FOLK BRITANNIA AT BARBICAN - 21st Century Folk Music
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FOLK BRITANNIA provides an idiosyncratic snapshot of British folk music in the 21st century.
A year ago, the festival Jazz Britannia was such a success that the Barbican along with BBC Four are bringing to us this year, a 3 day festival which celebrates the evolution of British folk music from the end of the Second […]
GET SHORTY - Seven-Piece Hip Hop/Funk Collective
Shakila Rajendra chats to the London collective who are determined to make a mark with their cross-genre brand of hip hop/funk music.
Let’s get one thing straight, Shorty aren’t an all singing all dancing group of (let’s be politically correct here) ‘vertically-challenged people’. Neither are they a girl band who named themselves so, out of devotion […]
FLIRTING AT CANNES 2006
Friday May 19th
Meeting at the UK Pavilion. Dealing with passes and accreditations. Sorting out the usual mumbo-jumbo required to cruise through the festival.
‘Volver’ from eternal ‘enfant-terrible’ Pedro Almodovar is on show and has the usual red-carpet treatment. Penelope Cruz - gorgeous in a white Balanciagga dress, or is it? - and Carmen Maura, the co-stars […]
SLAVERY - 500 YEARS LATER
The film is a compelling compilation of testimonies, voices and opinions gathered around five continents.
The Live8 concert in July this year, in London’s Hyde Park was set up to raise awareness about the Black continent issues, but before the first guitar riffs, the gig highlighted one single home truth: Africans should do it for themselves! […]
OPTRONICA - A Hybrid Festival
A hybrid of film festival and music festival, Optronica is a brand new five-day event focusing on the convergence of visuals and music.
The exquisite alchemy which takes place when music and visuals fuse has long been an underground phenomenon, inspired by early experimental film and developed through the nightclub and alternative art worlds.From acts who […]
JAZZ IN THE CITY - Exploration of Jazz & Art
Nina considers the musical language of jazz to be one of her greatest inspirations. Her exhibition, Jazz in the City is the culmination of a life’s work for this innovative and unique artist.
It also begins a tour featuring Nina as an artist in residence, to include The International Jazz Festival in Moscow, during which Nina’s […]
SHANGHAI ON SCREEN - Film Festival 2006
China’s city of Cinema is being celebrated in the Shanghai on Screen film festival screening at venues including the Museum in Docklands as part of the 2006 China in London event.
Of special note are three documentaries screening at City Hall telling the migrant stories of the first Chinese settlers in east Londons Limehouse Basin in […]
EMPIRICAL - 25 Artists Come Together
Carefully selected artists, based in Hackney and the east end exhibit fresh new work in conjunction with Hackney Empire’s Spice Festival. Painting, sculpture, drawing, screen-prints, photography, performance, video and computer generated images from twenty five artists come together in a show that warrants your undivided attention.
Work from Peter Ainsworth, Henrietta Armstrong, Emilie Bell, Claire Brewster, […]
SPICE FESTIVAL 2005 - Music, Painting, Poetry & Drama
The opening night sees an evening of classical opera extracts performed, including Carmen, Nessun Dorma, The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro and many others at The Hackney Empire.
East London Metropolitan Opera continues to bring together top professional musicians with members of the local community and children from Hackney schools accompanied by a full […]
FIRECRACKER - East Asian Film Festival 2005
September sees a refreshing East Asian film festival screened on our doorstep. Firecracker Magazine brings Firecracker Showcase 2005 to London.
40 films, many of them UK Premieres, from eight East Asian countries will be shown in four venues over eleven days.The increased appetite for East Asian film internationally, brought on by the successes of Hero, House […]
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