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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 groundbreaking 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).

Contents

Now The Barbican Young Visual Arts Group prepare for their showcase Highlights What’s coming up this month 1–4 A spectrum of perspectives 5–6 Cinema 7–8 Next Classical Music 9–10 Art & Design 11 Theatre & Dance 13 Contemporary Music 14 generation art Soon Book now for these Uncover work by promising artists forthcoming events 15–16 at our special showcase. Always The Barbican Young Visual Arts Group is As part of the programme, the group has Enjoy the Barbican a collective of creators who are developing visited exhibitions by Mark Leckey and at any time of day 17–18 and honing their practice through a Nam June Paik. Guest artists, including special programme of talks, workshops Lottie Anderson, are hosting sessions and guidance from established artists. on a variety of topics, with the aim of The participants work in a variety of broadening the participants’ practice. disciplines, including photography, The group is curating an exhibition illustration, digital media and film-making. of work, which will take place this Creative Learning Curator Josie Dick leads month, inspired by their course. the programme with artist Jordan McKenzie. Young Visual Arts Group Showcase She says: ‘The group took inspiration from 18–19 Apr the Art Gallery exhibition, Into the Night: For more information about the programme, Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art, so see barbican.org.uk/takepart they’re considering themes of community, collaboration, and art in a social context.’

Cover photograph © James Deavin The 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.

1 barbican.org.uk now soon always 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 ‘I wanted to bring people together who weren’t is the most natural way of sharing these something of a homecoming. The twelve- just good singers but had the right personality emotions. When you use it to make music strong choral group was formed for us too,’ says Brunt, who came to choral music rather than just screaming or shouting, by Kieran Brunt in 2016 when he was after singing in his school choir, before going it’s like stretching out the feeling and invited to put together a cohort of singers on to study at St John’s College, Cambridge. can be like meditating on them.’ for Nils Frahm’s Possibly Colliding. ‘The idea behind Find Sound was to make the He says after doing the concert with Frahm, The results were so successful – and they kind of choral record you haven’t heard before. he realised the group had something collaborated so well – that they continued Some of the tracks are just voices, but we’ve unique. ‘Until recently the highly trained working together, not only going on to pushed them to the forefront, while on others singers in choral music have been mostly in record on Frahm’s album All Melody, but the voices are very much in the background concert halls, churches and cathedrals. But I recording their own LP, Find Sound, for the and are the least important part of the music.’ feel like we’re a choir operating as a band.’ Erased Tapes record label last year. It’s a While the music uses electronic instruments Shards beguiling and boundary-pushing work, a and drums, there’s a deep connection to the 17 Apr collection of ‘miniature sonic paintings’ each power of the human voice at the heart of it all. See page 14 for details adding to an overall picture of the emotional confusion of early adulthood: the uncertainty, ‘The voice is the oldest instrument in existence,’ the excitement, the terror and relief. 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

Choral group Shards return to the Barbican after forming here in 2016

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Barbican Box designer Tîna Bicât with Professor Marcus du Sautoy and the Barbican Box © Betty Laura Zapata Adding up to fun Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy reveals why he’s chosen items for the Barbican Box.

The Barbican Primary Box is designed to Among the items du Sautoy selected is an ‘There’s a lot to explore in this Box,’ he adds. ignite creativity in the classroom through a apple. When cut in half horizontally it reveals a ‘What I hope pupils will discover is maths mixture of in-school artist visits and teacher five-pointed star. ‘Five is one of the Fibonacci is as simple as adding numbers together, development. This year the Box has been numbers,’ explains the University of Oxford but it’s also about patterns. Regardless of filled with items selected by mathematician professor of mathematics. ‘I wanted to illustrate the children’s passions, there should be and author Marcus du Sautoy, who’s chosen how these numbers can occur in nature.’ something in the Box that will appeal.’ things that weave together his specialism Continuing this theme, the Box itself is Developed by our Creative Learning with the arts. We asked him to tell us a few decorated in a Fibonacci spiral, which Team, Barbican Box is funded by examples of what he’s chosen and why. is created by using the numbers of the the Barbican Centre Trust. ‘One of the lovely things about primary sequence. It’s also a shape commonly found schools is you’re still allowed to go across in nature, such as in the spiral of a shell. subjects, rather than at secondary school One of the fun activities in the Box asks where you learn either maths or music or children to come up with a poem called science in each class,’ du Sautoy explains. ‘I’m a Fib (after Fibonacci), in which the a mathematician so I’ve chosen items relating number of syllables in a line is the sum to the Fibonacci numbers, a series in which of the preceding two, says du Sautoy. 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.’

