Literature and creative writing

As part of the BBC Arts programme Culture in Quarantine, Arts Council England and BBC - with selection process run by The Space - have commissioned 25 new works of literary, musical, visual, sonic, and performance arts themed around lockdown.

The commissions will receive production and editorial support from partner arts organisations including Battersea Arts Centre, Sadler’s Wells, Opera North and Unlimited.

These pieces will be broadcast across BBC Radio 3 and BBC TV, through podcasts on BBC Sounds, and through the BBC Arts website.

In more normal times, the activities and partnerships that we document on this blog are full of movement: of people, of collections, of productions, of exhibitions…

And yet, in an outcome that felt unimaginable even a month or so ago, physical movement in our ever-more hyper-connected world has wound down.

But we are all still, of course, hyper-connected.

#NHSLove is an initiative launched by Tamasha theatre company inviting actors to send messages of LOVE to frontline NHS staff during the coronavirus crisis.

Today, with the world facing COVID-19, I feel the necessity to address it with this message.

You can see books, manuscripts, maps, playbills, scores and much more.

 

THE first full English translation of the 400-year-old Latin medical casebook of Shakespeare’s son-in-law, the prominent physician John Hall (1575–1635), gives a new and rare insight into his career and the medical practises of the 17th

Brent is the next London Borough of Culture, following Waltham Forest's programme in 2019. As to be expected from the home of Wembley Arena, its rich reggae heritage, and Kilburn's 'Music Mile', the 2020 celebration will be enriched with sound and song.

Highlights announced so far include:

Radar Sofia and Drama Pact are offering the chance for a theatremaker to spend time in Sofia meeting theatre operators for future partnerships and joint projects.

The open call is for playwrights, dramaturges, performers and theatremakers who are about to start work or are already working on a project that will benefit from a creative stay in Sofia, draw from its local area, involve Bulgarian theatre makers or could benefit the area / could be presented in Sofia in the future. The terms are: