Performing Arts
'A little bit different and a bit special'
'Sound Inventors' is a programme designed to teach young people composition. The project's Creative Consultant, composer Alasdair Nicolson, tells Arts…
Behind the Mask
From the traditions of Japan’s Noh theatre, to Bali’s Topeng and Italy’s Commedia Dell’Arte, masked theatre has fascinated Eastern and…
A Classic Case
Attracting audiences to contemporary classical music performances is no easy task. The difficulties posed by dwindling audiences for the genre…
Regeneration needs Creative Clusters
The last two decades have seen the UK undergo a visible transformation as the nation moves into a post-industrial era.…
Two princesses and a pea
Alit Kreitz and Anton Mirto have an enviable friendship - one of those that only comes along once in a…
A marriage of art and social science - Part 1
Tom Cockburn is a social scientist at the University of Bradford who together with colleague Rory Francis – an artist…
Art and the City
Critics love it and hate it by turn. Contemporary art, that is. The only time it is likely to be…
Community Music hits the right note
Manchester’s Community Music Conference began in 1998, to provide an opportunity for musicians to come together and share ideas and…
Talking about a revolution
A fifty-year old company of blind actors from Croatia, which emerged during the Communist regime, are about to tour the…
Coffee and Cultureshock
It's the first day of the last month of spring, and summer is definitely in the air in Melbourne -…