Arts & Culture – Page 5 – First World War Centenary News Archive

January 26, 2014 CN Editorial Team

UK announces ‘Last Post’ mass participation music project for Centenary

The UK’s Communities Secretary has announced that a mass participation music project for 300 communities will take place in every year of the Centenary.

February 5, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Giant photos at IWM North Manchester mark vital role of women on the First World War Home Front

The vital contribution of women to the Home Front in the First World War is being marked with a giant display of photographs from the Imperial War Museum’s archives at IWM North in Manchester.

February 7, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Australia’s First World War naval campaign to be marked with major museum project

Australia is to pay tribute to the role of its navy, with a new building at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney promising visitors a “dynamic and interactive” experience.

February 8, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Major exhibition of American First World War art

A major exhibition devoted to exploring how American artists reacted to the First World War is being prepared at a leading arts academy.

February 9, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Daughter of First World War Poet Edmund Blunden to speak at Oxford

Margi Blunden, daughter of the First World War poet, Edmund Blunden, will remember her father at Oxford University’s WW1 Poetry Spring School in April 2014.

February 15, 2014 CN Editorial Team

First World War paintings in Greenwich “War Artists at Sea” exhibition

Paintings from the First World War are featured in a series of exhibitions depicting warfare at sea which has opened at Royal Museums Greenwich in London.

February 16, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Artist Stanley Spencer’s First World War masterpieces go on show in UK city of Chichester

A touring exhibition of First World War murals by the acclaimed British artist, Stanley Spencer, can now be seen at Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, West Sussex.

February 17, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Do Wilfred Owen’s poems mask the “true fighting spirit” of those who fought?

Postgraduate poetry student Christian Groves asks whether seeing the First World War through Wilfred Owen’s poems masks the true fighting spirit and patriotic passion of those who fought.

Author: Christian Groves

February 17, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Do Wilfred Owen’s poems mask the “true fighting spirit” of those who fought?

Postgraduate poetry student Christian Groves asks whether seeing the First World War through Wilfred Owen's poems masks the true fighting spirit and patriotic passion of those who fought.

February 23, 2014 CN Editorial Team

Centenary Chorus launches – 600 international young singers to perform at the Royal Albert Hall

Sing UK is bringing together a chorus of young people from four of the former combatant nations of the First World War – Belgium, England, France and Germany – for a special Centenary concert.