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The Cultural Quarter pop-up programme has been delivering a series of town-centre based arts and culture activities over the past year with further exciting events to come.

Cosmoville Created by the students themselves, the piece was based on a basic idea and outline put forward by lecturers Paul Ackerley and Joel Scott. “I wrote it with a colleague of mine,” Paul says. “What we do is that we create a piece of theatre. We set up a treatment. We describe the plot and scene. We have got a basic plot and then we create some scenes that we then set up so that we have got a beginning, an end and a middle, and then we give the characters dialogue so that it is all...

Soho Cinders It will also stream at the Brighton Fringe’s opening weekend. Student producer and cast member Connor Dickson said: “This will be our second live-stream from the Connaught Theatre and follows the huge success of our sister production in March where we reached well over a thousand people. Building on that and with the support of the former Soho Cinders’ West End cast who are following and sharing our social media, we are anticipating having a bit of a hit on our hands. “Stil...

EU to propose Covid-19 vaccination passes for travel but what is the UK’s position? The European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, has announced it will be recommending digital Covid-19 vaccine passes to be implemented across the EU. The Digital Green Pass will provide proof that a person has received a coronavirus jab, alongside showing test results for those who haven’t received a vaccine. European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, said: "The aim is to ...

The students in action The University of Chichester Conservatoire Triple Threat programme was poised to open its annual autumn double bill at the Alexandra Theatre in Bognor Regis last October. This year it was Rodgers and Hart’s Pal Joey and Babes in Arms which quickly sold out the socially-distanced auditorium. Then the circuit-breaker lockdown was announced. However, the students decided that ‘the show must go on’. With regulations allowing education to continue, they decided to turn o...