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nowHello!The arts can be a powerful tool for influencing how to understand the world around us, particularly when it comes to experiences we haven’t had personally. While this can be positive, it can also result in reducing communities to cliché. This is particularly true for people with autism, who often are portrayed in cinema in a reductionist manner. Our season Autism and Cinema: An exploration of neurodiversity (see pages 5-6) seeks to change that, and asks us to consider what we might learn about our own worldview by looking at it from an autistic perspective.
Pondering on identity is also something that’s occupied photographer Hans Eijkelboom, whose work forms part of our major exhibition Masculinities: Liberation through Photography (page 12); while Virginia Woolf’s ground-breaking novel Orlando also explores what identity means – as Katie Mitchell and Alice Birch’s adaptation (page 13) shows.
Also this month we welcome back Shards – the pioneering vocal group (page 2), and conductor Jaap van Zweden for his first concerts in London as the Music Director of the New York Phil (page 4). There’s exciting news about a new fashion range we’re producing (page 18), and if you want to get hands-on, head for one of our workshops (page 17).
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HighlightsWhat’s coming up this month 1–4A spectrum of perspectives 5–6Cinema 7–8Classical Music 9–10Art & Design 11Theatre & Dance 13Contemporary Music 14
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Next generation artUncover work by promising artists at our special showcase.The Barbican Young Visual Arts Group is a collective of creators who are developing and honing their practice through a special programme of talks, workshops and guidance from established artists.
The participants work in a variety of disciplines, including photography, illustration, digital media and film-making.
Creative Learning Curator Josie Dick leads the programme with artist Jordan McKenzie. She says: ‘The group took inspiration from the Art Gallery exhibition, Into the Night: Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art, so they’re considering themes of community, collaboration, and art in a social context.’
As part of the programme, the group has visited exhibitions by Mark Leckey and Nam June Paik. Guest artists, including Lottie Anderson, are hosting sessions on a variety of topics, with the aim of broadening the participants’ practice.
The group is curating an exhibition of work, which will take place this month, inspired by their course.
Young Visual Arts Group Showcase 18–19 Apr For more information about the programme, see barbican.org.uk/takepart
The Barbican Young Visual Arts Group prepare for their showcase
Cover photograph © James DeavinThe Sculpture Garden has an interesting history – there are no longer any sculptures there – but that’s only one reason to visit. It’s also a peaceful escape from busier areas.
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Vocal power Shards founder Kieran Brunt explains why humans are so gripped by the power of choral music.
Shards’ concert at the Barbican will be something of a homecoming. The twelve-strong choral group was formed for us by Kieran Brunt in 2016 when he was invited to put together a cohort of singers for Nils Frahm’s Possibly Colliding.
The results were so successful – and they collaborated so well – that they continued working together, not only going on to record on Frahm’s album All Melody, but recording their own LP, Find Sound, for the Erased Tapes record label last year. It’s a beguiling and boundary-pushing work, a collection of ‘miniature sonic paintings’ each adding to an overall picture of the emotional confusion of early adulthood: the uncertainty, the excitement, the terror and relief.
‘I wanted to bring people together who weren’t just good singers but had the right personality too,’ says Brunt, who came to choral music after singing in his school choir, before going on to study at St John’s College, Cambridge.
‘The idea behind Find Sound was to make the kind of choral record you haven’t heard before. Some of the tracks are just voices, but we’ve pushed them to the forefront, while on others the voices are very much in the background and are the least important part of the music.’
While the music uses electronic instruments and drums, there’s a deep connection to the power of the human voice at the heart of it all.
‘The voice is the oldest instrument in existence,’ says Brunt. ‘There’s something special about using this part of your body and physicality to express something, whether it’s excitement or anger or pain. The voice
is the most natural way of sharing these emotions. When you use it to make music rather than just screaming or shouting, it’s like stretching out the feeling and can be like meditating on them.’
He says after doing the concert with Frahm, he realised the group had something unique. ‘Until recently the highly trained singers in choral music have been mostly in concert halls, churches and cathedrals. But I feel like we’re a choir operating as a band.’
Shards 17 Apr See page 14 for details
Choral group Shards return to the Barbican after forming here in 2016
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Adding up to funMathematician Marcus du Sautoy reveals why he’s chosen items for the Barbican Box.
The Barbican Primary Box is designed to ignite creativity in the classroom through a mixture of in-school artist visits and teacher development. This year the Box has been filled with items selected by mathematician and author Marcus du Sautoy, who’s chosen things that weave together his specialism with the arts. We asked him to tell us a few examples of what he’s chosen and why.
‘One of the lovely things about primary schools is you’re still allowed to go across subjects, rather than at secondary school where you learn either maths or music or science in each class,’ du Sautoy explains. ‘I’m a mathematician so I’ve chosen items relating to the Fibonacci numbers, a series in which each number is the sum of the two preceding it: 1,1,2,3,5,8… However, these figures also have connections to nature, art, poetry and music.’
Among the items du Sautoy selected is an apple. When cut in half horizontally it reveals a five-pointed star. ‘Five is one of the Fibonacci numbers,’ explains the University of Oxford professor of mathematics. ‘I wanted to illustrate how these numbers can occur in nature.’
Continuing this theme, the Box itself is decorated in a Fibonacci spiral, which is created by using the numbers of the sequence. It’s also a shape commonly found in nature, such as in the spiral of a shell.
