HERD wins Event of the Year at the Yorkshire Post Tourism Awards 2023!

12.12.23

We were delighted to be part of the team collecting the award for “Event of the Year” for HERD at this year's Yorkshire Post Tourism Awards. HERD was a genre-defying musical mash-up of epic proportions, devised by composer Orlando G...

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Our National Health Stories Finale

28.11.23

Our National Health Stories was a powerful and moving portrait of the NHS on its 75th Anniversary, the result of an unprecedented national collaboration between 19 hospital trusts, thousands of NHS staff and a stellar creative team led by Kwame ...

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Have ewe seen HERD?

12.07.23

For six magical days, 23 larger-than-life sheep - unlike any you’ve ever seen or heard before - will be popping up in surprising places across Kirklees. Will you find them? HERD is genre-defying musical mash-up of epic proportions, devi...

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Kirklees Year of Music - PLATFORM Artist Exchange Showcase

28.04.23

Working with Music Cities Events, Kirklees Year of Music hosted Platform  - a music industry event giving Kirklees artists a career-changing opportunity. Artists, selected from an open call, took part in a live performance on 27 April,...

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Lewisham, London Borough of Culture 2022

25.11.21

We were thrilled to be at the launch of We are Lewisham, announcing programme highlights for Lewisham’s year as London Borough of Culture in 2022 at the beautiful Rivoli Ballrom. The 2022 programme celebrates the borough's rich history of...

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Pages Of The Sea

07.01.19

On 11 November 2018, tens of thousands of people joined Danny Boyle for Pages of the Sea to say thank you and goodbye to the millions who left their shores during the First World War, many never to return. Across the UK and Ireland communities gat...

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PROCESSIONS 2018

13.06.18

On 10 June 2018, we were at PROCESSIONS, as part of our work for 14-18 NOW. This UK-wide, mass participatory artwork celebrating 100 years of votes for women saw tens of thousands of women take to the streets in Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh and Lon...

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Launching 14-18 NOW’s 2018 season

15.02.18

On 22 January 2018, we were at BAFTA launching 14-18 NOW’s 2018 season of extraordinary arts events. Marking the centenary of Armistice, their final season features brand new artworks by some of the world’s leading artists. Key Result...

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The Drum Dream Awards and Digital Impact Awards

Award Nominations

09.09.16

We are delighted that The Cogency has been nominated for 7 marketing awards for our work with 14-18 NOW. The nominations are for 'we’re here because we’re here' - the public artwork by Jeremy Deller with Rufus Norris that made such a p...

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MIF Save the Date postcard

MIF17

19.08.16

It’s that time again. We’re gearing up for the next Manchester International Festival. It’s #6 and the first one with new artistic director, John McGrath. The Cogency has had the very great pleasure of working on every Festival s...

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#wearehere

01.07.16

We’re proud to have been part of we’re here because we’re here a modern memorial to mark the centenary of the Battle of the Somme. The event was commissioned by our client 14-18 NOW and conceived and created by Turner Prize-winn...

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Salisbury Cathedral from teh Meadows at Oriel y Parc

Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows on show at Oriel y Parc

23.03.16

The next leg of the Aspire tour has begun with the opening of Oriel y Parc's exhibition of Constable’s Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows. Set in Wales’ coastal national park the painting will be accompanied by other works by Constab...

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People Show

People Show's 50th year

21.03.16

'Theater without People Show would be like music without rock ‘n roll' Sam Shepard, 2013 Having worked with them on their Hands Off / Fallout double bill at Toynbee Studios in 2014, we are now working with People Show on their communication...

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Our support of the 14-18 NOW 2016 season launch

05.02.16

Last month, our major project 14-18 NOW announced its 2016 season to a fantastic response. As the marketing consultants, our role for the day of the launch was to develop and play out the digital campaign, this included live streaming the launch v...

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Who Are You? (Directed by the Blaine Brothers

Another successful Skate at Somerset House season

11.01.16

After another successful season of Skate at Somerset House, it’s time to put the skates away until November. New for this year’s campaign, we commissioned the award-winning Blaine Brothers (Nina Forever) to make a short film set at Sk...

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Le Patin Libre, phot by Alicia Clarke

Our new sting for Le Patin Libre

18.12.15

We are working on the campaign for Canadian ice dance quintet extraordinaire, Le Patin Libre, whose show Vertical will be taking place on Somerset House’s ice rink 12-16 January. We recently finished producing this short sting (with filmmak...

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Le Patin Libre skating

Le Patin Libre: our latest project with Somerset House hits the ice

20.11.15

We were treated to a short performance by the fabulous Le Patin Libre at the opening of Skate at Somerset House last week. The award-winning Canadian figure-skating quintet hit the ice to entertain guests at this year’s launch party. We lov...

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Weeping Window poppies sculpture installed in Liverpool

Poppies: Weeping Window launched in Liverpool

13.11.15

Last week we launched the installation of the sculpture Weeping Window at St. Georges Hall, Liverpool, as part of our work as Marketing Consultants for the 14-18 NOW Poppies tour. The installation opened to coincide with Remembrance Sunday & A...

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Dazzle It app

The Cogency launches new app Dazzle It

08.09.15

Today The Cogency launches its very first app for client 14-18 NOW, working alongside digital PR agency Hot Cherry. Developed by Corporation Pop, Dazzle It uses cutting-edge technology that allows you to remix work by contemporary artists includin...

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NEW Political Mother: The Choreographer’s Cut trailer released

23.06.15

Internationally renowned Hofesh Shechter Company have just released the NEW official trailer Political Mother: The Choreographer’s Cut. Bringing the atmosphere of a rock gig, and brimming with gritty and emotional complexity, this extraordi...

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John Constable, Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows 1831

Happy birthday John Constable

11.06.15

11th June marks the birthday of British landscape artist John Constable. As part of the celebrations, the second phase of the display of Constable’s 6-foot masterpiece Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows (1831) opens at Ipswich’s Chr...

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We are voting again for Film4 Summer Screen at Somerset House

19.05.15

Has it really been 11 years? Last year we celebrated 10 years of Film4 Summer Screen at Somerset House. This August, THE finest outdoor cinema returns for its 11th season with 14 nights of classic, cult and contemporary films including 3 premiere...

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Hofesh Shechter Company’s London season #HOFEST

19.05.15

Last month our new client, internationally renowned Hofesh Shechter Company announced #HOFEST, a four week long season of work presented across London, celebrating the diversity of the company’s work and artistic partnerships, presented in f...

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David Byrne's Meltdown. Photo by Danny North

David Byrne's Meltdown

06.05.15

The Cogency are leading the marketing campaign for this year’s Meltdown festival at Southbank Centre, curated by David Byrne. The first wave of this year’s confirmed Meltdown acts have recently been announced and go on sale this Frida...

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PICK ME UP

PICK ME UP Graphic Arts Festival

29.04.15

Last week, The Cogency were invited to attend the preview of PICK ME UP Graphic Arts Festival at Somerset House featuring some of the best of new illustration, graphic design and other related disciplines. Check out the image gallery to see some ...

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