Michael Sheen as been announced as one of the speakers at this year’s TEDxSoho talk, to take place at the Cambridge Theatre in London. Tickets are available here. More on the event below:
Ler maisThe star-studded line-up now includes the Emmy-nominated Michael Sheen, who will be taking part virtually via a pre-recorded talk, as well as an in-person talk from actor Ray Panthaki, whilst singer-songwriter Tom Odell will be performing. They will be joining the previously announced speakers at the Cambridge Theatre on 30th May.
King of both stage and screen, acting legend Michael Sheen will be taking part virtually by means of a pre-recorded TED Talk, exclusively for TEDxSoho, about levelling the cultural playing field. Known for his roles in Oscar-nominated projects such as The Queen and Frost/Nixon, Sheen has also conquered the small screen, most recently in Amazon Prime’s hit TV series Good Omens.
Yesterday (April 20) Michael Sheen was finally immortalized with a painting by the street art group ARTwalk Port Talbot after being voted by the local community.
Check out some photos below:
Michael Sheen is set to appear on the first episode, “Lights in the Darkness” on April 7 at 9pm. Check out thr first look at him in the series:
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Art That Made Us is a landmark series that presents an alternative history of the British Isles, told through art.
Looking at 1,500 years and eight dramatic turning points, acclaimed artists and thinkers encounter key historic art works from across the UK that have shaped the history of the British Isles and inspired their own work. Paintings, sculpture, architecture, literature, drama, design and music that emerged at some of the most exciting times of crisis and turbulence in our history are all explored. Some are surprising, others are better-known but reassessed, but all take us to the heart of eight dramatic moments of historical change.
Episode one immerses us in the turbulent era that followed the Roman occupation of Britain. After the Romans leave, waves of invasion reshape the Isles and their cultures: from glittering jewellery to carved stones to intricate manuscripts. Battles over identity and faith play out in art and culminate in the rise of a new vernacular language.
In this episode, the artworks explored include sculptor Antony Gormley meeting the fifth century clay figure Spong Man; actor Michael Sheen performs the seventh century Welsh poem of resistance against the Anglo-Saxons, Y Gododdin; Scottish artists Dalziel + Scullion wonder at the monumental Aberlemno Stones (ca.500-800 AD), believed to mark the hard-fought boundary line of the Pictish kingdom; artist Cornelia Parker investigates gold artefacts of the Staffordshire Hoard that fuse pagan and Christian imagery.
In addition, Reverend. Richard Coles explores the elaborate Lindisfarne Gospels; Maria Dahvana Headley analyses how English is used in the epic poem Beowulf; The Anglo-Saxon Mappa Mundi reveals a new sense of the Isles’ place in the wider world, and David McCandless, British Library curator Claire Breay and graphic novelist Woodrow Phoenix take a fresh look at how the Anglo-Saxon age came to a dramatic end in 1066 by exploring the embroidered propaganda of the Norman Conquest in the Bayeux Tapestry.
Art That Made Us (8 x 60’) was commissioned for BBC Arts and BBC Two by Emma Cahusac, BBC Arts Commissioning Editor. It is a ClearStory and Menace Production and is a co-production with The Open University. It was executive produced by Russell Barnes, Denys Blakeway and Michael Jackson, and the series producer is Melanie Fall.
Michael Sheen has been invited to edit this week’s New Statesman issue, set to come out this Friday (March 25), called “A Dream of Britain”. In it, he addresses the British identity and asks “what is the thread that holds us together?” Read it below:
Ler maisSo, what’s the story? Our story. The story of Britain. No, I don’t mean our history. That’s there for all to see. I mean, what’s our underlying story? Our myth. The story we tell ourselves without having to speak it. The story that shapes us. The story that tells us who we are, where we’ve been, where we’re going and what matters to us.
We may not have ever voiced it, even to ourselves. But it is undoubtedly there. After all, we have a feeling for what is “not British”. “That’s not who we are!” “Is that who we’ve become?” “That’s not the Britain I know.”
Is it something like the Great American Dream? The story that says no matter who you are, no matter where you come from, if you work hard enough, you can achieve anything, become whatever you want to be – even president. From Hicksville, US, to a Shining City on a Hill, all is equal in the Land of Opportunity.
Michael and Sharon Horgan will be playing a couple in new four-part drama written by BAFTA-winner writer Jack Thorne, set to premiere next year. More below:
Ler mais“In all actions concerning children, whether undertaken by public or private social welfare institutions, courts of law, administrative authorities or legislative bodies, the best interests of the child shall be the primary consideration”
-Article 3 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
This is a story of a family driven apart by having to make choices no parent would ever want to make. Sharon Horgan (Catastrophe, Together) and Michael Sheen (Good Omens, Quiz) play married couple Nicci and Andrew, they have two daughters: Katie played by Alison Oliver (Conversations With Friends) and Marnie played by Niamh Moriarty (Jack Thorne’s A Christmas Carol).
The Sheen-Lundberg clan is growing! Michael Sheen took to Twitter to announce he’s expecting his third child, the second with his partner Anna Lundberg:
Michael’s mural will be the third one painted by Port Talbot’s ARTwalk group, who also painted murals of Richard Burton and Peg Entwistle. More below:
Ler maisA giant mural of Michael Sheen is to be painted in Port Talbot as the town plans to bounce back from the loss of Banksy’s ‘Season’s Greeting’ artwork.
The team behind the town’s ARTwalk say they will not let the departure of the famous artist’s artwork deter them from establishing the town as the street art capital of Wales.
“We intend the street art revolution that Season’s Greetings sparked to continue and spread,” said Derek Davies, who manages the Port Talbot ARTwalk Facebook page.
Christmas Day with Michael Sheen is set to air on December 25 at 2pm GMT. More on the show below:
Spend your Christmas with Michael Sheen as he entertains the nation with a special Christmas Day programme on BBC Radio Wales.
The Welsh actor will host the two-hour show, Christmas Day with Michael Sheen on December 25 from 2pm. The show will feature a mix of music and guests, including a performance from James Dean Bradfield of the Manic Street Preachers.
Michael Sheen says: “Coming together at this time of year is what makes it so special and thanks to Radio Wales this Christmas Day, I’ll get to share some great festive music, a few Christmas catch ups with friends and a bit of a Yuletide magic.”
Additionally, Michael will use the programme as a moment for reflection and will be reciting extracts from Dylan Thomas’ A Child’s Christmas in Wales.
Meyrick and Irene Sheen, Michael’s lovely parents, have donated three two-piece suits and one jacket to the British Heart Fundation shop in Port Talbot. You have until December 20 to place a bid on eBay. Click on the links below to check them out:
BHF Cymru aims to “beat heartbreak for Wales by continuing to fund life saving research into heart and circulatory diseases to find better ways of diagnosing, treating and ultimately curing them.”
Here’s a video of Meyrick and Irene recorded for them:
The Sky panel show There’s Something About Movies will be back for a Christmas special episode set to go on air next Thursday, December 16 at 8pm. Michael Sheen, Jennifer Saunders, Tom Allen and host Alan Carr are joined by guests James Acasterm Thomas Sangster and Susan Wokoma.
Watch a teaser from the episode below: