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Arts Newsletter
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As part of the annual Flare Festival, the BFI and British Council this week launched fiveFilms4freedom: the world’s first digital, global, LGBT film festival. During Flare (19 - 29 March), audiences around the world can watch five films
featured in this year's programme online, completely free. Flare festival is Britain’s longest running and most popular LGBT film festival, presenting the best in queer cinema from around the world.
> Watch the films
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Mix the City is a new interactive music video project co-commissioned by The Space and the British Council. YouTube sensation Kutiman collaborated with 12 musicians in Tel Aviv to capture the sounds of the city. The resulting recordings offer 12 unique perspectives on the 'sound of Tel Aviv', and the Mix the City project continues the collaboration online, allowing users to create their own video from this set of 12 filmed tracks.
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In 2014, London-based company Avant Garde Dance
toured six cities across India as part of Impulse, the British Council's season of UK contemporary dance in India. Through a programme of workshops and performances, the company worked with local dancers in each city, culminating in a live collaborative performance with Chennai dance company Swingers. Avant Garde Dance’s work fuses contemporary dance and hip-hop, a mix that proved hugely popular with dancers and audiences alike throughout India, where hip-hop is exploding in popularity.
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Have a listen to the latest Selector, the show that brings you up to date with all that is going on in new British music. Fresh from a trip to Hamburg, Goldierocks has another packed show this week. There's a raucous punk rock live session from Hyena, DJ and production duo Tough Love are In The Mix, plus the usual earful of new British music from Ben Carne, Swim Deep, Parma Violets and The Magic Gang.
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Savage Beauty, the retrospective on cult designer Alexander McQueen, opened at the V&A Museum in London last week. Here, Crane TV
talk to assistant curator Kate Bethune about the challenges of mounting the exhibition, the practicalities of displaying the vast range of materials McQueen worked with, and the attempt to evoke his signature sense of spectacle and drama by recreating some of his most memorable catwalk moments. The exhibition runs until 2 August.
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Film London's annual Jarman Award celebrates the best of British artist film and moving image. Featuring artists John Akomfrah, Rachel Maclean, Karen Mirza, Brad Butler, and curator Stuart Comer, this short film explores the legacy of Derek Jarman, the early pioneer of artists' film and inspirational figure behind the prestigious award.
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The Arts Index, created by National Campaign for the Arts, was published earlier this week and paints a somewhat mixed picture of the current state of the industry based on data gathered between 2012-2014. While audience attendance is up and employment stats look healthy, the report shows a startling and rapid decline in public funding for the arts. David Brownlee
interrogates the facts behind the statistics in more detail, and explains how these two seemingly contradictory statements can be reconciled.
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