Category: Arts & Culture
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![Red Bull [@RedBull] unveils plans for two-day Notting Hill Carnival Celebrations](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/spice-rbma-notting-hill-carnival-180x180.jpg)
With Notting Hill Carnival fast approaching yet again, Red Bull has now announced its plans for this year’s instalment. For decades, Red Bull has celebrated music, its culture and the transformative minds behind it. With plans of bringing together an all-star line-up for the public sound system, leading a truck in collaboration with local Mas…
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Cardi B is the queen of sporting the unexpected: unapologetic, you never know what she might do next. I’ll bet you didn’t expect her nails would grow so long she could tie her Club C shoelaces without – literally – even lifting a finger though, did you? That’s exactly what she does in her new…
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Kwame Augustine, British Actor and Writer curates audio series experience The Novelist, which will take place in New York and Los Angeles this Summer. Soho House Group and Creed the Fragrance shall be sponsoring these events, giving individuals the opportunity to enjoy this unique experience. This shall be the first globally distributed audio play book,…
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![A Moment in History: Afronation [@Afronation] was truly a festival of cultural importance](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/unnamed-1-180x180.jpg)
A week has passed and people are still speaking highly of Afronation. You do not need to know much more about the festival than that to know that it went well. As the nostalgia kicks in, eyes and heads turn to the next instalment of the festival chain, taking place in Ghana later this year.…
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Not many would know that I am a massive fan of Netball, so when I got the invite from Nike London to be hosted at the Netball World Cup 2019 in Liverpool I was ecstatic. Yes! Netball World Cup takes place every four years. I had the pleasure of watching the England V Uganda game…
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![Read why I’m selling tees and totes to fund my Masters at Cambridge [@instahangaf]](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/teesforfees-180x180.jpg)
Long story short: I’m trying to self fund my Masters degree costing £23,235 after being left without funding by the University of Cambridge. Whilst I could talk about how disgustingly exclusive elitist institutions are or how demoralising it is to constantly try and prove you are poor enough and worth investing in, I would rather…
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Can you introduce yourself, and how you got into the music industry? “My name is Jessica Murphy, I’m 31, I’m Dublin born & bred and moved to London 8 years ago. I started in the music industry when I was 17 running club nights with my friend, Tash, which evolved into my friend, Shane, and…
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![Art, Culture and Community: GUAP Meets the Brains Behind LAYERS [@layers_online]](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/ce777e8c-816d-405b-a1d1-bbcd4bbf8216-180x180.jpg)
“The UK’s creative industries are worth £92bn a year to the economy, however it does not reflect wider Britain or include people from working class backgrounds.” Aiming to address this, LAYERS is a learning-focussed community platform originally founded in 2017 by design enthusiast Tunde Abdulazeez with the primary aim of exploring and sharing the ideas…
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Where are you from? This is a question I get ALL the time. As a conversation opener from a stranger stood next to me on the platform (true story) as well as from people who actually play a role in my life. Doesn’t matter where I am, in the capital city or a tiny village,…
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![New London collective reminds us that there’s ‘NO SHAM3 [@No.sham3]: In A Side Hustle’](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/VXMOB2-180x180.jpg)
Having the courage to pursue your ‘passion’ is no mean feat. It can require a significant investment of time, money and resources just to get things off the ground. Whilst figuring exactly what it is one might really want to do or to pursue, it may make sense to test the waters first – I…