems about 50 years late to the party but always appears to be making the best of what he must assume to be god’s little typo with some humour…
Miz Cracker Comes to Cambridge
By Brontë Taylor – Miz Cracker is a well known drag queen from New York, most known from Season 10 of RuPaul’s Drag Race. On February 12th she came to Cambridge and gave a talk at Emmanuel College Chapel and then later in the evening…
