August 2019 – All Across the Arts

LOOKING FOR LAUGHS? THE CHASE IS ON !

At all across the arts we often speak of the synergy between poetry and comedy as one art form often feeds the other. We were pretty amazed though when we discovered more links in the chain: general knowledge and quizzing skills. We…

AATA

PLAYING CUCKOO ON TH´EDGE

A ´playing out scheme´ recently devised by Alice (not Alex) Ferguson, a young mother, who wanted her own children to be able to play outdoors has produced benefits that surely should not surprise us. Now the scheme has been studied by…

Music

FESTIVALS AND FOLK LORE FOR ALL

Depending on your demographic, you know, like how old you are, your gender and whereabouts in the world you live, each reader will have a different mental image when asked to think about the phrase ´music festival.´ Perhaps for the younger…

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TINY TOMMY TROTTER AND THE MOUNTAIN OF DEBT

His name is Tiny Tommy Trotter and he is my new Bolton Wanderers FC mascot sitting here on my all across the arts desk as I write this issue of Sidetracks and Detours. He is the first guy I speak to each morning and we usually end up bemoaning…

Poetry

ART AND SCIENCE UNITE

The worlds of arts and of medicine do not overlap very often, despite recent interesting developments in the UK such as the Poetry On Prescription scheme and Clinical Commissioning Groups having some monies in their budget available for buying…

Music

MORE THAN OPERA

The director of the island´s music academy has recently delivered the first opera fully produced on the island, with students, staff and volunteers coming together to perform to more than 500 people at the El Salinero Teatro in the island´s capital…

Music

OFFER OF OPERA FOR ALL by Norman Warwick

According to The Mail On Sunday (11th August 2019) millions of us now listen in to podcasts. So well developed, now, is the podcast industry that the newspaper, in an article by Rob Waugh, included several pages discussing the current 100 podcasts…