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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…

Totally Thames Festival 2020

Celebrate the Thames with an uplifting festival

Join in with mudlarks, environmentalists, historians and artists to celebrate the river at this year’s Totally Thames festival…

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…

The Sunday Art Club event in London and online

Enjoy socially distanced Sundays with free arts club

Celebrate diversity in the arts with a free outdoor event taking place in London (and online) this summer…

Nevill Holt Opera Sculpture - Allen Jones’s Dancers (2014)

Summer concerts in sculpture garden

This summer, audiences will be able to enjoy an open air concert and some quirky sculptures, as six outdoor events take place in Leicestershire…

Platform 4, Invisible Music

Moving stories and musical moments

This summer, experience an all-encompassing aural and visual event featuring a collection of personal stories on hearing loss…

Lockdown Band

Lockdown song sings praises of legendary bouncy floor

Taking inspiration from local people’s memories, The Lockdown Band has created a song dedicated to Poole’s Lighthouse arts venue…

OperaHarmony, image Nick Rutter

Opera brings harmony to people’s homes

Reflecting how creativity can still flourish in these uncertain times, OperaHarmony has brought together 19 groups to produce a series of micro-operitas via YouTube…

Red Fox Theatre

Culture is unconfined with online festival

Get ready for Culture Unconfined, an online festival featuring five days of drama, documentary, poetry, film and music…

Cautionary Tale

Help bring a musical tale to life

This month, help bring an extraordinary musical tale to life by recording music, choreography and sketches from the safety of your home…

Cassie & Corey, Drum & Bass Musical Podcast

A drum & bass musical podcast about eating disorders

This weekend, listen to a drum and bass musical podcast about eating disorders, as Cassie & Corey is released…

Folk Weekend: Oxford

Oxford’s Folk Weekend goes online for 2020

This year’s Oxford Folk Weekend will be going ahead, bringing the usual combination of song, high-energy dance and raucous music, direct to your house…

admission ticket

Get your culture fix without leaving the house

Contrary Life has put together some suggestions of how to get your fix of exhibitions, gigs and more, without leaving the safety of the sofa…

St Piran's Day in Cornwall

Pasties and parades on St Piran’s Day

On 5th March, the annual celebration of St Piran’s Day takes place in Cornwall. Celebrate with pasties, plays and parades…

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Curiosity of the Week

Normanton Church, a waterside wonder
Normanton Church by Karen Cann

Welcome to a new year, and a new Curiosity of the Week! Our first curiosity of 2021 is a sunken church. It’s also one of the UK’s finest hidden gem tourist attractions…

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Drama from a toilet cubicle
Overflow, Bush Theatre steaming show

This month, UK audiences can enjoy a streamed performance of Overflow, a heart-wrenching show played out in a club toilet…

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