London Sinfonietta will launch a new digital music channel, featuring streamed concerts, conversations with composers, podcasts and more in January 2020.
The channel is set to launch with two live events at Southbank Festival's Spiritland, Royal Festival Hall:
British Council is now inviting applications from UK organisations with which to partner, design and deliver four residency programmes under a new programme called Net//Work.
Each residency will run for four weeks, host a total of 16 artists and will be open to UK-based and international mid-career visual artists whose practices engage with digital technologies.
With World Cup Rugby at fever pitch for England fans, all eyes are on Japan for its upcoming sports and cultural events. British Council is leading on the UK in JAPAN 19–20 season, a year-long programme of cultural and education-focused events and activities in both Japan and the UK which provides opportunities for British and Japanese organisations.
The Culture Diary and Arts Council England is taking a delegation of visual arts leaders and emerging designers from across the UK to Hong Kong next month from 2–7 December. The mission takes place at Business of Design Week and is a direct result of working with a number of Culture Diary members eager to expand their creative and cultural practices internationally. The mission will work with the Department for International Trade and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office via the GREAT Britain Campaign.
Drama and performance experts at the University of Nottingham, in collaboration with East Midlands company Red Earth Theatre and D/deaf audience members, have developed technology to allow more D/deaf audiences to enjoy theatre.
The new tech will generate captions for dialogue much faster than traditional software and uses projection mapping to display them on the set, props and actors.
The Science museum is collaborating with Tate, National Gallery, V&A, National Muiseums Scotland, the Estorick Collection and more to create a new exhibition examining the Art of Innovation.
Register your interest in joining the Department for International Trade (DIT) at SXSW (South by Southwest) 2020 on 16-22 March 2020, in Austin, Texas for the annual nine-day festival showcase of music, film and tech.
SXSW brings around 300,000 visitors each year, from entrepreneurs and investors to cutting-edge digital disruptors, and a readymade audience for your company’s creativity, expertise, technology and innovation.
Companies could benefit from the connections, knowledge and experience of DIT in the following ways:
The annual London Design Festival sees a huge programme of design-focused exhibitions taking place at the V&A and across the capital in a variety of spaces.
Highlights in 2019 include:
The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (SBT) and Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) have commissioned a playable piece of augmented reality public art for Stratford-upon-Avon to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the first Shakespeare Jubilee.
The piece, I See The Future by Anagram, displays a vision of Stratford-upon-Avon dreamed up by its residents through two pairs of giant binoculars. Supported by Arts Council England and Watershed's Creative Producers International programme, the art will be installed for a weekend 6–8 September 2019.
