#London Independent Film Festival

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New Trailer for Hoard just dropped from Letterboxd on Instagram

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SLEEP UNTIL NOON Wins "Best Music Video" at London Film Awards

SLEEP UNTIL NOON Wins "Best Music Video" at London Film Awards

In a big update from yesterday, our music video for Milan Lazistan’s “Sleep Until Noon” won the “Best Music Video” and “Gold Award” at the London Film Awards! This is our first accolade from the United Kingdom! Thank you to everyone who supported the video! “Sleep Until Noon” will be screening at CLOSE-UP, 97 Sclater St, London E1 6HR, United Kingdom on June 24th 8-10PM.

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On April 1, 2008, Mala Noche was screened at the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.

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Week of solidarity with Ukraine is about to start. There are different events around Europe around this occasion, and if you're in one of the following places you can participate!

Following announcements brought to you by Solidarity Collective Anti-authoritarian volunteer network from Ukraine You can support them on PayPal -suppliesforukrainenow@proton.me -humanitarian.aid.for.ukraine@proton.me ------------------------- Week of Solidarity With Ukraine Is About To Start In late January we called on our comradely initiatives and activist groups to hold events to mark the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. We are grateful to everyone who reacted to it or decided to organise events to support Ukrainian resistance independently. It is nice to see that, unlike volatile politicians, genuine solidarity between progressive powers remains still!

Therefore we’re pleased to invite you to join street demonstrations, film screenings and concerts organized by antiauthoritarians in solidarity, and they start tomorrow! The list turned out to be quite impressive.

21 February Zoom. Online discussion «Ukraine: LGBTQIA+ community in war», held by the European network in solidarity with Ukraine and against war (ENSU). Registration beforehand is required https://www.facebook.com/events/550415114687627

Zoom. Also, this Friday, Spanish leftists LIT-CI will hold an online discussion titled “Ukraine resists while protecting its freedom!” Ukrainian leftists and trade unionists Yurii Samoilov, Dionisii Vinohradiv, and Kateryna Hrytseva will participate.

22 February

Prague On 22 February a music festival Riot Over River, regularly organized by our friends from the Anarchist Federation of the Czech Republic (AFED), will take place. A night of music with tens of various artists, Food Not Bombs and a fundraiser for Solidarity Collectives – something worth not missing. https://www.facebook.com/events/566047495995031/

London. Same day noon starts demonstration Russian Troops Out! Solidarity with Ukraine! organized by the Ukraine Solidarity Campaign. All these three years they’re tirelessly filling the streets demanding reinforcement of military support of Ukraine. https://www.facebook.com/events/644631464700585?active_tab=about

Barcelona. At 11:00, Barcelona will host a screening of a film about the Taras Shevchenko Company, Ukrainian internationalist fighters who took part in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the Republic. https://www.ugt.cat/commemoracio-del-tercer-aniversari-de-la-guerra-a-ucraina-cineforum-sobre-la-solidaritat-obrera-internacional-en-temps-de-guerra/

At 19:00, the metal/punk concert Noise for Cause, organised by Barcelona anarchists, will start. The money raised at the concert will support the humanitarian missions of the Solidarity Collectives. https://www.instagram.com/antifaucrania.vlc/p/DFpmkJFNZma/

23 February

Barcelona. The culmination of the Barcelonian solidarity campaign will be an antifascist demonstration ‘Barcelona with Ukraine’, starting at 16:00 from Passeig de Gràcia 90.

‘When Musk and Trump joined Russia’s policies, supporting far-right parties in Europe and threatening freedom on the continent, supporting Ukraine becomes even more essential” the organizers write. https://t.me/taxanka_info/162

Amsterdam. Beyond a full week of various events (about them below), on 23 February Amsterdam will have a street demo to support Ukraine. Starts at 12:00. https://www.instagram.com/p/DGRRc2MIDpu/

24 February Berlin. On 24 February, the annual march to mark the anniversary of the full-scale invasion will take place in Berlin. The anarchist block will take part in it, and our friends from GNIP and RAF are calling to join them. The block gathers at 17:00 at Alexanderplatz, from where it will go to Berlin Cathedral to join the main part of the demonstration. If you are in Berlin, be sure to join! https://www.instagram.com/p/DGAUfEasK1A/?igsh=MWRkeDBodzZzb2RlNw%3D%3D

Dresden. Another march in solidarity with the Ukrainian resistance, organised by ABC Belarus and local anarchists, will take place in Dresden. It starts at 17:00 on Neumarkt square. https://www.instagram.com/p/DGFrRQKNaaG/?igsh=bjRidXhjaWI2NXQ0

Warsaw. On 24 February, a rally in support of Ukraine will begin at 18:00 in Warsaw. The anarchist block will take part in it. Like last year, it is organised by Belarusian and Polish comrades. ‘No one but ourselves: neither Trump, Putin, Zelensky, nor the European Union will stop the killings and terror – only a solidarity and self-organised people can do it,’ they said in a statement. https://pramen.io/ru/2025/02/demonstratsiya-v-podderzhku-ukrainy-fvarashava-ru-pl/

Prague. Czech comrades from Tábor Solidarity responded to the call of the Collectives. On Monday, 24 February, they invite you to the event Solidarity with the Ukrainian resistance. Three years of full-scale war. The programme includes a story about queer activists in the war, a presentation by GNIP and a conversation with Czech activist Jan Martinovský, who helps people in the South of Ukraine. The event starts at 18:00. https://www.instagram.com/p/DGRHCX9swm9/?igsh=MWx6aDMwcW04ZGZjMA%3D%3D

Brno. Another event to mark the 3rd anniversary will take place in Brno. Polina Davydenko and 𝗟𝘂𝗸𝗮́𝘀̌ 𝗗𝗼𝗯𝗲𝘀̌ will share about their travels to Eastern Ukraine, the discussion will be followed by a screening of short documentaries: Where Russia Ends by Oleksiy Radynski and Sashko Protyah’s My Favourite Job. https://www.instagram.com/p/DF-D215MKs_/

28 February

Prague. The Czechs continue to surprise us with the level of their support! Next Friday, Prague will host the event Empire Will Fall, Freedom Will Prevail, which will include a screening of the film Stop-Zemlia by Kateryna Gornostai. The funds raised at the event will also be donated to the Solidarity Collectives, for which we are extremely grateful. https://akce.nolog.cz/event/imperium-padne-svoboda-zvitezi-soliakce-a-promitani-k-vyroci-utoku-na-ukrajinu

Netherlands We’d like to highlight the anti-authoritarian community in Amsterdam, which actually organised a whole week of solidarity with Ukraine from 26 February to 3 March.

