Arts Round Up

In this episode we look at talented young musicians and how funding cuts might affect opportunities for the local stars of the future; We go to the Cambridge Arts Network conference to get the big picture on Arts Development in the city; Matt Bentman features visiting poets at the CB2 Cafe; and we take a […]

In this edition Simon Bertin is immersed in a flotation tank at Art of Float and encounters artist Kay Goodridge at a venue with a creative difference; Cambridge Film Maker Oggie Tomic talks about a range of interesting new projects and on how drones belong in the hands of the responsible; and author Simon Boyd […]

In this edition we visit Penny Heath with the Friends of Kettle’s Yard to hear about the new gallery rebuild project opening next week; Political cartoonist Andy Davey talks about a dying art that still packs a punch; Andrea Cockerton from Cambridge choir We are Sound gives insight on singing and new Cambridge festival she’s […]

Simon Bertin drops into the Fitzwilliam Museum to visit curator of the Edgar Degas Passion for Perfection exhibition Jane Munroe; We hear about Art Language Location’s anniversary and plans for 2018 from founder Robert Goode; poet John Drew talks on the Chinese poetry of Xu Jhimo; and we go for a studio visit to expressionist […]

In this month’s Arts Round Up Simon Bertin talks to Dr Mark Eliot curator of the exhibition The Buddah’s Word the life of books in Tibet and Beyond at the museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; Visit a huge new Changing Spaces venue where a group of artists can really swing a cat; Hear about a […]

Simon Bertin visits artist Nicola Powys exhibiting at Williams Art; hears about crime writing with Cambridge author Jill Paton Walsh; talks to Lucy Alexander on running Creative Cabaret at the Grad-pad; and celebrates Shakespeare’s Birthday with Shakespeare reformed plays trilogy by Rani Drew.

Simon Bertin presents the TAPA Barkcloths from the Pacific Exhibition at the Museum Of Archaeology and Anthropology; A book review of a Biography on war time heroine and SOE secret agent Christine Granville by author Clare Mulley; A Visit to ‘Moment Mori’ collaboration at Changing Spaces with Director Angie Main; A visit to a Conference […]

Simon Bertin takes a look at a selection of arts projects & events in Cambridge. This month an interview with the niece of film superstar Richard Burton, (Sue Rogers), on his life and career from his family’s perspective; An interview on celebrity photography portraiture with renowned Polish photographer Bo Lutoslawski; a visit to Painter Peter […]

In this edition we preview Twilight at the museums; Take look at E-luminate festival of light with Alessandra Caggiano; Cambridge film maker Axel Brangert appeals for actors; We discuss art for Autism;  and Visit Afternoon Tease cafe to hear about live music on Sundays.

In this edition we visit budding actors at the new premises of Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Art, talk to royal portrait artist Dan Llywellyn Hall, find out about Deanna Tyson’s Kimono’s with a political message on the darker side of humanity, and drop on sculptor Chloe Leaper.