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REOPENLAB

Ageless, Bedouin, Bedouin's Saga Radio, Bonobo, deep house, electronic music, ibiza, mixes, music, OpenLab, Pacha, re-OpenLab, revisited, Saga, tribal

re-OpenLab: Bedouin Revisited 04 Part 1

Bedouin - Saga Radio revisited via OpenLab: Bonobo guest mix, eclectic electronic sets, Ibiza vibes and avant-garde culture.

MOVING IMAGES

Art Spiegleman, Bechdel, books, Gene Luen Yang, Graphic Novel, Marjane Satrapi, Maus, political power, Shaun Tan, storytelling, visual art

Graphic Novels – Panels of Power

Explore how graphic novels fuse art and literature to reflect politics, culture and identity, from Maus to Persepolis, amplifying marginalised voices.

REOPENLAB

Children, downtempo, electronic music, Hypnotronik, ibiza, music, OpenLab, re-OpenLab, revisited, Robert Miles, vinyl

re-OpenLab: Robert Miles Revisited 03

Hypnotronik Revisited: Robert Miles's OpenLab odyssey - creative electronic journeys from Ibiza, visionary radio, enduring legacy.

REOPENLAB

Chicago, Defected, downtempo, electronic music, ibiza, Mark Farina, mushroom jazz, music, OpenLab, re-OpenLab, revisited, vinyl

re-OpenLab: Mushroom Jazz 02 Revisited

Mark Farina returns with Mushroom Jazz Revisited: an hour of soulful beats, trip-hop and groovy downtempo music on pen vs sword

REOPENLAB

Bedouin, Bedouin's Saga Radio, Birds of Mind, deep house, electronic music, ibiza, mixes, music, OpenLab, Pacha, re-OpenLab, revisited, Saga, tribal

re-OpenLab: Bedouin Revisited 02

Bedouin Saga Radio Revisited via OpenLab fm: eclectic electronic DJ sets and global guests from Ibiza

ART AND SOUL

Alan Turing, Alexei Navalny, Bloodline, Darcus Howe, David Attenborough, Democracy, Freedom, James Baldwin, nature, Peter Tatchell, protest, race, racial injustice, social justice, World War 2

May Art Gallery

Explore the May 24 Gallery: more Promises Project artwork from Pen vs Sword. Dive into our image-rich zine bridging digital and analogue expression

REOPENLAB

Children, downtempo, electronic music, Hypnotronik, ibiza, music, OpenLab, re-OpenLab, revisited, Robert Miles, vinyl

re-OpenLab: Robert Miles Revisited 02

Revisit Robert Miles Hypnotronik on pen vs sword via OpenLab fm - an immersive journey through electronic soundscapes - Listen now.

REOPENLAB

Chicago, Defected, downtempo, electronic music, ibiza, Mark Farina, mushroom jazz, music, OpenLab, re-OpenLab, revisited, vinyl

re-OpenLab: Mushroom Jazz 01 Revisited

Mark Farina - Mushroom Jazz Revisited: a downtempo Ibiza adventure on OpenLab fm, blending Chicago house vibes and timeless grooves.

Tropicalia : Brazil’s Cultural Revolution

ART AND SOUL

academics, architecture, architextures, art, art and design, avant-garde, cinephile, David Lynch, existential, Federico Fellini, Francesca, gritty, Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Goddard, Jim Jarmusch, John Cassavetes, Neorealism, New Wave, Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica

Tropicalia: Brazil’s psychedelic counter-cultural revolution

Discover Tropicalia, Brazil’s 1960s cultural movement blending music, art and politics—hybridity, resistance and icons like Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil.

ART AND SOUL

architextures, art, Artwork, bauhaus, Brutalism, Francesca, Gallery, minimalism, OpenLab, surrealism

Architextures Ep 5-8 Art Gallery

Explore Architextures: Promises Project gallery for the Francesca music series - exclusive art blending Surrealism, Bauhaus, Minimalism, Brutalism.

REOPENLAB

ambient, architextures, downtempo, electronic music, experimentation, Francesca, Gutai, ibiza, Japan, Japanese, jazz, modernism, music, newness, OpenLab, re-OpenLab, revisited, soundscape, vinyl

re-OpenLab: Architextures Revisited 12

Architextures Revisited: Francesca channels Gutai avant-garde with immersive soundscapes, rare gems and modernist experimentation.