23 February - march in solidarity with Ukraine 26 February - screening of the documentary 20 Days in Mariupol. 27 February - screening of the documentary Intercepted. 28 February - punk/reggae concert 2 March - screening of the documentary film Donbas 3 March - screening of the documentary Where Russia Ends https://www.instagram.com/p/DGQscgUoW5Y/?igsh=MWYzeGc2Zm9qc2RnZg%3D%3D

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Dr Flloyd Kennedy, Liverpool-based, Australian-born actress, director, voice artist, performance poet, singer-songwriter, voice/speech/accent/acting/clown coach and producer of audio fiction took part in the British folk revival in the 60s, performed street theatre, cabaret and fringe theatre in Scotland throughout the 1980s and 90s, and wrote her doctoral dissertation on “Shakespeare’s Voice: a theory of the voice in performance”. She has performed, directed and taught voice and acting skills at colleges and universities in the UK, US and Australia. Her solo show Yes, Because! toured to Brisbane, Melbourne, New York (UNITED Festival of Solo Performance), London, Edinburgh and Liverpool. She regularly appears in indie feature films and TVCs, and at spoken word events in Merseyside.

Flloyd writes, performs (with guest artists) and produces the audio fiction comedy Am I Old Yet?, nominated for an Independent Podcast Award 2024 (fiction category), which has now published 147 episodes and received over 50,000 downloads. She is a member of the Fable & Folly Network (“where fiction producers flourish”), and she is a proud member of British Actors Equity.

Dracula: 2004 begins crowdfunding on 2nd April! You can check out our prelaunch here: https://igg.me/at/dracula2004

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[world-of-wales]

PRINCE OF WALES DIARIES ♔

18 FEBRUARY 2024 || 77TH BRITISH ACADEMY FILM AWARDS

The Prince of Wales attended the EE BAFTA Film Awards ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall in London. The Awards are an annual celebration of the extraordinary skills, talent and craft of the film industry presented and hosted by BAFTA British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is a world-leading independent arts charity that brings the very best work in film, games andtelevision to public attention and supports the growth of creative talent in the UK and internationally. The Prince of Wales became their President in 2010. He watched the Awards ceremony before meeting category winners and EE Rising Star Award nominees.

[justforbooks]

It’s one of the most famous images in pop culture: the four members of the Beatles — John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney and George Harrison — striding single-file over a zebra-stripe crossing on Abbey Road, near EMI Studios in St. John’s Wood, London.

The photograph was taken on the late morning of August 8, 1969 for the cover of the Beatles’ last-recorded album, Abbey Road. The idea was McCartney’s. He made a sketch and handed it to Iain Macmillan, a freelance photographer who was  chosen for the shoot by his friends Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Macmillan had only ten minutes to capture the image. A policeman stopped traffic while the photographer set up a ladder in the middle of the road and framed the image in a Hasselblad camera. The Beatles were all dressed in suits by Savile Row tailor Tommy Nutter — except Harrison, who wore denim. It was a hot summer day. Midway through the shoot, McCartney kicked off his sandals and walked barefoot. Macmillan took a total of only six photos as the musicians walked back and forth over the stripes. The fifth shot was the one.

Since then, the crossing on Abbey Road has become a pilgrimage site for music fans from all over the world. Every day, motorists idle their engines for a moment while tourists reenact the Beatles’ crossing. It’s a special place, and filmmaker Chris Purcell captures the sense of meaning it has for people in his thoughtful 2012 documentary, Why Don’t We Do It In the Road?  The five-minute film, narrated by poet Roger McGough, won the 2012 “Best Documentary“award at the UK Film Festival and the “Best Super Short” award at the NYC Independent Film Festival. When you’ve finished watching the film, you can take a live look at the crosswalk on the 24-hour Abbey Road Crossing Webcam.

Daily inspiration. Discover more photos at Just for Books…?

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Karan Soni and Jonathan Groff are well-known for their blockbusters – but their latest project, the critically acclaimed indie A Nice Indian Boy, marks a welcome gear change.

The guys discussed their new film, currently rated 100% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Attitude alongside director Roshan Sethi at last night’s BFI London Film Festival screening at the Curzon Mayfair.

Asked to sum up the film’s plot, Karan said: “My character meets Jonathan’s character, we fall in love, and then I have to introduce him to my very traditional Indian family. He has to win them over before the wedding.”

Added Jonathan: “I just watched the movie for the first time a couple of days ago; I wanted to see it in a theatre, not a link on my laptop. And I was so overwhelmed by the power of this movie.”

“I’ve been saying the movie is for everyone – for queer people, for not queer people, for Indian people, not Indian people,” Roshan meanwhile told us.

Sharing feedback he’s received from parents at screening Q&As, Karan said: “They spoke about their own journey, with not going to their children’s weddings. They’ve come to peace with it years later, but they’ve missed chunks of their lives with their children. A lot of them spoke about, if they had a version of this movie earlier, maybe would have bridged that gap sooner.”

Jonathan, of course, is known for his work in the two Frozen films and 2021’s The Matrix Resurrections, plus popular TV shows like Glee and Looking. The Tony Award-winner is also a stage veteran, with credits including Hamilton and Merrily We Roll Along.

“That would be amazing if that happened,” said Jonathan of the possibility of fans of his studio films supporting this title. “That, in some ways, is out of our control. But in my gut, I feel like great work and great art finds its way. I believed in this script and this team. … Happily, if there are people who are Glee or Frozen or Mindhunter or musical theatre fans, I’m so happy to bring them this story. But I think the movie is powerful enough to bring people on its own accord.”

