Festivals
Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts
Thursday 31st May - Sunday 10th June
For its 25th year, the Hay on Wye festival in the Brecon Beacons is back boasting another brilliant programme including comedian Bill Bailey, conductor Simon Rattle in coversation with Tom Service, novelist Hilary Mantel, poet Simon Armitage and artist Mark Wallinger.
There are also various film screenings (including Indian satire Khosla Ka Ghosla), workshops (including a writing for radio masterclass with Sue Roberts), performances (including the Doric String Quartet performing Britten and Haydn) and much much more.
Exhibitions
Joan Miro at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park
17th March 2012 - 6th January 2013
The Yorkshire Sculpture Park is hosting the first major UK exhibition of Joan Miro tracing his 40 year career, including a special exhibition of Miro's “phantasmagoric world of living monsters”.
'The exhibition describes the extraordinary wealth of Miró’s sculpture, much of which was made in the second half of his life. With key works set in the landscape, the exhibition fulfils the artist’s desire that “sculpture must stand in the open air, in the middle of nature”. ' - Yorkshire Sculpture Park
Music and Theatre
Robert Glasper Experiment: Black Radio (Norwich, London, Leeds and Coventry)
If you didn't catch him at the London Jazz Festival in 2011, you'll have a second chance to hear pianist Robert Glasper's unique mix of jazz, hip hop, R&B, funk and rock on his latest tour.
To mark the launch of his fourth album Black Radio, Glasper will be perfoming at Norwich Festival (13th May), London Barbican (14th May), Howard Assembly Room Leeds (23rd May), Warwick Arts Centre (24th May).
‘It’s a short list of jazz pianists who have the wherewithal to drop a J Dilla reference into a Thelonious Monk cover, but not many jazz pianists are Robert Glasper.’ Los Angeles Times
‘The music is top drawer, playfully experimental and oozing confidence.’ Financial Times