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23 December 2016
The Sleeping Beauty, Royal Opera House, London
On 21st December 2016, I experienced a performance of pure professionalism at the Royal Opera House.
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22 December 2016
2016's been a pretty good year for the arts
With political chaos creating as many headlines as it did headaches, how did the soothing arts world react?
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22 December 2016
Glass Girls by Dale Cullis and Emma Powell | FIRST ACTS
By Random Acts Midlands, Dale Cullis and Emma Powell bring us an enthusiastic expression of the barriers still faced by women today.
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20 December 2016
Detritus by Dion Kitson | FIRST ACTS
From Random Acts Midlands, Dion Kitson has made a brilliant poem about the alluring yet worrying detritus of Dudley.
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20 December 2016
Leaving the EU: Good or Bad for the Arts?
This is about the implications of leaving the EU in the Arts
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20 December 2016
Everyday Choreography by Caldonia Walton | FIRST ACTS
From Random Acts Midlands, dancer-choreographer, Caldonia Walton gives us a poetic, jolly, expressive demonstration of what music makes us feel
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18 December 2016
Harrison Kelly, Random Acts Midlands filmmaker
From Random Acts Midlands, Harrison Kelly with Future Curious' short film, Organum, explores our reliance on social media and screen culture. We pried into his @motivations and #thoughts.
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18 December 2016
Nineteen Eighty-Four
For Read a New Book Month I decided to tackle George Orwell's dystopian novel. Here's how I got on...
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18 December 2016
Art history's alternative Christmas styles
Since the Enlightenment, Christmas as a religious celebration has all but disappeared from the art world. But even pre Enlightenment, the Nativity was shown in a wide variety of ways across the world.
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16 December 2016 – 7 January 2017
Things to do: A Very Edinburgh Christmas
A backdrop of Edinburgh Castle; willkommen in Schottland!
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15 December 2016
Send Her Victorious by Ben Norris | FIRST ACTS
From Random Acts Midlands, Victorious is an enigmatic film, a relevant film in the throes of controversial topics.
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15 December 2016
Hamlet Part II at the Hen and Chicken's Theatre
If you are not aware of how Hamlet ends, I'm sorry to spoil it but everyone dies.
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15 December 2016
Christmas and art: what's the story?
When we think of Christmas and art, we immediately think back to pre-enlightenment art, picturing religious scenes depicting the original meaning of Christmas. But how have these ideas been translated into modern art?
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14 December 2016
Tessa Bide and Jack Kelly from Open Sky Theatre
A talk with the creators and actors of the fantastic interactive show, Hairy Fairy Tales, performed at Wem Town Hall earlier this month.
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14 December 2016
Hairy Fairy Tails by Open Sky Theatre
Delving deep into a world of trolls, underdogs and other treasures, Open Sky presents a two-person show of rhyme, mime, and a journey through time.
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14 December 2016
King Lear at the Barbican Centre review
'Nothing can be made of nothing.'
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14 December 2016 – 14 February 2017
Carnegie Music Centre
Carnegie Music Centre runs every Wednesday between 4pm to 6pm for ages 8 -18
A new centre for children and young people passionate about music.
Term 2 starts on 11th January 2017 and a new Silver/Gold Arts Award group will be starting this term.
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13 December 2016
Beauty and the Beast at the Cambridge Junction
The innovative production of a much loved fairy-tale.