SPICE FESTIVAL 2005 – Music, Painting, Poetry & Drama
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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 [...]
Actor | Art | Artist | Classical | Drama | East London | Editor | Events | Festival | Magic | Movie | Music | Musician | Opera | Painting | Performance | Poetry | Punk | Songwriter | Theatre | WriterRAHMANIAN RHAPSODY – Letting his Work do the Talking
A. R. Rahman, having scored for over 75 movies and sold over 150 million albums, is almost worshipped as a god in some parts of India. However, despite his huge success he is ever the reluctant celebrity, preferring to let his work do the talking. Rahman will bring his Live, 3D Concert to Wembley Arena [...]
Artist | Bollywood | Classical | Concert | Director | Film | History | Lover | Magic | Movie | Music | MusicianNICOLA BENEDETTI – Young Musician 2004
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17 year old Nicola Benedetti, who became the first Scot to win the BBC Young Musician of 2004, released her debut album recently on one of the most prestigious classical labels in the music industry, Deutsche Grammophon (a subsidiary of Universal Music Group). The album is regarded as one of the most anticipated recordings of [...]
BBC | Classical | Concert | Music | MusicianMUSICIANS OF THE NILE – Journeying Across Europe
Originating from the furthest reaches of Upper Egypt, the Musicians of the Nile have been journeying across Europe for the past 30 years. Performing on an array of traditional instruments including the rababeh (an instrument with strings of horsehair and a soundbox made of coconut shells and fish skin), mizmar (an oboe-like cornet), arghul (an [...]
Music | Musician | TraditionalTHE RISING – Aamir Khan’s Influences & Politics
The latest Indian blockbuster featuring an International cast and aimed at a crossover audience released recently in the UK. Sangeeta Datta talks to Aamir Khan about his influences and politics. Bollywood is now India’s biggest calling card in the ever growing business of entertainment. It is the new buzzword and mantra in Diasporic cross cultural [...]
Actor | Artist | Awareness | Bollywood | Cinema | Communities | Director | Film | Filmmaker | History | Hollywood | Iconic | Movie | Music | Performance | Political | Theatre | WarCONVINCING ARTIFICE – Spontaneous Theatre, Barriers & Power
Rotozaza’s physical theatre Life Affirming Joyride plays at the Bullion Room. Maureen McManus speaks to Ant Hampton about spontaneous theatre, barriers and power. Life affirming joyride anyone? Yeah, right, like that’s going to happen in a run-down theatre space at the back of the Hackney Empire. Sure, all these bohemian types with their winter underwear [...]
Actor | East London | Festival | International | Music | Performance | Performer | TheatreMAX’S MACBETH – Shakespeare’s Short, Savage Tragedy
William Shakespeare’s short, savage tragedy about a military hero who is spurred on by his ambitious wife and dangerously fascinated with witchcraft is staged at the Arcola Theatre this September by Out of Joint Productions. The action unfolds in an African state torn apart by war, and includes promenade elements. Director, Max Stafford-Clark says of [...]
Actor | Director | Magic | Modern | Music | Theatre | WarFLIGHT 5065 – Live Arts Festival at the London Eye
This is the first time ever that the London Eye has been used for a live arts festival and was sold out well in advance of its opening. It seems an African summer breeze has blown in over the UK, with weather temperatures soaring, bringing with it a feast of unforgettable experiences. How ironic then [...]
Art | Artist | Awareness | Comics | Communities | Concert | Drama | Events | Festival | History | Music | Performance | Political | Theatre | WriterWIRED WOMEN OF SPITALFIELDS – Old Spitalfields Market Festival
Festival in Old Spitalfields Market and the Spitz. 16th July 2005 The Wired Women of Spitalfields festival will start with a day of free entertainment and activities in Old Spitalfields Market. Featuring live music on a free stage, an art installation in a disused shop unit, a jumble sale, knitting circles, puppets, a tombola, a [...]
Art | DJ | Events | Festival | Film | Installation | Music | Performance | RadicalBIG LIFE – A Thoroughly Enjoyable Musical
A tightly delivered and highly professional musical offering. Set in the British black community, musical production The Big Life is one of two well-received plays running in the West End. The Big Life was created at the Theatre Royal Stratford East, from where it transferred to its current home at the Apollo Theatre, having had [...]
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