Artist of the Week: Faye James
Faye James is a Musician. Tell us a bit about yourself. Hi! I’m Faye, a second year French student at Hertford. As much as I try and convince myself (and my tutor) otherwise, my interest in writing music has grown more over the last two years than my interest in my degree. While I can [&hellip
Artist of the Week: Sophia Kapsalis
Sophia Kapsalis is a designer and artist. Tell us a bit about yourself. I’m a second year studying Biology at Balliol, but my real passion lies in art and design. I’ve spent most my life painting, but in the last three-or-so years have been experimenting with pretty much any creative medium whic
The Isis interviews Dylan Carver, UCU Anti-Casualisation Officer
Last Thursday, 17 February, the UCU (University College Union) announced that the strike action for the remainder of February would be called off. No longer would I walk past the Maths Institute and see a crowd of lecturers at the picket line. What had otherwise been a Hilary Term coloured by cancel
Review: Caroline Polachek’s ‘Desire, I Want To Turn Into You’ at the O2
Let me make a confession: I am a veteran Caroline Polachek fan. I remember receiving a text from a friend in 2019 – “the singer from Chairlift is making solo music?!” – with a link to ‘So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings.’ One infernal art-pop music video later, I was hooked. As the Pang
The Isis interviews Oliver Mason, Founder of Gulp Fiction
Gulp Fiction probably doesn’t need an introduction for readers of The Isis. A new place in the Covered Market? A bookshop? A café? A pub? Oxford students would be sold on just one of those things. All four is the stuff of fantasy (or my Pinterest boards, at least). How did we get so lucky? [&hell
Review: An American in Paris
The keynote of An American in Paris is struck about halfway through the first song, when the singer Henri Baurel starts telling off the composer. ‘I Got Rhythm’ is far too sombre for his taste: “Look at their faces, people need to laugh! Paris needs it!” “Who said music has to cheer people
Review: Cruelty
Content warnings: suicide, gun violence, death, self-harm, exploitation Climbing the stairs of the Burton Taylor studio for Cruelty, Gabriel Blackwell’s debut play, I feel like I might be at Bridge Thursday. The studio is bathed in lilac lighting and Beyoncé’s Heated booms over the speakers. Ju
Behind the scenes of The Isis’ ‘Outlines’ Exhibition
Ahead of ‘Outlines’, The Isis exhibition, which is on at Kendrew Barn in St John’s College on Wednesday and Thursday of 6th week, Anneka Pink and Wyatt Radzin sat down to interview the Creative team. GROUP 1: Sophia Howard, Faye Song, InChan Yang Which elements of the process of creating a