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John Boyega
John Adedayo Bamidele Adegboyega (born 17 March 1992), known professionally as John Boyega, is a British actor and producer. He first rose to prominence in his native Britain for his role as Moses in the sci-fi comedy film '' Attack the Block'' (2011), and his international breakthrough came with his role as Finn in the '' Star Wars'' sequel trilogy films ''The Force Awakens'' (2015), ''The Last Jedi'' (2017), and ''The Rise of Skywalker'' (2019). His other credits include the drama film ''Imperial Dreams'' (2014), the historical epic ''The Woman King'' (2022), and thriller film '' Breaking'' (2022). He received the BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2016, and the Trophée Chopard at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. He was cited as one of the Top 100 most influential Africans by ''New African'' magazine in 2020. Boyega portrayed Leroy Logan in the 3rd episode of Steve McQueen's anthology series '' Small Axe'' (2020). For his performance he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South Thames College
South Thames Colleges Group (STCG) is a large further education institution operating four colleges in south-west London: South Thames College, Kingston College, Merton College, and Carshalton College. The four main campuses are in Wandsworth, Kingston upon Thames, Morden and Carshalton. History It was formed in 2017 following the merger between South Thames College and Merton College with Kingston College and Carshalton College. South Thames College South Thames College was founded in 1895. South Thames College is the largest provider of post-16 study and training in the London Borough of Wandsworth Carshalton College Carshalton College opened as Carshalton Technical Institute in 1954. In 2012 it entered into a federation with Kingston College. Merton College Merton College has existed since around 1890. A new building was erected in 1971 with additional blocks in later years. It formerly occupied a site on Central Road in the borough, which was sold to Barratt Homes, a hou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve McQueen (director)
Sir Steve Rodney McQueen (born 9 October 1969) is a British film director, film producer, screenwriter, and video artist. He is known for his award-winning film ''12 Years a Slave'' (2013), an adaptation of Solomon Northup's 1853 slave narrative memoir. He also directed and co-wrote ''Hunger'' (2008), a historical drama about the 1981 Irish hunger strike, ''Shame'' (2011), a drama about an executive struggling with sex addiction, and '' Widows'' (2018), an adaptation of the British television series of the same name set in contemporary Chicago. In 2020, he released '' Small Axe'', a collection of five films "set within London's West Indian community from the late 1960s to the early '80s". For his artwork, McQueen has received the Turner Prize, the highest award given to a British visual artist. In 2006, he produced '' Queen and Country'', which commemorates the deaths of British soldiers in Iraq by presenting their portraits as a sheet of stamps. For services to the visual a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Westminster City School
Westminster City School is a state-funded secondary academy for boys, with a mixed sixth form, in Westminster, London. The school educates over 800 students, with links to more than 100 different cultures, in a central London location. The school offers places at Year 7 entry, each year, to boys of Christian faith, other world faiths, and those of no faith. The current headteacher is Peter Broughton, while the current deputy headteachers are Jen Lockyer and Simon Brown. The school became an academy in 2012. In February 2017, Ofsted rated it "good". History Today GCSE Results Day 2021 saw the school's GCSE pass rate rise to 85% across all qualifications, following a challenging period of study for our young people with the global pandemic disrupting learning. In addition, 35% of all the school's GCSEs were graded at 9 to 7 (or BTEC equivalent) which corresponds to the old-style top grades of A* and A. A Level Results Day 2021 showed a string of excellent grades for al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damilola Taylor
Damilola Adegbite (born Oluwadamilola Adegbite; 18 May 1985) is Nigerian actress, Model, and Television personality. She played Thelema Duke in the soap opera ''Tinsel'', and Kemi Williams in the movie '' Flower Girl''. She won Best Actress in a TV Series at the 2011 Nigeria Entertainment Awards. Biography She was born in Surulere, Lagos State. She attended Queen's College in Yaba, Lagos and studied business administration at Bowen University in Iwo, Osun State. ''Tinsel'' was her acting debut. She has also appeared in TV commercials and hosted programs on TV. Personal life In August 2014, Adegbite got engaged to Chris Attoh, a fellow actor she met on set of the soap opera ''Tinsel''. In September 2014, the couple welcomed their son Brian. Adegbite and Attoh married privately in Accra, Ghana on 14 February 2015. In September 2017, news broke that Adegbite's marriage to husband Chris Attoh Chris Attoh (born Christopher Keith Nii Attoh; May 17, 1979) is a Ghanaian actor, film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Daily Telegraph
''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally. It was founded by Arthur B. Sleigh in 1855 as ''The Daily Telegraph & Courier''. Considered a newspaper of record over ''The Times'' in the UK in the years up to 1997, ''The Telegraph'' generally has a reputation for high-quality journalism, and has been described as being "one of the world's great titles". The paper's motto, "Was, is, and will be", appears in the editorial pages and has featured in every edition of the newspaper since 19 April 1858. The paper had a circulation of 363,183 in December 2018, descending further until it withdrew from newspaper circulation audits in 2019, having declined almost 80%, from 1.4 million in 1980.United Newspapers PLC and Fleet Holdings PLC', Monopolies and Mergers Commission (1985), pp. 5–16. Its si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fresh Air
