Music and video online: it’s a wonderful world!
It’s always worth checking in on our audio and video streaming databases, just to see what new treasures have been added: Star Wars, Episode VI, “Return of the Jedi”: John… Read More ›
Rare Books & Arts
Arts on Film: Opera & Musical Double
An opera and musical double bill is the next program in the Arts on Film series to be screened this Wednesday September 18. At 12.00 noon is the acclaimed 1957… Read More ›
Listening Post Sounds: Sapphires, Eurovision, Bombshell and Lucia.
Film, Music, Musicals, Popular music, Rare Books & Arts:
Some recent CD arrivals feature on the Listening Posts in Arts. They include latest releases in film, musical theatre, opera, classical & popular music. The online catalogue indicates which Listening Post… Read More ›
Never Sorry at Outside-in cinema
Film, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
This week in Experimedia, Outside-in cinema will be showing the recent documentary on the work and activism (often, one and the same thing) of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. Renowned for… Read More ›
New Books: luminous pencils and noisy roosters
New books, Painting, Rare Books & Arts, Visual arts:
Balinese art : paintings and drawings of Bali 1800-2010 by Adrian Vickers Balinese art over the last 200 years draws on a rich tradition of local village-based artistic styles as… Read More ›
To Wagner, or not to Wagner….
Guest blogger Jane Miller appears to have come down with a touch of Wagner-fever, so best not get in her way…… Richard Wagner inspires a range of responses – from… Read More ›
Arts on Film: Beethoven’s Eroica
Beethoven’s Eroica Double Bill is the next program in the Arts on Film series to be screened this Wednesday September 4. At 12.00 noon, Beethoven’s Eroica is a documentary exploring… Read More ›
Judging a book by its cover
Something that we are never supposed to do (as “serious readers”) is judge a book by its cover, but how can you resist when the cover art can be so… Read More ›
Arts on Film: The Winter’s Tale.
The Winter’s Tale : a play in five acts by William Shakespeare, is the next program in the Arts on Film series to be screened this Wednesday August 21. This… Read More ›
Hip-hop breakdown at Outside-in cinema
Music, Popular music, Rare Books & Arts:
This week’s Outside-in cinema will be screening the 2011 documentary Beats, rhymes & life: travels of A Tribe Called Quest, shining a light on one of the most successful and… Read More ›
