A new education resource from the BFI has documented the histories of dance, acting, theatre, music, performance art and the spoken word on film and television. The Performing Arts on Film & Television Catalogue references around 3,500 film and video titles selected from the combined collections of the BFI, Arts Council England, Central St Martins British Artists Film & Video Study Collection and LUX. Intended for use by programmers, curators, researchers, students, performers, practitioners, artists and filmmakers, it aims to encourage engagement between the arts and the moving image, and is available free as a pdf on the BFI website.
www.bfi.org.uk/go/performingartsdance/
Eight UK arts and cultural venues are among 97 buildings that have been awarded 2011 RIBA Awards for architectural excellence. McManus Galleries, Dundee; Speirs Locks Studios, Glasgow; An Gaelaras, Derry; Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno; Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford Upon Avon; the UK Centre for Carnival Arts, Luton; Parabola Arts Centre at Cheltenham Ladies’ College; and Sevenoaks School Performing Arts Centre will all now go forward to be considered for the RIBA Stirling Prize, awarded to the architects of the building that has made the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year.
Four of Shakespeare’s Globe’s 2010 theatre productions will be shown in cinemas across the world this summer, through a partnership with digital distribution services supplier Arts Alliance Media. The Shakespeare in Cinema series will be launched this month, with over 250 cinemas in the USA already lined up to take part. It will initially feature ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor’, followed by ‘Henry IV Part 1’, ‘Henry IV Part 2’ and ‘Henry VIII’.
In conjunction with the decibel Performing Arts Showcase, a business-to-business performing arts ‘marketplace’ will take place on 15 September in the Great Hall at Manchester Town Hall. The event, supported by Arts Council England, will give artists, companies and arts organisations with diverse practice the chance to set up stall to meet face-to-face with other arts professionals and promote their work directly to the people they most want to make contact with. The deadline for submissions to the marketplace is 5pm Monday 11 July.
French artist Daniel Buren has been selected to create a new permanent installation for the London underground station at Tottenham Court Road, where 200,000 people per day are expected to pass through when it becomes a key West End interchange in 2018. The new artwork will become a major feature of the Oxford Street entrance and ticket hall, which are being upgraded to cope with growing passenger numbers. It will complement the mosaic designs by the late Eduardo Paolozzi, installed in 1984.