Boxes and their contents – figurative and otherwise – loom large in both Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and Andrew Kötting’s The Whalebone Box, finds Lee Ashworth… Open the box! Open the box! Open the...
“There are no heroes anymore, Bishop.” Join us for our next End of the World Film Club, in which we’ll watch and discuss John Carpenter’s masterful cult classic, Assault on Precinct 13… A...
“In global lockdown, how we experience time has unexpectedly shifted.” Gabriella Warren-Smith considers her pre-coronavirus experience in Uchronia, artist Helga Schmid’s ‘clockless utopia’… If I granted you three wishes, what would they be?...
Issues posed by the lockdown – not least, the impacts of social isolation – are being mitigated by innovative and supportive group initiatives. Now, with added positive vibes, Young People’s community organisation Comics Youth are...
What issues effecting the arts are to the fore in Lancashire and Cumbria right now? In the first of a new series commissioned by Contemporary Visual Arts Network North-by-NorthWest (CVAN NbyNW), Ross Dalziel highlights those embracing an...
“Would you die for her?” “I would, but, er, I’d rather live.” Join us for our inaugural End of the World Film Club, in which we’ll watch and discuss Powell & Pressburger’s classic romantic...
Why does the music we listen to in our teens matter so much? Mike Pinnington takes a deep dive into his own formative years to investigate… I’m four years old. A sickly child,...