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Arts Newsletter
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The 6th Odessa International Film Festival took place in Ukraine last month. At this year's festival the British Council supported the large open-air screening
of Dziga Vertov’s Man with a Movie Camera (1929) at the iconic Potemkin Stairs accompanied live by the Michael Nyman Band. Part documentary and part cinematic art, Man with a Movie Camera captures daily life in 1920s Odessa with a variety of complex and innovative camera shots. Watch a short film in which renowned UK composer Michael Nyman takes a tour of the iconic locations featured in the acclaimed documentary.
> Watch the film here
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Neil Webb, Director of Theatre and Dance at the British Council, spoke to The Stage about the multiple benefits that the Edinburgh Showcase creates for the UK theatre and dance industry and explains the variety of processes that take place in the running of the biennial showcase.
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Mercury Prize award winning group Young Fathers played the Sentrum Club in central Kiev on 7 July as part of a Selector Live event in Ukraine. More UK acts are set to follow over the next few months with Ghostpoet
lined up to perform in September. Find out more and watch a couple of short films to get a taste of what the event was like here.
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Novelist and journalist Will Self talks to leading British artist, Rachel Howard about her current exhibition At Sea at Jerwood Gallery. Her distinctive, abstract paintings have been globally recognised and are held in many prestigious international art collections. She paints a multitude of human experiences and emotions and, for this exhibition in Hastings, has created a significant body of new work.
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With more than 3000 shows to pick from at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe, deciding which ones to see can prove to be a difficult task. Theatre crtitic and journalist Lyn Gardner has picked out 15 performances that she believes are worth your time and money, 7 of which are part of this year's Edinburgh Showcase programme.
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We are thrilled that The Selector won both Best Pop Music Radio Show and overall Best Online Music Radio Show at the 2015 Mixcloud Online Radio Awards last week. The awards celebrated 24 winners across a number of categories. In this week's Selector, Goldierocks chats to The Maccabees about their new album Marks To Prove It plus Just Her is In The Mix.
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British magazine, i-D, dedicated to fashion, music, art and youth culture, has created a new series of short films in collaboration with Channel 4 that explore British style tribes. The films look into the history of British music scenes and the styles that they subsequently produced ranging from Grime and Emo; Jungle and Cybergoth; Grunge and 90's style mags; Soul Boys and Casuals; and many more.
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