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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…

The Escape of Iris Dupont

Want to enjoy a festival of quirky performances? Voila!

Here to rescue our downcast hearts and bring a flurry of international performances back into our lives is Voila!

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…

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…

The Head Wrap

Digital dramas with new dance show

This autumn, enjoy a season of dance shows, as the Rural Touring Dance Initiative (RTDI) goes digital for a series of online events…

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…

Catch Me

Watch a socially-distanced dance duet

This month, watch a live outdoor dance-acrobatics show, playfully challenging expectations of relationships across generations, gender and ethnicity…

Greenwich+Docklands International Festival 2020 - Black Victorians

Giant metal tripods and a fire garden at London festival

Are you ready for two weeks of immersive installations, colourful dance performances, and eclectic travelling and pop-up events?

Squad Goals, Caspa Productions, by Zac Cooke Photography

Dance and drama at Dagenham & Redbridge Football Ground

Ready to kick-off your theatre-going experiences again? Then a new immersive show in a stadium might just give you the dose of drama you’re looking for…

Shobana Jeyasingh Dance, Contagion, photo Jane Hobson

Dance installation commemorates pandemic centenary

This summer, watch Shobana Jeyasingh Dance’s intense and moving Contagion, commemorating the centenary of the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic…

Manch UK

Stories and performances from the South Asian dance community

A new virtual platform, Manch UK, is sharing inspirational stories and short performances from the South Asian dance community…

Rosemary Lee, Common Dance

The power of gathering, cooperation and belonging explored in dance film

This month, watch a moving dance piece performed by an inter-generational cast of 50 professional and non-professional dancers…

Locked down. Locked in. But living

Dance is locked down but alive

This autumn, enjoy three specially choreographed dance performances on the theme of isolation, created by UK dance companies during lockdown…

Protein Invisible Dancing ©JaneHobson

Heavy hitting issues and humour collide in dance shows

This summer, as part of dance company Protein’s 21st anniversary celebrations, audiences will be able to enjoy an array of new and acclaimed dance shows…

Up My Street - Online!

Online show could be right up your street

This summer, four new dance performances and an invitation to get moving will launch online, in a bid to help tackle cultural inequality and loneliness…

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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!

Top Story

Discover nocturnal wildlife wonders at Virtual Dark Skies Festival
Dalby Forest North York Moors Dark Skies cSteve Bell

This year’s Dark Skies Festival is going virtual to help you explore space, nocturnal wildlife and the night sky…

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