One of the fun activities in the Box asks children to come up with a poem called a Fib (after Fibonacci), in which the number of syllables in a line is the sum of the preceding two, says du Sautoy.
Barbican Box designer Tîna Bicât with Professor Marcus du Sautoy and the Barbican Box © Betty Laura Zapata
‘There’s a lot to explore in this Box,’ he adds. ‘What I hope pupils will discover is maths is as simple as adding numbers together, but it’s also about patterns. Regardless of the children’s passions, there should be something in the Box that will appeal.’
Developed by our Creative Learning Team, Barbican Box is funded by the Barbican Centre Trust.
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Gustav Mahler’s appointment as conductor of the New York Philharmonic in 1909 came as the orchestra embarked on its first series of tours. So it feels fitting that new Music Director, Jaap van Zweden, will conduct Mahler’s First and Second symphonies when he makes his London debut here with the orchestra.
The last decade has seen Netherlands-born van Zweden’s international presence span three continents, and he says he’s ‘very much looking forward to being in London with our great players.’
He adds: ‘While this is my first appearance in London with the New York Philharmonic, there is a strong existing connection between the orchestra and the Barbican. For many years, the orchestra has had a very productive residency at the Centre, and we are all looking forward to our upcoming one.’
Mahler’s First Symphony was ground-breaking. Opening with the strings softly playing, it feels like the herald of a great journey, a stepping into a world of adventure. And indeed his music is an account of adventure – the story of his own life. Incorporating the sounds of the world around him, his work is clearly autobiographical, with all the ups and downs that life brings.
The second piece being performed by the New York Philharmonic during their forthcoming visit is the Second Symphony, one of Mahler’s most popular and successful works during his lifetime.
‘Mahler for me is a very special composer with whom I feel a great affinity,’ says van Zweden. ‘While I love and conduct all of the Mahler symphonies, Symphonies 1 and 2 represent powerful beginnings to his entire symphonic cycle, a cycle which vividly portrays the joy and tragedy he felt so intensely throughout his life.’
So, how does it feel to be taking on the role once also held by Mahler himself? ‘It’s very humbling and a great honour,’ says van Zweden. Discover more about van Zweden’s great predecessor when Barbara Haws, Archivist and Historian Emeritus of the New York Philharmonic discusses Mahler’s New York: a legacy of love and leadership, before each concert.
New York Philharmonic: Mahler Symphonies Nos 1 and 2 30 Apr & 1 May See page 10 for details
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A spectrum of perspectivesHow can autistic viewpoints change the way we make films and look at the world? A new season, in collaboration with experts from Queen Mary University, aims to explore this fascinating question.
While autism affects over 2.8 million people in the UK according to the National Autistic Society, representations of the condition in cinema are often reductive and can fall into harmful tropes.
Our season, Autism and Cinema: An exploration of neurodiversity, seeks to offer a different view. Through films including documentary and animation, genre-twisting fiction to experimental filmmaking from within the autistic community, it asks how the language of cinema can be changed by autistic perspectives.
Programmed in association with the Centre for Film and Ethics at Queen Mary University of London, it also considers what we can learn about our own understanding of the world by looking at it from an autistic point of view.
The university’s professor of film, Janet Harbord, says: ‘Typically, people come to autism through cinema thinking about Rain Man, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time and things like that, which are very focussed around a character with particular abilities that seem difficult or bizarre, and the narrative typically is
about triumph over adversity. They’re very focussed on a neurotypical viewpoint of how to understand this “oddity”.’
Her colleague, professor Steven Eastwood adds: ‘Most people’s experience of autism in the cinema is very reductive. Films are not usually concerned with the autistic individuals, but the people that are transformed by them – for example, the real subject of Rain Man is Tom Cruise’s character. Often all you get to see of the autistic person is someone in the corner who is able to see the mathematical properties of a tree. As a result, people think
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if you're autistic you either have no social relationships or you’re a maths wizard.’
This way of understanding autism can be traced back to the 1960s says Dr Bonnie Evans. ‘In the 1960s there’s an approach which means that you get narratives imposed on autism often in a negative way. But the anti-psychiatric movement which followed allowed for a very different way of describing autism.’
One of the films, The Slightest Gesture, by Jean-Pierre Daniel and Fernand Deligny, highlights this change. It tells the story of
Yves Guignard, a child with autism who runs away from a mental institution. ‘Their approach was “how do we learn from our differences” and whether our camera perspectives consider how some people don’t experience landscapes through language but through movement,’ says Eastwood.
It’s not just the way autistic characters are portrayed in film. We’ll also be exploring what it means to look at the world, and how we communicate that experience, through the eyes of people with autism.
Films such as The Mask (pictured) and Lightsteps, produced by the charity Project Art Works, offer relational, non-verbal or visual ways of being in the world. Visual rather than word-based thinking is a point also made by Dr Temple Grandin – professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University. As someone with autism, she is an advocate for better understanding of autistic people, and is the subject of a biopic featuring Claire Danes, which is also showing as part of our season. Evans has interviewed Grandin, and we’ll be showing an edited film of that conversation.
‘One of the things Temple told me was she doesn’t feel particularly socially skilled but she feels as though she doesn’t have to expend all that energy that’s taken up by being a social entity, leaving her free to be visually curious,’ says Evans. ‘This is what our research is looking at – that if we are not fixated on stories, there’s all this other stuff happening visually and audibly.’
