Category: film and photography
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Meet the Manchester artists taking on street harassment
Singer-songwriters, Olivia Browse and Jozef Scott have had enough. Harry Browse talks to them about sticking out, cat-calling and clowning around. Jozef and Olivia, both 20, started writing music when they were teenagers, hungry to escape the small towns where they’re from. Now in their final year at the British Institute of Modern Music in…
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Sheffield teacher enters marathon for brain charity following son’s diagnosis.
By Harry Browse A Norfolk Park woman has entered the London Marathon to raise £2000 for charity after her 3-year-old child was diagnosed with a rare brain condition. Louise Woffindin, 36, a teacher at Dronfield Henry Fanshawe School, will be running for Brain Research UK on the 26th of April 2020. She will be competing…
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A trip to Lush
In an age populated by plastic, Lush is trying something different. 60% of Lush products are now “naked”; meaning they come as they are, without any plastic packaging. I went into Lush Sheffield to talk about how they manage to meet their customers’ self-care needs whilst limiting the amount of plastic they use.
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Threads: the Redux
In June 2018, I took up an opportunity to play the character of Jimmy in a low-budget remake of the 1984 film Threads which is about a nuclear apocalypse and the subsequent impact on Sheffield. Written by Barry Hines (A Kestrel for a Knave), a common reaction to the film is one of sheer terror.…
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Lush Presents Stage, 2018
A live reading of the ‘Balance’ collection of spoken word poems, performed at the Lush Showcase 2018.
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Sandcastle City
This poem was inspired by an anonymous post on queeringthemap.com; a ‘community-generative’ website which allows LGBT+ people to document their ‘queer moments, memories and histories’ on an interactive map of the world, unifying the concepts of narrative, identity, and place.[1] ‘was homeless, came to stay on your floor, you had moved on, I hated your…
Harry Browse 