Podcasts about midlands arts centre

Did you know that Shakespeare was really into astrology? We sure didn't, which is why we're joined by Kelly Downes, who gives us a great discussion to bookend our Supernatural Shakespeare series!    Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of death, assassination, religious persecution, suicide, sex, fire, poisoning, war and battle.    Guest Kelly Downes (she/her) is a theatre maker from Syracuse, NY, with strong ties to Boston, MA, currently living in Birmingham UK. She earned a BFA in Theatre & Performance from Emerson College, and a Masters in Shakespeare & Creativity from the Shakespeare Institute at University of Birmingham. Kelly is currently working to increase accessibility to arts and culture in Birmingham as a fundraiser at Midlands Arts Centre. She would love to connect with more like minded creatives on both sides of the Atlantic. If you are interested in queer Shakespeare; using storytelling to reconnect with the natural world; and devising new work inspired by classics, say hello!   Housekeeping - Recommendation: This week, Julia recommends audiobooks! From Libby.  - Books: Check out our previous book recommendations, guests' books, and more at https://spiritspodcast.com/books - Call to Action: Check out Games and Feelings!   Sponsors - Wildgrain is the first bake-from-frozen box for artisanal bread. For a limited time, you can get $30 off the first box - PLUS free Croissants in every box - when you go to https://wildgrain.com/Spirits to start your subscription. - Ravensburger jigsaw puzzles, available in your local game store or on Amazon today! - BetterHelp is an online therapy service. Get 10% off your first month at https://betterhelp.com/spirits   Find Us Online - Website & Transcripts: https://spiritspodcast.com - Patreon: https://patreon.com/spiritspodcast - Merch: https://spiritspodcast.com/merch - Instagram: https://instagram.com/spiritspodcast - Twitter: https://twitter.com/spiritspodcast - Tumblr: https://spiritspodcast.tumblr.com - Goodreads: https://goodreads.com/group/show/205387   Cast & Crew - Co-Hosts: Julia Schifini and Amanda McLoughlin - Editor: Bren Frederick - Music: Brandon Grugle, based on "Danger Storm" by Kevin MacLeod - Artwork: Allyson Wakeman - Multitude: https://multitude.productions   About Us Spirits is a boozy podcast about mythology, legends, and folklore. Every episode, co-hosts Julia and Amanda mix a drink and discuss a new story or character from a wide range of places, eras, and cultures. Learn brand-new stories and enjoy retellings of your favorite myths, served over ice every week, on Spirits.

https://notesonfilm1.com/2023/10/31/in-conversation-with-pamela-hutchinson-on-the-red-shoes/ There is a major retrospective of the films of Powell & Pressburger currently underway in London at the BFI Southbank – the most extensive celebration of their work ever undertaken -- selections of which will tour the country. As part of the celebrations, the BFI has published a short monograph by Pamela Hutchinson on THE RED SHOES -- one of their greatest films -- under its ‘BFI Film Classics' imprint. I found it fun to read and very informative, with an impressive range of sources, intelligently organised. The book is beautifully written in a way that seems personal but is so impressively argued it becomes very difficult to argue against; and with a delightful mode of narrating: ‘but perhaps you disagree with my take.' It's both impressive and entertaining and it made me want to talk to Pam some more about the film and the book. In the accompanying podcast, we discuss the following: Who are Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and what is their significance to a history of cinema in general, and British cinema in particular? What is the enduring appeal of THE RED SHOES. Why does the film feel so distinctly British but also so different from the British Cinema then being produced. What is the context for the film's theme of ‘dying for art'. How did the filmmakers and cinematographer Jack Cardiff achieve a style of colour so different than that normally produced by Technicolour productions under the direction of Natalie Kalmus? What is a composed film? What is the relationship of a ‘composed film' to the concept of Gesuntkunstwerk? What was the status of ballet then and how does the film deploy the form? Was the film an influence on MGM Freed Unit Productions such as AN AMERICAN IN PARIS? What did Anton Walbrook and Moira Shearer bring to the film and what happened to the after? And much more. I have spoken to Pam previously on her other brilliant BFI classic on PANDORA'S BOX; listeners might want to have a look at the Silent London website on all aspects of Silent Cinema that she directs and writes in. Pam will be talking on THE RED SHOES at the Midlands Arts Centre on the 16th of December to accompany a screening of the film. The MAC cinema has arguably the best projection system in the Midlands, a perfect place to see such a great and sumptuous film. Do I need to say that the book is a perfect stocking filler for Christmas?