While there aren’t many mainstream film directors on the autism spectrum, the fact that technology has meant making films is much easier and less expensive than in the past, is opening up new opportunities for the community.
‘What we’re seeing is younger people with autism are starting to be more politicised and feeling more empowered by their diagnosis and that will lead to people expressing their experience,’ says Eastwood.
Although we may not yet have examples of autistic filmmaking in major cinemas, there is one film the three academics feel can offer a way for neurotypical people to get a feeling for how neurodiverse people experience movies: Mulholland Drive, which is being shown.
‘In most films we’re expected to look at people’s faces and read their body language. But Mulholland Drive doesn’t function on those levels,’ says Eastwood. ‘There are so many people that have tried to solve the conundrum in the film, but you can’t. One of the things we found interesting about the film is you can hold the viewer in a state of just experiencing it, rather than seeing a linear story. You’re liberated from the compulsion to see the film in those terms.’
Autism and Cinema: An exploration of neurodiversity 2–29 Apr See page 7 for details Supported by Wellcome as part of Inside Out
‘Most people’s experience of autism in the cinema is very reductive’
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Details of prices are available online. Barbican Members receive 20% off, Business Members receive 25% off. Join Young Barbican and get tickets to new releases for just £5, £10 or £15*Booking Fees: 60p per online transaction, 70p by phone. No fee in person.
For programme information and dates and times of new release films visit barbican.org.uk
Mulholland Drive, Part of Autism and Cinema
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New releasesPlease note the New Release schedule is subject to change.
From Thu 2 April
No Time to Die #
In the latest 007 film, James Bond is recruited to rescue a kidnapped scientist but finds himself on the trail of a mystery villain. Starring Daniel Craig, Rami Malek, Naomie Harris and Ralph Fiennes. (£12*)
From Fri 10 April
Rocks 12A
A teenage girl known as ‘Rocks’ to her mates is suddenly forced to look after herself and her little brother when their mum disappears, leaving some cash and an apology note. (£12*)
From Fri 17 April
The Whistlers 15
A Romanian police officer learns an old ancestral whistling language so he can communicate in code with the mafia to get one of their own out of prison for a lucrative prize. (£12*)
From Fri 17 April
Promising Young Woman #
Nothing is what is seems in Cassie’s life, she’s tantalisingly cunning and hellbent on getting revenge in order to right the wrongs of her past. Starring Carey Mulligan and directed by Emerald Fennell. (£12*)
From Fri 24 April
Les Misérables #
Oscar-nominated for Best International Feature Film, Les Misérables is a tense crime thriller exploring the fine line between good and bad, and the danger of public anger. (£12*)
From Fri 24 April
Antebellum #
In this mysterious film, a successful author finds herself in a horrifying reality and must find a way to break free from her nightmare, starring Janelle Monáe. (£12*)
Special events and seasons
Thu 2 Apr 8.45pm, Cinema 2
The Juniper Tree + live poetryA teenage Björk stars in Nietzchka Keene’s beautiful tale of witchcraft in the wilds of medieval Iceland, newly restored, with a live poetry performance by Amie Hayter. (£12*)
2–29 Apr, Cinema 3
Autism and Cinema: An exploration of neurodiversityInside Out
From documentaries and animation to genre-twisting fiction and experimental autistic filmmaking, this season of relaxed screenings reveals how neurodiverse perspectives are transforming the cinematic depiction of inner worlds. Programme highlights tour selected UK venues this year. (£12*)
22–30 Apr, Cinema 2
Forbidden Colours / Queer East Film Festival We present three new South East Asian films about LGBTQ+ lives, including Macanese melodrama Sisterhood + ScreenTalk with director Tracey Choi, Indonesian dance drama Memories of My Body and Vietnamese noir Song Lang. (£12–13.50*)
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Song Lang, Part of Forbidden Colours / Queer East Film Festival
Most new releases have a captioned and audio-described screenings. There are also two relaxed screenings every month. See online for details
Tue 28 Apr 6.30pm, Cinema 2
Run Lola Run 15 + Presentation by Professor Stefano RuffoScience on Screen
This frenetic adventure explores how even the smallest details can have huge effects. Before the screening Professor Stefano Ruffo uses chaos theory to explain how small changes at one instant can have wider implications. (£12*)
Event Cinema
Thu 9 Apr 2pm, Cinema 2
Easter In Art#
Afternoon Arts
Shot on location in Jerusalem and throughout Europe, this film explores the different ways artists have portrayed the Easter story through the ages and depicts the history of us all. (£10.50*)
Sat 11 Apr 5.55pm, Cinema 1
Tosca 12A*
Met Opera Live in HD
Soprano Anna Netrebko returns in the title role as the explosive diva in Puccini’s operatic thriller. Bertrand de Billy conducts Sir David McVicar’s evocative production, with tenor Brian Jagde as Tosca’s impassioned lover. (£37*)
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David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet+ Q&A live from the Royal Albert Hall
A powerful first-hand account of humanity’s impact on nature and a message of hope for future generations. The film is followed by a Q&A with David Attenborough live from the World Premiere. (£20*)
Tue 21 Apr 7pm, Cinema 3
Cavalleria Rusticana/ Pagliacci 12A*
Royal Opera House Live
Two opera classics are drawn together in this re-creation of life in a south Italian village as a travelling theatre visits and emotions erupt. This vivid production explores secret love and uncontrollable jealousy. (£21*)
Thu 23 Apr 2pm, Cinema 2
Rigoletto on the Lake12A
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Giuseppe Verdi’s masterpiece delights audiences with a powerhouse combination of entertainment and emotional intensity from the spectacular shore of Lake Constance, Bregenz. (£10.50*)
Families
Every Saturday 11am, Cinema 2
Family Film ClubIn April we’re exploring films that feature imagined worlds and fantastical lands such as Frozen 2 and Song of the Sea. Plus, we have our regular Show & Tell introduction at the beginning of the month as well as a free hour-long workshop on the last Saturday of the month. (£2.50–3.50*)
Parent and Baby ScreeningsEnjoy the best new films every Monday and Saturday morning with your little ones of twelve months and under, at our specially tailored screenings.