Describing the plot of the film, Roshan said: “We shot a dance sequence that appears somewhere in the movie. It was tremendously difficult, but very memorable!” And asked for standout feedback to the film, he said: “Probably from my mother, who said she understood me in a way she hadn’t before! It was very sweet, very moving.”

Reflecting on the importance of film criticism, Roshan said: “It’s the most important thing. This is my second independent film, and third overall. In each case, independent films in particular, … survive on the critics’ response. That’s what gets the attention of distributors, who are all reading every single review and looking at the Rotten Tomatoes score. It [makes it] easier to make the next movie as well. It makes a huge, huge difference. Also, people at the distributors often don’t believe there’s an audience for a movie. Critics often prove that there is.”

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Happy Birthday to the Scottish actress and director Pollyanna McIntosh born on 15th March 1979 in Edinburgh.

McIntosh grew up in Portugal and Colombia before returning to her native Scotland, where she first began performing, on stage, at The Edinburgh Festival. At 16, she left for London and soon became involved in indie filmmaking, her first paid gig was unaccredited as a stoner in the Irvine Welsh triptych The Acid House,.

I must remember to ask my mate Gary McCormack if he knows her, as he had a starring role in the film, Gary is currently on our TV screens a fair bit in the Cadbury's chocolate advert.

Pollyanna moved moved to LA in 2004 where she appeared mainly on stage her biggest role of note was in the stage production The Woolgatherer before she earned her first big screen role, Stacy in 2005’s fantasy horror film, Headspace in 2005.

Although there is not much about her personal life, channel hopping Pollyanna must have been in demand in both the US and over this side of the Atlantic, she turned up in an episode of Taggart in 2009, and some low key US TV movies and a small part in Burke & Hare alongside David Hayman and Simon Pegg. Her first lead role was in a movie called The Woman which won a few awards around the European film festivals.

Back on the TV front Pollyanna was back over here in Waterloo Road and appeared in five of the six episodes of Bob Servant Independent, with the brilliant Brian Cox, the same year she turned up in her second Irvine Welsh film, Filth, with James McAvoy. McIntosh also played a regular in the Children’s BBC show M I High as Crime Minster.

Pollyanna’s first major role over in America was in the excellent Hap and Leonard, where she starred as Angel in Season one, she went on to star in two Seasons of the popular series Walking Dead as Anne ‘Jadis’ and has a recurring role in comedy-drama Lodge 49.

In 2020 Pollyanna starred in the horror thriller Revenge Ride about a young woman who joins an all-female gang and seeks revenge on a group of college American football players Pollyanna turned up as Anne in 6 episodes the spin off series The Walking Dead: World Beyond

Sticking with the horror theme that she has found her niche, she has a starring role in a Western-Horror called The Moonshine Gang of Cheyenne which is currently in development, Pollyanna has also turned up in Vikings: Valhalla as Queen Ælfgifu. Miss McIntosh has a number of projects coming up one being a Sci-fi film The Primary Talent and a short Em & Selma Go Griffin Hunting.

Pollyanna McIntosh does her bit for charity, campaigning for the Joshua Nolan Foundation, raising funds for counselling sessions for grief-stricken relatives and those at risk of suicide, she is married to Grant Show who plays Blake Carrington in the reboot of Dynasty.

Pollyanna has recently been on our screens in Vikings Valhalla, Outer Banks. and The Walking Dead The Ones Who Live.

Last year Pollyanna McIntosh married American comedian, actor, director, and screenwriter, Bobcat Goldthwait in private ceremony in Nevada.

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Calendar of events that Sebastian could attend in the second half of 2024:

ADM screening at Bergmann Center (Fårö) june 26th

ADM screening at KVIFF (CR) june 29th-30th, july 6th

ADM screening at the Chicago Sundance Institute june 29th-30th

Ethan’s bday july 13th

Video call with Don july 16th

Chace’s bday july 18th

ADM screening at New Horizon film festival in Poland july

Charles’s bday July 25th

Kevin Feige’s walk of fame star ceremony july 25th CONFIRMED

San Diego comic con july 27th CONFIRMED

ADM screening at Melbourne film festival aug 8-25th

ADM screening at the new zeland film festival aug 1st and 5th

D23 aug 9-10-11th

Sebastian’s bday aug 13th

The apprentice at Telluride aug 31st CONFIRMED

Annabelle’s 40th bday Sept 5th

The Apprentice at TIFF sept 5th

ADM screening at Deauville ff + sebastian receiving the rising star award sept 9th - 10th CONFIRMED

ADM screening and pre recorded Q&A for Film Independent (LA) sept 11th CONFIRMED

ADM at LIFF (Leeds) sept 14th

ADM premiere and redcarpet CONFIRMED sept 17th

ADM at Cinéfest Sudbury (Ontario) sept 18th

ADM releases in theaters sept 20th

Sebastian at the TODAY SHOW sept 20th CONFIRMED

ADM screening + Q&A with cast (NY) sept 20th and 21st CONFIRMED

ADM at fantastic fest (Austin) sept 22nd CONFIRMED

Sebastian @ Jimmy Kimmel live (LA) sept 25th CONFIRMED

ADM q&a in LA sept 24 and 25th CONFIRMED

ADM at VIFF (vancouver) sept 26th and 28th

LA premiere of The Apprentice sept 29th

BAFTA screening of ADM + q&a oct 2nd CONFIRMED

Sebastian at Graham Norton Show oct 4th CONFIRMED

Sebastian at WTF pocast Oct 7th CONFIRMED

Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong on CBS Morning talking TA Oct 8th CONFIRMED