In this episode, Alicia recaps the experience of attending Cannes Lions Festival with 3 Black creatives and professionals she attended Cannes with, along with 50+ Black creatives. See the bio of each episode feature below: Denise  Denise Maxwell is the multi genre international Photographer behind Lensi Photography; covering genres such as sports, fashion, events, portraits and photojournalism, workshops and mentoring to name some. She has been named as 1 of 7 female documentary photographers to be highlighted by the BBC during lockdown. Her art work has been exhibited at The Midlands Arts Centre, The Harris Museum and The Photography Show. She has had work published in major publications such as OK Magazine, The Independent and Metro. Denise is 1 of 15 female photographers chosen to be exhibited by F22 of The Association of Photographers Was the award winning photographer behind the Starling Bank “Make Money Equal” Campaign. She guest lectures at various International Universities and UK Colleges . In 2022 she had 8 features in mainstream photography magazines and has delivered Masterclases on the Super-stage at The Photography Show. Alongside continuing to create imagery for clients including Uber, Google, Government Departments, Gumtree and the BBC; Denise continues to speak across the UK sharing her knowledge and experience with over 12 years in the field, specialising in teaching photographers how to set up multiple streams of income and creating  Subscribe to Denises Mentoring site if you wish to learn more about Photography - patreon.com/LensiPhotography  See more about Denises work -  https://lensilearning.co.uk/  Sinead  Sinead has campaigned for diversity and inclusion since her youth: co-founding Google's AfroGoogle Network, launching a social enterprise to support the LGBTQ community, and founding the charity, We Are We to combat discrimination against women and to end period poverty in the UK.  Outside of the charity, she is also a powerhouse consultant, having worked with over 80 multi-million dollar companies listed on the London, Euronext and New York Stock Exchanges.  Her 10 year experience expands across world leading companies such as Google, Shopify Plus, SocialTalent and Salesforce where she travels the world engaging in consultative relationships focused on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategies focused on changing mindsets, breaking biases and removing barriers to create a truly inclusive and psychologically safe environment for all.  She also runs a construction company with her partner, where they buy land in the U.K. and build commercial spaces and residentials Connect with Sinead - IG - @sineadsir & https://www.linkedin.com/in/sineadrose Bolaji  Bolaji has over 18 years of corporate experience working for top investment banks, Bolaji has directed many multi million dollar enterprise implementations and has notably secured over £6,000,000 in sales for one of his clients a top SAAS company. He has also spearheaded multiple high ticket business launches and has recently been helping business owners and entrepreneurs use their online profiles to create highly profitable online courses and academies To book a consultation with Bolaji - https://go.bolajiolatoye.com/consultation 

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Thank you so much for joining me in this episode of my podcast, "Success Beyond The Score". My guest today is Dan Whitehouse. He is an acclaimed composer and songwriter who has released five solo albums and who is currently signed with Reveal Records. He is a song-writing tutor and mentor qualified in the Sounds of Intent methodology, and he has extensive experience working directly with musicians or through facilitators such as Midlands Arts Centre or Company of Song, to create community through music. Today, we are going to learn how everything started, how it is going, his experiences of studying music, and everything about being signed to a label. This interview was recorded through Zoom with me being in the UK and Dan being in Japan, so you might perceive a slight change of audio quality between the introduction and the show. Don't worry about it, though, because the content's quality is constantly excellent. Without further ado, let's welcome Dan Whitehouse. 0:00 Show Introduction 2:00 Who is Dan Whitehouse? 3:00 Balancing community music projects and commercial work 05:46 Working with people with additional needs 07:40 Influences - meeting Chuck Berry; parental influence 09:20 The reason for taking a music degree 11:15 Getting signed and tips for getting signed 16:20 The Label experience Dan Whitehouse double album ‘Dreamland Tomorrow' Produced by Tom Rose and Boo Hewerdine Watch “Dreamland” here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO1TLiYz-Dg To steam/download the album https://soundcloud.com/danwhitehouse/sets/dreamland-tomorrow/s-QlS5C Tomorrow (Gustaf Ljunggren Remix) https://open.spotify.com/track/0schdHiEU9NTGtR2zb4yUq?si=yCKooZAQQkC_U5U8jsUFSg Videos Dreamland (Live) https://youtu.be/3o9zNhnK7NI Dreamland (Dir Martin D Hyde) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO1TLiYz-Dg Glass (Dir Martin D Hyde) https://youtu.be/wfnM7C2AFc8 Glass (live) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpLbaUAYfmQ State of The English (Dir Martin D Hyde) https://youtu.be/sNbvVKPQ9-o State of The English (live) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oB3UKNnqis&feature=youtu.be Weightlifting (Dir Martin D Hyde) https://youtu.be/VRLWoXTJGZo What I Didn't See (Dir Martin D Hyde) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeUzwexbnNY Crazy On The Weekend (Sunhouse) live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MGuR2HzHB8 Given Up (live) https://youtu.be/OgdzzMsQpoE Tomorrow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQwDi1jjPzE Dan's contacts: Website: www.dan-whitehouse.com Twitter: @dan_whitehouse Instagram:@whitehousedan Facebook: @danwhitehousemusic For all media enquiries, please contact James Soars Tel. 01536 720245/07758 781032 Email james@jameshsoars.com Millicent's contacts: Millicent's music industry coaching & education https://www.successbeyondthescore.com/ and for Millicent's free E-Booklet 'Revealed 25 Secrets of the Successful Gigging Musician, Singer, Rapper and Spoken Word Artiste'. Email: info@millicentstephenson.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Millicent-Stephenson-Saxophonist-547354311995182/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/millicentstephensonsaxophonist/ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/success-beyond-the-score/id1489769657 LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/millicentstephenson SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/millicentstephensonsaxophonist Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2utS42s Twitter: https://twitter.com/millicentsax