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InformationRelaxed ScreeningsOne Friday afternoon and one Tuesday evening in every month, we screen a film in a specially tailored environment more suitable for neurodiverse customers as well as those who would benefit from a more informal format. A companion or carer may attend for free. (£7*)
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Visit our website for full programme information, including concerts from the Barbican Presents series, London Symphony Orchestra and our other associate orchestras, or contact the Box Office to be posted our current Classical Music brochure.
Resident Orchestra
All concerts take place in the Barbican Hall unless otherwise stated
Wed 1 Apr 7.30pm
Arcangelo: Haydn’s CreationThe Biblical creation story told in music of cosmic grandeur: a journey of uninhibited joy, perfect for the ensemble that has become shorthand for historically performed performance at its happiest. (£15–46*)
Thu 2 Apr 7.30pm
City of London Choir: Verdi’s RequiemSacred rites enacted with all the passion and drama of opera: Verdi confronts mortality and Judgement Day with elegiac passages of spiritual intensity and enthralling choruses of terrifying drama. (£12–36*)
Fri 3 Apr 7.30pm
BBC Symphony Orchestra/OramoBBC SO Chief Conductor Sakari Oramo conducts the UK premiere of Victoria Borisova-Ollas’s Violin Concerto inspired by Swan Lake and Shostakovich’s cocktail of fantasy and mystery, his Symphony No 15. (£12–40*)
Sat 4 Apr 2pm, Milton Court
Bach: Six Suites, Six EchoesJean-Guihen Queyras pairs each of J S Bach’s six timeless cello suites with an echo from our own time in an afternoon of stimulating dialogue of mind and spirit. (£15–41*)
Sun 5 Apr 7pm
London Symphony Orchestra/NosedaGianandrea Noseda leads a Palm Sunday performance of James Macmillan’s large-scale St John Passion telling the story of Easter, acclaimed by The Times as ‘a blazing blockbuster …’. (£16–57*)
Classical Music
Mon 6 Apr 7.30pm
Lang Lang plays the Goldberg VariationsA profoundly personal project for one of the 21st century’s most influential musical personalities: Lang Lang tackles one of the most legendary keyboard works ever written. (£26–86*)
Mon 6 Apr 7.30pm, Milton Court
Astor Piazzolla’s Greatest TangosBe transported to Argentina for the evening in this high-voltage concert of Piazzolla’s beloved tangos, performed and arranged by violinist Elmira Darvarova, horn player Howard Wall and pianist Thomas Weaver. (£15*)
Wed 8 Apr 7.30pm
Anne-Sophie Mutter plays BeethovenAnne-Sophie Mutter is virtually unchallenged amongst living violinists for the sheer breadth of her expressive range. Beethoven’s Spring and Kreutzer sonatas offer a challenge worthy of her mastery. (£15–46*)
Fri 10 Apr 6pm
Britten Sinfonia: St Matthew PassionA Good Friday performance of one of Bach’s greatest works: urgent, committed and impassioned, with a stellar cast led by Evangelist Nicholas Mulroy and Roderick Williams as Christus. (£15–65*)
Anne-Sophie Mutter and Lambet Orkis © Dario Acosta/Deutsche Grammaphon
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For full programme information, including artist line ups, please visit barbican.org.uk
Tue 14 Apr 1pm, LSO St Luke’s
ECHO Rising Stars: Noa WildschutProkofiev and Tchaikovsky are the cornerstones of this showcase recital from the young Dutch violinist Noa Wildschut – only 19 years old, but already a distinctive musical voice for her generation. (£12*)
Tue 14 Apr 7.30pm
HAUSER with the Royal Philharmonic Concert OrchestraHAUSER of 2CELLOS fame returns to his classical roots, transforming a deeply personal selection of iconic pieces with his characteristic flair and distinctive passion. (£25–200*)
Fri 17 Apr 7.30pm
BBC SO/StasevskaBefore the fire and ice of Sibelius’s striking First Symphony, Lelia Josefowicz and conductor Dalia Stasevska bring us the UK premiere of Helen Grime’s virtuosic and dreamlike Violin Concerto. (£12–40*)
Sun 19 Apr 7pm
LSO Artist Portrait: Antoine TamestitAntoine Tamestit – a soloist on a mission to make listeners fall in love with the viola – plays Widmann’s cleverly staged Concerto, before Daniel Harding conducts Bruckner’s Fifth Symphony. (£16–57*)
Tue 21 Apr 7.30pm
Murray Perahia in recitalPerahia stands at the pinnacle of a career devoted to the sublimest heights of the piano repertoire – and his Barbican recitals are eagerly awaited by everyone who loves great pianism. (£15–46*)
Wed 22 Apr 6.30pm
LSO Half Six Fix: BartókGet a drink and grab a seat at this informal concert where Sir Simon Rattle will introduce and conduct Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra – all in one hour. (£12–37*)
Wed 22 Apr 7.30pm, Milton Court
