Bjork announces first European date in support of “Vulnicura”March 6, 2015 - 16:54 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Bjork has announced her first European date in support of Vulnicura, with the Icelandic icon set to headline Manchester International Festival in July, Gigwise reports. It has been revealed that the singer will play a special one off show at The Castlefield Arena on 5 July, with other performers still to be announced. Taking place between 2-19 July, this year's lineup also features FKA Twigs and acclaimed producer Arca, who actually worked on Vulnicura with Bjork. Twigs' live dates will see her take over Granada Studios for a week, where she will reportedly create and direct a series of short films, with further details on her project expected to be announced soon. Damon Albarn's Alice In Wonderland-based play wonder.land will also premiere at the festival, making it's worldwide debut. The Manchester show looks set to take place over a month before Bjork's much-anticipated headline performance at Wilderness Festival in August. Tickets for Bjork's performance at Manchester Evening Festival go on sale on Friday (6 March) at 1pm. Top stories The creative crew of the Public TV had chosen 13-year-old Malena as a participant of this year's contest. She called on others to also suspend their accounts over the companies’ failure to tackle hate speech. Penderecki was known for his film scores, including for William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist”, Stanley Kubrick’s “The Shining”. The festival made the news public on March 19, saying that “several options are considered in order to preserve its running” Partner news | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Ucom General Director gives lecture at French University in Armenia The General Director of Ucom Ralph Yirikian delivered a lecture at the French University of Armenia. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. |