Tag: Isle of Man Arts Council
Isle of Man Arts Council appoints Manx Radio as ‘Island of Culture’ radio media partner
Isle of Man Arts Council has appointed Manx Radio as its official radio media partner for its 2014 ‘Island of Culture’ celebrations. ‘Island of Culture 2014’ will be the largest celebration of culture and the arts in the Isle of Man’s history, and will showcase the huge array of talent there is across all walks [...]
Royal Opera House’ Live Cinema Season
The Studio Theatre (Ballakermeen High School) and the Isle of Man Arts Council are very pleased to announce their co-operation to bring the first of two performances from the Royal Opera House’ Live Cinema Season 2012/13 to Douglas on Tuesday, January 15. Join us next Tuesday for this exciting recorded performance of Puccini’s world famous [...]
RUSHEN BAND CONTEST SUCCESS
Rushen Silver Band travelled to Selkirk in the Scottish Borders on Saturday 3rd November to take part in the Borders Entertainment Contest. This was the first time that the Band had taken part in a contest in the UK. In their programme the Band played an arrangement by Band MD John Kinley of local folk [...]
MANX LITFEST LAUNCHES READING CLUB
Manx Litfest is launching an all-Island reading club to promote authors who will attend this year’s inaugural festival in September. Starting in April, the club will focus on one author each month with the aim of encouraging as many people as possible to read a book by that particular writer. It will be a ‘virtual’ [...]
Young Hearts Run Free (cert 12A) on Thursday 8th March
A special Films in Peel event will take place on Thursday 8th March, with the support of the Isle of Man Arts Council. A self-funded feature length film will be screened, written, directed and produced by young independent filmmaker from Northumberland, Andrew Simpson. The film, Young Hearts Run Free (12A), is set in 1974, during [...]
Films in Peel to participate in the global Future Shorts Festival
On Wednesday 25th January Films in Peel will participate in the global Future Shorts Festival . A programme of six award winning films from around the world will be shown at the Centenary Centre in the same week as community cinemas in London, Liverpool, Lille, Cologne, Paris, Birmingham, Baku, Madrid, Berlin, Tbilisi, Athens, Stockholm and [...]
Art exhibition races into Ramsey
Two Ramsey Manxmen celebrated for their skills in two very different disciplines – motorcycle racing and art – took centre stage at Ramsey town hall on Friday August 19 when TT competitor Connor Cummins, currently the fast Manx rider around the TT course, opened Racing Through Time, an exhibition of paintings by artist Michael Starkey. [...]
Isle of Man TT Print Takes Centre Stage
A scene of Ramsey’s Parliament Square during the 1957 TT is currently taking centre stage in Ramsey town hall. The scene is a print measuring some 8’ x 12’ taken from an original painting by Ramsey artist Michael Starkey, commissioned by the Isle of Man Arts Council to commemorate 100 years of the TT mountain [...]
Clive Carroll and Amrit Sond to play Isle of Man
Clive Carroll - When the music press use glowing terms like these to describe someone… “top shelf virtuoso playing” – Acoustic Magazine; “Incredible acoustic talent” – Guitarist Magazine; “Clive usually sets the benchmark that other acoustic players then try to achieve … it’s tempting to wonder if there is, in fact, any acoustic guitar style that [...]
New Members for the Isle of Man Arts Council
Hon David Cretney MHK, Minister for Community, Culture and Leisure has invited the following people to serve on the Isle of Man Arts Council for a period of four years commencing on 1st October 2010. Dr Breesha Maddrell, extremely well known on the Manx Music scene as a performer and through her work with the [...]