''Fresh Air'' is an American radio talk show broadcast on National Public Radio stations across the United States since 1985. It is produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The show's host is Terry Gross. , the show was syndicated to 624 stations and claimed nearly 5 million listeners. The show is fed live weekdays at 12:00 noon ET. In addition, some stations carry ''Fresh Air Weekend'', a re-programming of highlights of the week's interviews. In 2016, ''Fresh Air'' was the most-downloaded podcast on iTunes. Overview The show began in 1975 at WHYY, with Judy Blank as host. In September of that year, Terry Gross took over as presenter and producer; over 45 years later she remains its chief presenter. In 1985, WHYY launched a weekly half-hour edition of ''Fresh Air'', which was distributed nationally by NPR. The show began daily national broadcasts in 1987. The show is composed primarily of interviews with prominent figures in various fields, among them entertainmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatre Peckham
Theatre Peckham is a community theatre in Peckham, London. The theatre has operated since the 1990s and was originally based in the community hall adjoining the former Camberwell Town Hall . The theatre company Theatre Peckham have operated out of the venue on Havil street , since 1992 and was repurposed as a fully refurbished theatre when the town hall was rebuilt in 2016. It’s core values are based on working “to dispel the myth that ‘The Arts’ are only for a privileged few” a line which featured in the ‘ what is NPV’ section of 1990s annual reports. Though the name and venue has changed many times over the years, the focus for thearte Peckham since 1986 has always been rooted for the community. In doing so, the theatre group , formally new Peckham varieties, have been providing low rate classes and productions in order to provide for the local community , and includes John Boyega John Adedayo Bamidele Adegboyega (born 17 March 1992), known professionall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interview (magazine)
''Interview'' is an American magazine founded in late 1969 by artist Andy Warhol and British journalist John Wilcock. The magazine, nicknamed "The Crystal Ball of Pop", features interviews with celebrities, artists, musicians, and creative thinkers. Interviews were usually unedited or edited in the eccentric fashion of Warhol's books and ''The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again''. History Andy Warhol period Bob Colacello was a film student at Columbia University in 1970 when he got a call from someone at ''Interview'' while he was having dinner at his parents’ house in suburban Long Island. Warhol had read a film review Colacello had written for ''The Village Voice'' and wanted to meet him. Colacello subsequently began writing film reviews and essays for ''Interview''. After about six months, Colacello was promoted to editor of the magazine, at a salary of $50 a week. (He also received course credits, as he was still working on his master’s degree at Colum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British GQ
''GQ'' (formerly ''Gentlemen's Quarterly'' and ''Apparel Arts'') is an American international monthly men's magazine based in New York City and founded in 1931. The publication focuses on fashion, style, and culture for men, though articles on food, movies, fitness, sex, music, travel, celebrities' sports, technology, and books are also featured. History ''Gentlemen's Quarterly'' was launched in 1931 in the United States as ''Apparel Arts''. It was a men's fashion magazine for the clothing trade, aimed primarily at wholesale buyers and retail sellers. Initially it had a very limited print run and was aimed solely at industry insiders to enable them to give advice to their customers. The popularity of the magazine among retail customers, who often took the magazine from the retailers, spurred the creation of ''Esquire'' magazine in 1933. ''Apparel Arts'' continued until 1957 when it was transformed into a quarterly magazine for men, which was published for many years by Esqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pentecostalism
Pentecostalism or classical Pentecostalism is a Protestant Charismatic Christian movement"Spirit and Power: A 10-Country Survey of Pentecostals" The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. that emphasizes direct personal experience of through . The term ''Pentecostal'' is derived from |
Peckham
Peckham () is a district in southeast London, within the London Borough of Southwark. It is south-east of Charing Cross. At the United Kingdom Census 2001, 2001 Census the Peckham ward had a population of 14,720. History "Peckham" is a Saxon people, Saxon place name meaning the village of the River Peck, a small stream that ran through the district until it was enclosed in 1823. Archaeological evidence indicates earlier Roman Britain, Roman occupation in the area, although the name of this settlement is lost. The Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names (1991, 1998) gives the origin as from Old English *''pēac'' and ''hām'' meaning ‘homestead by a peak or hill’. The name of the river is a back-formation from the name of the village. Peckham Rye is from Old English ''rīth'', stream. Following the Norman Conquest, the Manorialism, manor of Peckham was granted to Odo of Bayeux and held by the Ancient Diocese of Lisieux, Bishop of Lixieux. It was described as being a hamlet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camberwell
Camberwell () is a district of South London, England, in the London Borough of Southwark, southeast of Charing Cross. Camberwell was first a village associated with the church of St Giles and a common of which Goose Green is a remnant. This early parish included the neighbouring hamlets of Peckham, Dulwich, Nunhead, and part of Herne Hill (the rest of Herne Hill was in the parish of Lambeth). Until 1889, it was part of the county of Surrey. In 1900 the original parish became the Metropolitan Borough of Camberwell. In 1965, most of the Borough of Camberwell was merged into the London Borough of Southwark.Southwark London Borough Council Community guide for Camberwell To the west, part of both West Dulwich and Herne Hill come under the London Borough of Lambeth. The place now known as Camberwell covers a much smaller area than the ancient parish, and it is bound on the north by Walworth; on the south by East Dulwich and Herne Hill; to the west by Kennington; and on the east ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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