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Timestamp: 2019-04-26 04:00:09+00:00

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Get your free tickets to see Nitin Sawhney, Boy Blue and Lemn Sissay at the Art 50 festival at the Barbican now!
Sky Arts has commissioned 50 projects looking at what it means to be British. Many of these are yours to experience for free at the Baltic and Sage Gateshead 'Art Weekender' on the 23rd and 24th February 2019. From visual art to dance to music to photography to plays. Check out the links for further details and how to book your place on the most exciting artistic event coming up!
Dancexchange show for Art 50 'This is an Island?' opened to a packed audience at the Birmingham School of Art last night.
We're excited to announce that Dreda Say Mitchell and her partner Tony Mason are writing the 'Postcard from the Future' for England. These will be performed at the Barbican during OpenFest:Art 50 on the 23rd February and will be shown on Sky Arts on the 29th March 2019.
'Postcards from the Future' are monologues written and performed from the perspective of 50 years from now in a post-Brexit Britain: what will the UK look like?
Dreda and Tony follow AL Kennedy and Paul McVeigh who are writing their monologues for Scotland and Northern Ireland.
We'll be announcing the final Welsh one very soon!
ART 50 artist Chloe Florence debuted her spoken word poem on Britishness post-Brexit at the Sage, Gateshead as part of a fantastic night from Lyrix Organix.
Passionate poetry, great stagecraft, killing drums! Check out our instagram feed for pics of the night.
Performances take place 29th November through to 1st December at the Birmingham School of Art.
Northern Irish writers are in the news at the moment since Anna Burns was announced as the Man Booker prize winner. So you may want to check out this gem! We are hugely excited to announce that Paul McVeigh, whose moving and funny novel 'The Good Boy' based in Belfast touched all our hearts, has joined the Art 50 artists.
The news is in from the Wade Bros Productions - Huntington Gardens featuring the wonderful Kacey Ainsworth has wrapped.
Choreographer Gary Clarke and DanceXchange were invited to discuss Art 50 commission, This Is An Island? on BBC West Midlands radio.
Art 50 artist Libby Heaney took the Britbot to audiences at the V&A Digital Design Weekend.
Our first two school poetry workshops have taken place in England and Scotland.

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