Our latest news plus blogs from staff, artists and more.
Browse our latest news and blog posts below. Our blog posts come from a wide range of contributors, some of them are about our work – events, partnerships or projects – some of them are about stuff happening in the arts or our local area.
We hope you’ll find something to interest you and we love comments and conversation so feel free to post them on the blog pages or get in touch on email or social media. We’d also like to hear from you if you have an idea for a blog or you’ve written something you’d like to appear here.
Top image from a performance of NoFit State Circus and Motionhouse’s BLOCK in Fordham Park. Photo by @TheSnapshotCafe.
News
Future Arts Centres £40,000 opportunity for artists
Mon 25 Nov 2019
Want to play a crucial role in an exciting national project? Watch this video to find out more. A written version of the brief can be found here. If you would like to look at the previous artist brief, which the 40 Arts Centres
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Albany Young Artists: Amaarah Roze
Thu 29 Aug 2019
We spoke to Amaarah about her experience of taking part in creative projects at the Albany and how this has helped her to develop as an artist and curate her own event. Amaarah’s event Standards: do we set them or face them? is a night of spoken word, dance and
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The Albany’s Digital Associates
Mon 24 Jun 2019
Nora, Dora and Kat wowed us during the interview process with their bold and inventive approach to content creation. Across the year they will be working with us on creating film, audio, blogs, social media and other digital and interactive storytelling about our programmes and the people who use them,
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The Albany Nominated for the Charity Awards 2019
Tue 4 Jun 2019
The judges cited the venue’s pioneering partnership project with isolated older people, Meet Me at the Albany, as a key success. We’ve been nominated alongside Birmingham Museums Trust and Live Music Now. The Charity Awards are the longest-running and most prestigious awards scheme in the sector and its most
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Q&A with Brigitte Aphrodite
Wed 22 May 2019
Brigitte Aphrodite is a punk poet, musician, writer, theatre maker and feminist showgirl. During her formative years Brigitte toured extensively as a musician, alongside artists such as Kate Nash and Josie Long. Most recently, she is best known for her critically acclaimed show My Beautiful Black Dog; a part gig,
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Q&A with award-wining poet Joelle Taylor
Mon 20 May 2019
There’s been a lot of talk in the media recently about poetry being on the rise – why do you think people are increasingly turning to the artform? Poetry is the last free art. In times of struggle and oppression we need it to help us understand our own humanity,