Josie Long, Brighton Festival 2021 c. Giles Smith
On Monday 24 May, Abigail Conway’s The Candle Project opens at The Spire in Kemptown. An ancient ritual for our times, participants can make their own candle with a message inside, to be added to a large installation. At the end of the week, a spectacular livestreamed lighting ceremony will feature soundscapes with contributions from local choirs.
Robot Selfie arrives in Brighton on Friday 28 May. At Greater Brighton Metropolitan College, a wall drawing robot will create a giant mural on an outside wall, using selfies which can be submitted by members of the public from Wednesday 26 May.
A.A. Williams will hit the road in September and October for her first-ever UK headline tour.
Words: Emily Carter
Photo: Thomas Williams
The musician and her band will be hitting the road in September and October for a 13-date run, including a stop at London’s Bush Hall to play Songs From Isolation in full. Elsewhere, she’ll be unveiling material from her 2020 Forever Blue debut, and rounding off the tour by supporting Lost Horizons at the Scala in the capital.
Speaking to Kerrang! earlier this year about the prospect of live music returning after the pandemic, A.A. Williams enthused: “Fast-forward an indefinite amount of time, when we’re all allowed to be in a field and we’re allowed to get drunk, eat falafel and get covered in mud – it’s going to be glorious. I still don’t know when that’s going to actually happen. But it’s going to be great when we get there.” Hell yes, it is.
Is it spring yet? A look back at March snowstorms that clobbered NYC.
Updated Mar 07, 2021;
Posted Mar 07, 2021
People cross Broad Street in Stapleton during an early spring snowstorm Monday, April 2, 2018. (Staten Island Advance/Bill Lyons) Staff-ShotStaff-Shot
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But, don’t celebrate too soon, forecasters warn.
Instead, keep in mind that March can be a tumultuous month, and in the past it has delivered powerful punches of unpredictable weather here in New York City.
“That’s the tricky part about this time of year,’ said David Stark, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. “It can be deceiving when you get some mild weather, but we’re not too far from where these colder air masses come from in Canada. You can still get a snowstorm if the timing is right and the conditions are favorable.’
Beginning with the Blizzard of 1888: 5 storms that dumped 20-plus inches of snow on NYC
Updated Feb 02, 2021;
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. As this week’s massive nor’easter continues into Tuesday, threatening to drop an additional four inches or more of snow across the borough, the Staten Island Advance/SILive.com is taking a look back at some of the most significant snowfalls the city has seen throughout the years.
Staten Island was already buried in 15 inches of snow measured in Westerleigh on Monday evening, according to the National Weather Service.
With that in mind, we searched through our archives for some of the storms that have dumped 20-plus inches of snow on Staten Island, dating back as far as 1888.
More than a dozen MPs and over 100 event industry executives have signed a letter to the chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak, copying in prime minister Boris Johnson, calling for him to implement a Government-backed insurance scheme for festival, live music and events or face them disappearing from our fields and cities for good.
The letter, written by DCMS Committee chair Julian Knight MP, follows the 5 January opening hearing of the Committee’s inquiry into the future of UK music festivals, during which festival operators emphasised the urgent need for Government support.
At a crucial point in festival planning schedules, MPs warn that organisers and investors are unable to risk repeating losses sustained in 2020 unless events can be insured against cancellation.