under your skin with a look at the long history of tattoo arts and design. and we look at the passion and precarity of the modern dance scene in the western african book you can ask. a household name the world over and as a canadian myself i have to add she's nothing less than a national treasure in canada since $961.00 margaret atwood has been a prolific writer of novels poetry nonfiction short stories and even children's books and the more she writes the more of a rock star she becomes that's her right and inquisitive style has proven to be not only visionary but also prophetic. she's considered an international icon of feminism canada's margaret atwood is a legend and one of the world's most successful writers for several decades she's been a role model to women and girls around the world. and i'm not

a very rebellious person by nature but i am a very curious person so when people say and do these things i like to. examine them and see what they're based on and whether what they are based on is true so there are 2 questions you can ask about anything is it true is it truly true and if it is true is it fair. if it isn't true is it fair to. the testaments was published in 2919 and it became an instant best santa it's a sequel to the handmaid's tale from the 1985 unsettling novel about life in the totalitarian republic of gilliatt where women have been stripped of their rights reduced to servants. atwood has written dozens of works novels short stories and poetry books about women dystopian visions of the future historical tales and she's

won numerous awards most recently the prestigious booker prize along with ben i didn't ever risto but had most successful work remains the handmaid's tale the novel gone at when you'd interest in 2017 with the release of a television adaptation women around the world have donned the uniforms of the book's handmaids to protest against gender inequality atwood thinks it's brilliant you're very visible and people know what you're made. of started there are spread out all over the world and when atwood published her 1st novel at the age of 23 there were very few heroines both in real life and in literature writing was a way for her to liberate herself from a reactionary view of women and to overcome her own fears well the older you get. the less is it is too scary you. first of all because you've seen a lot of these things before but also because i hate to break this to you

you're. with a beard if you're $25.00 you're looking at quite a long period where we we hope so you're going to be much more worried about what might happen margaret atwood uses her popularity to publicly express her concerns over issues like climate change the global increase in populism and continue discrimination against women but she doesn't see herself as an activist the real activists are organizing at the grassroots level they are this is their life it's what they are it's what they do all day every day the reason i get asked to be a muppet. is that i don't have a job. so nobody can fire me. because i can. it's not

a particularly brave thing to do and my business to her fans attitude is more important now than ever because she started writing decades ago about topics it is still highly relevant today and she says she'll continue to do so. and you can see the longer version of that reports and interview on our you tube channel d w books well once upon a time they were confined to sailors prisoners and the social underclasses but tattoos have long since become an integral part of our visual culture and today they're even exhibited in museums like the pushkin museum of fine arts in moscow where an exhibition originally commissioned in paris covers more than 3000 years of one of the earliest body modification practice. her unique and somewhat just being way of displaying mocking. but i worry these are not the

perfectly preserved limbs of the ceased to barras these body parts are made of silicone. they like to do using a stablished techniques by some of the world's leading tattoo artist. of course it's not skin are artists did the tattoos just as they would with human skin with a tattoo machine the silicon does not always absorb the pigment completely but it's the closest you can get to human skin and it allows a tattoo to be shown so to say in its natural habitat this exhibit that. chattering has been practiced for thousands of years originally it was performed for social religious and mystical reason. or was it conceived of as being an art form it was an applied to the body 1st that reasons for the most part it had many other more important functions like identity tribal identity. functions it marks rites of passage marked social change but. when tattoos took hold in the west they

were often seen as a sign of infamy criminality. tattooed ladies 1st ground attraction. but to date or to suffer become a global manifestation the show commissioned leading touching authors to create more permanent examples. as a real inquisitor there in aytaroun kennedy has joined me to talk about it welcome adrian some amazing stuff there and i guess this exhibition was a huge sensation when it was 1st shown in france yes touch elections with long white english stopped working with their clients in order to participate in the project. it would die with the people who commissioned the works so they were very eager and proud to take poets so we have a closer look at some of them yes 1st start we've got french artist turns you

started out to being allied soldiers here in berlin he was also the artistic director of the show your she the 3rd is what they call a horrific she he specializes in japanese full body tattoos and known as suits and the legendary jack rudy he's famous for his reinvention of the black and grey style and finally we had those amazing pictures of the latino gangs coming up in just a 2nd they were by the spanish photographer isabel when you're such a variety of work there and that tattooed lady in your report also people interest yes in the late 1900 tattooed women transcripts the gender norms norms of the time by exhibiting the bodies are told gibbons' who we sure saw in the film a painting based on a photo was the last of them extensively tattooed by her husband the story went

around that he wanted to make her unattractive to other men but apparently that didn't work but it was really about being an advertisement for her husband's work and making a tidy sum for herself. there is another exhibition going on that i have to say is highly relevant in times of the quote about the florence nightingale museum in london has a special show celebrating the 200th anniversary of the lady of the lamps birth nightingale of course the pioneering nurse who practically invented sanitation and washing your hands in a medical context she died aged 90 in 1910 but she has left us a little voice message from the grave take a listen. all . the cool graphic.

images come and keep washing your hair and words of wisdom from a pioneer of modern health care thanks so much adrian for that back story. and now to the west african nation of booking a fast where modern dance is much more than just a means of expression instead it can be a strong statement for tolerance and equal rights outspoken with movement instead of words and we travel to the capital to work out who where dynamic dancing faces daily challenges. contemporary dance in burkean a fast becoming a dunce takes courage. and didn't act in the capital walk or do we need. the dancer choreographer and dance teacher is an international demand yet he's had to fight for recognition in his homeland and acceptance from his family. it was difficult because my parents didn't

accept my choice they didn't want me to give up building houses and become a dancer because for them dancing has no future it was really tough and i had to leave my family. developed this production together with an artist from ivory coast this stage is littered with trash it symbolizes the chaotic conditions in many african cities how can africans rise above the chaos and free themselves from dependence on the former colonial powers and can own it help them do it. people here are afraid to say when things are working but it's my role as an artist to contribute something to change that every human being is useful to society. but changing things through dance is not easy and where dancers are held in low esteem. bray left her fiance as he couldn't accept her work as

a dancer the single mother performs internationally to win a living she's finally gaining recognition and who. really was the show. i mean that helped me to convince my family now they support me that's why i say to all women it is possible with the will be elite to be the focal point of the country's dance scene is choreographic development center. or the termite mound left him a chair is unique in west africa it was founded by sally s. the new one of the biggest names in contemporary african dance. in his latest project she's working with refugees from mali. and. color to label think africans just want to cross the mediterranean and invade europe so that's

a false lots of africans versus refugee use in africa. is a new sauce the purpose of the beyond borders for ject is to get refugees to daunce . they're going to a chance of the camps with new knowledge with a breath of fresh air and hope dancin back enough fassel is movement in a positive direction a door into a different more liberated world. i'm a fan it is time for us to sign off so until next time all the best from us here in berlin and.

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