Frequently Asked Questions

Culture Calendar is a cultural storytelling platform, which exploring theatre, live entertainment, performing arts, music, events, and creative experiences from London to Los Angeles.

Originally founded in 2013 as a women’s social group, centred around organised theatre trips, friendship, and shared cultural experiences, Culture Calendar has evolved into a platform for audience-led storytelling, creative writing, editorial features, cultural commentary, and live event coverage.

Today, the platform focuses on how culture is experienced, remembered, and emotionally felt – both on and off the stage.

Culture Calendar began as a women’s friendship group, offering organised coach trips to theatre, comedy, concerts, bringing women together through a shared passion for live entertainment.

While the platform has now evolved into a broader cutural storytelling and creative media platform, even though we no longer organise group coach trips and social events, those foundations remain an important part of its identity and understanding of audience experience, emotional connection and community.

Yes.

Culture Calendar welcomes collaborations with theatres, performing arts organisations, concert venues, tourism boards, festivals, creative brands, PR agencies, and cultural institutions from the UK to Los Angeles.

Collaborations may include:

• Press attendance
• Editorial features
• Venue reviews
• Audience-led storytelling
• Cultural campaigns
• Sponsored cultural content
• Blog features
• Social media storytelling
• Creative partnerships and interviews

Yes.

Culture Calendar is open to carefully aligned partnerships that compliment the platform’s focus on culture, creativity, storytelling, live entertainment, tourism, audience and community engagement.

All partnerships are selected to ensure that they remain relevant, authentic, and valuable to readers.

Culture Calendar was founded and creatively led by Catherine Glachan, whose background is in planning, and organising cultural experiences, attending live entertainment, and documenting audience perspective continues to shape the platform’s editorial voice.

The writing combines creative storytelling, cultural observation, emotional insight, and lived audience experience.

For collaborations, media enquiries, partnerships, editorial opportunities, or general enquiries, please visit our contact us page

Culture Calendar creates original editorial content, including, but not limited to:

• Theatre and musical reviews
• Live entertainment coverage
• Concert and performance features
• Cultural commentary and opinion pieces
• Venue and destination storytelling
• Travel-led cultural experiences
• Audience reflections and immersive event writing
• Creative blog features and cultural journalism

All content is shaped through lived experience, real attendance, and authentic audience perspective.

Culture Calendar approaches culture through human experience rather than formal performance criticism alone.

The platform focuses not only on what happens on stage, but also on atmosphere, anticipation, audience emotion, engagement, venue experience, travel, conversation, and the lasting impact and upliftment of live performance.

This creates a more immersive and relatable form of cultural storytelling that connects audiences with places, performances, and experiences in a meaningful way.

Yes.

Culture Calendar values authenticity, editorial integrity, and balanced audience perspective.

Every features, review, and cultural reflection is written from genuine lived experience and aims to create thoughtful, engaging storytelling that is both trustworthy and relatable.

Primarily, Culture Calendar covers:

• Theatre
• Musicals
• Live music
• Concerts
• Comedy
• Dance
• Ballet
• Performing Arts
• Historic venues
• Cultural festivals
• Immersive experiences
• Creative travel and destination culture

Coverage spans local experiences, major UK cities, West End Productions, regional venues, and selected international cultural destinations, for example: Los Angeles.

Culture Calendar believes that culture is not only something people watch – it is something that they emotionally experience, remember, and carry with them long after the performance ends.

Experience-led storytelling allows Culture Calendar to explore theatre, live entertainment, performing arts, concerts, cultural events, and creative destinations through a more immersive lens.

Rather than focusing solely on technical critique, we capture atmosphere, audience emotion, anticipation, venue character, travel experience, and the personal connection audiences encounter with live performance.

This approach creates richer cultural commentary and more relatable theatre and event coverage for modern audiences searching for authentic perspectives and meaningful recommendations.  It reflects how people genuinely engage with the arts – through feeling, memory, conversation, connection and a shared experiences with family and friends.

By combining audience-led reviews with creative writing, cultural travel story-telling, and editorial-style features, Culture Calendar aims to record not only what happens on stage, but also how culture shapes audiences, places, communities, and emotional relatability in real life.

Culture Calendar’s storytelling style is rooted in lived attendance, real audience perspective, and a deep appreciate for live performance, theatres, musical venues, historic spaces, and cultural environments from the UK to Los Angeles.

This creates content that is engaging, trustworthy, SEO-rich, and valuable to both readers seeking inspiration and to the arts organisation’s interested in how to better understand audience connection and cultural engagement.

Ultimately, Culture Calendar focuses on experience-led storytelling because live entertainment is about so much more than live performance alone.  It is about human connection, emotional resonance, atmosphere, discovery, and the memorable impact of shared cultural experience.