Sussex

<h2 class="wp-block-heading">THEATRE</h2>



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For some high brow living room entertainment head over to&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.roh.org.uk/" target="_blank">The Royal Opera House’s</a>&nbsp;website for the online premier of The Royal Ballet’s 2020 production of&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.roh.org.uk/tickets-and-events/the-cellist-stream-details" target="_blank">The Cellist</a>&nbsp;(available on YouTube 29 May from 7pm) and The Royal Opera House’s 2012 production of&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.roh.org.uk/tickets-and-events/il-trittico-stream-details" target="_blank">Il&nbsp;trittico</a>&nbsp;(available 5 Jun from 7pm).



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Elsewhere,&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.shakespearesglobe.com/watch/" target="_blank">The Globe</a>‘s next release is comedy&nbsp;The Merry Wives of Windsor&nbsp;– expect all the drama of your typical Shakespeare play (we’re talking marriage, wealth, jealousy and lies). Available 1 – 14 Jun.



LOCAL OPTION: It&#8217;s all getting a bit dull outside Chichester Festival Theatre so why not help decorate it? A lovely arty challenge for families, <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="download the template (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.cft.org.uk/news/get-arty-and-help-decorate-cft" target="_blank">download the template </a>and send your design to the theatre team and your artwork in the theatre&#8217;s currently empty windows will make somebody&#8217;s day. While you&#8217;re there, you can still catch <a rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Beauty and the Beast (opens in a new tab)" href="https://www.cft.org.uk/cft-at-home" target="_blank">Beauty and the Beast</a> online, and take part in CFT At Home&#8217;s range of crafty activities. 



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">TELEVISION</h2>



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On&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/primesignup/ref=dvm_uk_sl_ambr%7Cm_XMGsSLbHc_c428618500506_s" target="_blank">Amazon Prime Video</a>&nbsp;you can now watch all episodes of&nbsp;Little Fires Everywhere, based on Celeste Ng’s&nbsp;New York Times&nbsp;bestseller of the same name. The TV adaptation stars Reece Witherspoon and Kerry Washington (above) and seems to be all the internet is talking about at the moment – clear out a day in your diary because you’re going to want to binge it.



The fourth and final season of controversial high school drama&nbsp;13 Reasons Why&nbsp;airs on&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://netflix.com/" target="_blank">Netflix</a>&nbsp;this week (5 Jun). Don’t be fooled, the show’s definitely not suitable for tweens and covers hard hitting themes of murder and mental illness, so best to watch after the watershed.



Alternatively, if you’re looking for something lighter, the fifth season of reality show&nbsp;Queer Eye&nbsp;is a dead cert. This time the Fab Five (Jonathan Van Ness, Bobby Berk, Antoni Porowski,&nbsp;Karamo Brown&nbsp;and Tan France) are in Philadelphia to makeover the lives of 10 unsung heroes. If you haven’t seen it before (lucky you, you can watch the first four seasons with fresh eyes), it’s proper feel-good, heartwarming TV that will leave you reaching for the Kleenex.



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">MUSIC</h2>



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Hair’s getting long in lockdown Tim! Tuned into The Charaltans’ frontman Tim Burgess’&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/timstwitterlisteningparty?src=hash">#timstwitterlisteningparty</a>&nbsp;recently? The idea is that everyone listens to the same album (find the streaming schedule&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://timstwitterlisteningparty.com/" target="_blank">here</a>) at the same time to bring people together through music. Artists live tweet alongside whilst answering the public’s questions and sharing memories of creating the songs – neat, right? Part of the venture, Tim has now teamed up with&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.royalalberthall.com/tickets/events/2020/royal-albert-home-tim-burgess/" target="_blank">The Royal Albert Hall</a>&nbsp;to deliver a live set from his home which you can watch on 4 Jun.



The prestigious 74th&nbsp;<a href="http://tonyawards.com/">Tony Awards</a>&nbsp;have been postponed this year, but the show must go on! Instead, you can watch an hour long broadcast celebrating Broadway and its global impact on 7 Jun (6pm). The event will raise money for the American Theatre Wing and the Broadway League – you can watch it for free on the&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://tonyawards.com/" target="_blank">Tony Awards website</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;brand new streaming service&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://broadwayondemand.com/" target="_blank">Broadway On Demand.</a>



With exams and graduations cancelled all over the world YouTube is hosting its own virtual graduation ceremony&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxpTjcouaeQ" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Dear Class of 2020</a>&nbsp;to celebrate with a bunch of famous faces. They’ve pulled out the big guns with speeches from Lady Gaga, Barack Obama, Alicia Keys, Kelly Rowland and more. Watch&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxpTjcouaeQ" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here</a>&nbsp;on 6 Jun.



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">FILM</h2>



Cinema night at home? (Try it outdoors with a projector, hung up bed sheet and loads of popcorn). New releases this week include Disney sequel&nbsp;Maleficent: Mistress of Evil&nbsp;over on&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/welcome?cid=DSS-Search-Google-71700000064847253-&amp;s_kwcid=AL!8468!3!426936657116!e!!g!!disney%20plus&amp;gclsrc=aw.ds&amp;&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQjwwr32BRD4ARIsAAJNf_3NMC-4u-wnH6L1zLhZjFFiVldZ2OoXEiu8dzw40ba0dAXzuekCIMYaAu0OEALw_wcB" target="_blank">Disney+</a>, starring a special effects-clad Angelina Jolie (that woman even looks good with horns coming out of her head!). Released 5 Jun.