NYC premiere of The Apprentice Oct 8th CONFIRMED

ADM at Sitges FF oct 3rd-12th

THE APPRENTICE releases in theaters oct 11th

Sebastian at Zurich ff oct 12th CONFIRMED

TA at BFI london ff oct 15th and 17th CONFIRMED

Danish premiere of TA oct 16th CONFIRMED

Sebastian attends the annual Academy Museum Gala oct 20th CONFIRMED

CDFA awards oct 28th CONFIRMED

Sebastian awarded at SCAD Savannah FF (Georgia) nov 2nd CONFIRMED

Sebastian awarded at Miami ff nov 3rd CONFIRMED

Liverpool comic con nov 9th and 10th CONFIRMED

Governor awards nov 17th CONFIRMED

The leading men Party by LaMagazine (LA) nov 20th CONFIRMED

FYC event for The Apprentice (LA) nov 21st CONFIRMED

Gotham Awards dec 2nd CONFIRMED

The tonight show starring Jimmy Fallon dec 5th CONFIRMED

American Cinematheque Awards dec 6th CONFIRMED

thunderbolts* reshoots dec 10-18th atlanta CONFIRMED

American cinematheque Q&A in LA dec 18th CONFIRMED

Tokyo Comic Con dec 28-29-30th CONFIRMED

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DISMISSAL TIME and SLEEP UNTIL NOON Film Festival Announcements

DISMISSAL TIME and SLEEP UNTIL NOON Film Festival Announcements

Our award-winning Dismissal Time is coming to beautiful NORTH CAROLINA in September as part of the Down East Flick Fest! The event takes place Sept. 20-22 in Greenville, NC. We’re really excited to continue to get our message out there once again. Congrats to our team! Also for our foreign people, we made it over the pond!! “Sleep Until Noon” will be a part of the London Movie Awards!! It’s…

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JODIE COMER at the 2023 British Independent Film Festival on December 3rd 2023 in London wearing KHAITE

[canmom]

more relevantly to my actual life...

today I went down to the shipbuilding museum in Govan, on the site of the old Fairfields Shipyard. in Victorian times and much of the 20th century, this area was a massive industrial hub, a huge line of shipyards that built all kinds of ships from ocean liners to warships and oil tankers. the industrial history - how they built the ships, how it shaped the local architecture that includes the house I live in today, who these people like John Elder in the statues were, was pretty fascinating. but the broader narrative was a curious one.

Govan's history has a curious intertwining of political philosophies. Scotland has a certain degree of sectarianism, albeit not Northern Ireland bad, and Govan falls into the box of being a loyalist area, which still manifests in various traditions like the 'Pride of Govan' parade (which I encountered mostly as a loud clattering sound). there is a string of nationalist pride in the history told by the museum, when they talk about warships and so on, how at one point two-thirds of the world's ships were built in Britain and many of them right here.

but equally, it's a very working class area and it has a real socialist history. sure, I don't have to walk too far to find a statue of John Elder, the industrialist, and another of his wife who set up the park opposite the shipyard - but at the train station there is also a statue of local hero Mary Barbour, who led a successful rent strike during the First World War's crackdown on labour, and she too gets her space in the museum. some of the museum exhibits concerned the sort of labour history of the place - the strict seven-minute toilet breaks and history of lethal accidents.

the Fairfield company did not survive the second half of the 20th century, and went under a few decades back, leaving the shipyard facilities to change hands a few times. most recently, after having its future be in question for many years, the Fairfields shipyard was taken over by BAE Systems to make naval ships, such as destroyers, patrol boats and segments of aircraft carriers. at the museum this mostly seems to be treated as a good thing, part of the story of the 2010s economic revitalisation of the area. and I can imagine this shipyard does, in fact, employ a lot of people. the hangar-like building they've just erected there (to build some sort of ship) is a looming symbol of the military-industrial complex that I see whenever I am out in Govan.

and yet, it is also not something that seems to sit easily with people here. a local newsletter reported on a Palestine protest outside the shipyard and the harsh police response, in terms that heavily favoured the protestors. even if the shipyard employs a lot of people for the sake of the country's 'interests' (seriously they put that on the big recruitment poster), I don't get the impression I'm surrounded by nationalists.

actually pretty much all the people I have met in Glasgow have been awesome. there's all sorts of little social spaces and music groups and libraries and independent film festivals and so on around here, and so much nerd and weeb shit over in the city centre. I feel like I might be able to develop a sense of being part of a place that I never really managed to find in London (more on me than the Londoners, really).

come to think of it, there is also plentiful graffiti around town - most of it is of course tags, there is a really thriving tagging culture - but here are there are political ones, in most cases actually about Israel and Palestine. the 'free palestine' ones are not surprising and a welcome sight, but I do scratch my head at the one local (I assume) who went round drawing Israel's flag in blue pen and writing 'IDF' on surfaces, which seems off-message insofar as it comes off a lot more like a gang symbol than a reference to a nice clean professional military...

I still haven't managed to see the Govan Stones, the other big piece of History in Govan. the old church is closed, and won't reoopen until the summer. still, it's really cool that this museum exists, and I definitely recommend swinging by (entry is free). they have see some huge model ships, insane amounts of videos, and a pretty cool 3D visualisation of the evolution of the area, and the attendant was really keen to chat with me and my friend and tell us about the exhibits lmao

[dreamings-free]

Simon Cowell in on the hunt for the next One Direction – but STONE frontman Fin Power has very much rejected his invite to audition (never mind the fact he’s already in a killer band).

July 2, 2024 Words: Emily Carter | Photo: Claudia Legge

STONE’s Fin Power has shared his emphatic response to an apparent invite to audition for Simon Cowell’s new boyband talent show.

Of course, Fin is already the vocalist/guitarist in a brilliant group as it is – who are in fact releasing their debut album Fear Life For A Lifetime on July 12.

And he’s taken to TikTok to very publicly reply to the representatives for the London mogul and TV personality, rejecting their invite for a new The X Factor / Britain’s Got Talent-type hunt for the next One Direction.

“I got this message from someone on behalf of Simon Cowell,” Fin explains in a TikTok video, sharing that it says that “singers around the age of 16-18 years old” are being scouted “for a new boyband, which is being filmed as part of a potential televised documentary following him on his search”.

In response, Fin has just this to say: “’Tell Simon Cowell to go fuck himself. Team 1D.’”

