Kenneth Olumuyiwa Tharp CBE, FRSA
@KennethTharp
Arts & Culture Professional / former professional dancer / loves music, dance, theatre, tennis, sea-kayaking, outdoor swimming. @kenneththarp.bsky.social
Between Jan and March 2021, I had the privilege of hosting a series of conversations on @colourfulradio, with six amazing trailblazers in classical music, who were all featured in The African Concert Series, founded by @RebecaOmordia. You can listen here: colourful.com/podcasts/afric…
Water bills will go up by 30% in the next few years... while water companies keep filling our rivers and seas with sewage! 💩 You can add your name to demand that money-grabbing companies fix their own mess, before trying to get more money from us. 38d.gs/homg
Everyone has their own rhythm in the water. Collectively, swimming is polyrhythmic! 😉 Summer swimming in Parliament Hill Lido, July 2025. ☀️🏊🏽♀️💦 Music: from the album ‘Thumb Music: Music for Mbiras & Kalimbas’ by @Artyfartyarts (Kenneth, Simon, Jub). 🎵🎶🎵
Even though Wangari Maathai is no longer with us, we continue to bask in her light by honouring her incredible work in environmental conservation, as well as her fight for human rights, peace, and democracy. #Courageousleadership #WangariMaathai #PowerofOne #beahummingbird
“One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” — Omar El Akkad
A joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters
The New Black Film Collective's Town Hall Debate presents: Control Shift – Decolonising Creativity Host: Brother Trevor Hakim Panellists: Dr Ava Eagle Brown, B. Wachenje, S. Amanda, N. Millington 30 July | 7–9pm BST | Online Book: …olonising-creativity.eventbrite.co.uk
Great news @TateModern will be open late every Friday and Saturday evening from September! Making sure even more people can access culture and joining a host of late-night offerings at the gallery, including talks, DJ sets & film screenings🪩✨🎬 timeout.com/london/news/lo…
How can a Physician’s Assistant, with a 2-yr degree, be paid more than a qualified doctor with at least 5-6 year’s training? It doesn’t make sense. #ResidentDoctors
'Even if our pay was restored we would still be paid less than the Physician Assistants with their two year degree’ BMA Resident Doctors Committee Co-chair, Dr Ross Nieuwoudt says his members feel 'a little bit tricked' by Wes Streeting as they begin a five-day strike in England
I welcome this decision by President Macron. With unimaginable suffering in Gaza and no end in sight, now is the time for our government to do the same.
Consistent with its historic commitment to a just and lasting peace in the Middle East, I have decided that France will recognize the State of Palestine. I will make this solemn announcement before the United Nations General Assembly this coming September.…
🚨 | BREAKING: We're calling on the UK government to: 🔴 Recognise Palestine now 🔴 Suspend the Israel trade deal 🔴 Ban imports from illegal settlements 🔴 End all licenses for arms traded with Israel in line with International Law 🔴 Sanction individuals who promote and commit…
" 'People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses': a colleague in #Gaza told me this morning. Meanwhile, according to UNRWA latest findings: one in every five children is malnourished in Gaza City as cases increase every day. When child malnutrition…
"£104bn of water industry investment will come from bill payers, environment secretary concedes." And there we finally have it, there is no "£104 billion of private sector investment". Question is how long has the SoS known this and why has he kept repeating that myth? Well…
Huge numbers of chemical discharges into our waterways are not being classified as a pollution incidents | Prof Alex Ford eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/mo…
I'm grateful for everyone's support, especially those who have pre-saved or shared my posts - I appreciate you all. My debut album #YorùbáHealer is coming, #SYCLM will be released worldwide on August 7th. ❤️
FOR THE BROKENHEARTED, August 7th - Sorry you couldn’t love me Pre-Save 📲 - orcd.co/ply4zo9 #SYCLM #YorùbáHealer
Damn!! 🫠
Venus Williams after becoming the oldest WTA match winner since 2004: “I had to come back for the insurance, because they informed me this year that I’m on cobra. So it’s like, I got to get my benefits on” 😭😭😭😭
In April, I requested ethnicity data on blood donations and deferrals. Months later, I’m still waiting for the full set. With just 50% of sickle cell patients getting the Ro matched blood they need, we need answers to understand why Black donors are being turned away.
Hundreds of Israelis are now marching in the center of Tel Aviv against the starvation of Gaza at the hands of the Israeli government. Some are holding sacks of flour.
R.I.P. Malcolm-Jamal Warner. 🌷
A man of deep goodness, warmth, talent, and charm. He challenged himself in music, art, cinema, spoken word and writing. We did Shakespeare together, crime drama and played dear friends on TV at one point. Art imitating life. Forever youthful, he had a huge capacity for joy but…
All is still well in their world. youtube.com/watch?v=XMasQu…
Like London, Lagos is a cultural powerhouse. Fantastic to see the Nike Art Gallery while I was in Nigeria earlier this week and strengthen the connections between our two cities.
In Bath, UK, people read the names of 15,500 Palestinian children killed in Gaza — nonstop for 17 hours. Artists, teachers, parents, even an MP stood in tears, name after name. Different tongues. One conscience. Not just a vigil — a stand for humanity. Their names filled the…