Barbican Centre
Barbican Sessions #11: Soumik Datta
Deep within the Barbican, British Indian composer Soumik Datta performs ‘From Raag to Reel’ on his custom built, fretless sarod (a 19-stringed instrument). Each month, we invite artists to perform a live session in our spaces, from our...
Barbican Centre
Barbican Sessions #12: Timo-Veikko Valve
In our latest session, Timo-Veikko Valve, principal cello at the Australian Chamber Orchestra, performs JS Bach's Sarabande from Suite No.4 for Unaccompanied Cello BWV1010 in E-flat Major at Milton Court. Each month, we invite artists to...
Barbican Centre
Barbican Sessions #13: Roderick Williams and Andrew West
Filmed in an empty Milton Court Concert Hall, baritone Roderick Williams and pianist Andrew West perform a beautiful rendition of 'An die Nachtigall' by Johannes Brahms. Each month, we invite artists to perform a live session in our...
Barbican Centre
Barbican Sessions #14: Gazelle Twin
In our latest Barbican Session, British composer, producer and musician Gazelle Twin performs ‘Glory’ in the Barbican Conservatory. Each month, we invite artists to perform a live session in our spaces, from our Conservatory to our...
Barbican Centre
Barbican Sessions #15: Bartosz Glowacki
Accordionist Bartosz Glowacki performs the animated third movement ‘Thieves’ from Five views on the Archipelago Gulag by Ukrainian composer Victor Vlasov in the entrance to the Exhibition Halls. Produced with the kind permission of...
Barbican Centre
Barbican Meets : Yto Barrada
Moroccan artist Yto Barrada talks to curator Lotte Johnson about her new exhibition, 'Agadir', and how she uses collages, installations and performances to create a portrait of a city and its people in a state of transition. 'Agadir'...
Barbican Centre
Barbican Young Reviewers #42 : Too Young For What?
Is there a bit of Basquiat in all of us? Our Young Reviewers think so as they channelled their inner artists during 'Too Young for What', our day of free activities, art, workshops and performances inspired by Jean-Michel Basquiat's...
Barbican Centre
Subject to Change: 'Honey' by Katie Hale
In the first of our monthly series of poems, written and performed by our Young Poets in response to events each month, Katie Hale presents 'Honey'. Part of #TheArtofChange, our 2018 annual theme which explores how the arts respond to,...
Barbican Centre
Subject to Change: 'I'm Rooting for Everybody Black' by Jeremiah 'Sugar J' Brown
As part of our monthly series of poems, written and performed by our Young Poets in response to events each month, Jeremiah 'Sugar J' Brown presents 'I'm Rooting for Everybody Black'. Part of #TheArtofChange, our 2018 annual theme which...
Barbican Centre
Subject to Change: 'Hunger Strike' by Laurie Ogden
As part of our monthly series of poems, written and performed by our Young Poets in response to events each month, Laurie Ogden presents 'Hunger Strike'. Read our interview with Laurie: https://bit.ly/2G5Faco Part of #TheArtofChange, our...
Barbican Centre
Subject to Change: 'Did You Pack Your Own Bags?' by Kareem Parkins-Brown
As part of our monthly series of poems, written and performed by our Young Poets in response to events each month, Kareem Parkins-Brown presents 'Did You Pack Your Own Bags?'. Read our interview with Kareem: https://bit.ly/2F0ikBI Part...
Barbican Centre
Subject to Change: 'Homesick' by Eleanor Penny
As part of our monthly series of poems, written and performed by our Young Poets in response to events each month, Eleanor Penny reflects on the concept of home, exploring the political fractures within her heritage. Read our interview...
Barbican Centre
Subject to Change: 'Bun Babylon!' by Anita Barton-Williams
As part of our monthly series of poems, written and performed by our Young Poets in response to events each month, Anita Barton-Williams shares a personal reflection on her heritage in light of the Windrush scandal. Read our interview...
Big Think
The Merits of Black and White Film, with A.J. Edwards
A.J. Edwards is the director of the new film The Better Angels, which highlights the formative years of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. In this Big Think interview, Edwards shares thoughts about his visual aesthetic and explains the...
Gresham College
Medieval Dance - Professor Christopher Page
Professor Page discusses the place of dancing in medieval society, specifically the dancing that occurred outside of the courts: http://www.gresham.ac.uk/music-imagination-and-experience-in-the-medieval-world Visual art and literary...
Barbican Centre
Barbican Sessions #9: Peter Moore
London Symphony Orchestra’s co-principal trombonist, Peter Moore, performs 'Doolallynastics – a brief torture for solo trombone’ by Brian Lynn in our latest Barbican Session, filmed in one of our Frobisher Auditoriums. Music credit: ©...
Barbican Centre
Barbican Sessions #16: Shabaka Hutchings
For our latest Barbican Session, Sons of Kemet, The Comet is Coming and Shabaka and the Ancestors musician, curator of We Out Here and one of the central figures of the London jazz scene, Shabaka Hutchings performs an improvised piece on...
Barbican Centre
Subject to Change: 'Tender' by Annie Hayter
As part of our monthly series of poems, written and performed by our Young Poets in response to events each month, Annie Hayter reflects on the relationship between sexual abuse and denial, in the wake of recent revelations. Read our...
Barbican Centre
Live 'lecture' in John Bock's installation in The Curve
'Lecture' performance for John Bock's new commission for The Curve. Actors use the installation as a set, operating the motorised habitat and inhabit the parasitic, insect-like structures clinging to the gallery walls and ceiling and...
Barbican Centre
Wayne McGregor | Random Dance in the Rain Room
Dancers from Wayne McGregor | Random Dance inhabited rAndom International's acclaimed Rain Room installation in the Barbican's Curve gallery, performing continuously evolving interventions in the Rain, with a score by contemporary...
Barbican Centre
Subject to Change: 'Filibuster' by Bella Cox
As part of our monthly series of poems, written and performed by our Young Poets in response to events each month, Bella Cox considers what it means to be both a global and a British citizen at this point in history. Read our interview...
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Sensory Processing Disorder: Occupational Therapy Demonstration
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago offers a comprehensive, state-of-the-art Occupational Therapy Program with a vibrant developmental approach. Our skilled and versatile occupational therapy team specializes in the...
World Science Festival
Your Daily Equation #31: BLACK HOLES: And Why Time Slows Down When You Are Near One
Episode 31 #YourDailyEquation: Shortly after Einstein wrote down his new equations for gravity--his general theory of relativity--a German mathematician found the first exact solution. And within that solution physicists realized that a...
World Science Festival
Your Daily Equation #28: Einstein, The Big Bang, and the Expansion of the Universe
Episode 28 #YourDailyEquation: Shortly after Einstein published his new theory of gravity, his general theory of relativity, researchers realized that it predicted that the universe should expanding--a prediction subsequently confirmed...