Art and Culture

Anyone Can Play Guitar - UK Tour

Anyone Can Play Guitar – UK Tour

by Alex 8 November 2011 Cinema

The little known story of Oxford’s small music scene which has for over thirty years had been producing bands of huge quality and integrity.

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Coen Brothers movie on Greenwich Village Folk Scene

by Alex 5 November 2011 Cinema

The Coen Brothers get folkie. Their latest film ‘Inside Llewyn Davies’ is based around the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 60′s.

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Tonight @ Leeds Film Festival: Architects of Harmonic Rooms & Records-Moving Image

Tonight @ Leeds Film Festival: Architects of Harmonic Rooms

by Alex 4 November 2011 Art and Culture

Tonight our good friends Architects of Harmonic Rooms & Records-Moving Image will be presenting a selection of video documentaries from their archives at Leeds Film Festival

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Last Hippie Standing (a documentary)

Last Hippie Standing (a documentary)

by Alex 12 October 2011 Art and Culture

On ‘The Last Hippie Sanding’ three characters are sufficient to trigger a cascade of associations: Goa. Party, Music and counter-culture lifestyle!

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Tyrannosaur - Paddy Considine's directorial debut

Tyrannosaur – In Cinema’s this week

by Alex 6 October 2011 Cinema

Actor Paddy Considine makes his directorial film debut with ‘Tyrannosaur’ which is released this week.

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555 KUBIK facade projection

Art: 555 KUBIK | facade projection

by Alex 11 September 2011 Art and Culture

The use of projections onto buildings has in recent years gone way beyond everyday perceptions of what can be achieved. The concept for the following facade projection by Urban Screen was derived from the underlying architecture of Kunsthalle in Hamburg, a leading art museum.

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Oliver Jeffers

Art: Introducing Oliver Jeffers – Artist and Illustrator

by Alex 10 September 2011 Art and Culture

Oliver Jeffers was born and brought up in Belfast and now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY where he has a studio. He makes art, from oil paintings, commercial illustrations and collage, but he is probably best known for making picture books for children.

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Union Chapel - Marginalised

Union Chapel’s 4th annual ‘Marginalised’ – 18th-22nd October

by Alex 9 September 2011 Art and Culture

‘Marginalised’ is a fantastically entertaining and engaging annual festival of events with music, art, comedy, talks, childrens workshops and discussions – all celebrating the breadth and the best of arts events at the Union Chapel.

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Sheeped Away

Short Film: Sheeped Away

by Alex 5 September 2011 Cinema

Sheeped Away tells the tale of a farmer who just wants to be with his beloved sheep. When a giant UFO enters his life to claim his sheep, what will he do to keep them safe from harm? And can he do this without waking his monstrous wife?

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Way of the Morris – Special London Screening

by Alex 15 August 2011 Cinema

The Local have teamed up with director Tim Plester to hold a very special afternoon screening of his heartfelt documentary Way of the Morris. The film’s DVD launch will take place on Sunday 25 September 2011, at Tim’s local cinema, the beautiful Phoenix in East Finchley, North London

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David Byrne - Bicycle Diaries

David Byrne – Bicycle Diaries

by Alex 3 August 2011 Literature

David Byrne is probably best known as a founding member of Talking Heads but he has a number of other passions which span across art, literature and the bike! Bicycle Diaries chronicles David’s observations and insights — what he is seeing, whom he is meeting, what he is thinking about — as he pedals through and engages with some of the world’s major cities.

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circo

New Documentary: CIRCO – a century-old traveling circus

by Alex 15 June 2011 Cinema

Directed by Aaron Schock, the documentary film ‘Circo’ opens in the UK this month. Set within a century-old traveling circus, ‘Circo’ is an intimate portrait of a Mexican family struggling to keep their tradition alive.

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Jack Kerouac Big Sur

Big Sur – The Movie (updated)

by Alex 20 April 2011 Art and Culture

Following the 50th anniversary in 2007 of Jack Kerouac’s world renowned novel ‘On the Road’, interest in the beat generation went on the rise with the film industry quick to pick up on the trend. On the Road is due for release this year and filming has begun on Big Sur.

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Sideshow @ Rough Trade Thurs 21st April

by Alex 20 April 2011 Art and Culture

Sideshow is an exhibition of drawings and poetry by Will Burns and Jason Butler exploring the lives of the people in and around the fairgrounds and penny gaffs of an older England.

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