Cape Fear Fencing Association
A lovely end of the (fencing) year gathering was enjoyed by everyone in attendance yesterday. Thanks to everyone who came and shared food. Massive thanks to the the Chabas who opened their home, pool, and badminton court to everyone.
All-American Fencing Club
It’s hard to find something for that special dad on Father’s Day. What can be more “dad” than a class on playing with swords! Be the coolest kid or wife that gets dad a Beginner Fencing Class as a Father’s Day gift!
TheSun.co.uk (sport)
UEFA CHIEF Aleksander Ceferin is considering ring-fencing Champions League finals to a handful of big stadiums across Europe. Liverpool and Tottenham fans were angry they were only allocated 16,000 tickets each in Atletico Madrid’s 68,000-seater Wanda Metropolitano for the recent final.
Living by the Sword
Merryn Glover, author, poet and educator, is sitting in a cafe in Edinburgh’s New Town, telling me about “The Cairngorms Lyric” – a new poetic form she’s devised in her role as writer in residence for the Cairngorms National Park.“Initially it came from the idea of a haiku,” she says...
Living by the Sword
Whoever signed off on the cover for this otherwise fascinating book needs a bit of a talking to. For a start, the title’s all wrong. The doodles contained within are not “famous doodles”. They are doodles by famous people...
Living by the Sword
I first came across Brian Catling’s work in Iain Sinclair’s wonderful anthology, Conductors Of Chaos, with a remarkable poem called “The Stumbling Block, Its Index”. I later found out that he was also a sculptor, performance artist and a professor of fine art at Oxford.
Living by the Sword
When leading Scottish playwright Rona Munro was asked, back in 2017, whether she would be interested in writing a stage version of Louis De Bernières’s hugely popular 1994 novel Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, she had just two strong memories of the book she had read more than 20 years earlier.
Living by the Sword
Novels are stories. They may be other things as well and good novels offer other delights. The story may be simple – “once upon a time” – or it may be rich in complication and deepened as a consequence of being addressed from different perspectives or by time-shifts.
Living by the Sword
As a child, I was a people watcher, when I wasn’t filling my wellies with water from the burn I was attempting to dam, or having gang meetings in the outhouse at the bottom of our garden. We lived in the village of West Linton, on the northern edge of the Borders.
Salle Green
Counterattacks pose a difficult problem. You are in the midst of an attack, which means that you are committed to going forward, and suddenly the opponent attacks into your attack. Your focus is on the successful completion of the attack, not on dealing with an attempt to hit you.
Cape Fear Fencing Association
We had a very fun and interesting middle school team foil tournament yesterday at the club. We had four teams with really good competition. There were no blowouts and four of the six matches went to 5-4.
Global Edmonton
Notre-Dame-de-Grâce park turned into a battleground Saturday, for the fifth edition of the Sword Play Outdoor Tournament.
Living by the Sword
The paint is still wet in the Stow Building when I visit this year’s GSA undergraduate degree show a couple of days before opening. “Not on the paintings,” my host is quick to clarify, “but I wouldn’t go leaning against any white walls.”After a year of overwhelmingly bad news...
Living by the Sword
Edinburgh College of Art has just finished a major refurbishment of its splendid building. Everything inside is freshly painted – except the floors. They are a historical palimpsest. In what was formerly the Head of Painting’s studio...
Living by the Sword
The subtitle of this fascinating book is important: “A Guide To An Imagined Scotland” – not therefore Scotland just as it is, but Scotland as it might have been, might indeed be. Many readers skip introductions.
