Performing Arts
A marriage of art and social science - Part 1
Tom Cockburn is a social scientist at the University of Bradford who together with colleague Rory Francis – an artist…
Art and the City
Critics love it and hate it by turn. Contemporary art, that is. The only time it is likely to be…
Community Music hits the right note
Manchester’s Community Music Conference began in 1998, to provide an opportunity for musicians to come together and share ideas and…
Talking about a revolution
A fifty-year old company of blind actors from Croatia, which emerged during the Communist regime, are about to tour the…
Coffee and Cultureshock
It's the first day of the last month of spring, and summer is definitely in the air in Melbourne -…
Basingstoke Haymarket follows in Dundee Rep's footsteps
Theatre ensembles in the UK are few and far between. The Dundee Rep Theatre in Scotland has enjoyed considerable success…
New compositions for Huddersfield
Next month, the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival celebrates 25 years of bringing cutting-edge classical music to Britain's shores. Artistic Director…
Scottish theatre success may be short-lived
Scottish theatre, it seems of late, has continued to build on the nation’s reputation for high-quality creative work on the…
The State of Youth Arts
Director of the London Youth Arts Network, Anne Engel, takes time out from the hectic schedule of the first Festival…
A new vision for puppetry
Traditionally, puppetry conjures up images of marionettes and Punch and Judy shows. But while the more conventional forms of the…