February

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49 things to do in Bristol in February 2023 (Bristol24/7)

The RWA's landmark season of photography is a celebration of contemporary photographic practice in all its forms. Your admission ticket covers both Jem ...

UK politics is in crisis and the country is in economic peril. Pinocchio is carved on stage, brushes become a fox and the shadow of two saws transform into a giant shark. Rich with shimmering psych-folk, introspective lyrical wit and sophisticated 60s homage – Native Harrow is Stephen Harms and Devin Tuel, who emigrated together from Pennsylvania to Brighton, England in 2021. It’s 1611 and, at the age of 42, Emilia Bassano becomes the first woman to have her poetry published in England. Enjoy well-known themes from Lala Land, Doctor Zhivago, The Godfather and Romeo and Juliet as well as much-loved classics by Beethoven, Elgar, Mascagni, Einaudi and more. The lower ground floor is home to PhotoLab, an interactive exhibition where you’ll be encouraged to take part, play and explore. Between Work and Window displays the portraits of RWA Academicians by internationally renowned photographer Anne-Katrin Purkiss. Watch cinema classics in unusual venues across Bristol. With this in mind, we bring you a season that invites you to reflect on cinema’s inclusive good intentions and refract from narrow-minded portrayals. The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme, the UK’s largest and ever-evolving festival of Japanese cinema, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year! Be transported back to the 1700s in this unique and wonderful evening of baroque music, architecture and candlelight. The RWA’s landmark season of photography is a celebration of contemporary photographic practice in all its forms.

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Six architecture and design events in February from Dezeen Events ... (Dezeen)

The largest event taking place during the festival is trade show Stockholm Furniture Fair, which runs from 7 to 11 February. The fair hosts more than 400 ...

About Dezeen Events Guide Dezeen Events Guide is our guide to the best architecture and design events taking place across the world each year. Inclusion in the guide is free for basic listings, with events selected at Dezeen's discretion. The festival features the Off programme, a tour featuring the galleries, studios restaurants and pop-up stores in which design is intergral to the space. The 2023 edition of Nomad takes place in St Moritz, Switzerland, for the sixth time. Dezeen Events Guide has created a guide to the Stockholm Design Festival, highlighting the key events at the festival. Over four days, the trade show hosts more than 150 brands and installations from across the world, showcasing furniture, coverings, lighting, textile, accessories,

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The ghosts in Scotland that 'emerge every February' after they were ... (Scottish Daily Record)

On one night in February, the ghosts of 38 Scots who were mercilessly slaughtered in 1692 are said to appear in the Highlands and re-enact the massacre on ...

Some say the screams and cries of men and women can be heard throughout Glencoe during the night. The area is the site of one of the bloodiest massacres in Scottish history, which took place during the winter of 1692. Overall, the estimated number of deaths lies somewhere between 40 and 300. [haunted](https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/all-about/the-supernatural) by the ghosts of those who were slaughtered. [ghosts](https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/all-about/ghosts) of Clan MacDonald at [Glencoe](https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/search/?q=glencoe) are set to appear on February 13. [The Paranormal Database](https://www.paranormaldatabase.com/calendar/Pages/feb.php) has compiled a list of the ghosts across the UK that are believed to come out only during the second month of the year.

Spike Island to open three exhibitions in February (Bristol24/7)

The featured artists are Howardena Pindell, Ayo Akingbade and Rachal Bradley.

The piece is a video work that explores the collective consciousness of crows and a mirrored pavilion sculpture suspended from the gallery ceiling. More information on the programme is available from Seen through the prism of Nigeria’s independence from British colonial rule (which occurred in 1960), the footage of factory workers going about their tasks points to the complex and deeply rooted sociopolitics underpinning production of this drink. This new work was co-commissioned by Spike Island, Chisenhale Gallery, London, the Whitworth, The University of Manchester, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, and John Hansard Gallery, Southampton. Seeing Pindell’s work made over such a long period brought together allows the viewer to gain a sense of how the artist’s process developed over time. [Spike Island](https://www.spikeisland.org.uk) is a mainstay of art and culture production and promotion within Bristol and the southwest.

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