Walking away after hitting send on his phone, he adds: “No other reply my friend, no other reply.”

The caption to the video also reads: “I want nothing to do with [Simon] Cowell’s scheme Team 1D. Thanks for thinking I look 6 years younger tho.”

Watch the video below.

Sharing a news story from The Independent on X/Twitter, Fin also reiterates: “I’ll say it again.”

Catch STONE at the following tour dates (maybe playing a 1D cover or two?!) this year:

September

30 Berlin Cassiopeia

October

2 Antwerp Trix 3 Amsterdam Melkweg 5 Eindhoven Come As You Are Festival 6 Paris La Boule Noire 18 Hull The Welly 19 Stoke Sugarmill 21 Dundee Caves 23 Nottingham Rescue Rooms 24 Norwich The Waterfront 26 Exeter Cavern 27 Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms 29 Guildford Boileroom 30 Tunbridge Wells Forum

[brookstonalmanac]

Holidays 3.22

Holidays

Age Is Just A Number Day

Arab League Day

Army Day (Philippines)

As Young As You Feel Day

Baltic Sea Day

Banned in Boston Day

Bihar Day (India)

Brussels Terrorist Attack Anniversary Day

Captain James T. Kirk Day

Cinematograph Film Day

Cornstarch Day

Day of the Berlin Bear (Germany)

Day of the People’s Party (Laos)

Earth Day [Original Date]

Emancipation Day (a.k.a. Día de la Abolición de la Esclavitud; Puerto Rico)

Festival of Immortality

Georgia Guidestones Day

Gryffindor Pride Day

International Goof-Off Day (a.k.a. National Goof-Off Day)

International Gurjar Day

International Taxi Driver Day (Russia)

John Magufuli Day (Tanzania)

Labour Day (Christmas Island)

Laser Day

Lynch Syndrome Awareness Day

National Badminton Day [also 3.30]

National Day of the Podenco (Spain)

National Day of Work-Integrated Learning Day (Canada)

National Health Care Rights Day

National Rehabilitation Counselors Appreciation Day

National Ride2School Day (Australia)

National Sing-Out Day

National West Virginia Day

Newlyweds Day (Serbia)

Non-League Day (UK)

Resident Evil Anniversary Day

Skull & Bones Day

Stamp Act Day

Stanley Cup Day

Sun-Earth Day

Talk Like William Shatner Day

Tuskegee Airmen Day

27th Amendment Day (U.S.)

World Aquatic Physiotherapy Day

World Cloud Security Day

World Coma Day

World Day of Metta!

World Doula Day

World Mime Day

World Organic Research Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Bavarian Crepes Day

Brewing Water Day

Coq au Vin Day

Orval Day

We Love Broccoli Day

World Water Day (a.k.a. World Day for Water; UN)

Nature Celebrations

Daffodil Day

International Day of the Seal

Mallow Day (Blessings; Korean Birth Flowers)

National Tree Day (Sint Maarten)

Plane Tree Day (French Republic)

Independence, Flag & Related Days

Bihar (State founded; India; 1912)

Malaybalay City Charter Day (Philippines)

Malus (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]

New Year’s Days

New Year’s Day Saka Calendar; India) [21st in Leap Years]

Nowruz (New Year) [Day 3, Around Spring Equinox] (a.k.a. ... 

Dita e Nevruzit (Albania)

Nauryz Meyramy (Kazakhstan)

Navruz (Tajikistan, Uzbekistan)

Nevruz (Albania)

Nooroz (Iran)

Novruz (Azerbaijan)

4th Saturday in March

Be Mad Day [4th Saturday]

Bike Store Day (Canada) [4th Saturday]

Corn Dog Day [1st Saturday of March Madness]

Endometriosis March Day [4th Saturday]

Salacious Saturday [4th Saturday of Each Month]

Sandwich Saturday [Every Saturday]

Sausage Saturday [4th Saturday of Each Month]

Six For Saturday [Every Saturday]

Spaghetti Saturday [Every Saturday]

Walk in the Sand Day [Saturday after Spring Equinox]

Weekly Holidays beginning March 22 (3rd Week of March)

Maine Maple Sunday Weekend (Various locations, Maine) [thru 3.23]

New York Maple Weekend (Statewide, New York) [thru 3.23 & 3.29-30]

Texas Cowboy Poetry Week (thru 3.23)

Vermont Maple Open House Weekend (Various Locations, Vermont) [thru 3.23]

Festivals On or Beginning March 22, 2025

AnimeJapan (Tokyo, Japan) [thru 3.23]

Bacon on the Lakein (Romulus, New York) [thru 3.23]

Beer, Bourbon & BBQ Festival (Jacksonville, Florida)

Chattanooga Food Truck & Craft Beer Festival (Chattanooga, Tennessee)

Conyers Cherry Blossom Festival (Conyers, Georgia) [thru 3.23]

Head of the River Race (Thames River, London, UK)

Maple Syrup Family Day (Richfield, Wisconsin)

National Spring Festival (Turkmenistan)

Peanut Proud Festival (Blakely, Georgia)

Taste of Oviedo (Oviedo, Florida)

Texas Onion Fest (Weslaco, Texas)

Torry Island BBQ Festival (Belle Glade, Florida)

Wellington Bacon & Bourbon Festival (Wellington, Florida) [thru 3.23]

Wing & Rock Fest (Canton, Georgia) [thru 3.23]

Feast Days

Arbor Intrat (The Tree Enters; Ancient Rome)

Attis Arbour Intrat (Procession of Pine Trees, dedicated to Cybele, Ops for Rhea; Ancient Rome)

Basil of Ancyra (Christian; Saint)

Benvenuto of Osimo (Christian; Saint)

Catharine of Sweden (Christian; Saint)

Clemens August Graf von Galen (Christian; Saint)

Darerca of Ireland (Christian; Saint)

Deogratias, Bishop of Carthage (Christian; Saint)

Dies Violae (Laying of Flowers at Tombs; Ancient Rome)

Epaphroditus (Christian; Saint)

