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Arts Newsletter
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Over the last week, Cripfest marked the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act in New York with a programme of performance curated by award-winning actor and performer
Mat Fraser; English National Ballet dancers have blogged about their experience of dealing with altitude performing in Bogotá, Colombia; and the British Council Cultural Skills
team have launched Asia Fashion Future, a four-day short course in fashion business for industry professionals seeking to brush up their skills.
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Northern Ireland's Paul McVeigh, author of The Good Son, looks at the differences between writing short stories and novels ahead of this year's Guadalajara International Book Fair, arguably the largest and most important annual literature and cultural festival of its kind in the Spanish-speaking world.
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WIRED has partnered with digital arts organisation The Space
to form the first ever The Space/WIRED Creative Fellowships. The winners have been granted £30,000 to develop their practice. Read about one of the winners, architect and urban designer Alison Killing. She is creating Migration Watch, a piece that will use real data and mapping to follow a group of migrants from the Middle East and Africa as they make the perilous journey to Europe.
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Watch the trailer for a short film documenting the recording of Owiny Sigoma Band’s third album Nyanza. The band is made up of three Londoners: brothers Louis and Jesse Hackett, and Tom Skinner, who are joined by elderly Kenyans Joseph Nyamungu and Charles Owoko. The film documents the first time the Londoners travel up-country to the small village outside of Kisumu where Joseph and Charles come from.
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Theatre crtitic and journalist Lyn Gardner discusses the pros and cons of staging theatre outdoors. She points out that, while outdoor performance tends to generate broader audiences than traditional venues, allowing artists to connect more easily with their communities, there are also often challenges in getting the balance right between hitting financial targets and ensuring artistic quality.
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Listen to this week’s Selector, the show that brings you up to date with new music from the UK. In the show today, Wolverhampton two-piece God Damn are live in session and Citizenn is In The Mix. Plus hear new tracks from Spector, Citizenn, Lancelot, Hooton Tennis Club, Herbert and much more.
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In this short film art historian Alastair Sooke takes a look at Tate Britain's retrospective of British sculptor Barbara Hepworth's remarkable, ground-breaking career. The exhibition displays a range of her work from magnificent bronzes to intimate, personal carvings. Barbara Hepworth: Sculpture for a Modern World is open until 25 October 2015.
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