Arts & Culture – Page 32 – First World War Centenary News Archive

September 11, 2018 CN Editorial Team

‘Diggers & Doughboys’ – special exhibition at US National WWI Museum

A century of military ties between Australia and America, beginning on the Western Front in 1918, is explored through art in a new exhibition opening at the US National WWI Museum & Memorial, Kansas City.

September 20, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Latest Armistice Centenary exhibitions open at IWM

Four exhibitions have opened at the Imperial War Museum in London as part of Making a New World – IWM’s season of events for the close of the First World War Centenary.

September 21, 2018 CN Editorial Team

‘Battle of the Ancre’ film in Bristol for Armistice Centenary

The official film of the British Army’s autumn campaign on the Somme in 1916 will be screened in Bristol, with live music, as part of an Armistice Centenary tour in November.

October 5, 2018 CN Editorial Team

‘Weeping Window’ poppy display opens at IWM London

The final presentation of the Tower of London WW1 Centenary poppies tour is under way at the Imperial War Museum.

October 9, 2018 CN Editorial Team

‘Great War Symphony’ receives world premiere

‘The Great War Symphony’ – a new choral work written for the close of the WW1 Centenary by British composer Patrick Hawes – is being given its world première at the Royal Albert Hall, London, tonight (October 9).

October 18, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Armistice Centenary events round-up, October/November 2018

A Centenary News look at some of the national, international and local commemorations coming up to mark the end of the First World War 100 years ago.

October 22, 2018 CN Editorial Team

‘Fields of Mud, Seeds of Hope’ at Ripon Cathedral

Artist Dan Metcalfe combines soil from Yorkshire and Passchendaele in a sculpture at Ripon Cathedral commemorating the sacrifices of those who returned from WW1, as well as those who did not.

October 28, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Full list of beaches named for WW1 ‘Pages of the Sea’ commemoration

More than 30 beaches across the UK and Republic of Ireland will be hosting Danny Boyle’s 14-18 NOW Armistice Centenary event, remembering those who left to serve in the First World War.

November 1, 2018 CN Editorial Team

Armistice Centenary events update – November 2018

An update on some of the national, international and local commemorations coming up to mark the end of the First World War 100 years ago this month.

November 9, 2018 CN Editorial Team

‘Shrouds of the Somme’ in London – Artist’s Armistice Centenary tribute

Patrick Gregory tells the story of the WW1 Shrouds of the Somme installation at London’s Olympic Park.

Author: Patrick Gregory