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Poor ventilation, rustling sweet wrappers and coughing have a negative impact on the audience’s experience of a classical concert.

Highlighting the deep interest in the politics, society and history of the Caucasus at the University of Birmingham and the strong links between the Centre for Russian and East European Studies (CREE

There may be no other research centre quite like it in the world.

—Dr José Ramón Marcaida Veteran wildlife broadcaster David Attenborough is not often lost for words - but sometimes nature defies description.

In a paper published today, Andy Pratt, Professor of Culture, Media and Economy at King's, argues that the relationship between culture and the economy has changed, challenging the popular view that, in times of austerity, culture is the first to suffer.

A visually stunning mural is painting a different picture of the Pacific and recasting our ideas about identity, writes JAMES GIGGACHER.

Joe Janes goes back to the fifteenth century and the work of Johannes Gutenberg for the latest installment in his series of podcasts, Documents that Changed the World.

They threw random possessions off rooftops, made printed copies of Japanese currency and perpetrated odd "happenings" in commuter trains that left Tokyo residents scratching their heads.

The Either/Orchestra and Mahmoud Ahmed perform at the Glastonbury Festival in 2008. More than a quarter of a century ago, Russ Gershon set out to help keep alive the big-band music style that had been dying in the United States since the late 1940s.

The Moby-Dick Big Read, hosted by Peninsula Arts at Plymouth University, sees celebrities, scientists and members of the public each reading a chapter from Herman Melville’s famous 1851 novel.

“All the world’s a trading floor” may not quite trip off the tongue as well as Shakespeare’s original observation, but this has not held back the development, by an eclectic group of musicians, of an

The opera Anacréon will be performed in its entirety for the first time in over 250 years tomorrow (9 November 2012), after an Oxford University academic reconstructed Rameau's score.

Sarah Street of the Department of Drama: Theatre, Film, Television will give a talk on her new book Colour Films in Britain: The Negotiation of Innovation, 1900-55 at the BFI Southbank on Monday [12 November] . The event, part of the King's @ BFI: Key Scholars in Film Studies seminar series run by King's College, London, begins at 6pm ; tickets are available from the BFI website.

The Centre for Culture, Community and Society, within Plymouth University's Institute of Health and Community, is set to host a special event as part of the prestigious national ESRC Festival of Social Science.

Tap dancing reminds cinema of its origins in the turn-of the-century world of vaudeville, circus and carnival.

This is a stunning level of commitment to poetry and poets.

A new exhibition at the University of Alberta celebrates some of Edmonton's most talented artists—who also happen to be technicians helping to provide top-notch arts education for U of A students.

s by Manchester's Parvathi Kumaraswami and Nottingham's Antoni Kapcia with over 100 Cuban writers and editors challenge the image of the Socialist country portrayed in the West, in a new book out this month.

Is it time to consign those annoying cables and chargers to the bonfire of technological vanities and embrace a cable-free existence?

Robert Levin is renowned for a style of playing that represents the perfect intelligent fusion of musicology and musical execution.

It's almost like a theme park ride with each part of the story offering a different surprise." —Toby Young, composer of Lost Museums are big places full of mysterious things.

26 Oct 2012 The concert celebrates the centenary of Alan Turing, who joined The University of Manchester in 1948 where he remained until his death, and is regarded as the father of modern computing.

25 Oct 2012 Professor Barry Cooper - one of the world's leading experts on the composer -found the work which Beethoven composed in about 1820, written alongside some original sketches of the famous Mass in D, known as the Missa Solemnis, in a sketchbook now in Berlin.

As Skyfall , the latest film in the Bond saga premiers this week, King's Finola Kerrigan and colleague Daragh O'Reilly (University of Sheffield) argue that brand is no longer a singular entity, but is in fact the product of collaboration between the brands with which it interacts.

Over the next 12 days, some of the UK's foremost academics, writers, journalists and artists will explore some of the most pressing issues facing contemporary society.

The beauty of a piano is that anyone can sit down, press a key and make a noise. I want everyone to give it a go!" —Ruth Hardie For two weeks, beginning on Monday 22 October, fifteen pianos destined for the scrap heap will be given a new lease of life - as public art.

22 Oct 2012 Kevin Malone, Director of Composition at The University of Manchester, wrote two pieces which will be premièred at a once-secret bunker, where the country's top decision makers would have sheltered during a nuclear attack.

A new free-standing 'centipede' cinema designed by an academic at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UK - will open this week in Guimarães, Portugal as part of celebrations for the 2012 European Capital of Culture.

In 1950, Japanese performers were permitted to travel overseas for the first time since the end of World War II.