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Pre-order the NRLA Limited Edition Box Set

Published: December 21, 2009

On March 17th 2010 we will be launching a limited edition box set to celebrate 30 years of the National Review of Live Art, representing the unique spirit of the NRLA festival, as well as the diversity of its programme over the past 30 years.

We're giving you the chance to pre-order your limited edition box set and receive a discount. A Word file of the pre-order form can be downloaded using the link below:

Pre-order Form

 

International Winter School 2010

Updated: December 18, 2009
First Published: November 20, 2009

All Winter School courses are now fully subscribed.

Very few places now remain to be filled on the 2010 courses. Fully subscribed are, (i) Peter Boneham (ii) Jürgen Fritz & Jamie McMurry. Michael Mayhew (has 2 places left), Ron Athey (has 4 places left).

 

Varsha Nair and Tejal Shah Exhibition

Published: November 20, 2009

At the National Review of Live Art in 2006, Varsha Nair and Tejal Shah created a site-specific, interventionist work called Encounter(s) I, a piece that was then invited by the Tate Modern in London (Encounter(s) II). For those of you who may be on your travels over the Christmas period, the piece can now be seen as an exhibition at the KASHI art gallery in Kerala, India (www.kashiartgallery.com). Pictured right is one of the images from the piece at Tramway, Glasgow. Photographer: Karla Sachse

 

European Performance Art Festival (EPAF), Warsaw, Poland

Published: September 30, 2009

European Performance Art Festival (EPAF), Warsaw, Poland
15-18 October, 2009
NMI has been invited to curate a small programme of UK artists for this festival. Womens' Work UK features Francesca Steele, Michelle Browne, Pernille Spence, Sheila Ghelani, Traci Kelly and Anna Krzystek, plus a talk on the history of the National Review of Live Art by Nikki Milican.
http://epaf-festival.blogspot.com

 

***WANTED***

Published: July 29, 2009

Volunteers to help us with The National Review of Live Art (Monday 15 to Sunday 21 March). We are particularly looking for a driver (clean license, used to driving vans/people carriers) for airport pickups and ferrying artists about town. Interested? Contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it for more details.

 

Published: July 28, 2009

No further proposals are being received for the 2010 New Territories/National Review of Live Art festival, both programmes are now fully booked. Winter School courses are still subscribing (download application form from the Winter School menu).

 

Published: July 28, 2009

Following on from the OBE awarded to Nikki Milican earlier in the year has been the recognition received from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in the form of an Honorary Doctorate, the first awarded in the field of Contemporary Performance Practice at the flourishing Glasgow conservatoire.

 

Gong for Nikki

By Mary Brennan
Published: January 6, 2009

We're not exactly sure whether anyone from Buckingham Palace has ever been to a National Review of Live Art, or any of the other events that roll out under the radical banner of New Territories. But the Establishment certainly knows that, without Nikki Milican's unstinting commitment, passion and acumen these festivals - and indeed the whole of the UK's performance art scene - would not be as healthily provocative and progressive as they are. Which is why Nikki has - deservedly - been awarded an OBE in the recent New Year's Honours for 'services to performance art.'

She won't actually have received the gong itself by the time the 2009 NRLA kicks off on February 11th - but watch this space, for future photos of Ms Milican and her personal badge of honour.

 

By Keith Bruce
Published: December 31, 2008

Shamefully overlooked in our coverage of the New Year Honours List this morning is recognition of a figure whose contribution to the arts worldwide from her base in Scotland is quite unarguable and whose OBE will be unanimously cheered.

Nikki Milican (listed under her Sunday name of Nicola Jane, which few know) is the artistic director of New Territories, New Moves, and the National Review of Live Art, the latest incarnation of which will be upon us before the year is much older. Milican created, as well as curated, all these events, originally from her base at the Third Eye Centre (now the rather less bustling Centre for Contemporary Arts) on Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street. The list of dance and performance art companies and individuals she has brought to the world's attention is very long indeed and her ability to both promote new young talent and keep faith with the most creative of the established names is the mark of truly gifted promoter.

This year's NRLA programme is back at the Arches and has a notably Québeçois content, with companies familiar and new visiting Glasgow. The award to Milican is unusually well-timed.