A film festival with a difference is returning to Worthing in September for a second year. The On Location film festival runs from Friday 17th - Wednesday 29th September with the screening of five films in five perfect locations.

Romantic film fans will be taken back to the 1940s to enjoy tea and cakes while watching the classic film Brief Encounter in a waiting room on Worthing station, whilst fans of the Coen brothers can sip on a White Russian cocktail while watching The Big Lebowski at Worthing's bowling alley - with a free game of bowing after the film has finished!

Review by Veronica Pullen

If I said Piranha 3D was a bloodier Jaws, but with Piranhas instead of sharks, I could end this review here, and you’d have enough information to decide whether you wanted to see this film or not.

It's August, and in true British style even the artists have been heading for the seaside.

Debate has been raging on the Hastings Creatives mailing list after a piece of stencil-cut graffiti appeared in the town. Resembling a Banksy, it shows a child building a sandcastle decorated with the word 'Tesco'. So is it or isn't it an original by the notorious artist?

A new exhibition pairs iconic portraits of British artists by Vogue photographer John Deakin with major paintings by each artist, providing a unique view of post-war British art and the artistic bohemia of London’s Soho.

Artists and subjects include Michael Andrews, Francis Bacon, John Craxton, Lucian Freud, John Minton, and Eduardo Paolozzi.

Until recently John Deakin has been missing from photographic history. His career began with Vogue but, despite achieving recognition for the photographs he took there he never took it seriously and never expected it to make him a living. Deakin’s bad behaviour was legendary and he remains the only staff photographer in the magazine’s history to be hired and fired twice by the same admiring but exasperated editor.

Deakin yearned to be a painter like his friends Francis Bacon, Robert Colquhoun, Lucian Freud and Michael Andrews.

There's more interventionist madness at Chichester's Pallant House Gallery this autumn.

Contemporary Eye: Crossovers, is a series of interventions in the eighteenth-century house and new wing galleries by international contemporary artists exploring traditional craft techniques such as ceramics, glass, textiles, wood carving, and taxidermy. Artists include Grayson Perry, Gary Hume, Edmund de Waal, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons and Polly Morgan.

In recent years artists have used craft techniques to make art with a radical or subversive edge. Since Grayson Perry won the Turner Prize in 2003 for his decorated coil-pots, the art world has lost some of its fear and disdain for the word ‘craft’.

Contemporary Eye: Crossovers celebrates this experimentation, featuring works which challenge associations of twee country craft-shops. Artists such as Grayson Perry, Barnaby Barford and Debbie Lawson re-imagine traditional techniques to bring new meanings to their work.

The all-singing, all-strumming ukulele players of The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain celebrate their silver jubilee at Worthing’s Pavilion Theatre on Saturday 11th September.

The orchestra reinterpret every style of music from Tchaikovsky to Nirvana via Otis Reading and Spaghetti Western soundtracks. Their melodious performance features only the “bonsai guitar” and a menagerie of voices in a collision of post-punk performance and toe-tapping oldies.

The Ukulele Orchestra started in 1985. Since then, the orchestra has given thousands of concerts, TV and radio appearances all over the world. Their music has been used in films, plays, and commercials. They have collaborated with Madness, The Kaiser Chiefs, The Ministry of Sound.

'The Blind Side' is a feel-good family movie about how a successful Christian Republican business woman, played by Sandra Bullock, follows her conscience and takes in a homeless black boy. The family make him one of their own and get him through school, training him on the way to be one of the greatest American football players.

It moves along with a few sanitised scenes of harsh reality, but is totally digestable if a little sweet on the pallet. It is based on a true story and is a demonstration of how we can rescue people from a life of crime and destruction if we could all make a little space in our hearts. After adopting Michael Oher the family pay for a private tutor, played by the lovely Kathy Bates, to get him into college. She explains that she is a Democrat and the best line of the film is when Bullock's husband says: "To think we had a black son before we met a Democrat!" The movie blows away a lot of misconceptions about the 'Bible-Belt', but it has its critics…
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Norwich is making good use of the funding that was allocated through the Department for Communities and Local Government to support high streets and town centres through the recession by encouraging meanwhile use of empty premises in the city centre. Norwich Arts Centre has been commissioned to run the initiative on behalf of Norwich City Council. They have called the project ShopArt! and an exhibition of a rang of art in shop windows will last for 6 months from October 2010 to March 2011.

Norwich Arts Centre is now calling for submissions with a deadline of August 27th. For six months from early October ShopArt! will see at least 10 empty shop windows in Norwich city centre filled with art by local artists. Artists from all over Norfolk are invited to submit ideas to ShopArt! co-ordinator Grace Jackson with details of how they would like to fill a window.

The ShopArt! project aims to show the amount of artistic creativity in Norwich and Norfolk as well as improving the feel of the city centre and build on the work that Norwich Arts Centre is already doing to encourage and support local artists and performers.

Folk singer, songwriter and raconteur Richard Digance visits Worthing’s Pavilion Theatre for an evening of songs, rhymes and rambling stories on Saturday September 04.

Richard’s career has been lengthy and diverse, from a BAFTA Nomination as a TV entertainer to supporting Steve Martin and Robin Williams. Richard is part of The Virgin Anthology of Songwriters for his contribution to British comedy songwriting and for over half a century he has travelled the world with just a guitar and his immense collection of stories.