In this edition Simon Bertin is immersed in a flotation tank at Art of Float and encounters artist Kay Goodridge at a venue with a creative difference; Cambridge Film Maker Oggie Tomic talks about a range of interesting new projects and on how drones belong in the hands of the responsible; and author Simon Boyd launches Lady Sybil at the Cambridge … [Read more...]
Arts Round Up: Kettle’s Yard, Political Cartoons & e-Luminate
In this edition we visit Penny Heath with the Friends of Kettle's Yard to hear about the new gallery rebuild project opening next week; Political cartoonist Andy Davey talks about a dying art that still packs a punch; Andrea Cockerton from Cambridge choir We are Sound gives insight on singing and new Cambridge festival she's founded; and Alessandra … [Read more...]
Arts Round Up: Edgar Degas Passion for Perfection
Simon Bertin drops into the Fitzwilliam Museum to visit curator of the Edgar Degas Passion for Perfection exhibition Jane Munroe; We hear about Art Language Location's anniversary and plans for 2018 from founder Robert Goode; poet John Drew talks on the Chinese poetry of Xu Jhimo; and we go for a studio visit to expressionist artist Paul Arsenault … [Read more...]
Arts Round-Up 31/05/2014
In this month's Arts Round Up Simon Bertin talks to Dr Mark Eliot curator of the exhibition The Buddah's Word the life of books in Tibet and Beyond at the museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; Visit a huge new Changing Spaces venue where a group of artists can really swing a cat; Hear about a new art-on-the-market scheme with Byline Arts; and … [Read more...]
Arts Round-Up 26/04/2014
Simon Bertin visits artist Nicola Powys exhibiting at Williams Art; hears about crime writing with Cambridge author Jill Paton Walsh; talks to Lucy Alexander on running Creative Cabaret at the Grad-pad; and celebrates Shakespeare's Birthday with Shakespeare reformed plays trilogy by Rani Drew. … [Read more...]
Arts Round-Up 29/03/2014
Simon Bertin presents the TAPA Barkcloths from the Pacific Exhibition at the Museum Of Archaeology and Anthropology; A book review of a Biography on war time heroine and SOE secret agent Christine Granville by author Clare Mulley; A Visit to 'Moment Mori' collaboration at Changing Spaces with Director Angie Main; A visit to a Conference on … [Read more...]
Arts Round-Up 22/02/2014
Simon Bertin takes a look at a selection of arts projects & events in Cambridge. This month an interview with the niece of film superstar Richard Burton, (Sue Rogers), on his life and career from his family's perspective; An interview on celebrity photography portraiture with renowned Polish photographer Bo Lutoslawski; a visit to Painter Peter … [Read more...]