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A performance poet whose love letter to Wrexham went viral has teamed up for an unlikely collaboration with a top orchestra for a new work about the pandemic. The piece, by Evrah Rose, will premiere at a special concert to mark the 10th anniversary of Wrexham and St Asaph based NEW Sinfonia. She rose to […]
news Riding the clog dancing wave The Bangkok Post People have been wearing wooden footwear for centuries. In English, the name for this kind of shoe or boot is a clog and various versions are found across the world. Many people associate clogs with the Netherlands, which has the oldest examples in Europe, with some dating back to 1230 AD. They were in use in the UK too by much of the working-class population, especially by northern miners and farmers, until the 1920s. Do clogs exist in this region? Well, yes. Perhaps the most famous are the geta and okobo clogs from Japan (no...