Have you always secretly harboured a desire to act or write but were mindful not to upset the parents? This is your chance to find out whether you have what it takes.

Yellow Earth Theatre and ALRA ( Academy of Live and Recorded Arts) will be holding auditions on Saturday 19th May from 2pm at Zion Arts, 335 Stretford Road, Manchester M15 5ZA for Yellow Academy 2012 - a 2 week FREE summer school that will be held in London July 16- 26th.

Hurry to catch the deadline 11th May! To find out more go to www.yellowearth.org and download an application form today.

Yayoi Kusama, with a career spanning over half a century, is undoubtedly one of the most prolific Japanese artists of her generation. From paintings to installations, her considerable body of work is very diverse, reflecting her own hybrid identity. Kusama is now Japan’s most prominent contemporary artist and presenting her work to an international audience represents an exciting and ambitious curatorial challenge.


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The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) has launched a new scheme offering creative residencies at its London base.


The initiative is open to individuals or groups who want to explore their creative potential and the English traditions by undertaking a residency at Cecil Sharp House to research and develop new work.


The creative residencies are open to professional artists across all sectors – from classical composers and contemporary dancers to poets, musicians or visual artists – not just those working within the folk arts.

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Please find attached information on a BBC 2012 & BBC World Service project- for the third intake of the scheme we are looking for Cantonese or Mandarin speaking groups to be trained in aspects of journalism and work with us to make unique content on their London communities. Deadline for group applications for the scheme in partnership with the Chinese service of the World Service is Friday 11th May.



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We are happy to be able to announce two special offers for Shakespeare's Globe's upcoming production of Titus Andronicus in Cantonese which is coming to the Globe this Thursday at 2.30 pm and Friday at 7.30 pm. The Globe to Globe festival in now in its second week having opened to a fantastic response from both critics (“Such was the power of the performances, the way the cast seemed to live their lines, that the language barrier hardly mattered” 5 Stars – The Guardian) and audiences.

Special offers
Best available seats for just £10 – usually £35 – a discount of £25. Please call the box office on 020 7401 9919 and quote ‘£10 best available’, or enter the code PCD10BEST when booking online at https://tickets.shakespearesglobe.com/selectshow.asp?EIC=G2G

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Also we have 2 for 1 yard tickets available – usually £5 this works out at just £2.50 a ticket. Please call the box office on 020 7401 9919 and quote ‘2 for 1 yard tickets’, or enter the code PCDYARD241 when booking online at https://tickets.shakespearesglobe.com/selectshow.asp?EIC=G2G

RITES & REGULATIONS is a multimedia theatrical mash-up with two interwoven Singaporean narratives, each dealing with different aspects of the funerary experience and the banalities of urban life, in a world with no room for exceptions, where the living live in standard-sized homes, and the dead rest in standard-sized graves.

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Contemporary Directions is a new and unique research project that offers a forum for discussion and development of ideas, exploring the role of the director in 21st century theatre. It is a collaboration between The Stanislavski Centre and Shakespeare’s
Globe Education.

Booking is now open for our inaugural event:

Re-naming the Director

Wednesday 6th June 2012, 18.30 to 21.00

The Rose Theatre, Rose Bruford College of Theatre & Performance, Sidcup


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60-minute Cinema is a six week changing video programme at Chinese Arts Centre. During this time, our main gallery space will be transformed into a comfortable seating environment specially designed for video viewing.

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Thu 26 April 2012 – 7.30pm

An introduction to the piano music of Joachim Raff
Speaker: Mark Thomas
Performer: Tra Nguyen
Language: In English
The performance will introduce selected short piano compositions across his creative output and the Fantasie-Sonate, one of his most important compositions for the instrument.
Tickets: £15, conc. £12 (Friends of Pushkin House and concessions) Prices include refreshments.

Link http://www.pushkinhouse.org/en/events/an-introduction-to-the-piano-music-of-joachim-raff

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6pm - 9pm on Tuesday 24th April 2012
@ Rose Bruford College, Burnt Oak Lane, Sidcup, Kent, DA15 9DF
www.bruford.ac.uk

Would you like to refresh your approach to teaching Shakespeare? If so we are offering a specialised workshop in which Rose Bruford College’s Head of Voice, Tess Dignan will explore vocal techniques and speaking Shakespeare. The workshop is running in collaboration with the Rose Bruford International Research Centre for Voice and Speech.


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