Academy of Ancient Music: Glories of VeniceRichard Egarr directs the AAM in Castello’s second book of fiercely expressive, colourful sonatas alongside some of Monteverdi’s most impassioned music for ensemble and soprano. (£15–35*)
Thu 23 Apr 7.30pm
LSO/Rattle: Bluebeard’s CastleFrom an optimistic vision of community to gripping operatic horror: Bartók’s last masterpiece precedes the chilling tale of Duke Bluebeard’s young bride Judith and her arrival at his forbidding castle. (£16–57*)
Sat 25 Apr 6.30pm
The English Concert: Handel’s RodelindaLucy Crowe and Iestyn Davies portray partners Rodelinda and Bertarido, heading a cast packed with exactly the sort of star-power that Handel would have expected. (£15–56*)
Sun 26 Apr 10am–5pm, Hall & LSO St Luke’s
LSO Discovery Day: Sounds from South AmericaAttend a morning rehearsal with Sir Simon Rattle followed by an afternoon of talks and chamber music by Latin American composers including groundbreaking Brazilian master Heitor Villa-Lobos. (£22*)
Sun 26 Apr 7pm
LSO/Rattle: Mahler 4A piece for soprano and ten cellos by Villa-Lobos precedes Ligeti’s Violin Concerto, played by Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Mahler’s Fourth Symphony completes the concert with a vision of heaven. (£16–57*)
Mon 27 Apr 7.30pm
London Schools Symphony Orchestra: Star-crossed loversFrom Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet to Bernstein’s West Side Story and works by Bellini, Gounod and Berlioz, some of London’s finest young musicians remind us why romance will never die. (£10–28*)
Thu 30 Apr 7.30pm
New York Philharmonic: Mahler Symphony No 1Jaap van Zweden conducts the New York Philharmonic as they open their two-concert residency with Mahler’s barnstorming First Symphony, before Daniil Trifonov joins them for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 25. (£15–66*)
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For full programme information, including opening times, please visit barbican.org.uk
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Masculinities: Liberation through PhotographyUntil Sun 17 May, Art Gallery
A timely exhibition charting the often complex and sometimes contradictory representations of masculinities through film and photography, touching on themes including power, patriarchy, queer identity, hypermasculine stereotypes and more. (£15/17)
Wed 8 Apr 7pm, Art Gallery
An Uncomfortable Relationship with Masculinity: Scottee & FriendsScottee & Friends present a night of performance, rants and overpriced beer from queers, femmes and drags who have an uncomfortable relationship with men, maleness and masculinity. (£20)
Thu 9 Apr 7pm, Art Gallery
Exhibition Tour with Tim ClarkJoin Tim Clark (curator, writer and editor) for a special guided tour of the exhibition. (£15)
Thu 23 Apr 7pm, Art Gallery
Exhibition Tour with Edwin CoomasaruJoin Edwin Coomasaru (lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art) for special guided tour of the exhibition. (£15)
Thu 30 Apr 7pm, Art Gallery
Exhibition Tour with Chris BayleyChris Bayley, Curatorial Assistant on Masculinities, gives a guided tour of the exhibition. (£15)
Toyin Ojih Odutola, To the Next Outpost from A Countervailing Theory, 2019. © Toyin Ojih Odutola.Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
Toyin Ojih Odutola: A Countervailing TheoryUntil 26 Jul, The Curve
Explore the imagined myth of an ancient civilisation in central Nigeria dominated by female rulers in Toyin Ojih Odutola’s first-ever UK exhibition, with an immersive soundscape by artist Peter Adjaye. (Free)
Sat 4 Apr, 2–4pm
Slow Art Day: Family workshopJoin us for some family workshops responding to Toyin Ojih Odutola’s Curve exhibition A Countervailing Theory.
Mon 6 Apr 7pm, Frobisher Auditorium 1
Carla Juaçaba Architecture on Stage
Brazilian architect Carla Juaçaba joins us to discuss recent works, including an outdoor chapel for the 2018 Venice Biennale and an exhibition hall for the Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development. (£15*)
Mon 20 Apr 7pm, Frobisher Auditorium 1
In conversation: Anthony Hunt and Maria SmithArchitecture on Stage
Structural engineer Anthony Hunt, instrumental in creating the ‘High-Tech’ style of architecture with the likes of Norman Foster, is joined in conversation by engineer and architect Maria Smith, founder of Interrobang. (£15*)
Fri 24 Apr 7pm, Hall
London 2030Architecture on Stage
In the face of climate and housing crises, what role can architecture play in the future? This event brings together commentators, designers and architects to propose ideas for a not-so-distant future. (£15*)
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Hans Eijkelboom has spent much of his life thinking about identity. The photographer’s 40-year career takes a wry but compassionate look at how we self identify, and the influences that society exerts on our ideas of individuality.
