Performing Arts
Honorific!
Next year French President Jacques Chirac will most likely exit the presidential office for good. He will be remembered, he…
Fostering trust through culture
In a world of raging ideologies, cultural misapprehensions and seemingly endless warfare, The Pakistan Cultural Society’s (PCS) Muslim Arts Festival…
Cultural icons - what happens when they're gone?
Cultural icons are mortal like the rest of us, but who ought to decide what happens to their legacy after…
Art smart?
The Creative Industries have been touted as the saviour of cities and economies. But is their prevailing definition too narrow?…
Creative innovation for the art smart
Creative Innovation has been touted as the key to advancing the Arts in Britain. In the last decade the Creative…
All music is world music
The venerable philosopher Confucius stated “if one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, or if its…
Quiet please...
In recent years increasing numbers of actor/audience conflicts and difficulties have led writers, actors, social commentators and web loggers to…
Artists with borders
After September 11 and the ensuing ‘war on terror’, the United States and many of its Western allies went into…
Bigger than bling
It's taken root everywhere in the world. What is the reason for hip hop's phenomenal success and is it really…
To have and to have not
One of the current buzzwords in the cultural world centres around the notion of a rising “Pro-Am class, aka the…