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Sam Lee performs an experimental symphony of beats and birdsong

Folk musician Sam Lee creates a unique outdoor performance using found natural sounds in Odes to Nature, a new Huck film series in collaboration with On the Edge.

  • Odes to Nature with On the Edge
  • Alex King

Poet Amani Saeed meditates on overcoming her fear of the outdoors

Using found natural sounds in an intimate outdoor performance, poet Amani Saeed seeks reconnection with the Earth in Odes to Nature, a new Huck film series in collaboration with On the Edge.

  • Odes to Nature with On the Edge
  • Alex King

Poet Suli Breaks interrogates our relationship with nature

The further we stray away from nature, the harder it is to feel human, argues poet Suli Breaks in his experimental film for Odes to Nature, a new Huck collaboration with On the Edge.

  • Odes to Nature with On the Edge
  • Alex King

Art, culture, trauma and solidarity in wartime Ukraine

After a year of full-scale war, young Ukrainians are fighting with everything they have to keep their nation, their culture and their values alive.

  • Music
  • Alex King

Watch Huck’s documentary Before the Storm at Outernet

Thousands of Londoners each day will see how the BikeStormz movement has transformed life for young riders in the capital.

  • Huck Docs
  • Alex King

Young Ukrainians are fighting for the future they’ve built

Resistance pulses through Kyiv’s interconnected subcultures. As a full-scale Russian invasion threatens everything, the movement is fighting back to prevent Putin from destroying the world they’ve worked for.

  • Huck 77
  • Alex King

The island-hopping circus crew reimagining a life at sea

The Sea Clowns journey from port to port, bringing their unique act with them wherever they dock. For the ocean-dwelling collective, it’s part of a mission to spread knowledge and laughter, all while remaining committed to an unshackled, freewheeling existence.

  • Huck 76
  • Alex King

The off-grid farm sheltering displaced people

Just outside of Athens, a group of people have built a community that serves as an alternative to the indignity of refugee camps. Led by the enigmatic Kastro, this experiment in self-sufficient living has created a space in which everyone has an equal stake.

  • Activism
  • Alex King

Athens is rising up against police brutality

Chaos in the streets — Earlier this month, a video allegedly showing an officer beating a man circulated in Greece. It has since violently unleashed pent-up anger over an out-of-control police force and the government’s mishandling of the pandemic and destruction of democratic rights.

  • Activism
  • Alex King

Shooting the breeze with London’s young basketballers

Holding court — During the summer, London’s basketball courts were some of the first free public spaces to reopen post-lockdown. Scattered across the capital, each one is a unique, self-contained island – home to an impressive cast of regulars, for whom community is everything.

  • Magazine
  • Alex King

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