Punk rock shows, guerilla gardening, and musings on various types of extremism

On 12 May, 201523 April, 2019 By Alison HaywoodIn City Life, Culture, Erasmus Mundus5 Comments

We ain’t got no place to go
So let’s go to the punk rock show!
Darlin’ take me by the hand
We’re gonna see a punk rock band
There’s no use in TV shows
Radios or rodeos
I wanna get into the crowd
I wanna hear it play real loud!

-MXPX, “Punk Rawk Show”

Of all the artists and all the concert venues in the world, the American punk rock band Against Me! performed at Fonden Voxhall in Aarhus last week. As part of their European tour, this band, which is huge among rockers and punkers in the U.S., stopped by li’l ole Aarhus to play for a crowd of less than 100 people on a weekday night.

Laura Grace of Against Me! Photo by Daphne Henning — Laura Grace of Against Me! at Fonden Voxhall. Yeah, we were close enough to feel her spit. Photo by Daphne Henning

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Published!

On 10 August, 201323 April, 2019 By Alison HaywoodIn City Life, internXchange, Studying Abroad4 Comments

My internship at Der Tagesspiegel is going well. As an intern, I’m mostly doing “busy work” – formatting articles to be published online and building picture galleries – but I’m getting more and more chances to write! Continue reading “Published!” →

Street Art (finally…some photos!)

On 30 August, 201223 April, 2019 By Alison HaywoodIn City Life, Culture, IES, Studying Abroad2 Comments

Walking around the city with some newly-made friends from IES, we passed an artist drawing a landscape of Berlin on the sidewalk. I stopped to take a picture, and was about to walk away when what I learned in Photojournalism class kicked in and I decided to stop to talk to him.