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Who can benefit?

zoiskoukopoulos — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 08:24:18 +0000

If you are an artist that creates cultural heritage artworks, or an expert that creates culture heritage applications then this corner is dedicated to you. Fill free to create an account and publish your creations. Demonstrate your work to a large audience of Cultural Heritage enthusiasts, experts, scientists and students.

Each artist retains the full ownership of his content and is able to present that content, to the community, free of charge.

Serious Games

Culture Gate offers the essential background to specialists of serious games implementation to host their applications. A creator has two options:

Simply present the project, providing all the necessary information to the community.
Integrate the application with Culture Gate. Platform’s architecture and resources permit the integration of various types of software like a serious game.

In order to demonstrate your work to Culture Gate you must get in touch with our moderators and discuss further steps.

Time Lapse Videos

Culture Gate urges artists that create such audiovisual content to upload and present their work. In order to demonstrate your creation to Culture Gate you must get in touch with our moderators and discuss further steps.

3D Representations

Specialists that create 3D representations of tangible cultural heritage content have the opportunity to display their applications to Culture Gate. The platform can host applications that perform virtual tours in museums, monuments or sites of cultural heritage, too. In order to demonstrate your work to Culture Gate you must get in touch with our moderators and discuss further steps.

Cultural Heritage Mobile Applications Overview

Culture Gate implements a section where specialists can present their own smartphone applications that concern cultural heritage. Every user will be able to make comments about the application giving a valuable feedback with the owner. In order to demonstrate your work to Culture Gate you must get in touch with our moderators and discuss further steps.

The best folk music albums of 2016

zoiskoukopoulos — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 17:21:07 +0000

The best folk music albums of 2016, regularly updated with picks from culture editor Martin Chilton. The albums are listed purely in the order in which they have been reviewed.

1: SONGS OF SEPARATION COLLECTIVE: SONGS OF SEPARATION (NAVIGATOR RECORDS)

Jenny Hill has brought together 10 female musicians – the nine others being Eliza Carthy, Hannah James, Hannah Read, Hazel Askew, Jenn Butterworth, Karine Polwart, Kate Young, Mary Macmaster and Rowan Rheingans – to build songs around the issues of ‘separation’; emotional, political, social. Literary influences abound, including Robert Frost (and there is a good version of Road Less Travelled) and the lovely It Was A’ For Our Rightfu’ King, which is based on the words of Scottish poet Robert Burns, and arranged with deftness by Read. Andy Bell co-produced the album, which was recorded on the island of Eigg. The harmonies are gorgeous and the lyrics thought-provoking. A good start to the year for folk music.

Source: Telegraph

This Midsummer Night’s Dream gives Shakespeare back to the people

zoiskoukopoulos — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 09:35:11 +0000

Opening in Stratford in the final throes of winter and touring until the middle of June, when it returns to Shakespeare’s birthplace, this RSC revival of A Midsummer Night’s Dream – which helps mark the quatercentenary of his death – is being subtitled “A Play for the Nation”. It might equally be subtitled “Show Us Your Bottom”.

The big, brave idea behind Erica Whyman’s production, set in a war-torn, Blitz-damaged Britain of the Forties, is to have different amateur-dramatic groups perform cheek-by-jowl with the professional ensemble.

The interlopers, 14 companies in total (hailing from as far afield as Cornwall and Glasgow), play “the Mechanicals”: Bottom the Weaver and his fellow ‘hard-handed men” of Athens who present their roughly rehearsed, farcically ramshackle “play within a play” before a sneering yet indulgent court in Act V. Their trained counterparts take on the other roles, although there’s a sprinkling of local children (got up like evacuees) to augment the fairy queen Titania’s retinue.

Source: Telegraph