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Posts Tagged ‘Barbican’

World musicians to descend upon Barbican for Transcender festival

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 22 August 2016 at 14:50

James Holden and Iranian singer Parisa among the performers at weekend event where diffuse musical traditions exist in harmony

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World musicians to descend upon Barbican for Transcender festival

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 22 August 2016 at 14:45
Meshk Ensemble

James Holden and Iranian singer Parisa among the performers at weekend event where diffuse musical traditions exist in harmony

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Ragnar Kjartansson, Barbican, review: ‘ethereal and endearingly dorky’

By Lewis Church | Monday 18 July 2016 at 15:58

The work of Icelandic performance artist Ragnar Kjartansson is hypnotic and strange but enormously engaging

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Green Film Festival screens a global selection of eco-cinema at the Barbican

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 4 May 2016 at 12:52

The event is back until 8 May with an array of new independent documentary films that highlight worldwide environmental struggles

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Strange and Familiar exposes Britain through outsiders’ lenses

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 8 April 2016 at 10:40

A fascinating exhibition at the Barbican captures a changing nation as well as charting the evolution of photography

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Strange and Familiar exposes Britain through outsiders' lenses

By Hackney Citizen | Friday 8 April 2016 at 10:40

A fascinating exhibition at the Barbican captures a changing nation as well as charting the evolution of photography

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Kinoteka Film Festival set to showcase best of Polish film history

By Hackney Citizen | Thursday 7 April 2016 at 10:56

This month East London venues will be showing films by some of the defining figures of Polish cinema

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London International Mime Festival comes to the East End

By Hackney Citizen | Wednesday 6 January 2016 at 11:28

Visual and physical theatre festival is a unique event in the cultural calendar

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Fringe! festival returns with special emphasis on Brazil

By Hackney Citizen | Monday 26 October 2015 at 16:29

East London’s queer film and arts festival returns with a bumper programme of work from across the globe

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Jem Cohen: 'By some standards I'm kind of invisible'

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 12 May 2015 at 10:00

Veteran New York filmmaker Jem Cohen talks about the meaningless of the word ‘indie’, the resilience of cities and having a poor sense of direction

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Magnificent Obsessions: The Artist as Collector at the Barbican – review

By East End Review | Tuesday 10 March 2015 at 10:00

This collection of artists’ collections including those of Andy Warhol and Peter Blake, is fascinating though by its very definition a mixed bag

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World’s first ‘mindfulness opera’ to go ahead

By East End Review | Wednesday 11 February 2015 at 08:00

Lost in Thought is based on an extended meditation and sees performers and audience members do yoga, eat and wash up

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London International Mime Festival comes to East London this month

By East End Review | Friday 16 January 2015 at 15:00

An eclectic range of productions at this year’s festival includes puppeteer Basil Twist and light, inspired by the Edward Snowden leaks

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Stage review: Henry IV Part 1 and 2 at the Barbican

By East End Review | Thursday 15 January 2015 at 17:00

The Royal Shakespeare Company delivers Henry IV Parts I and II in all its traditional glory

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Constructing Worlds – review: architecture that compels to silence

By East End Review | Monday 15 December 2014 at 10:00

Barbican’s winter photography exhibition captures 80 years of modern architecture in all its diversity

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Walead Beshty brings rubbish installation to Barbican Centre

By East End Review | Friday 7 November 2014 at 12:00

A year’s worth of detritus and one of the earliest photographic techniques form the basis of Walead Beshty’s installation at the Barbican centre

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Festival of Latin American theatre to go ahead this month in East London

By East End Review | Wednesday 8 October 2014 at 10:00

Theatre makers from across South America will be descending on East London for the CASA Latin American Theatre Festival

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Sam Lee and the Unthanks to play lost and found folk music of First World War

By East End Review | Monday 8 September 2014 at 09:55

Collaboration between Sam Lee and The Unthanks is inspired by lives and stories of generation that witnessed World War I

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Living the highlife: Ibibio Sound Machine gear up for Walthamstow Garden Party

By East End Review | Wednesday 9 July 2014 at 11:16

Eight-piece Ibibio Sound Machine fuse Ghanaian highlife with disco, funk and analogue synths. Ahead of performing at Walthamstow Garden Party, singer Eno Williams talks about their debut album, Nigerian folk tales and why she chooses to sing in the Nigerian Ibibio language

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Chick Corea jazz review: 'panoptic interpretations yielding plenty of complexity'

By East End Review | Tuesday 17 June 2014 at 11:05

American jazz fusion pianist and composer Chick Corea took to the stage at the Barbican last month

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