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“All we want here is peace…”

It’s now been a week since I returned home from a my first ever trip to Israel and Palestine, and my head is still trying to make sense of everything I saw, heard and felt while I was out there. Two Saturdays ago, a disparate bunch of arty types (and one seriously cool reverend) got [...]

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by George Luke on April 8, 2012  •  Permalink
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Posted by George Luke on April 8, 2012

http://georgeluke.wordpress.com/2012/04/08/all-we-want-here-is-peace/

Greenbelt 2011: A few more pictures

You may have noticed that I tried to squeeze a lot of pictures into my last blog post with my personal reflections on Greenbelt. Here are a few more I wanted to put in but felt they’d make the page look too “busy”…   Kate Rusby, Mainstage, Monday Rob Halligan in the Performance Cafe on [...]

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by George Luke on September 4, 2011  •  Permalink
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Posted by George Luke on September 4, 2011

http://georgeluke.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/greenbelt-2011-a-few-more-pictures/

Greenbelt 2011: a look back

It’s now been a good few days since I ‘de-camped’ from Cheltenham and took the train back to London – feeling absolutely shattered but also inspired, elated and, dare I say it, turbo-charged from Greenbelt. It was a much scarier Greenbelt than usual for me this year – mainly because I’d accepted the major responsibility [...]

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by George Luke on September 4, 2011  •  Permalink
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Posted by George Luke on September 4, 2011

http://georgeluke.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/greenbelt-2011-a-look-back/

Cheltenham, here I come…

The Greenbelt festival seems to have come along even faster than usual this year. Whether that’s a side effect of being involved in organising the festival, I’m not sure. It just feels as if it was last week that I was on a train writing about why I was excited about Greenbelt 2010. I guess [...]

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by George Luke on August 25, 2011  •  Permalink
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Posted by George Luke on August 25, 2011

http://georgeluke.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/cheltenham-here-i-come/

Peace and Hope in Latin America

This past week has been one of those “hyper Latino” weeks I have from time to time. Yesterday, for instance, I spent the afternoon in a farm somewhere in Reading, helping my friends at Latin Link with the orientation weekend for the batch of (mostly young) people heading out in short-term teams to various Latin [...]

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by George Luke on June 26, 2011  •  Permalink
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Posted by George Luke on June 26, 2011

http://georgeluke.wordpress.com/2011/06/26/peace-and-hope-in-latin-america/

Review: “The Man Who Committed Thought”

You’d have to be seriously brave (or just mental) to try to set all Africa’s issues straight in two hours. But that’s basically what Patrice Naimbana sets out to do in the one man show which won him an Edinburgh Fringe First award (on tonight in London’s Cockpit Theatre, as part of the Pentecost Festival). [...]

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by George Luke on June 6, 2011  •  Permalink
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Posted by George Luke on June 6, 2011

http://georgeluke.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/review-the-man-who-committed-thought/

My Road Trip/Hanging Out With the Women of Hope

All the years I lived in Sierra Leone, I was a spoilt city boy who rarely ventured out of Freetown. We had an uncle who worked as an air traffic controller at Lungi Airport, whose family we visited frequently, and my mum worked at the hospital there for a while, so we would always go [...]

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by George Luke on May 8, 2011  •  Permalink
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Posted by George Luke on May 8, 2011

http://georgeluke.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/my-road-triphanging-out-with-the-women-of-hope/

Shahbaz Bhatti: A Tribute

I’ve interviewed hundreds of people in my time – both the very famous and the nowhere-near-as-famous-as-they-think. Some of them have been on the receiving end of threats (mostly those involved in campaigning for the human rights of others); some have even been attacked once or twice. But this week was the first time that someone [...]

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by George Luke on March 5, 2011  •  Permalink
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Posted by George Luke on March 5, 2011

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Crimea: Day 1

Oh crap, it’s cold… When Operation Christmas Child (the charity that mobilises schoolkids across the UK to fill shoeboxes with gifts for kids in poorer countries) asked me to accompany a team of theirs on a trip abroad, I jumped at the chance. Well, why wouldn’t I? The last time they did, I’d ended up [...]

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by George Luke on December 16, 2010  •  Permalink
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Posted by George Luke on December 16, 2010

http://georgeluke.wordpress.com/2010/12/16/crimea-day-1/

Greenbelt ’10: Looking back (sideways) with fondness…

It’s been a week since my last Greenbelt-related post; a week since that fun two hours I spent spinning tunes in the Blue Nun. The rest of the festival’s still fresh in my mind (well, it has to be; I’ve been writing reviews of it for other websites and magazines all week!), so maybe I [...]

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by George Luke on September 5, 2010  •  Permalink
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Posted by George Luke on September 5, 2010

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