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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…
One World. One Minute.
8:48 am. That one minute, when the first hijacked plane exploded into the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001,…
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…
Passionate about New Music in UK
It’s just over two years since the launch of the PRS Foundation, an independent charity funding new music in the…
Evolution of Art and Technology
Thirty people with mobile phones, a radio station switchboard and the City of Leeds. It sounds cryptic, but the sounds…
Schumann, Shelley and Galloway
Most people, myself included, know Janice Galloway as a writer. An award winning writer at that. But Galloway likes surprises,…
When creativity becomes tricky business
Starting up a company when you're an artist can be tricky business, but a scheme to assist creative people in…