Masculinity, and how it’s defined shifts throughout time periods, we ourselves currently assessing what this looks like and means, and with this, fostering fascinating contemplations. Forming part of this year’s Flamenco Festival London, Compagñia Jésus Carmona take on this contemplation, this taking on the form of multi-genre dance work – The Jump.
Courtesy of Luka Radikovic.
19 drama school students from across the UK have been awarded a total of £77,500 worth of bursaries by the Society of London Theatre (SOLT), to help them complete their training. Established by SOLT in 1987 to mark Laurence Olivier’s 80th birthday, the Laurence Olivier Bursaries provide financial support to exceptional students entering their final year of drama school, and facing financial difficulties which might jeopardise their studies.
Yesterday, the Royal Opera House was delighted to welcome 75 headteachers and leaders from across the South-East of England for its third Headteachers’ Symposium – an event developed in partnership with the Cultural Learning Alliance, Festival Bridge and Artswork, that explored ways to improve access to creative learning in schools and communities.
This July, join the Royal Opera House for a special, live-streamed Insight. Actor and director Rikki Beadle Blair chairs a thought-provoking panel that features some of the UK’s most celebrated LGBTQ+ voices from across the creative industries.
Point A Hotels has announced that it will be giving away a free two-week stay at the city-centre hotel during this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The independent hoteliers have issued a unique opportunity for comedians and actors performing at the Fringe Festival to apply for the free room giveaway. Following their brand motto of ‘small hotels, big heart’, Point A wants to make sure up-and-coming talent is not priced out of the popular festival. As such, they are offering a room to a comedian or theatre performer from the 4th to 18th of August at Point A Edinburgh, in the centre of the city’s Haymarket district.
Duende – a term referring to the mysterious power of art to deeply move a person is an integral facet of Spanish culture, the term itself deriving from a fairy or goblin like creature within Spanish and Latin American mythology, it is the ‘spirit of evocation’. A powerful exploration of the duende, and the strength of women both on an individual and communal basis, Compañía María del Mar Moreno, with guest artists La Moneta, Pastora Galván and Juana la del Pipa present Gala Fiesta de la Bulería de Jerez: Mujeres de Cal y Cante.
Edinburgh International Festival is giving out over 35,000 free tickets to celebrate its 75thanniversary, with performances featuring leading contemporary circus performers and world-renowned orchestras as well as an immersive installation described as a ‘spa for the psyche’. The free programme is dedicated to the residents of Edinburgh who have opened their city and helped the International Festival to welcome the world to Scotland’s capital for the last 75 years.
Fiddler on the roof: Aidan O’Rourke (pictured on the roof of BT Murrayfield) appears in MACRO alongside Gravity & Other Myths, Djuki Mala, the National Youth Choir of Scotland and other Scottish musicians. Photo credit: Duncan McGlynn
This year marks 35 years since Princess Diana’s famous visit to Middlesex hospital, where she visited Britain’s first specialist HIV/AIDS Unit and shook the hands of an AIDS patient. This well documented moment preceded by stark health campaigns in the late 80s targeted at the population in response to its emergence and hopes of tackling the illness, but with it evoking confusion and fear. Inspired by this particular moment of history and his own experience of living with HIV, LGBTQ+ writer Bren Gosling presents award winning show Moment of Grace, which forms part of various events showing as part of this year’s Pride in London, a piece delving deeper into this pivotal hospital visit and the stories behind it – helping to shed light and demystify. Ahead of the production, Bren tells us more about exploring the narrative further, creating the show in association with The National HIV Story Trust (NHST) and what to expect from a post show Q&A discussion taking place on Saturday 9th July after the matinee performance which will be chaired by BAFTA-nominated TV and film producer and NHST founder and trustee Paul Coleman.
Pride in London announced today the finalists for the Pride’s Got Talent Competition, one of countless events marking the 50thanniversary of the Pride March in London. Now in its 10th year, Pride’s Got Talent brings together a range of performers from across the LGBT+ community, showcasing its diversity, creativity, and talent.
How we consume art is unique to us all, sounds and visuals holding with them their own special meanings and ways of making us feel. With ideas typically presented within a certain manner, Korean dance company Art Project BORA’s production MUAK challenge this. Consisting of eight performers, a piano is dismantled and with it, creates a live soundtrack through their movements – inviting the audience to see the sounds as a spectator and hear the movement as a listener.
Courtesy of Sanghoon Ok.