By Lorelle Mykoo Have you never been to the Peak District before? If like me you’re an urbanite, you may be wholly unaware of the relevance of it’s being. Well, let me try and set the scene: serene green fields, sun-dappled by peaceful cloud-drift. Velvety rounded green hills dwarfed to the point of ridicule by…
// Press Release Thu 21 – Sun 24 September 2017 Abandon Normal Devices Festival | Festival of new cinema, digital culture and art | Castleton, Peak District National Park (UK) Abandon Normal Devices (AND) Festival, the UK’s only roaming digital festival, surfaces in 2017 in the caves and rugged summits of the Peak District National…
So, I got to Hyde Park Corner a bit early and I waited for my friend Kam and her cousin to arrive. While I waited I tried some cactus juice which smells like cranberry juice and tastes like it but very watered down and then a bunch of South African people came and I chatted…
As winter thaws and the darkness gives way to the first glimmers of spring… With pleasure, we announce the vibrant and eclectic programme that sees the city of Salisbury resound with artistic encounters of all kinds: the Ageas International Salisbury Arts Festival 2017 The 2017 programme surprises and delights, this year looking westwards across the…
The sun is shining brightly on Arnold Circus in Shoreditch, East London. But today there’s even more colour in the air than you’d expect from a regular Summer Sunday – and the palette is a vibrant mix of reds, blacks, greens and yellows. Beneath the elevated bandstand, the crowd filling the street are throwing some…
At 6pm on a Tuesday evening in London, the sun finally broke through the rainclouds that had been haunting the city since dawn and illuminated the cobbled, labyrinth that is Soho. It was at this time that the country’s foremost wine ahfficiandos began to filter into the iconic Ronnie Scott’s for what turned out to…
We are very proud to welcome The Saint Emilion Jazz Jestival as our new client. The Festival just unveiled its programme for 2016 set amidst the fine wine region of this ancestral city in South West France Celebrated American jazz composer and bass player Marcus Miller will open this year’s Saint-Emilion Jazz Festival at Parc Guadet,…
In conversations with Richard E Grant, Frieda Hughes, Sir Vince Cable, Ben Miller, Juliet Stevenson and Dame Joan Bakewell Acclaimed Maori author Witi Ihimaera talks exclusively about his novel The Whale Rider Join a massed Haka with celebrated NZ choreographer Corey Baker Comedy from Romesh Ranganathan, Hal Cruttenden and NZ sensation Trygve Wakenshaw Music from…
Annual International Arts Festival looks to New Zealand for an inspired cultural mix of international and home grown talent, from Tipping Point, a thrilling aerial circus by Ockham’s Razor, to tribal weaponry Maori-style. Returning for its 44th year 2016 will offer a characteristically diverse cultural programme celebrating the very best of music, theatre, dance, circus,…
The Culture Capital Exchange (TCCE) have announced the first wave of events for this year’s Inside Out Festival returning for its sixth year with the usual erudite and eclectic mix of debates, performances, walks, screenings, exhibitions and workshops. Showcasing the extraordinary contribution made by the TCCE member universities to the capital’s vibrant cultural life, from…
Renowned concert venue Sage Gateshead and digital arts commissioner and website The Space have launched a brilliant new app developed by creative technology studio Mbryonic and Atomhawk Design, which transforms Sage Gateshead into a virtual music instrument. The app is called Play Sage Gateshead and invites players to enter a virtual reality where they can…
We all know that music can be at its most powerful when it’s cinematic – think Bristol stalwarts Massive Attack and Portishead – and that cinema soundtracks produce some of the most poignant pieces of music known to man. Imagine our excitement then, when we heard about some of the line-up for this year’s Filmic…