Hello and welcome to the June 2023 edition of the Smashing Times Newsletter. This month’s theme is Ordinary Stories. Why Ordinary Stories? Bloomsday, 16 June, marks the day on which James Joyce’s Ulysses is set. In this novel – if such a polyphonic colossus of a literary work can be labelled as such…

Hello and welcome to the May edition of the Smashing Times newsletter. Our theme this month is The Art of Remembrance. As we bask in this period of better weather, and the excitement for summer holidays builds, it is important, at the same time, to take pause and reflect on…

Open Call for June Edition of Smashing Times Newsletter: ‘Ordinary Stories’ Smashing Times Centre for the Arts and Equality would like to invite submissions to the upcoming June edition of the Smashing Times Newsletter. This month’s theme is ‘Ordinary Stories’. This theme links in with celebrations of Bloomsday (16 June),…