The Hexagon: Arts & Culture Tips from Exeter Academics and Friends (Episode 7 -Cherry Chan)

Ellen’s guest: Cherry Anastasia is a student at Exeter, and is currently her final year of Liberal Arts, majoring in English Literature. She is the Humanities College Officer for students this year. As a BAME student, Cherry is passionate about issues surrounding equality, diversity and inclusion as well as anti-discrimination.

Cherry’s tips:

1) Book: How To Be Right In A World Gone Wrong by James O'Brien (Ebury, 2018)

2) Comics for solace, especially Peanuts (Charlie Brown), and Final Frontier: a comics bookshop in Exeter

3) Pick up a pen and start writing!

4) Virtual tourism via Google Street View

5) Educate yourself on a cause that you are passionate about


Ellen’s tip:
6) Hamilton – with the original Broadway cast, on Disney +

In each episode of this series, Ellen Wiles invites a guest to reveal their five top arts and culture tips for life under lockdown and beyond and offers a tip of her own. Recommendations range across books, films, TV, podcasts, streamed theatre, dance performances, online exhibitions, and various other art forms and experiences.