festivals
theartsdesk in Newcastle: The AV FestivalSunday, 14 March 2010
At seven o'clock on a Friday night, with the first spring twilight of the year as a backdrop, Newcastle’s Civic Centre reverberated to a new composition for its Carillon bells. Mingling eerily with birdsong, it marked a rather different start to the... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Galle: Beer and Roving in literary Sri LankaSunday, 28 February 2010
Thursday Never been to the Galle Literary Festival before. Very excited. A long weekend of bona fide book-nerdishness is just what I need – if only to stop me lying on the roof for three days with a book. Also I have one-on-one time lined up... Read more... |
Noche de Rabanos, Oaxaca, MexicoWednesday, 23 December 2009
Tonight, 23 December, is a significant night for culture in Oaxaca, Mexico – it’s the Noche de Rabanos. The Night of the Radishes. Thousands of people descend into the zocalo to witness sculptures carved from extremely large radishes, especially... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Artvin: A Film Festival on WheelsSunday, 20 December 2009
"Where?" you ask. In the extreme north-east of Turkey, wedged in between the Black Sea, the Georgian and Armenian borders and the snow-capped Pontic Mountains, the hardscrabble town of Artvin clings tenaciously to a near-vertical hillside.... Read more... |
HumpdayThursday, 17 December 2009Sixteen years ago, Tom Hanks was in Seattle, pining sleeplessly for Meg Ryan. In 2009, though, romantic comedy has a rather different complexion and, in another corner of the Space Needle city, two best buddies flirt with a gay affair, even though... Read more... |
Sheffield Doc/Fest: the wrapMonday, 09 November 2009
Upon emerging from Sheffield railway station, one of the first things you clap eyes on is Andrew Motion’s 2007 poem What If? unfurling down the side of one of the university tower blocks and gleaming faintly in the last of the autumn sun. With its... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Colombo: Sri Lanka's inaugural Art BiennaleSunday, 20 September 2009It is a stinking hot afternoon. In an unventilated shed seemingly purpose-built for breeding mosquitoes, I am walking round and round a stone spiral. A benign-looking woman has assured me it is the way to peace. Despite my scepticism, I follow her... Read more... |
theartsdesk at Bestival 2009Monday, 14 September 2009Bestival was the first festival to embrace fancy dress and, five years into its career, still does it best. This year the theme was "Out of Space" and with the weather delivering gorgeous Indian summer sunshine, a welcome contrast to Bestival 2008’s... Read more... |
Sean Hughes, Greenwich TheatreWednesday, 09 September 2009The presence of an ellipsis in the title of Sean Hughes’ new show, What I Meant to Say Was..., is a clue to how the evening proceeds. He comes on stage with no announcement, chats for 90 minutes about this and that, rambles a bit when he loses his... Read more... |
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