Sky Arts have announced the launch of 24-Hour Heroes - a striking new portrait series shining a light on the people who keep the UK’s arts world alive around the clock, ahead of the Sky Arts Awards at The Roundhouse, London, on 16th September.
The 24-Hour Heroes series celebrates 24 unsung arts workers – from stage managers unlocking doors at dawn to cleaners and book editors working into the night, revealing the huge range of roles that keep creativity thriving.
Across 24 hours on launch day, 27th August, Sky Arts will reveal the portraits on Instagram – taken by photographers across the UK including Ricky Darko, Julie Broadfoot and Simon Murrell – before exhibiting the full collection at The Roundhouse during the Awards. Continue reading
She’s back – live, personal and totally sensational. Samantha Barks invites you to an intimate, soul-stirring evening of music and storytelling. The West End’s brightest star takes on some of the UK’s most spectacular cathedrals, lit by candlelight, in a setting unlike anything she’s done before.
Diamond-certified and GRAMMY®Award-nominated artist Halsey continues the celebration for the 10th anniversary of her triple platinum certified full-length debut album, BADLANDS, with the announcement of her Back to Badlands Tour. 
With Body Horror’s re-emergence on the world’s stage, thanks recently to Coralie Fargeat’s award winning cautionary tale The Substance as a cinematic niche not to be reckoned with, the subject of human biology is increasingly becoming the focus of our 21st century lives. Social media a prism heightening what it is to supposedly achieve ‘perfection’, and the intentional omission of the horrors that lay beneath this. Team this with the alarm bell being rung about the state of our planet, and we’re presented with insidious issues of microplastics and climate very gradually intruding on our way of life. Post this year’s HollyShorts Film Festival which took place between 7th to 17th August, writer and director Guy Trevellyan had his short Body Horror film Plastic Surgery Screened at the iconic TCL Chinese Theatre. A metaphorical piece examining the way plastic pollution is infiltrating our health, Guy tells us more about what inspired him to produce the film, establishing his production company Nice Guy Pictures and what he’s learned from creating the film.
New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich has opened applications for a new round of its Associate Artists Programme in a bid to support local diverse talent across Ipswich, Suffolk and East Anglia.
Very recently, it was discovered that microplastics were present within blood. This in turn damaging cells and leading to very serious complications, most notably cancer. A play on the term ‘plastic surgery’, Guy Trevellyan presents a matter of urgency in timely watch Plastic Surgery – a clinical body horror offering a cautionary tale for our times.
Today, globally acclaimed rock band Bad Omens have announced their DO YOU FEEL LOVE EUROPE 2025 tour dates in the UK and Europe. Spanning 13 shows, this marks the band’s biggest headline run to date. Kicking off in Dublin 
Medical advancements are an incredible thing, the natural world holding many of the answers to our ailments. A pioneer in the field of medicine, Betty (Beatie Edney) has acquired the gift to heal, but in late 19th century England, the scientific realm aren’t ready to accept Betty’s gift. Something she’s determined to battle. A male doctor (Ali Cook) tasked with finding out the ‘truth’ regarding her abilities in Ali Cook’s ethereal mythological thriller The Pearl Comb.