The Gutai Art Movement A Radical Rebirth of Art from Japan

ART AND SOUL

architecture, architextures, art, art and design, Atsuko Tanaka, avant-garde, Challenging Mud, concreteness, Electric Dress, Francesca, Gutai, Hibakusha, Jackson Pollock, Japan, Jirō Yoshihara, Kazuo Shiraga, Passing Through, Saburo Murakami

Gutai Art Movement – Japan’s post-war avant-garde explained

Explore the Gutai Movement: Japans postwar avant-garde where action, materiality and performance broke tradition and redefined art.

ART AND SOUL

architextures, art, Art House, Artwork, Feminist Art, Francesca, Funk Art, Gallery, Gutai, OpenLab

Architextures Ep 9-12 Art Gallery

Explore the Architextures revisited art gallery: exclusive visuals for Francescas mixes, where digital and analogue collide.

FOOD OF LOVE

#DJ, 20/20, 20/20 Soundsystem, 20/20 Vision Recordings, Back to Basics, Chicago, Dave Beer, DJ, electronic music, EPE, Exit Planet Earth, house music, ibiza, Leeds, music, Ralph Lawson, techno

Ralph Lawson – 30 years at the heart of UK club music

Ralph Lawson’s UK house icon: Back to Basics pioneer and 20/20 Vision Recordings founder, shaping Leeds and global house & techno.

ART AND SOUL

activism, anti-war protests, Arundhati Roy, Bertrand Russell, Cable Street, fascism, French Revolution, peace, protest, revolutionary, social justice, Suffragette, suffragettes, Versailles, womens rights, world peace

Promises Project Spring 25 Art Gallery

Discover the Spring 25 Gallery: Promises Project artwork on Pen vs Sword Magazine, uniting digital and analogue creativity.

SWORD

activist, Concepción Picciotto, dialogue, Freedom, holistic, Human Rights, individual, Lafayette Square, nuclear arms, peace, political, revolutionary, social justice, spanish civil war, United States, vigil, White House, William Thomas

Concepcion Picciotto – America’s longest peace vigil

Concepcion Picciotto led Americas longest peace vigil at the White House, urging nuclear disarmament and inspiring global activism.

REOPENLAB

ambient, architextures, Brazil, Brazilian sound, downtempo, electronic music, experimentation, Francesca, ibiza, music, OpenLab, re-OpenLab, revisited, soundscape, Tropicália, Tropicalia, Tropicália ou Panis et Circencis, vinyl

re-OpenLab: Architextures Revisited 24

Explore Francesca’s Architextures Revisited 24 on OpenLab: a vibrant Tropicália journey blending psychedelia, samba and electronica, with rare Brazilian gems.

SWORD

arab spring, books, Civil war, France, Hong Kong, revolution, Russia, Spain, syria, Ukraine

Revolution and civil war – how upheaval reshapes history

A sweeping article on revolutions and civil wars linking history’s great upheavals to today’s global discontent, populism and struggle for democracy

G By Zaffar Kunial - Between Poetic Heritage and Political Horror

WORDSMITHS

Blake, England, G, Gaza, Genocide, heritage, Jerusalem, oak, olive, poem, Poet, Poetry, political, T. S. Eliot Prize, Zaffar Kunial

G by Zaffar Kunial – Gaza, England and the weight of a letter

Zaffar Kunial’s poem G is a devastating meditation on language, identity, colonisation - and the echoes between England and Gaza.

Author: Partisan Faction

re-OpenLab: Mushroom Jazz 03 Revisited

re-OpenLab: Bedouin Revisited 04 Part 1

Graphic Novels – Panels of Power

re-OpenLab: Robert Miles Revisited 03

re-OpenLab: Mushroom Jazz 02 Revisited

re-OpenLab: Bedouin Revisited 02

re-OpenLab: Robert Miles Revisited 02

re-OpenLab: Mushroom Jazz 01 Revisited

Tropicalia: Brazil’s psychedelic counter-cultural revolution

Architextures Ep 5-8 Art Gallery

re-OpenLab: Architextures Revisited 12

Gutai Art Movement – Japan’s post-war avant-garde explained

Architextures Ep 9-12 Art Gallery

Ralph Lawson – 30 years at the heart of UK club music

re-OpenLab: Architextures Revisited 24

Revolution and civil war – how upheaval reshapes history

G by Zaffar Kunial – Gaza, England and the weight of a letter