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Alasdair Nicolson shares his vision for the Festival
In a fascinating interview for Bath on TV, Alasdair Nicolson shares his vision for the Bath International Music Festival: “My ideal for a festival is that it feels like a holiday atmosphere, that audiences are interested enough to go to more than one event and to be adventurous to try new things. It’s one reason I chose to give themes to this year as it provides a link between some events for an audience.
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Staff Picks – Bethany Alexander
Bath International Music Festival Top Pick from Bethany Alexander, Music Festival Producer: “All of them, of course! But if I have to choose one, it’s the cabaret opera An Eye for an Eye. The music is disarmingly funny and light, despite the horror of this true story of two maids who murdered their mistress and her daughter in 1933 France! It’s a really interesting production
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Bath Festivals wins Best Event at Bath Life Awards 2013
Bath Festivals is thrilled to have been voted winner of the 2013 Bath Life Award for Best Event.
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Announcement of new Artistic Director for Literature Festival
Bath Festivals is delighted to announce the appointment of critic, columnist and broadcaster Viv Groskop to the role of Artistic Director of The Independent Bath Literature Festival.
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Daily Poems: Sunday 10 March
Postcard of a Dying Woman Left elbow up, arm coiled, hand cups the ball of bone where spine joins skull;
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Daily Poems: Saturday 9 March
For a while, my brother collected stamps. Never using tweezers, he casually poked them into see-through pockets, or slid them under glassine sheets, preserving them in their own microclimate
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Today’s Daily Poem: Friday 8 March
Quail Puff And the quail puff rode, as the huffalump strode….
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Daily Poems: Thursday 7 March
Cappuccino Sometimes I’m consumed with living, dead but never more alive.
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Daily Poems: 6 March
Reckoning It doesn’t matter to me if this is the end; the end where squid develop lungs…..
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The Independent Bath Literature Festival 2013
A celebration of the written word: intelligent; thought provoking; humane. Artistic Director James Runcie introduces his 4th and final programme for Bath.
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