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Baby Lame's Video Nasties, Image Nik Pate

Have a low budget, high gore Halloween

This Halloween, join award-winning drag artist Baby Lame for an alternative night of cinema and cabaret…

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…

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…

Bush Theatre Quiz

Test your knowledge in the Bush Theatre Library bar

Head to the Library Bar as the Bush Theatre Pub Quiz returns, with drag queens Shey Envy and Mamory Layne testing your knowledge…

Dazed New World online theatre festival

Dazed New World Festival brings theatre into the home

Embrace the arts this autumn, with two weeks of performances featuring dance, spoken word, comedy and puppets…

Hunt and Darton Credit Radio Local

Celebrate community legends and creativity with Radio Local

Listen in as the people of Nine Elms celebrate the joys of local radio, and meet community legends in a new upbeat show…

Judy and Liza - Liverpool Theatre Festival

Theatre festival staged in St Luke’s Bombed Out Church

Missed a summer of watching theatre and festival performances? A theatre festival in Liverpool is hoping to remedy that with a nine-day outdoor event…

Arts by the Sea Bournemouth, Photo by James Bridle

Outdoor installations and digital broadcasts at seaside festival

Visitors to the seaside town of Bournemouth will be able to enjoy an eclectic bunch of events as the Arts by the Sea festival takes place…

Shedinburgh Fringe Festival 2020

Fringe festival broadcast live from a shed

Missing your annual fix of eclectic shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe? Well, fear not, an alternative is ready to beam into your home… live from a shed!

Chips by Gilly/Unsplash

Chips and quips: the travelling chippy van taping your tales

This summer, a project in Cumbria is offering you the chance to share your stories whilst you order your chips for tea…

Brian, Razed Collective showcase

A digital showcase from Razed Collective

In their latest series nurturing queer artists, Raze Collective’s experimental online showcase of new work offers a joyous celebration of live performance…

NNF does Radio Local

Performance duo go digital with Radio Local

Performance duo, Hunt & Darton, will be celebrating the joys and necessity of local radio and community with their hyper local live broadcast next month…

Picnic Cinema

Join Captain Picnic for an alternative isolation party

This weekend, the folks behind the wonderfully eccentric Picnic Cinema are hosting an isolation party with a difference…

Banana Hut Gang, photo by Matthew Partridge

Forget the gloom and Zoom Your Own… Improv!

Lockdown life getting too predictable? Every Wednesday, theatre company Sedos and the Banana Hut Gang will present Zoom Your Own… Improv! As the audience, you have the power…

Laughter in Lockdown, Slapstick festival

Slapstick festival aims to bring Laughter in Lockdown

Bristol’s annual Slapstick festival of classic screen comedy will be continuing its Laughter in Lockdown series this Friday…

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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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The World Egg Throwing Championships are no yolk
World Egg Throwing Championship 2016

Are you a tosser? If so, you may want to head to Lincolnshire this weekend as the 15th World Egg Throwing Championships takes place…

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