This third Lives In Music series concentrates not just on peoples' music journeys... it also has a consistent thread running through everyone's lives: that of Covid 19, the resultant lockdown, and the effect it's had on people's activities. This episode is no exception, but there is a difference. We recorded this talk some eleven months ago, just as Sid Peacock's Surge in Spring festival at Cannon Hill, the Midlands Arts Centre, was cancelled as lockdown came down on all our music activities. I settled down to edit our chat, and talked to Sid and Ruth Angell - who make a formidable musical team - about what might still be relevant – or even taking place. And it turns out there is a lot. But what shoots though this episode is the to and fro between two very different musicians, with very different personalities, and even more different backgrounds, and how they collaborate. It also opens up a fascinating perspective on how some of the musicians in our town work together: the conversation throws up it's a veritable list of great players. Over and above that, there is the sweet story of how these two contrasting and brilliant people met and fell in love.  There's a sample of Ruth's new album - an early demo mix - in the podcast, and if you want to follow up on things, know more, I have put links on the companion blog post: 'A Life in Music: Sid Peacock and Ruth Angell', which you can find on the Radio To Go Blog at radiotogo.com.  A footnote: the intro and outro flourishes I'm using in this series of Lives in Music podcast come from Vo Fletcher who is featured in this series, along with Loz Kingsley, here. I asked him for a bit of live impro, and this was the result.   The Lives in Music Podcast series has been running for about two years now. These are interviews with local musicians, looking at how music has shaped them throughout their lives. Series 3 also looks hard at how lockdown has had an impact. There are some lovely stories. To see all the artists, here's a link to every episode.

Puppeteer operating Zippy for 20 years on TV and worked with many of Great Britain's Company's. Cast of Labyrinth, Dark Crystal Age of Resistance. GET HIS BOOK "Zippy and me": https://www.amazon.fr/Zippy-Me-Britains-Infamous-English-ebook/dp/B07NRYZQBC Ronnie was born in Toronto, Canada and trained at the Little Angel Theatre, London under John Wright. His association With the Little Angel spans over thirty years as performer, and later as director. Other theatre credits have included Ala-al-din (Clifford Heap Miniature Theatre UK Tour) Through Wooden Eyes (Hogarth Puppets UK Tour) Han's the Bell Ringer (Oxford Play House and Civic Theatre Darlington.) Angelo (Purcell Room, London) Soldiers Tale, The Box of Toys, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Genevieve De Brabant, Reynard the Fox. (Queen Elizabeth Hall, London and Norwich Puppet Theatre.) Cinderella, Frog Prince, Peter and the Wolf, Pinocchio, (Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham.) and Polynesia in Doctor Dolittle UK Tour Scottish Arts Council Funded Tours, and visits to America, Israel, Denmark, France, Belgium and Czechoslovakia followed. However he is probably best known as "Zippy "from ITV's Rainbow and later Rainbow Days. As Zippy, Ronnie has appeared On The Jim Davidson Show (Thames), The Generation Game (BBC), Channel 5's Night Fever, The Jonathan Ross Show (Channel 4), The World of Puppets (BBC), The Greatest 100 Kids TV Shows (Channel 4), as well as appearances at the Fridge, The Hammersmith Pallais, as well numerous Universities, Night Clubs, and Discos, all over Great Britain with the Rainbow Disco Road Show and Rainbow's Play Your Cards Right. Ronnie receives Harlequin Award from Peter Charlton Film appearances include, The Naked Runner which starred the late Frank Sinatra, A Dandy in Aspic, Labyrinth, Muppet Christmas Carol, Muppet Treasure Island, and The Little Shop of Horrors. Commercials include Round tree's Jelly Tots, Harvest Crunch, American Yellow Page's, London Docklands Crows and even one for a Swedish Toilet Roll. The most enjoyable would be for the Ideal Home Exhibition in the seventies, where he operated the original Bill and Ben ...The flower pot men! He has taught at Little Angel Theatre, Central School of Speech and Drama, and founded The London School of Puppetry with his partner Caroline Astell-Burt. When time permits, Ronnie performs his one man puppet shows for young children. Learn more about him at : ✅WEBSITE: http://www.ronnieledrew.com/ ✅FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/ronnie.ledrew ✅INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/sndodo/ ✅YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCErPnJhiH1YXwonMRaPh2rg. ✅TWITTER: https://twitter.com/Punchand ____________________________ Hosted by Caroline Bernier-Dionne (CaroBD) DID YOU SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PATREON YET? Have a look:

