MY STORY The Playhouse: a space to make meaning together

Written on 12 March 2021.

Kevin Murphy, chief executive, The Playhouse, Derry~Londonderry

The Playhouse Derry, in the UK’s first UK City of Culture, is a 146-seat theatre and multi-discipline arts centre founded by Pauline Ross in 1992 in the former St Mary’s Convent and St Joseph’s School with a grant of just £300. As well as a theatre it is now an award-winning community arts centre devoted to reconciliation and the peace process. It’s new CEO is Kevin Murphy, formerly chief officer of Voluntary Arts Ireland.

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THE ART OF PHOTOJOURNALISM Image of the month

Written on 01 March 2021.

St David’s Day, Wrexham, 1^st March 1968, by Michael Brennan

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MY STORY Down on the art farm: Deborah Parkes, co-founder, Clayhill Arts

Written on 01 March 2021.

Set in a converted Somerset farm, Clayhill Arts is a training retreat for artists and creative professionals founded by Deborah and Michael Parkes and opening in 2017, and also a model of arts enterprise

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MY STORY Art Is Essential - the drawing on the wall

Written on 23 February 2021.

Paula Orrell, a curator, is the director of the Contemporary Visual Art Network (CVAN) and has just launched Art Is Essential, #ArtIsEssential, a campaign to raise awareness of the importance of visual art

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MY STORY Sophie Stone - light in the Green Room

Written on 10 February 2021.

A new 12-part accessible podcast dedicated to the work of deaf, disabled and neurodiverse artists is being launched tomorrow, February 11, devised and produced by a new collective called STRIVE. The TV, film and stage actor SOPHIE STONE, who was born deaf, is part of the team.

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TAITMAIL Once upon someone’s time

Written on 05 February 2021.

This is National Storytelling Week, the annual celebration of the spoken tale that’s been going since 2000, and it comes in the middle of an unprecedented explosion of literary enthusiasm.

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The tales a million of us could tell

Written on 03 February 2021.

Almost a million Britons have written their own books during lockdown, according to the biography writing service StoryTerrace.

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THE ART OF PHOTOJOURNALISM Image of the month

Written on 29 January 2021.

Bluebell Girls in Paris, 1^st November 1951, by Grace Robertson

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THE WORD Covid – a glimmer of light for minority artists?

Written on 27 January 2021.

Through the catastrophic gloom of the pandemic for art, the Liverpool-born artist Chila Kumari Singh Burman sees a possible silver lining for marginalised groups

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TAITMAIL The day the music died

Written on 21 January 2021.

Was it February 3, 1959, when the headline mourned the death of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and Big Bopper in a plane crash? Or was it December 31, 2020?

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Lockdown driving new audiences to music – RPO report

Written on 05 January 2021.

More people are enjoying orchestral music as it plays a growing part in everyday life, according to a report being published by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra tomorrow (January 6), which will help the orchestra remodel itself for new audiences and venues

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