Festival of Cybele (Attis’ self-mutilation; Ancient Rome)

Festival of the Entry of the Tree (Ancient Rome)

Hola Mohalla (Sikh)

Jonathan Edwards (Lutheranism)

Justin (Positivist; Saint)

Keep Richards Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Lea of Rome (Christian; Saint)

Nicholas Owen (Christian; Saint)

Nicholas von Flue (Christian; Saint)

Paul of Narbonne (Christian; Saint)

Pretend to Be Sober Day (Pastafarian)

Rite of Eostre (Everyday Wicca)

Quinquatria, Day 4: Poet’s Day (Pagan)

Rosh Chodesh Nisan (Judaism) [1 Nisan]

Slightly Silly Day (Pastafarian)

Toothbrush (Muppetism)

Lunar Calendar Holidays

Chinese: Month 2 (Ji-Mao), Day 23 (Geng-Yin)

Day Pillar: Metal Tiger

12-Day Officers/12 Gods: Close Day (閉 Bi) [Inauspicious]

Holidays: None Known

Secular Saints Days

George Benson (Music)

Randolph Caldecott (Art)

Billy Collins (Literature)

Greta Kempton (Art)

John Frederick Kensett (Art)

Keegan-Michael Key (Entertainment)

Bernard Krigstein (Art)

Louis L’Amour (Literature)

Ernest Lawson (Art)

Agnes Martin (Art)

Anton Raphael Mengs (Art)

Robert Millikan (Science)

Matthew Modine (Entertainment)

Burton Richter (Science)

Rudy Rucker (Literature)

William Shatner (Entertainment)

Stephen Sondheim (Music)

Dorothy Tennant (Art)

Anthony Van Dyck (Art)

Andrew Lloyd Webber (Music)

Reese Witherspoon (Entertainment)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

All Shook Up, by Elvis Presley (Song; 1957)

All You Need Is Cash, by The Rutles (Parody Documentary; 1978)

Apostrophe (‘), by Frank Zappa (Album; 1974)

Arab League (Regional Organization; 1945)

Behold the Man, by Michael Moorcock (Novel; 1969)

The Bible, printed by Johannes Gutenberg (Book; 1457)

Bosko’s Woodland Daze (WB LT Cartoon; 1933)

Bosko the Speed King (WB LT Cartoon; 1933)

Bringing It All Back Home, by Bob Dylan (Album; 1965)

The Brown Derby (Toby the Pup Cartoon; 1931)

Bugged (Tales from Radiator Springs Pixar Cartoon; 2013)

Bullwinkle Scores Again or Fool’s Goal (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 356; 1965)

The Clock (Film; 1945)

The Croods (Animated Film; 2013)

Defending Your Life (Film; 1991)

D-I-V-O-R-C-E, recorded by Tammy Wynette (Song; 1968)

East St. Louis Toddle-oo, recorded by Duke Ellington (Song; 1927)

The Egg Cracker Suite (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Swing Symphony Cartoon; 1943)

English Football League (Sports League; 1888)

The Explorer, featuring Farmer Al Falfa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1931)

The Fable of Day by Day in Every Way (Aesop’s Film Fable Cartoon; 1923)

The Fable of One Hard Pull (Aesop’s Film Fable Cartoon; 1923)

The Fable of the Gamblers (Aesop’s Film Fable Cartoon; 1923

The Fable of the Jolly Rounders (Aesop’s Film Fable Cartoon; 1923)

Far Beyond Driven, by Pantera (Album; 1994)

Fist of Fury (Film; 1972)

Flames in the Sky, by Pierre Clostermann (Novel; 1951)

The Golden Touch (Disney Silly Symphony Cartoon; 1935)

Gutenberg Bible (Religious Text; 1457)

Hiccups (Tales from Radiator Springs Pixar Cartoon; 2013)

How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture, by Francis A. Schaeffer (Philosophy Book; 1975)

Lily Tomlin On Stage (Broadway One-Woman Show; 1977)

Luca (Pixar Animated Film; 2024)

Make Believe Revue (Color Rhapsody Cartoon; 1935)

Mr. Wonderful (Broadway Musical; 1956)

Much Ado About Nothing (Dinky Duck Terrytoons Cartoon; 1940)

Olympus Has Fallen (Film; 2013)

On the Border, by The Eagles (Album; 1974)

On Your Toes, by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart (Broadway Musical; 1936)

Pleased to Meet Cha! (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1935)

Please Please Me by The Beatles (Album; 1963)

Power to the People, by John Lennon (Song; 1971)

The Rules: All You Need Is Cash (TV Rockumentary Special; 1978)

The Secret of the Sword (He-Man & She-Ra Filmation Animated Film; 1985)

Sing Smokey, by The Temptation (Album; 1965)

Sleepy Time Chimes (Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1971)

Snappy Cheese (Hearst-Vitagraph News Pictorial Cartoon; 1919)

Spinning (Tales from Radiator Springs Pixar Cartoon; 2013)

Spring Breakers (Film; 2013)

Standing Room Only or Bullwinkle Sells Out (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S6, Ep. 355; 1965)

Station 19 (TV Series; 2018)

Stealin Aint Honest (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1940)

Symphony No. 1, the Poem of the Forest, by Albert Roussel (Symphony; 1908)

Us (Film; 2019)

Today’s Name Days

Clemens, Elmar, Klemens, Lea (Austria)

Rosen, Rositsa (Bulgaria)

Lea, Leonarda, Oktavijan (Croatia)

Leona (Czech Republic)

Paulus (Denmark)

Viktor, Viktoria (Estonia)

Vihtori, Viktor (Finland)

Léa (France)

Elmar, Lea, Reinhilde (Germany)

Drosos, Drosoula (Greece)

Beáta, Izolda (Hungary)

Benevenuto, Caterina, Lavinia, Lea, Muzio, Onofrio, Nilda, Nilde (Italy)

Dziedra, Giedra, Ralfs, Tamāra (Latvia)

Gedgaudas, Gedgaudė, Kotryna (Lithuania)

Paula, Pauline (Norway)

