Mark your Leipzig arts calendar: Sofa Stories with singer, author, teacher (March 15)

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The life story of Naomi Susan Isaacs sounds a bit like a music biopic, except she has done lots of other things besides singing and playing music throughout her life, and didn’t end up in Motown. Naomi was born in post-World War II London, the daughter of a pianist and ballet dancer with strict rules about musical consumption (classical

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#Haiku of the day (March 12)

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Daily haiku: Solitude – Floors for solo waltz/ A love letter to yourself/ Time to read that book

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Confessions of a voiceover artist-turned-entrepreneur

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"The weird thing about voicing an advert is that at the point you think you sound ridiculous, you are actually about right. What you hear in your head sounds so over the top, but when dropped into the mix of images and music, it just fits. Voice artists live in a world of make believe

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#Haiku of the day (March 11)

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Daily haiku: Loneliness – Floorboards sound like ghosts/ Spam crowds out your old e-mails/ Single bed feels big

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Reflections on a Visit to the Saxon State Museum of Archaeology

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"Through the sterile representation of ancient objects we are reminded that the non-material world was always illusion. The disenchantment that came with the enlightenment was merely a recognition of the true human condition, rather than a process that was rooted in a particular (materialist) ontology. The reduction of human history to technological evolution is the

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