Performing Arts
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…
Children embrace Creative Partnerships
When poet Bob Beagrie joined other artists to collaborate with a group of boys at Tollesby special school in Middlesbrough,…
Musical Theatre joins International Festivals
One of the world’s oldest and most loved art forms is about to experience its first ever festival, an international…
Artists take refuge
Two years ago, Artistic Director Caryne Chapman Clark had a dream to start a theatrical organisation for refugee artists in…
Agriculture Crisis, or Culture Crisis?
The English countryside is not what it used to be. Faced with the reality the rural industry might soon be…
Cromarty comes alive to the sound of opera
It sounds like the setting for a quirky musical, a kind of 'Sound of Music', Scots-style, or a 'Brigadoon'. Picture…
Collision course
It's been a tumultous year for artistic directors worldwide, with some forced to resign because of their ambitious creative vision.…
Liverpool improvises on the music scene
Experimental improvised music continues to play on the fringes of musical society, but the number of festivals celebrating it is…
A stream of music, video and performance
Stream, a new cross-art performance from dramatic group, Optik, is described as ‘a relationship between music, technology and live action…