Carmela Caserta

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Helping Young People Realise Their Creative Potential: PACE Youth Theatre

Helping Young People Realise Their Creative Potential: PACE Youth Theatre In the midst of cuts to arts funding in Scotland, youth theatres like PACE keep ambitions alive for young creatives. Based in Paisley, PACE is the UK’s largest Youth Theatre…

Glasgow MP’s Bid to Ban Unpaid Trial Shifts Continues

Glasgow MP’s Bid to Ban Unpaid Trial Shifts Continues A Parliamentary Bill hoping to ban unpaid trial shifts across the UK has been talked out. SNP MP Stewart McDonald vowed to continue campaigning after a government minister talked out his Unpaid…

Heart Warming Foodbank Challenge Encourages Locals and Celebrities to Donate to Foodbanks All Over the UK

Heart Warming Foodbank Challenge Encourages Locals and Celebrities to Donate to Foodbanks All Over the UK Highland local Alex has taken Twitter and Facebook by storm with his foodbank challenge, which encourages others to donate anything they can to…

5 candles

I looked into the light of 5 candles and saw the memory of your face staring back at me. I looked into the light of 5 candles remembering how softly and sweetly, they danced pirouettes in your eyes. And when I told you how beautiful you looked in…

Breadexit: why we’re so gutted by changes to Bake Off

By Carmela Caserta The Great British Bake Off takes off in more ways than one and we don’t quite know what to do. Attracting viewers in the millions on both BBC1 and America’s PBS and Netflix, the charm of Bake Off is a globally appealing one and…

Don’t shut yourself out from the world

As I stand alone, a wind turbine turns beyond the window outside my room. I find it’s movement monotonous but I watch the tips prick and reach for the fluffed edges of cloud. But you seem so calm, collected, so well put together. As I sit in the GP’s…

Unsaid

Some things are better left unsaid. Some things aren’t. But what do we do when it’s both? How do I put into words how I need you? When my soul breathes against my chest, when it wails for you, but my lips do not part. There is so much light in your…

Rather than ask if someone else has your heart I answer it for you yes, you say it’s too late for us make me conclude, that you belong to her. Seething crimson red for something that I have caused. Wondering why when it was me who cut you off, who…

I’m sitting alone

in a taxi thinking of you wondering are you thinking of me too? I can’t help but wonder if you still want to be mine. I can’t help but wonder if I should give you a sign. I was sitting almost alone in the cinema wondering if you would enjoy Bridget…

This marks the third time in a row I have written about you, light from the screen taunts me my own words mock my fingertips. By now I should have it figured out I should know what to say to you but the heart in me trembles at the thought of seeing…

Challenge Accepted

My reading patterns are skewed; random; spontaneous; impulsive. I read what I want when I want and often close the pages if I don’t feel emotionally connected. This makes a reading challenge something hard for me to follow through with, but then…

Working in Lush was like a real-life Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Yes, you smell amazing all the time Lush Cosmetics. You know, the store you can smell before you see; the place that almost blinds you with its kaleidoscopic colour scheme. The place that is like walking into a scene from Charlie and the Chocolate…

Strathclyde offering scholarships to asylum seeking students

We were the first Scottish uni to offer scholarships for refugees The university will offer a “limited number” of scholarships to refugees hoping to attend in the academic year 15/16. Strathclyde was the first Scottish uni to offer scholarships to…

Thousands turn out for Glasgow Sees Syria vigil

Thousands gathered for a vigil in Glasgow this weekend to support refugees and show that people of Glasgow don’t abide by the Home Office decision to help so few refugees in crisis. Supporters young and old gathered in George Square to show that…

Glasgow Sees Syria

Thousands gathered in the city’s George Square to support Syrian refugees and to show they do not abide by the Home Office decision to help only few refugees in crisis. Organisers, volunteers, speakers and the general public turned out to show…

Apple and Taylor Swift: the free music debate

Recently there has been tension, especially amongst celebrity music artists over the streaming of music on outlets likes spotify; where it is not necessary to pay to listen to music, albeit having to listen with ads. Money Money Money is so…

Strathclyde from the archives: The tech back in the day

It was a simpler time The Tab got hold of some classic golden-oldie snaps around campus to show what life was like for pupils of bygone eras. From the 1800’s through World War two and ration books to the swinging 60s and the Cold War, the Tech has…

Pretty Little Liars: Game Over Charles

After 5 years we finally met A: Cece aka Charles Dilaurentis. A lot of questions were solved but with this show, from answers only arises more questions. At this point, you’re probably feeling 1 of 2 ways: Your genius mind figured this out months…

That’s plenty Strathy: Campus pet peeves

If you’re not irritated then you’re just lying When term starts again, everyone at Strathy will have to face the unbearable awfulness of these recurring problems. None can be arsed with them and they annoy us to the point of madness every single…