He says the basis of his work stems from his childhood. ‘I was born just after the Second World War. Whenever there was a family party everybody was always talking about the war. As a child you feel like the war was a big adventure, until the moment you find out about the concentration camps, and then it seems very different. From that moment you start thinking “what would be my role in a similar situation?”, you think about your father and the other people in the street, the Jewish people who live on our street, and start considering what you would do if the war came again – how strong would you be, and how strong is your identity?’
As part of his earlier projects, The Ideal Man (1978) saw Eijkelboom send questionnaires to 100 women, asking them to describe their ideal man. Picking the best ten ideas Eijkelboom photographed himself wearing the clothing that would make him fit this image. These can be seen as part of our major Art Gallery exhibition, Masculinities: Liberation through Photography, which looks at how over 50 photographers and filmmakers have portrayed masculinity since the 1960s.
Also included is Eijkelboom’s playful series, With My Family, 1978, for which he posed as a convincing father figure with a number of different families.
He says the idea came when he was a young man and was contemplating his future. ‘I was thinking about marriage and children, and how that would influence my position in society. So I thought to myself: “let’s try it out, to see what it looks like”.’
Hans Eijkelboom, The Ideal Man, 1978 © Hans Eijkelboom
Express yourself, you are what you wearPhotographer Hans Eijkelboom reveals what he’s learned in a career exploring the often-shifting meaning of how we express ourselves.
So, what has he learned from 40 years of studying identity? ‘When I started, I thought my identity was made up of 80% myself and 20% a product of the society we’re in. Now I think it’s the other way around – that we’re 80% a product of our society.
‘I don’t find that problematic. I’m not so different from everybody else – and I think that’s the human condition. However, it is an issue for the consumer society which says it’s important for us to believe that we’re unique people.’
Masculinities: Liberation through Photography Until 17 May See left for details Part of Inside Out.
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A time-travelling story for todayKatie Mitchell takes us on the journey of her adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s radical novel, Orlando, for the stage – and says 100 years on, it remains current.
There’s a moment in Orlando when the lead character says no matter what we’re wearing that designates our gender, underneath all of us are fluid. For director Katie Mitchell, who’s adapted the story for the stage with playwright and long-time collaborator Alice Birch, this has a powerful resonance today.
‘Issues of gender fluidity have always been present in all of history, but what’s happening now – brilliantly – is the topic is coming into the light and being welcomed and celebrated. But if you think back to when Woolf wrote this in the 1920s, it was really radical.’
Orlando’s time-hopping jaunt presents a real technical challenge for directors, but Birch and Mitchell’s use of ‘live cinema’ allows our
Orlando © Stephen Cummiskey
representation of the experience of being alive complete with all the chaos that means, but particularly the experience of being female.’
Orlando 2–5 Apr See above for details
hero(ine) to transcend timelines in the blink of an eye. Video cameras on stage transmit live footage to a big screen, interlaced with pre-recorded footage. ‘We have seven historical periods, including modern day,’ says Mitchell. ‘They all have historical costumes – there are 92 costume, wig and moustache changes in the play, all in front of the audience, so they see it all happen on stage. It’s unbelievable what the costume department and performers have to do.’
Mitchell, who studied Woolf at university, has a postcard picture of the author in her bedroom. ‘Woolf was out there doing very radical work which honours a very strong feminist agenda,’ she says. ‘It has a total
Until 9 Apr, The Pit
Breach It’s True, It’s True, It’s True This gripping dramatisation of a 1612 rape trial brought by the gifted painter Artemisia Gentileschi roars down the ages centuries after it shocked Renaissance Rome. (£18*)
2– 5 Apr, Theatre
Schaubühne Berlin Orlando Live cinema meets performance in this galloping romp through 400 years of history starring a heroine who is born a hero, or a hero who becomes a heroine. For Orlando, it doesn’t really matter. (£16–60*)
16–19 Apr, Theatre
Internationaal Theater Amsterdam/Britten Sinfonia Death in VeniceAn intense infatuation fuels the tension between social expectations and personal desire in a show that deftly combines theatre and music, directed by Ivo van Hove. (£16–60*)
23 Apr, The Pit
Inua Ellams Poetry + Film / Hack – Boyz n the Hood15 Complementing this screening of Boyz n the Hood, Inua Ellams and a line-up of poets read new work to open and close the film – their words and verses responding to its blistering themes. (£18*)
28 Apr—2 May, Theatre
Dead Ringers: LiveThey’re out of the BBC Radio 4 studio and on our stage once more. Prepare to be awestruck by the mischievously entertaining, hilarious and uncanny impressions of the Dead Ringers dream team. (£25–49.50*)
30 Apr–2 May, The Pit
manmaRo Project The Bees’ RoadThis one-man show eloquently moves between storytelling, ancient drama, irony and humour to bear witness to the journey of those who become stranded in their search for refuge across Europe. (£18*)
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With thanksThe City of London Corporation, founder and principal funder
Centre Partner Christie Digital
Major Supporters Arts Council England Esmeé Fairbairn Foundation Sir Siegmund Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement The National Lottery Heritage Fund Terra Foundation for American Art UBS Wellcome
Business Supporters Aberdeen Standard Investments Allford Hall Monaghan Morris Audible Bank of America Bloomberg Calvin Klein CMS DLA Piper Howden M&A Limited Leigh Day Linklaters LLP National Australia Bank Natrium Capital Limited Newgate Communications Pinsent Masons Reed Smith Slaughter and May Taittinger Champagne tp bennett UBS
Trusts & Grantmakers 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Research Grant from the Art Fund Performing Arts Fund NL
We also want to thank the Barbican Patrons, donors to Name a Seat and those who contribute to the Barbican Fund.
