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Interview: Comedian Daniel Sloss talks sociopaths and stand up
Daniel Sloss's dark humour takes centre stage in his new tour, posing the question - am I a sociopath?
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Salford Illuminations
Blackpool illuminations to come to Salford Quays in December as part of Lightwaves festival
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SKREACH THE ARTS.
SKREACH THE ARTS is an online wonderland where I showcase all things fantastical and wonderful in the world of the arts.
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Festival of Imagination
Nancy Barnes hears Jeremy Deller, Mary Anne Hobbs and Dave Haslam examine the dark underbelly of the imagination.
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‘Coral: Something Rich and Strange’ at the Manchester Museum
Bobbie Hook gives us a private tour of the Coral exhibition at the Manchester Museum. Most art history students would probably agree that we don’t get many ‘perks’ from the…
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Crochet Coral Project
Alongside the ‘Coral: Something Rich and Strange’ exhibition (that I’ve written about here too, I’m a little keen), are a set of crochet workshops that in a way subsidise the…
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An Evening With Clifford Owens’ ‘Photographs With An Audience’
Jasper Llewellyn and Matilda Roberts take part in Clifford Owens’ Photographs With An Audience at the Cornerhouse…
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The Royal Opera House
Zoe Landau, tells us about her role as Student Ambassador for the venue and why she thinks there’s so much more to it than meets the eye.
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Giving Opera a Go: Peter Grimes
Long associated with being solely enjoyed by the upper classes and those with a taste for ‘the finer things in life’, opera has a reputation for being an exclusive art form…
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Polari Mission
Jez Dolan and Joe Richardson have developed a project to save Polari, an endangered language used in the gay community, which can be seen in their exhibition at the John Ryland’s…
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Cao Fei
Holly Smith visits the Centre for Chinese Contemporary Arts in Manchester’s Northen Quarter… A place with a population of over 1.35 billion people, the second largest country by…
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Grayson Perry’s ‘The Vanity of Small Differences’ opens at Manchester Art Gallery
Jalayla-Kessie observes a black reflection of class-inflected existence in today’s Britain amidst Perry’s often exuberant and humorous tapestries.