Meanwhile, brush up on your GCSE French for brand new&nbsp;<a href="https://www.curzonhomecinema.com/film/watch-only-the-animals-film-online">Only The Animals</a>&nbsp;coming to&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.curzonhomecinema.com/?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=brand_wytia_ad2_april" target="_blank">Curzon Home Cinema</a>&nbsp;on 29 May (don’t worry, I’m sure there are subtitles if you’re language skills are a bit rusty). Directed by Dominik Moll, the film is a thriller about the interlocking lives of five strangers and an unhappily married woman.



Looking to fill the void left by the amazing BBC adaption of Sally Rooney’s&nbsp;Normal People&nbsp;when it concludes this Mon? Check out&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/primesignup/ref=dvm_uk_sl_ambr%7Cm_XMGsSLbHc_c428618500506_s" target="_blank">Amazon Prime Video’s</a>&nbsp;brand new Irish romcom&nbsp;Dating Amber, starring Lola Petticrew and&nbsp;Fionn O’Shea (who coincidently played Jamie in NP). The film tells the story of two best friends who pretend to date to stop rumours surrounding their sexuality. Looks like a goodie.



And finally,&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.youtube.com/weareone" target="_blank">We Are One Festival</a>&nbsp;continues this week (until 7 Jun) – a global film festival that’s been co-curated by over 20 film festivals from across the world (including BFI London Film Festival, Cannes and Tribeca), with funds going towards COVID-19 relief funds. Watch&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.youtube.com/weareone" target="_blank">here</a>.



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">MUSUEMS &amp; EXHIBITIONS</h2>



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Missed the&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.vam.ac.uk/" target="_blank">V&amp;A’s</a>&nbsp;Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk? The museum have released a five part series on&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.youtube.com/user/vamuseum" target="_blank">YouTube</a>&nbsp;to take you on a personal tour of the exhibition with its curator Anna Jackson. The exhibit features stunning garments dating back to the 1660s and charts the history of the kimono and its aesthetic and social significance.&nbsp;



Meanwhile, the&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.nhm.ac.uk/" target="_blank">Natural History Museum</a>&nbsp;is releasing loads of brilliant content on its&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.youtube.com/user/naturalhistorymuseum/videos" target="_blank">YouTube</a>&nbsp;channel with live talks from scientists and the museum’s curators. Topics so far include, the museum’s famous giant blue whale skeleton, whether there’s water on Mars and everything you’ve always wanted to know about dinosaurs.&nbsp;



Fancy taking a trip (and not the holiday kind)? You can now view a virtual tour of Somerset House’s whacky&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.somersethouse.org.uk/blog/virtual-tour-mushrooms" target="_blank">Mushrooms: The Art, Design and Future of Fungi</a>&nbsp;exhibition. The show brings together work from over 40 artists, designers and musicians with highlights including works from Beatrix Potter, Tom Dixon, Carsten Höller, plus this cool ‘Mindful Mushroom’ by London-based visual artist Seana Gavin.



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Exhausted all the virtual tours close to home? Then take a digital flight over to one of these wicked museums abroad starting with the&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://m.musee-orsay.fr/en/home.html" target="_blank">Musée d’Orsay</a>, above, in Paris – the museum has the world’s biggest collection of Impressionist and post-Impressionist artworks (we’re talking van Gogh and Cézanne – the big guns). Virtual tour&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/musee-dorsay-paris" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;



Or you can whizz&nbsp;over to &nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.guggenheim.org/" target="_blank">Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum</a>&nbsp;in New York. The venue has teamed up with&nbsp;<a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/solomon-r-guggenheim-museum" target="_blank">Google Street view for a tour</a>&nbsp;of its headline exhibitions, plus you can explore the museum’s collections online.&nbsp;



LOCAL OPTION: Hastings Museum and Art Gallery is still serving the community with <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hastingsmuseum/?__tn__=kC-R&amp;eid=ARAcPLpzVLBmeIC--0wn10XvDZIooENsMo1yWS3hbpoFpVNexbDH0m88iefW1JJi_P235TplU-oZFTpb&amp;hc_ref=ARTd9f-ug7LYVKkSfDDPTtJR8J8SsQzyArN-DVr0I-cxvmsYxkwgTGwB5piQcN_zkKM&amp;fref=nf&amp;__xts__[0]=68.ARC7xpUu51WzyumS0DJDn0YrW0Gd12eJs-c2FJK02HApbCBLvqNoVCajciR4xzQPdg9IPckNLNAzx3mLW3a08_fIImFjMhHnS6F2FCRPDycZS6OsqqVMvAR8IiKf2bDyna2LBFlajpwgGtzXpVNWoxpTQ0enN1PL5--HivXIs5_p9GvXvaaDqoi6hpWLhCZ9RKEZQi_SzlKkIyWMR2MHs-1My-TBKpWTGBb_qOPL9rg8T475awFItiJTgvuA6DGJ8JrLtvzrofqPEcvL8V3uqMC5ud-PmbQZqGzkqBwspWa3MEm6K8P2u4X9KkuMmxpvftAurU-6qaiDuQI2e3QrVp17Bw" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="Hastings Digital Museum (opens in a new tab)">Hastings Digital Museum</a>. The week&#8217;s programme has just been published and features heaps of creative fun for adults and kids alike, around the theme of form. 



<h2 class="wp-block-heading">KIDS</h2>



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Sussex Wildlife Trust&#8217;s fab <a href="https://sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk/discover/30-days-wild" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label="30 Days Wild (opens in a new tab)">30 Days Wild </a>kicks off this week, hurrah! All through June families are being challenged to do one wild thing a day, and there&#8217;s heaps of downloadable tips and advice to give you more inspiration than you can shake a stick (but is it ash, oak or birch?) at.

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