The UK can no longer take part in the European Capital of Culture 2023 due to Brexit. Five cities: Dundee, Nottingham, Leeds, Milton Keynes and Belfast/Derry were applying to host the programme and the bidding process was almost complete, but the European Commission has now confirmed that the UK will not be allowed to hold the role after it leaves the European Union (EU) in 2019.
Since 2001, Matthew Herbert has performed all over the world with his big band, from Montreux Jazz Festival to Trafalgar Square, from the Hollywood Bowl to the Sydney Opera House. For the last few years, however, the band has taken a backseat to more of his experimental work made out of pigs, bombs, and bodies. Now in 2017, Herbert has announced that he is to restart the Big Band in response to the challenges of Britain’s departure from the European Union.
Without trying to analyze the consequences and complexities of Brexit, we have asked some Spanish people who run businesses related to art and design in London to tell us how Brexit is affecting them in their work.
Chocolate requires neither introduction nor translation. It is known by most people all over the world and can be considered, as an ingredient, the stuff of dreams for any chef.
Without trying to analyze the consequences and complexities of Brexit, we have asked some Spanish people who run businesses related to art and design in London to tell us how Brexit is affecting them in their work.
Hidden away behind the thick brutalist walls of the Barbican lies a miniature time loop. This overwhelming vortex of repeating imagery and sound is the brainchild of eccentric Icelandic perseverance artist Ragnar Kjartansson. An intriguing space where repetition runs riot…
She speaks discomfort with real boldness and fluency. Her career-summarising exhibition at the Tate is the mouthpiece for this language, and it makes us listen.
To commemorate such a special date Summerhall, in Edinburgh, will hold a 4 hours of nonstop public reading hosted by the contemporary Spanish writer Carlos Castán who will also be presenting his novel ‘Bad Light’.
Every now and then my eyes are drawn to an object that, for years, played a major role in shaping my ideas about the world. It is a Sony radio receiver, designed for exploring the world of shortwave programmes. I keep it on a shelf near where I write as a piece of nostalgia. I have used it to listen to all sorts of things, but mainly the BBC.
Christmas, like childhood, is burdened by the melancholy that comes from knowing that it must eventually come to an end. But this melancholy is something that we only recognise as adults. No child feels it as they stand before the glow of the Christmas tree lights or listen to children’s carols. To feel it, you need to grow up, you need to lose someone and to realise that Santa doesn’t really exist. Although perhaps they can sense it somehow: my only unhappy memory of Christmas as a child is of thinking about the day we would have to take down the tree. A natural pessimist, I started the countdown on Christmas Day itself and the following day the three wise men met their tragic fate. Brit Es Magazine está creada por gente que vive fuera de su ciudad; algunos vuelven siempre a casa por estas fechas y algunos otros lo celebramos con las familias que nos hemos inventado en el camino.