Kabul Graffiti, Black Dog Day, Streetwise Opera and What's a Dying Man got to Sing About?

Photograph: Omar Sobhani /Reuters

KABUL'S GRAFFITI GUERRILLAS

Subtle spraycan art attack on public spaces in capital is trying to prod Afghans into asking questions 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jun/12/kabul-grafitti-guerrillas-walls

BLACK DOG DAY

My black dog is not like any black dog it belongs to me and I live with it.
Once I thought it was very scary and I wondered what was happening to me to make me feel so sad and lonely, all alone. I spoke to a friend who I could trust with my inner most thoughts, and what a sense of relief.
It was not as scary as I thought it would be to open up and share my black dog moments.

The story is that today I am able to get through periods I call the black dog, surrounded with people who understand. People who may also have been touched by their own black dog.
I take each day as it comes and say to myself "feeling blue", "don't be scared" and "it will pass".
http://blackdogdaydrop.blogspot.com/

One Black Dog is lose in the North West. It could be in the hills, or it could be in the gutter. Keep your eyes open for it and report its findings. 

STREETWISE OPERA
Fables - A Film Opera
Thursday 30th June at the Zion Arts Centre
http://www.zionarts.com/ 
I'm going to see this, and I can't wait

‘Streetwise Opera is something else. It teases, surprises, takes risks, and tackles the unexpected… it lures you where you haven’t been before and sends you home enriched.’ Independent

http://www.streetwiseopera.org/
 
What's a Dying Man got to Sing About?
 

An intesting awareness raising project by the Motor Neurone Disease Association http://alistairtheoptimist.org/