Bazylissa, Bogusław, Godzisław, Katarzyna, Kazimierz, Paweł (Poland)

Drosida, Vasile (Romania)

Beňadik (Slovakia)

Bienvenido, Lea (Spain)

Kennet, Kent, Viktor (Sweden)

Lea, Leah, Lee, Leigh, Leighton, Parker (USA)

Today’s National Name Days

National Donald Day

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 81 of 2025; 284 days remaining in the year

ISO Week: Day 6 of Week 12 of 2025

Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 25 of 28]

Chinese: Month 2 (Ji-Mao), Day 23 (Geng-Yin)

Chinese Year of the: Snake 4723 (until February 17, 2026) [Ding-Chou]

Coptic: 13 Baramhat 1741

Druid Tree Calendar: Hazel (Mar 21-31) [Day 2 of 11]

Hebrew: 22 Adar 5785

Islamic: 22 Ramadan 1446

Julian: 9 March 2025

Moon: 50%: 3rd Quarter

Positivist: 25 Aristotle (3rd Month) [St. Justin]

Runic Half Month: Beore (Birch Tree) [Day 15 of 15]

Season: Spring (Day 3 of 92)

SUn Calendar: 21 Green; Seventhday [21 of 30]

Week: 3rd Week of March

Zodiac:

Tropical (Typical) Zodiac: Aries (Day 2 of 30)

Sidereal Zodiac: Pisces (Day 8 of 30)

Schmidt Zodiac: Pisces (Day 2 of 26)

IAU Boundaries (Current) Zodiac: Pisces (Day 11 of 38)

IAU Boundaries (1977) Zodiac: Pisces (Day 11 of 38)

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Holidays 3.11

Holidays

Alphabet Day

Cornish Heath Day

Daily Newspaper Day (UK)

Day of Dug Control Authorities (Russia)

Day of the Rifleman

Debunking Day

Dream Day

European Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Terrorism (EU)

Flat White Day

Frankenstein Day

Human Services Day

International Day of Startups

Johnny Appleseed Day

Lend-Lease Day

Mahasivarathri Day (Sri Lanka)

Maha Shivaratree (Mauritius)

Moshoeshoe Day (Lesotho)

Mount Etna Eruption Anniversary Day

National Covid-19 Day

National Day of Observance for COVID-19 (Canada)

National Funeral Director and Mortician Recognition Day

National Healing Headbands Day

National Immune System Day

National No-Code Day

National Payton Slaymaker Day

National Promposal Day

National Singles Day (UK)

National 311 Day

Nina Hartley Day

Penny Loaf Day (UK)

Pound Coins Day

Press Day (Tajikistan)

Prime Time Day

The Snowy Day

Solo Poly Day

Victims of Terrorism Remembrance Day (EU)

Wash Your Nose Day

Women Physicians Day (Canada)

World Day of Muslim Culture, Peace, Dialogue and Film

World Plumbing Day

Worship of Tools Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Amber Ale Day

Apple Appreciation Day

National Chicken Parm Day

National ‘Eat Your Noodles’ Day

National Sofrito Day

Oatmeal Nut Waffle Day

Nature Celebrations

Ixeris (Simple, Dedicated; Korean Birth Flowers)

Key Deer Awareness Day

Mandrake Day (French Republic)

Independence, Flag & Related Days

Cheslovian Federation (Declared; 2003) [unrecognized]

Confederate Constitution (Passed by Confederate Congress; 1862)

Crudaith (Declared; 2014) [unrecognized]

Lithuania (from USSR, a.k.a. Day of Restoration; 1990)

Montgomery Convention approved Confederate States constitution (1861)

Sorrenia (Declared; 2013) [unrecognized]

Xarbarstan (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]

2nd Tuesday in March

Gambling Disorder Screening Day [2nd Tuesday]

Organize Your Home Office Day [2nd Tuesday]

Table Tennis Tuesday [2nd Tuesday of Each Month]

Taco Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Target Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Tater Tot Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Tomato Tuesday [2nd Tuesday of Each Month]

Trivia Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Two For Tuesday [Every Tuesday]

Weekly Holidays beginning March 11 (2nd Week of March)

Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign Week (thru 3.17)

Festivals On or Beginning March 11, 2025

Cheltenham Festival (Gloucestershire, UK) [thru 3.14]

London Book Fair (London, United Kingdom) [thru 3.13]

Feast Days

Alberta of Agen (Christian; Saint)

Angus, the Culdee (Christian; Saint)

Aurea (Christian; Virgin)

Bela Lugosi Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Benedict of Milan (Christian; Saint)

Bunching of Fairies for the Second Flight (Shamanism)

Constantine of Cornwall (Christian; Saint)

Douglas Adams Day (Pastafarian)

Eulogius of Cordova (Christian; Martyr)

Feast Day of Hercules/Herakles (Ancient Rome/Greece)

Felire Oengusso Day (Celtic Book of Days)

Flower Sisters Witches of Belvoir Day (Pagan)

Gyalpyo (a.k.a. Gyallo Loshar; Nepal)

Jacques de Molay Day (Everyday Wicca)

Johnny Appleseed Day (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Marduk’s Day (Pagan)

Nora Nicks (Muppetism)

Óengus of Tallaght (Christian; Saint)

Pythagoras (Positivist; Saint)

Sophronius of Jerusalem (Christian; Saint)

Tessa Margaret Redi (Christian; Virgin)

Vindicianus (Christian; Saint)

Lunar Calendar Holidays

Chinese: Month 2 (Ji-Mao), Day 12 (Ji-Mao)

Day Pillar: Earth Rabbit

12-Day Officers/12 Gods: Establish Day (建 Jian) [Inauspicious]

Holidays: None Known

Secular Saints Days

Douglas Adams (Literature)

Louis Boulanger (Art)

Vannevar Bush (Science)

Jodie Comer (Entertainment)

Henry Cowell (Music)

Dock Ellis (Sports)

Wanda Gág (Art)

David Gentleman (Art)

Robert Grudin (Literature)

Kenneth Hayes Miller (Art)

Elias Koteas (Entertainment)

Bobby McFerrin (Music)

Carl Ruggles (Music)

Torquato Tasso (Literature)

Raoul Walsh (Entertainment)

Jerry Zucker (Entertainment)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Sensho (先勝 Japan) [Good luck in the morning, bad luck in the afternoon.]