If you’re interested in supporting the Barbican Centre Trust, visit barbican.org.uk/supportus, or contact us on 0207 382 6185 or [email protected].
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Contemporary Music
All events take place in the Barbican Hall unless otherwise stated
Sat 4 Apr 8pm
Manuel GöttschingThe Ash Ra Tempel founding member, and pioneer of the electronic krautrock sound, performs the 1976 record New Age of Earth in full for the first time. (£22–27.50*)
Tue 7 Apr 7.30pm, Milton Court
Lee Ranaldo & Raül RefreeCatalan producer Refree, and Sonic Youth founding member Lee Ranaldo perform their first collaborative record, Names of North End Women. (£25*)
Sun 12 Apr 7.30pm
Soul ExplosionThree soul legends on one stage as Brenda Russell, Regina Belle and Angela Winbush perform music from careers spanning three decades. (£40–55*)
Wed 15 Apr 7.30pm
LankumThe most exciting folk band on the planet right now perform their lauded album The Livelong Day with an expanded line-up and special guests. (£17.50–22.50*)
Fri 17 Apr 7.30pm, Milton Court
ShardsThe choir is reimagined for our times – Shards perform their debut album Find Sound, mixing vocals, synth and percussion in an exploration of the human voice. (£15*)
Sat 18 Apr 7.30pm
The Lost Words: Spell SongsResponding to the book of the same name, Karine Polwart, Seckou Keita, Beth Porter and more perform alongside readings and visuals exploring nature and landscape. (£25–39.50*)
20–24 Apr
Guildhall School Jazz FestivalGuildhall School
Guildhall School’s popular Jazz Festival returns with a host of concerts, masterclasses, Q&As and workshops featuring renowned visiting artists and bands and outstanding Guildhall jazz students. (Free–£15*)
Tue 28 Apr 8pm
Debbie Harry & Chris Stein in ConversationThe Blondie founding members discuss their lives and careers with artist Rob Roth. (£30–65*)
Lankum © Ellius Grace
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13–16 May, Theatre
Dogs of EuropeOne of Europe’s bravest theatre companies brings a visceral, psychological drama set in the near future, depicting a dystopian super-state in which individual rights have given way to control. Based on the 2017 novel by Belarusian author Alhierd Bacharevic, Dogs of Europe is an epic fantasy and political thriller about the dangers of looking away when authoritarianism takes root. It chimes particularly with Belarus Free Theatre, whose co-founders are refugees, exiled from their Belarusian homeland. Everyone involved is at risk of intimidation, persecution and even arrest. They rehearse from an adopted base in London and in Belarus via Skype, creating physical theatre focussed on human rights campaigns.
Award-winning Belarus Free Theatre rehearse Dogs of Europe © Nicolai Kuprich
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Erland Cooper
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Jean Dubuffet, Paysage aux argus (Landscape with Argus), 1955. Collection Fondation Dubuffet, © Fondation Dubuffet, Paris / DACS, London 2019. Image courtesy of Fondation Dubuffet, Paris.
26 Jun, Hall
Joyce DiDonato: SongplayPromising ‘a song in her heart and a twinkle in her eye,’ mezzo DiDonato performs a very personal project bringing together opera, jazz and tango for the pure pleasure of improvisation, experimentation and exchange. Songplay sees DiDonato and her band draw on inspirations from Cavalli to Chet Baker to create an evening of great breadth, beauty and originality.
13 Jun, Hall
Erland Cooper: An Orkney TriptychImmerse yourself in the natural world of birds, the sea and landscape, as composer and multi-instrumentalist Cooper returns following a sold-out show in 2019. Using his music to reflect the landscape, his albums Solan Goose and Sule Skerry paint a picture of his Orkney home. Joined by the London Contemporary Orchestra, he’ll perform music from both albums, plus preview the third in the series, which is due for release this year and looks at the islands’ land, community, myth and mythology.
Jul, Cinema
Out in the ShadowsSome of the greatest films have been made by LGBTQ+ directors, yet many of them worked at a time when identifying as queer was a taboo, or even illegal. A number of directors managed to make films that, although didn’t feature explicitly queer content, still expressed their sexuality through coded storytelling, symbolism, aesthetic and inventive technique. This season shows how great queer art can flourish, out in the shadows.
Part of Inside Out
30 Sep–17 Jan, Art Gallery
Jean DubuffetSpanning more than four decades in the studio, this major exhibition of the French artist Jean Dubuffet is the first in the UK in over 50 years – celebrating one of the most powerful and provocative voices in the postwar avant-garde. Drawing from international collections and featuring rarely exhibited pieces, the show will highlight Dubuffet’s radicalism as he experimented with materials and aimed to create what he described as ‘an art that is directly plugged into our current life, that immediately emanates from our real life and our real moods’.
Part of Inside Out
Martyr
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My Barbican: Matt L T SmithAs a participant in the Barbican Young Poets programme, Smith performed at OpenFest and was part of the cast for A Change Is Gonna Come – a collaborative production between Barbican Young Poets and Boy Blue. He shares his favourite spots around the Centre.
