Westwood College, Scarborough, is home to a variety of unique artists, musicians and drama students. Throughout June, the Fine Art degree students will showcase a culmination of three year’s hard work at their Degree Show. The graduating fine art student’s work consists of a diverse range of disciplines from visual artists, painters, printmakers, abstract artists […]
Month: May 2015
A new pop-up venue in Quids Inn, in Scarborough, has opened and is allowing local musicians to perform there. Chapter Three was started by Mike Linskey who works at San Angelo, the previous owners of the Open Air Theatre. Like the Open Air Theatre, the company does celebrity bookings but their new venture is all […]
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A Subjective Form of Media
‘Art is subjective’ is a phrase that can easily describe the new exhibition at Crescent Arts, Scarborough. Pre-pop to post-human: Collage in the Digital Age is an exhibition that caters for the elite and those with knowledge in the field of printing but this does not mean that only those will enjoy it. The printings […]
Scarborough-born, Sally-Ann Fawcett, has published a book documenting the media coverage of beauty contests. When she was growing up in Scarborough, Sally-Ann fell in love with beauty queens and contests and during the 70s, these were on every TV station and covered in all newspapers. However, nowadays, these contests are barely covered in newspapers or […]
On the hilltop of Fylingdales sits a beautiful and unique building overlooking the seaside town of Robin Hood’s Bay. This building is Old St Stephen’s Church and it has an interesting history. The church was probably founded in the 11th Century and in the early 18th Century a west gallery was introduced together with box […]
In 1996, gangsta-rapper Coolio was nominated for an Oscar for the film Dangerous Minds and he won a Grammy for the song Gangsta’s Paradise. But who was the man behind the rapper? Dave Callens was the tour manager of Coolio at the time and has written book telling his story called Putting Socks on the […]
There is a clear sense of snobbery in the arts industry, in particular with live art such as theatre, yet the associate director of the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool is just an average man finding his way, through the work he produces. As I sat and waited in the Everyman Theatre bar I thought how […]
A New Vic and Hull Truck Theatre adaptation of The Ladykillers has finished its run at The Stephen Joseph Theatre with roaring applauds. Directed by: Mark Babych Written by: William Rose Adapted by: Graham Lineham Starring: Anna Kirke, Andy Gillies, Michael Hugo, Andrew Pollard, Matthew Rixon, Timothy Speyer, Matt Sutton Touring: Hull Truck Theatre Based […]
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An exhibition worth seeing
The gallery at Woodend hosts a range of temporary exhibitions and the current AOI exhibition is just one of them. The AOI Exhibition features a variety of award-winning pieces of art from national and international illustrators. Walking round the gallery, the talent and effort that these illustrators put into their work was outstanding. With more […]
Award-winning director, Jack Thomas Smith, took time out of his busy schedule to have a chat with us about his new dark film Infliction which is a disturbing assembled footage film that documents two brothers’ 2011 murder spree in NC and the horrific truth behind their actions. His debut film, Disorder, was released by Universal/Vivendi […]
Lights, Camera, Action! 