Feature articles 2011

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The arts

Feature: Leicester's Cultural Strategy

Editorial comment: A policy for the arts?

The arts as a business

How to promote the arts, artists and entertainment in Leicester/shire.

The Cultural Quarter.

Community arts

Architecture: the history of Leicester's built environment.

Creative industries.

The arts and health.

Arts and crafts

Reports on Leicester's festivals

Music

Band news. The latest news about and for rock bands

All our 100 pages on rock music and bands

We meet the cast of West Side Story

2011: What bands and acts to look out for in the year ahead. Our predictions for top bands and acts.

Music and faith

Rock music in Leicester.

Where is live music now? A long hard look at the live music scene in Leicester.

The SoundHouse - one year on

Leicester's new O2 Academy venue

Promoters of live music in Leicester. Find out who puts on shows in Leicester.

Promote your band. How to get a national profile for your band.

Young bands: Leicester's emerging rock talent.

Leicester goes to Surface Unsigned. We follow our local bands to Birmingham.

Arts and the community - we look at community arts projects in Leicester

How the arts can improve health

Only a quarter? We take a look at Leicester's much vaunted Cultural Quarter.

How to get a gig. Advice for bands wanting to play in Leicester.

The art of food. Our page on culinary arts.

Roots of rock. A look back at gigs gone by.

Competitions. Our look at what bands are competing for this year.

Glastonbudget Festival. Our guide to the festival and how to get to play at it.

Come to Leicester. We put the case for our city as a destination for the msuic industry.

Books, authors and poetry.

We interview Leicester author Pippa Goodheart.

We interview beat poet John Cooper Clarke

Meet Leicester novelist Deborah White

We interview writer Kerry Young

Our new section on poets and poetry.

Author Alice Grist launches her new book

Poetry Whores US tour

Visual arts

Painters

Profiled photographer: Harjinder Ohbi.

Profiled photographer Will Poulton

We meet film director George Horne

We look at the work of digital artist: Sean Clark

We look at the visual arts in Leicester with Stella Couloutbanis

News about Leicester's digital arts and artists

Leicester Peoples' Photo Gallery

History and architecture

Our section on Leicester's built environment traces the history of the city through its buildings

Meet the Romans in Leicester

Other pages you might like

Lots more feature articles in our Weekend Supplement

Interviews

Featured bands

Singers

Our round-up of Leicester's live music scene