Pit Theatre Backstage There’s nothing quite like watching a show develop from the wings, peering through the curtains at castmates in rehearsals as the lights wash over them and their voice booms,
Store Store collabGet into the spirit of London Craft Week as we host a range of innovative workshops led by associates of design and architecture collaborative, Store.
Among the activities on offer include making a beeswax candle, learning traditional leathercraft, discovering how to use waste milk to make a new clay-like material, and designing your own piece of jewellery.
‘These are some of the workshops we offer in our Kings Cross retail space, Store Store,’ says the group’s Kevin Smeeing. ‘During the week we host regular activities for state school students, and the shops sells the products they design and make. On Saturdays we hosts public workshops.
‘We are a non-profit community interest company, so proceeds from these workshops support our work with young people.’
As well as the workshops, our shop on Level G will be selling some of the after school club students’ work – keep your eye out for some of the innovative designs they’ve created.
Workshops are open to everyone aged 16+ and cost £45. Booking is essential as places are limited to 15 per session.
London Craft Week: Store Store takeover 27 Apr–3 May Shop, Level G
New Perspectives This photo of the Sculpture Court was taken by Lothar Ruttner (@eugenvontrotta), from Berlin. ‘A couple of weeks ago, on my vacation in London, I visited the Barbican for the first time,’ they say. ‘As a fan of Brutalist architecture, I was impressed by the vast size of the area and the well thought-out design of the whole complex. After a walk through the beautiful Conservatory on this wonderful and sunny day I went to the Sculpture Court, where I took this photo, trying to capture the sunlight, shining on the regular concrete structure of the building.’ Discover places such as this on one of our architecture tours – find out more at barbican.org.uk/tours.
trying to hit the empty back row. Tiptoeing through the thin corridor behind the stage between cues, careful not to make one wrong step and punctuate the quiet pattering rhythm of the dancers with the loud creak of a floorboard. The ways in which we each made that narrow space our own, tucking ourselves silently into corners, peacefully laying ourselves down on the carpet.
Pit Theatre Green Room I remember one particularly bad day of insomnia whilst working on A Change is Gonna Come. I stole myself away to the Green Room between rehearsals; splayed myself out on the bright red leather couch. I lay there futilely trying to get in a few winks of sleep, as the bright mural of the outside on the wall tried to make me forget that I was underground, but reminded me that it was the middle of a sunny spring day. Even underground you can’t escape daylight.
Art Gallery Top Floor Working in the Art Gallery, I really got a feel for what it’s like to be a bird watching everything from above. Perching myself on the top floor observing people filtering in and out as poets performed in response to the exhibits. Waiting for the right moment, enough new faces, a lull in the performance, to rush down and perform again.
To find out more about Barbican Young Poets and our other programmes for young people, see barbican.org.uk/take-part
Zero emissions on Beech StreetFrom spring, the City of London Corporation is introducing traffic changes on Beech Street, Bridgewater Street and Golden Lane in a bid to cut air pollution. Polluting vehicles will be restricted from driving through Beech Street, making it the UK’s first ‘zero emission street’.
We are fully supportive of this initiative to improve Beech Street’s air quality, while also being mindful of the fact that people who use our car parks often have access needs. Drivers using Beech Street to enter or exit the Barbican car park located on Beech Street will therefore be exempt from the scheme.
To find out more about the scheme see cityoflondon.gov.uk/beechstreet
Photo by Christy Ku (@kukadoodles)
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GAlways open Always freeEveryone’s journey starts on Level G, where you can relax, meet, eat and enjoy our iconic building. Our Level G programme offers free installations and events in our public spaces, all year round.
This month Squish Space Various dates, 10am–4pm A sensory launch pad for children under five and their families to play, touch and think with tactile objects.
Big Barbican Adventure Explore the Barbican in this do-it-yourself adventure trail for families. Maps available from the Tickets & Information Desk.
Playing Democracy by Ling Tan Until 31 May Question the social structures that shape the way in which we live our lives through social play in this interactive installation.
Toyin Ojih Odutola: A Countervailing Theory Until 26 Jul, The CurvePresenting the first-ever UK exhibition by Nigerian-American artist Toyin Ojih Odutola, this epic cycle of new work will explore an imagined ancient myth.
Pick up a guide to the Barbican and our Level G programme from the Ticket Desk inside the shop
Barbican apparelFrom t-shirts and jumpers to bags, our brand new Barbican-inspired fashion range means you can share your love of our architecture wherever you go.
Created by Apparel & Lovers, which have seen their designs featured in Vogue Italia and Collezioni Magazine, the range incorporates Brutalist concepts and colours from around the Centre.
‘We started with creating a unique cut for the Barbican T-shirt and sweater that would already speak for the Barbican before adding print or colour,’ says Patrik Prusak, Manager and Head Designer of Apparel & Lovers. ‘Thus was born the “Barbican cut” – the 90 degree “brutalist” angle in the sleeve cut of the shirts, that also carried over to the minimalistic square design of the cross body bag. The beige grey was inspired by the unique honey grey melange colour of Barbican’s concrete. We added a splash of colour by adding a shade of petrol blue inspired by the water of the Barbican lake and graphic lines in yellow and red inspired by the modernist aesthetic of Bauhaus.’
Discover the range in our shop on Level G.
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