Cold War is Paweł Pawlikowski's follow up to the Academy Award winning Ida. We delighted in the Midlands Arts Centre’s fabulous projection system, which Mike says makes these beautifully lit and composed images "sing", allowing their poetry to resonate. The film is unashamedly a love story, framed in a 4:3 ratio that best frames faces and sharpens the focus on the feelings they express, in glistening black and white. Cold War begins unusually in that the love each of the protagonists has for the other is never in doubt. The problem, the threat, the barrier, is how the geopolitics of the post-war period interrupt that love - the whole world is against them! We discuss the resonances of the film’s setting, the period 1949-1964, and the significance of the film moving back and forth from Paris and several Eastern Bloc countries; with settings in the Polish countryside, Warsaw, Berlin Yugoslavia, Zagreb and then back to Poland. Is part of the theme that in the Eastern Bloc they’re forced to prostitute their art whilst capitalist countries encourage the prostitution of the self? José swoons over the sadness, sexiness and romance of the film. Mike draws attention to a certain sketchiness and notes that Tomasz Kot looks like he belongs in a Stella Artois ad whilst admiring his performance and that of Joanna Kulig as Zula. José loves it so much he wants to see it again to further explore the patterning of images and sounds. Mike feels he’s seen enough but is willing to go along, particularly since the film is unexpectedly short at only 85 minutes. It's certainly good, but precisely how good is Cold War is the question that overhangs the podcast. Recorded on 16th September 2018.

On 20 February 2018, regional theatre director, artistic director and chief executive John Blackmore died at the age of 77. He was chief executive at Bolton's Octagon Theatre for 12 years, but he also put together a plan to save Liverpool’s Everyman and Playhouse theatres, was Artistic Director of Manchester’s Library Theatre in the 1960s, founded the company that became Northern Stage in Newcastle, was one of the founders of Out of Joint, was director or artistic director of Midlands Arts Centre (now mac) in Birmingham, The Dukes in Lancaster, Warwick Arts Centre and the English Shakespeare Company and chief executive of Leicester Haymarket. In tribute, this episode is an interview by BTG editor David Chadderton with John from 2011 looking back on his impressive and varied career in theatre, followed by some reflections in 2018 from Mark Babych, now Artistic Director at Hull Truck but previously Artistic Director at the Octagon for ten years, on his time working with John.

Episode 119: The Joys of Denim [1:21:53] You can Listen online or Download MP3 (Right click… save as) It’s Episode 119 of In the Mood for Podcast, a British-based film podcast hosted by Calum Reed of Ultimate Addict and Pete Sheppard of In the Mood for Blog. To donate to Pete’s half-marathon run, on behalf of the Midlands Arts Centre, […]

Special Guest Songwriter Aaron Yorke Aaron is a deeply gifted songwriter who wears his heart on his sleeve. Very influenced by artists like David Gray and Tom Baxter, his latest album "Taking The Time To Heal" is a mature collection of songs about the human condition. Aaron has the rare ability to share the intimate moments of his life with his audience, through this sharing experience he leads you through some difficult soul searching songs. The process is a rewarding experience for the listener as you come away with a feeling of kinship, that here is someone here who can put into words what you are feeling, who can express a certain moment in your life through his music. In our conversation at the Midlands Arts Centre on the occasion of his album release, we talk about songwriting, promotion, autism and home recording. Plus from gig Aaron performs When A Relationship Ends and Have You Felt Beautiful Lately. Aaron also has a myspace page.   Music from: Freddie Stevenson - Chinese Mr D & The Honky Tonks - Coming Or Going Kelly Lee Evans - Let's Call A Truce Tonight Poetry from Niall O'Sullivan - Hard Is The Journey & Broccoli