Madeleina Kay
Brexitland
This book by Maria Sobolewska and Robert Ford was very academic in its style, but I felt like I should read it because it focuses on...
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'Jeanne d'Arc of Post-Modernism' - Handelsblatt, 2019
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Madeleina Kay
Jul 21 min read
Vote Cruelty Out! General Election 4th July 2024 - Music Video
We released the music video for the "It's Time To Vote" song ahead of the UK General Election with a disability awareness message. I saw...
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Madeleina Kay
Jun 202 min read
"We have been swimming in Shit" - Making Placards for XR March in London
My Dad invited me on an environmental protest march in London - which I find funny given that I took him on his first ever protest march...
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Madeleina Kay
Jun 175 min read
Preparing for filming the "SICK NOTE CULTURE" music video
It had always been my intention to recycle the ‘It’s Time To Vote’ song which I wrote for the YEUF project (mobilising young voters for...
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Madeleina Kay
Jun 125 min read
"international sporting contests lead to orgies of hatred" – George Orwell
I've been reading some more essays by George Orwell on the topic of Nationalism for my MA research paper. Given my prior work on a...
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Madeleina Kay
Jun 112 min read
"her singing has made EU countries vote far right" - more troll-a-lol-a-loll-ing
I've been collecting troll comments which appeared on my posts from events ahead of the EU elections 6-9th June. This was partly to share...
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Madeleina Kay
Jun 103 min read
When you discover 8 years of your creative practice have been archived on Alamy Stock without you realising...
Yesterday I was chatting to someone about the experience of being drawn for a portrait artwork - I wanted to send them some examples,...
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Madeleina Kay
Jun 94 min read
"If public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted" - George Orwell
I've been reading a series of short essays on Fascism and Democracy by George Orwell for my research paper. It always stuns me how...
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Madeleina Kay
Jun 74 min read
"Nothing is static." - From Dictatorship to Democracy by Gene Sharp
'From Dictatorship to Democracy' is an interesting but short book by Gene Sharp. Written as a pamphlet guide to overcoming dictatorship,...
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Madeleina Kay
Jun 52 min read
It's Time To Vote - EU Elections 2024 Music Video
I wrote the song, 'It's Time To Vote' last year in anticipation of the upcoming elections in the UK and EU in 2024 - the "Year of...
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Madeleina Kay
Jun 42 min read
YEUFvision - Youth Participation in the 2024 EU elections
Miraculously, I managed to edit the YEUF project documentary which I have been filming over the last year in five (and a half) days, in...
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Madeleina Kay
Jun 25 min read
A Total Wash Out - Singing in the Bavarian Rain
I probably should have cancelled the trip to Munich – I caught another flu virus during the trip to Romania and the trip to Belfast only...
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Madeleina Kay
May 207 min read
Sketches from Bucharest
I was travelling to Romania for a “YEUF project” event – my main mission was to record video interviews for the documentary I am making...
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Madeleina Kay
May 1211 min read
Richard Demarco, Eurovision and the Brexiles Exhibition in Edinburgh
After our MA teaching session on Thursday, I realised that I hadn’t prepared anything for the trip to Edinburgh the following day. So in...
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Madeleina Kay
Apr 284 min read
The "Brexiles" exhibition is coming to Edinburgh!
I'm excited to announce that my "Brexiles" exhibition - portraits of 27 Brits who left the UK because of Brexit - is going on tour! It...
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Madeleina Kay
Apr 146 min read
“Welcome to Paradise” – Sketches from Warsaw
Some sketches and photos from a whirlwind trip to Poland. My Ukrainian friend Anhelina, replied to my Insta story announcing my arrival...
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Madeleina Kay
Mar 249 min read
Rejoiners in Liverpool (A Battle Against The Wind)
We arrived in Liverpool the night before, since some bus-replacement-bollocks meant the quickest train journey was going to take 3 hours...
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Madeleina Kay
Mar 212 min read
Preparing for the Rejoin EU march in Liverpool and the inclement weather
I decided to go full-star for the upcoming march in Liverpool on Saturday 23rd March as I am in need of a bit of sparkle, especially...
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Madeleina Kay
Mar 107 min read
See it. Say it. Defeated.
Through sheer will power (I did not have the necessary upper body strength) and the help of Uber, I managed to lug the WANGLAND...
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Madeleina Kay
Mar 84 min read
Performance at the European Economic Social Committee – 06/03/24
I was invited to perform at the European Economic Social Committee (EESC – which is one of the EU institutions) as part of the Civil...
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