{"id":2049,"date":"2020-01-22T16:44:29","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T16:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/arts-at-unisouth\/?p=2049"},"modified":"2020-01-23T13:45:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T13:45:44","slug":"introducing-our-2019-20-arts-ambassadors-thea-hartman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/arts-at-unisouth\/2020\/01\/22\/introducing-our-2019-20-arts-ambassadors-thea-hartman\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing our 2019\/20 Arts Ambassadors: Thea Hartman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Thea Hartman during her time as Editor of The Edge<\/em> magazine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

MA English Literary Studies student Thea Hartman talks about her passion for escapism, textual analysis, her experience of the Southampton art scene, and what plans she has for her time as an Arts Ambassador!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is going to sound ridiculously clich\u00e9, so brace yourselves, because I really don\u2019t know how else to say it: yes, I have loved art in all its forms for as long as I can remember. The philosophy behind this love is simple: if you\u2019re looking to escape the real world for a bit \u2013 and I honestly bet you do \u2013 there is no better way to spend those rare spare hours than with a film, some music, a trip to the theatre, a gig, or many a good book.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As\nfar as that goes, I am an expert fugitive. My Mum taught me how to read early\nbecause I would always ask her to read me one more story and she couldn\u2019t catch\nher breath. And that hasn\u2019t really changed (well, I did learn to read, but you\nget the idea) \u2013 \u2018one more story\u2019 became a BA English degree, and then an MA\nEnglish Literary Studies degree, with a focus on twentieth century literature.\nTurning a text on all its facets, understanding it in its present and in our\nown \u2013 to me, there\u2019s nothing quite like it, even if it does sometimes push my\nlimits so much that I can\u2019t touch a book for months\u2026 Luckily, there are other ways\nto keep escaping. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And\nbecause we\u2019re in Southampton, we have loads of them right on our doorstep! I\nstarted discovering the Southampton arts scene due to The Edge<\/em>, the University\u2019s student entertainment magazine, which\nsends writers to a wide range of theatre shows and concerts (even after over\nthree years of writing for it I\u2019d probably have a hard time naming all the\nmusic venues in Southampton\u2026), but it wasn\u2019t until my summer internship with \u2018a\nspace\u2019 arts that I had the chance to get to know the arts community in\nSouthampton and learn just how complex and welcoming it is! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m\nnot an artist, so I\u2019m not a stranger to thoughts like \u201cI\u2019m not artsy enough to\ngo there,\u201d or \u201cI don\u2019t belong there\u201d \u2013 but I realised I couldn\u2019t be more wrong.\nAnd that\u2019s what I\u2019m most excited about doing as an Arts Ambassador \u2013 helping to\nspread the word not only about what the arts scene in Southampton has to offer\ngenerally, but also about what it has to offer to those who think like I used\nto. I\u2019ll be found mostly on this blog and on social media, trying to put all\nthese feelings into words as I explore Southampton\u2019s art scene with Molly and\nKate this semester \u2013 I hope you join us on this journey! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MA English Literary Studies student Thea Hartman talks about her passion for escapism, textual analysis, her experience of the Southampton art scene, and what plans she has for her time as an Arts Ambassador! This is going to sound ridiculously clich\u00e9, so brace yourselves, because I really don\u2019t know how else to say it: yes, … Continue reading Introducing our 2019\/20 Arts Ambassadors: Thea Hartman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2268,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[120,262,14],"tags":[5,122,65,6,294,293,289,88],"class_list":["post-2049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-ambassadors","category-creative-industries","category-student","tag-arts","tag-arts-ambassadors","tag-arts-at-university-of-southampton","tag-culture","tag-english-literary-studies","tag-the-edge","tag-thea-hartman","tag-university-of-southampton"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc9CSZ-x3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/arts-at-unisouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/arts-at-unisouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/arts-at-unisouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/arts-at-unisouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/arts-at-unisouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2049"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/arts-at-unisouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2063,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/arts-at-unisouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2049\/revisions\/2063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/arts-at-unisouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/arts-at-unisouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/arts-at-unisouth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}