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01.04.2024 / 10:23

Row Breaks Out After UK Theatre Cancels Palestinian Writers Event, Citing Safety Concerns

Less than a week ago, the UK’s popular art venue the Home Theatre in Manchester was sharing on social media that it would be “celebrating Palestinian voices” at an event called Voices of Resilience in April.

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Hundreds of queer artists urge Olly Alexander to boycott Eurovision 2024 over Israel’s participation

Olly Alexander, the UK’s Eurovision contestant, to boycott the song contest in solidarity with Palestine.The push was put forward to the singer, actor and Years & Years vocalist via an open letter, which was published by Queers For Palestine.In the letter – which can be read in full here – the signatories urge the musician to boycott the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest due to the inclusion of Israel. “By refusing to expel Israel from the competition, the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) is providing cultural cover and endorsement for the catastrophic violence that Israel has unleashed on Palestinians,” it reads.“At a time when accountability is so urgently needed, Israel’s inclusion in Eurovision would enable and cover up its war crimes and crimes against humanity,” it continues.

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Brian Eno, Nadine Shah, Maxine Peake and more to play intimate Palestine fundraiser gig at London’s Union Chapel

Brian Eno, Nadine Shah and Maxine Peake will be among the performers at a special benefit event in support of Palestine at London’s Union Chapel on April 18. The show, which is titled Sumud and promises “a fundraising evening of music, spoken word and film for Palestine”, will be hosted by Amos Trust and Palestine Music Expo, and tickets are available here. All proceeds will go to Amos Trust’s emergency appeal for Gaza.

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Glasgow Film Festival announces star-studded line-up for 20th anniversary

Glasgow Film Festival (GFF) has revealed the stars who will be joining them for their 20th anniversary, including Viggo Mortensen and Maxine Peake.

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Shaun Ryder biopic ‘Twisting My Melon’ held up by creative dispute

Twisting My Melon has been halted due to creative disputes.In 2013, ITV announced it was planning to serialise the Happy Mondays frontman’s autobiography Twisting My Melon. Eventually, Jack O’Connell (Skins) was announced as the lead actor in 2019.The film is written by Matt Greenhalgh, who also wrote the script for the Ian Curtis biopic Control, John Lennon‘s origin story Nowhere Boy, and Amy Winehouse‘s Back to Black.Greenhalgh was set to direct the movie as well, however a creative disagreement with the film’s American funders has stalled progressed on the film. In the latest edition of Classic Pop (via Music News), Ryder said: “Matt Greenhalgh wrote the script and was gonna direct.“So we got the money, half-English, half-American and Matt fell out with the Americans.

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15.01.2024 / 17:59

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'How many more times will it take a TV drama to hold people to account?'

Children were being raped 'every day' - but the 'lone voices' who spoke out about it were 'disbelieved' and 'silenced'.

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23.12.2023 / 22:09

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BBC viewers say 'it’s not Christmas' without 'genius' Victoria Wood as they spot one sad detail

Victoria Wood fans were delighted on Saturday night as the late comedy legend returned to TV screens on BBC 2 with a repeat of her much-loved Christmas special Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings. The sketch show features an array of famous faces, but fans were quick to comment how many of them are no longer with us.

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10.11.2023 / 07:45

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Flash mob to take place at Oldham Coliseum as efforts to save historic venue ramp up again

This Saturday, a flash mob event will take place on what would have been the opening day of Oldham Coliseum's legendary Pantomime. The event will be staged outside the legendary theatre as part of a continued effort to save the building, which closed back in March.

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Tilda Swinton, Steve Coogan and Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja among 2000+ artists calling for Gaza ceasefire in open letter

Tilda Swinton, Steve Coogan and Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja are some of the 2,000 people from across the arts and entertainment world who have signed an open letter calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.Miriam Margoyles, Maxine Peake, Frankie Boyle and Charles Dance are also among the signatories of the letter, which condemns various governments for “not only tolerating war crimes but aiding and abetting them” amid the current conflict between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas, as well as “every act of violence against civilians and every infringement of international law whoever perpetrates them”.Citing Israeli Minister of Defence Yoav Gallant’s depiction of Palestinians as “human animals”, the letter goes on to argue that Palestinians “have become people to whom almost anything can be done”.“We are witnessing a crime and a catastrophe. Israel has reduced much of Gaza to rubble, and cut off the supply of water, power, food and medicine to 2.3million Palestinians.

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Tilda Swinton, Steve Coogan, Maxine Peake & Charles Dance Sign UK Arts & Culture World Petition Calling For End Of Israel’s Gaza Siege & Bombing

More than 2,000 figures from the UK’s arts and culture world have signed an open letter calling for the immediate cessation of Israel’s blockade and bombing of Gaza.

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Sky Debuts Trailer for James Marsh’s ‘Dance First,’ Starring Gabriel Byrne, Ahead of World Premiere at San Sebastian Film Festival (EXCLUSIVE)

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor European pay TV platform Sky has released the trailer for Sky Original film “Dance First,” ahead of its world premiere at San Sebastian Film Festival on Sept. 30. The film is directed by BAFTA and Academy Award winner James Marsh (“The Theory of Everything”) and written by BAFTA winner Neil Forsyth (“Guilt”).

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10.09.2023 / 09:27

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What went wrong at Oldham Coliseum and where do campaigners go now?

“So many people tried to give advice to the Coliseum, but this didn’t lead to change”: A report looking into the reasons which led Oldham Coliseum Theatre to the brink of collapse has found a board culture of insufficient ‘constructive challenge’ and a lack of accountability.

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08.09.2023 / 13:31

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Music and culture trail arrives in Salford featuring Peter Hook, John Cooper Clarke and Bez

An immersive music trail through Salford will feature the chance to see and hear from the likes of Bez, John Cooper Clarke, Peter Hook, and Mike Sweeney.

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Hayley Atwell, Bill Nighy, Mark Rylance & David Harewood Support Green Rider Launch for More Sustainable U.K. Film and TV Productions

Manori Ravindran Executive Editor of International Hayley Atwell, Bill Nighy, Mark Rylance and David Harewood are among a group of 100 actors supporting a new Green Rider contract intended to improve the sustainability of the U.K. film and TV industry.

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19.05.2023 / 16:27

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Janelle Monae Manchester International Festival gigs cancelled

Three huge gigs from acclaimed American artist Janelle Monae at the Manchester International Festival have been cancelled - just six weeks before she was due to headline the 2023 event.

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Kate Winslet Wins Best Leading Actress – BAFTA TV Awards

Kate Winslet has won the coveted Leading Actress gong at the BAFTA TV Awards for her performance in Channel 4’s I Am Ruth. The Mare of Easttown star has won three BAFTA Film Awards during a stellar career but this is her first TV win.

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‘Tish’ to Open Sheffield DocFest, Iranian Filmmaker Rakhshan Bani-Etemad to Be Guest of Honor (EXCLUSIVE)

Leo Barraclough International Features Editor Paul Sng’s “Tish,” an intimate portrait of British documentary photographer Tish Murtha, will open the 30th edition of Sheffield DocFest on June 14. Iranian filmmaker Rakhshan Bani-Etemad will be the guest of honor. In his film, Sng – whose work includes “Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché” and “Dispossession” – both celebrates the vision and humanism of a gifted artist, and follows Murtha’s daughter Ella as she fights to preserve her mother’s legacy. “’Tish’ is a powerful tribute to a vital artist, activist and social chronicler, and a rallying call to all whose engagement with art questions who gets seen and heard, who doesn’t, and why,” the festival said in a statement. “This is a story of contemporary Britain, of the fight for culture, as well as the life of a mother and activist.”