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8 July 2017
Available Light review
I was excited to see Available Light at the Palace Theatre, Manchester, as part of the Manchester International Festival (MIF) 2017. On paper this should be great. But was it?
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8 July 2017
Returning to Reims dir. Thomas Ostermeier review
A play that attests "maybe Rupert Murdoch isn't evil" wouldn't usually be my cup of tea. But how wrong I was.
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7 July 2017
Sampha supported by PAULi review
Electronic R'n'B dark horse, Sampha, was preceded by his own drummer, PAULi in a packed Albert Hall in the middle of Manchester and the middle of the festival.
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5 July 2017
Hookworms supported by Carla dal Forno review
Carla dal Forno opened for Hookworms in the Pavilion Theatre with her own hypnotic minimalist take on personal songwriting. Only Hookworms themselves kicked things off properly.
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5 July 2017
How to review an exhibition
How do you review something that can be so contentious?
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5 July 2017
Talk: Music for a Busy City with Philip Venables, Anna Meredith, Matthew Herbert and Huang Ruo
How privileged we are to have these composers give us their music and enrich our everyday life. This was the opening sentiment of this talk with four of the six composers of site-specific music for the project Music for a Busy City set across the city centre.
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4 July 2017
Harrison Marks, Discover achiever
The latest young person to break down their Arts Award experience is the Discover done by Year 1 student, Harrison Marks from Abbey Catholic Primary with some help from Mrs. Howard.
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4 July 2017
Katie, Caitlin and Hannah, Bronze achievers
Three Year 6 students took on their Bronze Arts Award together and lived to tell the tale. With the help of their Advisor, Mrs. Lonergan, we hear about their experience.
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4 July 2017
Sangam 2017 with Harshdeep Kaur review
Kaur was supposed to be one half of this mega set of three hours from the first Indian artist to perform at MIF, but when forced to carry the whole thing alone, she still blew the roof off.
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4 July 2017 – 4 September 2017
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2 July 2017
Interdependence: We Need to Talk About Power with Dr. Jason Hickel
The first Interdependence talk at MIF to discuss the big topics in society today. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, David Olusoga, Lubaina Himid, Dr. Jason Hickel, Andrew O'Hagan, and Deanna Rodger tackle Power.
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2 July 2017
Interdependence: We Need to Talk About Power with Lubaina Himid
The first Interdependence talk at MIF to discuss the big topics in society today. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, David Olusoga, Lubaina Himid, Jason Hickel, Andrew O'Hagan, and Deanna Rodger tackle Power.
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2 July 2017
Interdependence: We Need to Talk About Power with Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy & David Olusoga
The first Interdependence talk at MIF to discuss the big topics in society today. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, David Olusoga, Lubaina Himid, Jason Hickel, Andrew O'Hagan, and Deanna Rodger tackle Power.
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1 July 2017
What goes on at... St. Bede's and St. Joseph's Catholic College?
We caught up with all of 2017-2018's Arts Award Good Practice Centres about what they do to make the Arts Award framework work so well for them.
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1 July 2017
Party Skills for the End of the World review
What does creating a gas mask out of a water bottle, sewing an orange skin back onto an orange, and making a spear head out of a spoon have in common?
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1 July 2017
What is the City but the People? review
This was the provocative opening event of the Manchester International Festival 2017.
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23 June 2017 – 26 August 2017
Jimmy Robert - European Portraits
Jimmy Robert's European Portraits opened on 23 June marking the first anniversary of the Brexit vote, exploring ideas of inclusion and exclusion, belonging and identity and how these are constructed. Robert foregrounds the physical division between PEER's two gallery spaces in an installation that integrates a series of intimate text portraits written by the artist and a new sound work by Ain Bailey, alongside three consecutive evenings of live performance in the gallery in late June. The focal point of the performance is the substantial doorway and entry/exit point that conjoins the two rooms where Robert moves within and through, a constricted space of both transience and infinity while handling the drapes and folds of a large-scale fabric-printed image from a 16th century Bronzino portrait. A film of the live event is available on the PEER website and the audio/visual elements of European Portraits are presented as a gallery installation.
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22 July 2017
Waxing Lyrical: Wax Resist Fabric Workshop
Join local artist and print specialist Joe Ford in a workshop that will use wax crayons and water colours to create a simple, beautiful wax resist painting on fabric inspired by our exhibition From Ocean to Horizon to take home ready to hang on your wall!