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CAN Festival 2021 at Two Temple Place - artist Chloe Wing, photo Jodie Gilliam 10 - Copy

Enjoy a unique digital arts encounter

CAN x TWO TEMPLE PLACE is a special digital event co-produced by contemporary British Chinese artists and one of London’s hidden gems…

Valentine's Day, photo by sharon mccutcheon on Unsplash

Quirky ideas for an alternative or anti-Valentine’s Day at home

We bring you some quirky ideas on how to spend your alternative (or anti) Valentine’s Day at home, with dark tales and clandestine cabaret…

Creative Cabin, Thelma Hulbert Gallery Devon

Devon culture series hopes to lift spirits

A new digital programme will creatively explore everything from wild swimming and tidal patterns to healing herbs and tree planting…

Right Here Festival - Brittany Johnston by Jacob Punter

Creativity celebrated with Right Here Festival

Enjoy a celebration of the creativity and vibrancy of Crawley as the Right Here Festival takes place with spoken word, dance and photography…

Extant, Flight Paths

Experience a different kind of flight path

It’s been a while since we’ve been able to travel. But now you can go on an altogether different type of journey with Flight Paths…

Photo by LoboStudio Hamburg on Unsplash

Ringing in the New Year with phone box artwork

This New Year’s Day, Pick Me Up (& hold me tight) will be aiming to make every phone box in the UK ring at the same time, at 11am…

Being Human Festival 2020

Being Human festival invites you for a cultural cuppa

This November, join Being Human festival’s virtual talks, tours, quizzes, exhibitions, storytelling, and virtual cafés…

Uummannaq Music, Hivshu

Hear stories from Arctic artists, poets and musicians

The British Museum is encouraging you to take this unique opportunity to pause, reflect and look at our world from new perspectives…

Forensic Art Online Workshop

Delve into the world of forensic art and facial reconstruction

Are you looking for something completely different to do this November? How about delving into the world of forensic art?

Art on a Postcard, November 2020

Your chance to own some Art on a Postcard

Art on a Postcard will return with its Winter Auction, giving bidders the chance to own a small but perfectly formed piece of art…

Author Tayari Jones - Aké Festival

Join inspiring events as African festival goes global

Leading arts and literature event, Aké Festival, is heading online for 2020, giving global audiences the chance to listen in…

The Singing Ringing Tree

A unique musical sculpture in Lancashire

Following on from last week’s rather touching sculpture, we bring you an altogether different kind of sculpture for our latest Curiosity of the Week…

Oracles in Sepia, Compass Presents

Watch bespoke performances with Oracles in Sepia

Looking for something a little more unusual to fill your Thursday evenings with? Then, Oracles in Sepia may be just what you’re looking for…

No Pasara by Leila Alaoui, 2008

Unseen stories of communities are captured in exhibition

Somerset House and 1-54 Contemporary African Art fair are hosting an exhibition capturing unseen stories of people displaced by conflict…

Art by Toy_Box

Not just Bang! Pow! Splat! A different view with Thinking Comics

LICAF Live is hosting a series of thought-provoking presentations by leading comic artists in their virtual Thinking Comics programme…

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Curiosity of the Week

Take a ride through history at Blackpool Pleasure Beach
Blackpool Pleasure Beach sign

For our latest Curiosity of the Week, we thought we’d bring you a bit of cheery escapism in the form of fairground rides!

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Join an interactive whodunnit this Easter
Manor of Lies by Morpheus

No plans for Easter? Why not take part in a Regency whodunnit with your friends? From now until the end of April, Manor of Lies will be helping people get together to solve a mystery and avoid a scandal…

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