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10 July 2017
Fatherland by Scott Graham, Karl Hyde and Simon Stephens review
The opening scene sets the premise for the entire work. Three middle age Londoners collating stories regarding fatherhood by returning to their hometowns to collect text and use it verbatim: "we are devising a show."
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10 July 2017
Interdependence: We Need to Talk About Technology on Artificial Intelligence
Will Artificial Intelligence take over? Will we have human robots? A panel of experts answers all of our questions.
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10 July 2017
Interdependence: We Need to Talk About Technology with Nina Freeman
Nina Freeman has designed a game all about relationships and the internet; her she talks to Laura Kate Dale about 'Lost Memories Dot Net'.
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10 July 2017
Interdependence: We Need to Talk About Technology with Laurie Anderson and Wayne McGregor
We Need to Talk about Technology at Stollers' Hall, Manchester presents the two artists in conversation about how they use technology in their work.
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10 July 2017
Last and First Men by Jóhann Jóhannsson review
One of the higher profiles on the MIF17 bill, expectations were suitably high for Oscar nominee, Jóhann Jóhannsson's score by the BBC Philharmonic.
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10 July 2017
Coby - Chance the Rapper- Angels
I have chosen to review angels by chance the rapper featuring saba. because i think its an effective music video for the song.
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10 July 2017
Sia "The Greatest" Review by Melissa
I have picked Sia "The Greatest" Music video because it is one of the best examples of a video.
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10 July 2017
Towards Night at the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne
I chose to see this exhibition because my art group was going so I thought it would be good to go and see all the art people had made and to see all the materials they used.
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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
What if Women Ruled the World? review
A film experiment? A performative debate? A play? What if Women Ruled the World? is all of these.
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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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6 July 2017
Social Media- Personal Expression or Personal Overload?
Social media is a constant and up in coming way which people can use to express themselves. However how much can be classed as expression. In my article I explore this idea.
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5 July 2017
Macbeth - Globe Theatre
Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare about the rise and fall of a Scottish nobleman. I watched it being performed at the Globe Theatre in London, and this is my review of it.
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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
Grand Arena Youth Theatre Blog
Welcome to the Grand Arena Youth Theatre Blog where you can find out all about what our members get up to on a monthly basis.
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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
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.