Premieres

The Adam Project (Film; 2022)

All Things Bright and Beautiful, by James Herriot (Book; 1975)

The American Picture Book Aywon Film Cartoon; 1922)

Birds in the Spring (Silly Symphony Disney Cartoon; 1933)

Candide, by Leonard Bernstein and Hugh Wheeler (Broadway Musical; 1974)

Col. Heeza Liar and the Burglar (Colonel Heeza Liar Cartoon; 1922)

Comin’ Round the Mountain (Screen Song Cartoon; 1949)

Complicated, by Avril Lavigne (Song; 2002)

Contrasts in Rhythm (Disney Cartoon; 1955)

Dangerous Woman, by Ariana Grande (Song; 2016)

A Day at the Zoo (WB MM Cartoon; 1939)

Daily Courant (UK Daily Newspaper; 1702)

Donald’s Better Self (Disney Cartoon; 1938)

Don Carlos, by Giuseppe Verdi (Opera; 1867)

Everything Everywhere All At Once (Film; 2022)

Fellini Satyricon (Film; 1970)

Four Weddings and a Funeral (Film; 1994)

Goon From the Moon (Mighty Mouse Cartoon; 1951)

Homeless Hare (WB MM Cartoon; 1950)

The Hudsucker Proxy (Film; 1994)

I Got Plenty of Mutton (WB MM Cartoon; 1944)

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries (UK TV Series; 2001)

I Will Always Love You, by Dolly Parton (Song’ 1992)

Less Than Zero, by Elvis Costello (Song; 1977)

Mad About Music (Film; 1938)

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (Animated Disney Film; 1977)

Mars Needs Moms (Animated Film; 2011)

Metal Health, by Quiet Riot (Album; 1983)

Minnie the Moocher (Betty Boop Cartoon; 1932)

Mr. Fuller Pep: His Day of Rest (Powers Cartoon; 1917)

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Animated Studio Ghibli Film; 1984)

On Violence, by Hannah Arendt (Science Book; 1970)

Operation Cold Feet (Chilly Willy Cartoon; 1957)

The Original Soundtrack, by 10cc (Album; 1975)

Penny Antics (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1955)

Plumber of Seville (Hercules Cartoon; 1957)

Porky’s Movie Mystery (WB LT Cartoon; 1939)

Princess of Thieves (Film; 2001)

A Raisin in the Sun, by Lorraine Hansberry (Play; 1959)

Rigoletto, by Giuseppe Verdi (Opera; 1851)

Ringing Bell (Animated Film; 1978)

Robin and Marian (Film; 1976)

Robots (Animated Film; 2005)

Roses and Thorns (Hearst-Vitagraph News Pictorial Cartoon; 1917)

Scrappy’s Playmates (Scrappy Cartoon; 1938)

The Sea Haunt (Animated TV Show;Jonny Quest #26; 1965)

Stand and Deliver (Film; 1988)

Swim or Sink (Betty Boop Cartoon; 1932)

10 Cloverfield Lane (Film; 2016)

Texas Tom (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1950)

THX 1138 (Film; 1971)

Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation (WB Animated Film; 1992)

The Torpedo, Hornet of the Sea (Paramount-Bray Pictographs; 1918)

Trouble Date (Jeepers & Creepers Cartoon; 1960)

Turning Red (Animated Pixar Film; 2022)

Two Little Lambs (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1935)

When the Wind Blows (Animated Film; 1988)

Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore (Disney Cartoon; 1983)

Today’s Name Days

Alram, Rosina (Austria)

Blanka, Kandid, Tvrtko (Croatia)

Anděla (Czech Republic)

Thala (Denmark)

Aigar, Ain, Ainar, Innar, Inno (Estonia)

Kalervo (Finland)

Rosine (France)

Alram, Rosina, Ulrich (Germany)

Szilárd (Hungary)

Costantino (Italy)

Agita, Konstantīns (Latvia)

Gediminas, Konstantinas, Vijolė (Lithuania)

Edvin, Tale (Norway)

Benedykt, Drogosława, Edwin, Kandyd, Konstanty, Konstantyn, Prokop, Rozyna, Sofroniusz (Poland)

Sofronie (Romania)

Angela, Angelika (Slovakia)

Áurea, Ramiro (Spain)

Edvin, Egon (Sweden)

Alberta, Albertina, Angus, Connie, Constance, Constantine, Consuela, Consuelo, Elberta, Ramiro (USA)

Today’s National Name Days

National Douglas Day

National Wanda Day

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 70 of 2025; 295 days remaining in the year

ISO Week: Day 2 of Week 11 of 2025

Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 14 of 28]

Chinese: Month 2 (Ji-Mao), Day 12 (Ji-Mao)

Chinese Year of the: Snake 4723 (until February 17, 2026) [Ding-Chou]

Coptic: 2 Baramhat 1741

Druid Tree Calendar: Lime (Mar 11-20) [Day 1 of 10]

Hebrew: 11 Adar 5785

Islamic: 11 Ramadan 1446

Julian: 26 February 2025

Moon: 93%: Waxing Gibbous

Positivist: 14 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Pythagoras]

Runic Half Month: Beore (Birch Tree) [Day 4 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 81 of 90)

SUn Calendar: 10 Green; Threesday [10 of 30]

Week: 2nd Week of March

Zodiac:

Tropical (Typical) Zodiac: Aquarius (Day 21 of 30)

Sidereal Zodiac: Aquarius (Day 27 of 30)

Schmidt Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 18 of 27)

IAU Boundaries (Current) Zodiac: Aquarius (Day 23 of 23)

IAU Boundaries (1977) Zodiac: Aquarius (Day 24 of 24)

Calendar Changes

Lime (March 11-20) [Druid Tree Calendar] (Month 9 of 41)