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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…

Artist Suriya Aisha

Fun Palaces bring people together for a tiny revolution

This weekend, get together with your local community, neighbours and the online community, for a tiny revolution…

Live From The Grand Hall Credit Battersea Arts Centre

Make/Love this autumn with a season of digital shows

This autumn, Battersea Arts Centre (BAC) in London is inviting you to Make/Love, as a season of daring and intimate work is launched…

St Abbs Sculpture, Widows and Bairns, Black Friday

Widows and Bairns look out to sea

Our latest Curiosity of the Week is an unusual and touching sculpture, commemorating the 1881 fishing disaster known as ‘Black Friday’…

We Make Events, Global Day of Action

Artist shines a light on Wales for Global Action Day

This evening (Wednesday 30th September), watch as a digital Welsh flag is lit up as part of a Global Day of Action…

LICAF Illuminos light spectacle, Kendal

An illuminated celebration of international comics

This week, watch a celebration of comics in Kendal as the Lakes International Comic Art Festival (LICAF) presents Illuminos…

Cold War Steve, The Windbreak

25 metre long windbreak pops up on beach

This week, British collage artist and satirist Cold War Steve, will install a rather unusual windbreak on Boscombe beach…

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Curiosity of the Week

Woodhenge, Stonehenge’s lesser-known neighbour
Woodhenge - ©English Heritage, Historic England Photo Library

You have heard of Stonehenge in Wiltshire, but have you heard of its lesser known neighbour, Woodhenge? Find out more in our latest Curiosity of the Week…

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A five-metre tall puppet travels through Crawley
Aura’s Odyssey with five-metre tall puppet visits Crawley

This week, see a five-metre tall puppet travel through Crawley in West Sussex. Puppet Aura will visit the town centre and parks, and ride on an open-top bus…

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