Are you ready for two weeks of immersive installations, colourful dance performances, and eclectic travelling and pop-up events?
Archives for Literature
Graphic novel captures historical racial conflict in Cardiff
This summer, a graphic novel will enable you to step back into a dark period of history in Cardiff, and trace events through real locations…
Bite-size drama on a postcard
New Perspectives have devised a novel way of reaching rural audiences, through a six-part drama written on a series of specially designed postcards…
Escape this summer with the Yorkshire Festival of Story
This August, Yorkshire Festival of Story will be giving audiences the chance to escape, gain new perspectives and get active through the use of stories…
Discover comic art in a virtual clock tower
The Lakes International Comic Art Festival has launched a Virtual Comics Clock Tower ahead of October’s LICAF LIVE event…
Shatila Stories zoom into World Refugee Day event
This World Refugee Day, on Saturday 20th June, a special online discussion with the writers of Shatila Stories will take place via Zoom…
New poetry collection focuses on resistance and hope
God, Does Humanity Exist? is a new collection of poems from Kamand Kojouri focusing on suffering, resistance, and, most importantly, hope…
Make Mondays more moving with monologue series
Throughout this spring and summer, a series of Monday Monologues written by UK and Irish writers will be released by the Bush Theatre…
Go #OutdoorsIndoors and escape to nature
Northumberland National Park is using social media to bring the unique qualities of the landscape, wildlife and environment to people stuck at home…
Five books to transport you from isolation
You’ve survived a month of lockdown, you’ve cleaned the house from top to bottom, finished the DIY and baked all the bread you can possibly eat. Maybe it’s time to put your feet up with a good book?
Shakespeare in Quarantine, a podcast for book lovers
A virtual book club has launched, exploring the work of Shakespeare and bringing a fresh take on some well-known classic plays…
An evening of science and fiction at the Royal Society
This February, head to the Royal Society in London for a special late event with a Science Fiction theme…
Connect with nature at Lost Words Festival
A festival dedicated to a book that has become a global movement, celebrating language and nature, will open at The Sill: National Landscape Discovery Centre…
Book review: Shamus Dust
Read our review of Janet Roger’s Shamus Dust, a hard-boiled detective story set in a Wintry 1940s London…
Discoveries and secrets at this year’s Being Human festival
From trawling for treasures in archives to discovering secret lives and overlooked histories, the annual Being Human festival is back this month…