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No Fierce Festival for 2009

Typical.  I write a post about the Fierce Earth blog and what happens?  A few hours later Helga Henry, managing director of Fierce Earth, uses that same blog to make a couple of key announcements - the biggest of which is that:
at present I think it’s fair to say that there will not be a […]

By Chris Unitt | Posted August 4, 2008 in News | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Fierce’s Platinum Programme at The Edge

Something I only found out about recently is that Fierce have a live art training and mentoring project. As part of this year’s festival six West Mids artists will be presenting works-in-progress at The Edge on Thursday 29 and Friday 30 May.

Nesting (Katy Acquaye-Tonge). 2pm to 9pm.
The Place Where I Learnt How To Ride […]

By Chris Unitt | Posted May 28, 2008 in Art | Tagged , | Comments (1)

Jiva Parthipan - Stuff Of Life

In the video for Amnesty International’s Unsubscribe campaign, Birmingham-based artist Jiva Parthipan ‘played’ the part of a detainee subjected to waterboarding. That is, for a short while he was actually subjected to it with the treatment (judged by the Bush administration not to be torture) filmed in slow motion at 1000 frames per second.
The […]

By Chris Unitt | Posted May 12, 2008 in Organisations, Performing Arts | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)

Fierce Festival line-up announced

The line-up for this year’s Fierce! Festival, the international performing arts festival, has been announced and can be seen on the events page of their newly updated website. You may recall that a significant number of acts were chosen via a public vote and these have now been programmed into the wider festival […]

By Chris Unitt | Posted April 27, 2008 in Festivals, Performing Arts | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)
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