Big Town Loud Voices, Doncaster’s newest writing group, knows the best writing comes from a full stomach. With this in mind, we headed to a gorgeous town centre bar, Pinchos, for a charcuterie board that had us in full poetic flow. We present our first published work below, in tribute to Pinchos and their excellent […]
Our Big Picture is delighted to announce the grand opening of the ‘Imaginarium shop’ on Saturday 16th October 2021 at 10 am at Grimsby Top Town Market. The Arts Council England funded, Our Big Picture – Art in the Market ‘Imaginarium’ project has seen 15 young people work alongside ‘artist in residence’ Anna Bean aka […]
Emma Gullon writes for League of Culture on the NASUWT’s Creative Curriculum campaign.
Join Doncaster’s 2nd Culture Crawl on Tuesday 30th October, starts 5pm
Doncaster Council and the Doncaster Museum are crowdfunding for a permanent mining memorial. It takes the form of a beautiful sculpture by artist Laurence Edwards. The sculpture is a large rock, with spaces hewn into the front for sculpted heads of local miners and their families. On the back, a bronze miner listens to a […]
League of Culture is thrilled to be supporting FreeMoveCreate, the new campaign from the Incorporated Society of Musicians and a-n The Artists Information Company. FreeMoveCreate aims to highlight growing concerns in the arts sector that the UK’s upcoming Brexit may harm work opportunities. With our current freedom of movement, artists can easily and quickly […]
Do you love the eccentric and delight in the weird? Then have I got a fabulous new museum for you! In lovely York, UK, the owners of Pandora’s Box want to add a small museum to their existing shop. As ever, these things need funding so they’ve come up with a cool Kickstarter campaign that […]
image by Jean Jullien League of Culture exists because of mine (and, thankfully, others) absolute refusal to believe that a world without cultural activities is a fine world to live in. There is no such thing as an acceptable target for attack. Office blocks, military headquarters, cartoonist’s offices, anywhere there is loss of life there […]
MPs yesterday debated the issue of privatising staff at London’s National Gallery. Since February, National Gallery staff, who are members of the PCS union, have taken part in 45 days of strike action. This is against plans to outsource 400 of the 600 staff to a private company. Staff have been further angered by the […]
Every good party needs a cake, although I was disappointed to not see a cheese and pineapple hedgehog. But amongst the cake eating and pom pom making, the blood bag embroideries and the student exhibitions, Leeds Arts Party had something serious going on. Last Saturday, Leeds College of Art hosted what on the surface […]
