Jane Whyatt

Jane Whyatt is a British journalist who has worked for the BBC and founded her own start-up media production company in London. Since 2015, she has lived and worked in Leipzig at the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom and the Lie Detectors media literacy campaign. Now she is freelancing for the new European newspaper, Kultur öffnet Welten, The Leipzig Glocal and the award-winning TV production house Sinam Production.

Kloster Posa parties where monks used to pray

It’s almost one thousand years since the Benedictine monastery at Zeitz was founded, and just ten years since local artists and musicians established Posa Calling. LeipGlo's Jane Whyatt attended the festivities.

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Westflügel to celebrate 20 years on 26 August

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Leipzig’s Westflügel is marking its twentieth anniversary on 26 August with a public street party. And the puppet theatre is definitely not just for children.

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Linda Marwan asks: “Do lizards dream of a higher purpose?”

Do lizards dream of a higher purpose?" by Linda Marwan, on display in Reudnitz, considers the relationship between humans, nature and AI.

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DIMENSIONS asks what is true and what is real

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DIMENSIONS: Digital Art since 1859, on view at Wahren’s Pittlerwerke until 9 July, asks questions that are both timely and timeless.

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Flamenco Vivo brings duende to Leipzig

Leipzig Glocal writer Jane Whyatt thought she knew flamenco. A recent performance by Flamenco Vivo at the Gewandhaus zu Leipzig changed all that.

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Sammy H. Stephens: Leipzig told in song

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Much as we all love our city—and especially our district or Kiez—there is a special thrill when it's mentioned in a song.

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