2020: Year in Review (going out)
Tuesday, December 29th, 2020 01:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tamaranthhahhahahahaha ... well, yes, actually I did manage some outings. But 2020 was the year in which I realised just how much my cultural life means to me (not just for the cultural stimulus but for the social and emotional aspects). I miss going out, and I miss the friends I went out with.
Everything is reviewed on this blog! (Sometimes rather cursorily.) Check out my monthlyculture tag.
Bracketed figures show range over the last 17 years [see year-in-summary tag for my Cultural History since 2004].
Film: 12 (4-20). Best three = David Copperfield, Little Women, Jojo Rabbit.
Theatre: 3 (1-26). Best three = well, all of them :) Teenage Dick, Macbeth, Revenger's Tragedy.
New Category! Theatre (streamed): 38. Best three = Midsummer Night's Dream (Bridge production); Pericles; This House.
Concerts (classical): 3 (2-22). Glyndebourne Young Artists was a delight, a sunny day and an outdoor concert with some splendid performances. I was in the choir for Haydn Nelson Mass (horribly close to first lockdown). And ah, the Musical Homelands at Cadogan Hall, can't believe that was only this year ...
Opera: 0 (0-10). Boo.
Gigs: 0 (0-9). Double boo. Here is a song close to my heart: 'All I Want for Christmas is a Rock Show'.
Art: 1 (Went to Madrid to look at pictures!) I do not mention the Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition at the National Gallery, for which we have had multiple tickets and been foiled every time.
Books: 156 and counting. Separate post coming eventually: reviews here (ongoing: am behind on reviewing).
Also in 2020: visited Spain and Malta; zero conventions (well, 0.5: I 'attended' Punctuation, but Zoom does not work well on my Chromebook, and I found it hard to navigate). (This is also one reason I'm not at many online gatherings. The other reason is that I seldom hear about them until afterwards ...)
Everything is reviewed on this blog! (Sometimes rather cursorily.) Check out my monthlyculture tag.
Bracketed figures show range over the last 17 years [see year-in-summary tag for my Cultural History since 2004].
Film: 12 (4-20). Best three = David Copperfield, Little Women, Jojo Rabbit.
Theatre: 3 (1-26). Best three = well, all of them :) Teenage Dick, Macbeth, Revenger's Tragedy.
New Category! Theatre (streamed): 38. Best three = Midsummer Night's Dream (Bridge production); Pericles; This House.
Concerts (classical): 3 (2-22). Glyndebourne Young Artists was a delight, a sunny day and an outdoor concert with some splendid performances. I was in the choir for Haydn Nelson Mass (horribly close to first lockdown). And ah, the Musical Homelands at Cadogan Hall, can't believe that was only this year ...
Opera: 0 (0-10). Boo.
Gigs: 0 (0-9). Double boo. Here is a song close to my heart: 'All I Want for Christmas is a Rock Show'.
Art: 1 (Went to Madrid to look at pictures!) I do not mention the Artemisia Gentileschi exhibition at the National Gallery, for which we have had multiple tickets and been foiled every time.
Books: 156 and counting. Separate post coming eventually: reviews here (ongoing: am behind on reviewing).
Also in 2020: visited Spain and Malta; zero conventions (well, 0.5: I 'attended' Punctuation, but Zoom does not work well on my Chromebook, and I found it hard to navigate). (This is also one reason I'm not at many online gatherings. The other reason is that I seldom hear about them until afterwards ...)
