‘I wish everyone could see this bank, so that they could learn from it, like I have’ reads a little note inside an illuminated glass jar – part of an installation of wishes that is the final image of Theatre-Rites’ Bank On It. As the young audience leaves I loiter, reading more and more of […]

Part of Greenwich + Docklands International Festival for the third year running, the Greenwich Fair event showcased UK and international outdoor arts of the past year, presenting both new and proven street arts work in various locations around the town. The format revives a historical fair that used to fill Greenwich’s streets with sideshows, booths […]

A part of Greenwich + Docklands International Festival 2013, Dancing City brought a series of weekday lunchtime events to the squares and gardens below Canary Wharf’s looming structures, and culminated in a jam-packed programme on Saturday afternoon. Companies working with Chinese pole, German wheel and acrobalance were programmed alongside dance pieces featuring ballet, contemporary, and […]

The first time, as tragedy: 19 August, 1819 – magistrates order the cavalry in to a pro-democracy rally in St Peter’s Fields, Manchester, killing at least fifteen and wounding 700; the protest becomes iconic as the Peterloo Massacre. The second time, as farce: 9 August, 2011 – rioters take over Manchester city centre; nobody, participants […]

Full marks to Manchester International Festival for discovering the Mayfield Depot and arranging for it to be used as a venue during the festival. It’s a huge cavernous space with big sliding doors and big rooms off the central hall. At the far end is a blocked off room which the stewards ask you to […]