3 barbican.org.uk now soon always Taking up Mahler’s baton Image © Roger Neve 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 The second piece being performed by London debut here with the orchestra. the New York Philharmonic during their forthcoming visit is the Second Symphony, The last decade has seen Netherlands- one of Mahler’s most popular and born van Zweden’s international presence successfulCaption works during his lifetime. span three continents, and he says he’s ‘very much looking forward to being ‘Mahler for me is a very special composer with in London with our great players.’ whom I feel a great affinity,’ says van Zweden. ‘While I love and conduct all of the Mahler He adds: ‘While this is my first symphonies, Symphonies 1 and 2 represent appearance in London with the New powerful beginnings to his entire symphonic York Philharmonic, there is a strong cycle, a cycle which vividly portrays the joy and Nothing Concrete existing connection between the orchestra tragedy he felt so intensely throughout his life.’ and the Barbican. For many years, the Podcast orchestra has had a very productive So, how does it feel to be taking on the residency at the Centre, and we are all role once also held by Mahler himself? looking forward to our upcoming one.’ ‘It’s very humbling and a great honour,’ Our new podcast Nothing Concrete is a says van Zweden. Discover more about one-stop shop where you’ll find special Mahler’s First Symphony was ground- van Zweden’s great predecessor when episodes and themed series related to breaking. Opening with the strings Barbara Haws, Archivist and Historian our programme. Get your ears around softly playing, it feels like the herald Emeritus of the New York Philharmonic Sound Unbound, a series introduced of a great journey, a stepping into a discusses Mahler’s New York: a legacy of by Josie Long featuring interviews world of adventure. And indeed his love and leadership, before each concert. with the likes of composer Steve Reich, music is an account of adventure – the director Ken Loach, and Ballet Black story of his own life. Incorporating the New York Philharmonic: director Cassa Pancho. Subscribe sounds of the world around him, his Mahler Symphonies Nos 1 and 2 wherever you get your podcasts. work is clearly autobiographical, with 30 Apr & 1 May all the ups and downs that life brings. See page 10 for details

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A spectrum of perspectives

How 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.

Mask (2017) © Project Art Works

While autism affects over 2.8 million Programmed in association with the Centre about triumph over adversity. They’re very people in the UK according to the National for Film and Ethics at Queen Mary University focussed on a neurotypical viewpoint Autistic Society, representations of the of London, it also considers what we can learn of how to understand this “oddity”.’ condition in cinema are often reductive about our own understanding of the world by Her colleague, professor Steven Eastwood and can fall into harmful tropes. looking at it from an autistic point of view. adds: ‘Most people’s experience of autism Our season, Autism and Cinema: An The university’s professor of film, Janet in the cinema is very reductive. Films are not exploration of neurodiversity, seeks to offer Harbord, says: ‘Typically, people come to usually concerned with the autistic individuals, a different view. Through films including autism through cinema thinking about Rain but the people that are transformed by them documentary and animation, genre- Man, The Curious Incident of the Dog in – for example, the real subject of Rain Man twisting fiction to experimental filmmaking the Night Time and things like that, which is Tom Cruise’s character. Often all you get from within the autistic community, it are very focussed around a character to see of the autistic person is someone in the asks how the language of cinema can with particular abilities that seem difficult corner who is able to see the mathematical be changed by autistic perspectives. or bizarre, and the narrative typically is properties of a tree. As a result, people think

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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.’

‘Most people’s experience of autism in the cinema is very reductive’

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.’ if you're autistic you either have no social Yves Guignard, a child with autism who relationships or you’re a maths wizard.’ runs away from a mental institution. ‘Their Autism and Cinema: approach was “how do we learn from An exploration of neurodiversity This way of understanding autism can be our differences” and whether our camera 2–29 Apr traced back to the 1960s says Dr Bonnie Evans. perspectives consider how some people don’t See page 7 for details ‘In the 1960s there’s an approach which means experience landscapes through language Supported by Wellcome as part of Inside Out that you get narratives imposed on autism but through movement,’ says Eastwood. often in a negative way. But the anti-psychiatric movement which followed allowed for a It’s not just the way autistic characters are very different way of describing autism.’ portrayed in film. We’ll also be exploring what it means to look at the world, and One of the films, The Slightest Gesture, by how we communicate that experience, Jean-Pierre Daniel and Fernand Deligny, through the eyes of people with autism. highlights this change. It tells the story of

April 2020 6 now Cinema

New releases Please 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 Mulholland Drive, Part of Autism and Cinema code with the mafia to get one of their own out of prison for a lucrative prize. (£12*) From Fri 24 April 2–29 Apr, Cinema 3 Antebellum # Autism and Cinema: From Fri 17 April In this mysterious film, a successful author finds An exploration of # herself in a horrifying reality and must find a neurodiversity Promising Young Woman way to break free from her nightmare, starring Nothing is what is seems in Cassie’s life, she’s Janelle Monáe. (£12*) Inside Out tantalisingly cunning and hellbent on getting From documentaries and animation to revenge in order to right the wrongs of her genre-twisting fiction and experimental autistic past. Starring Carey Mulligan and directed by Special events filmmaking, this season of relaxed screenings Emerald Fennell. (£12*) reveals how neurodiverse perspectives are and seasons transforming the cinematic depiction of inner worlds. Programme highlights tour selected UK From Fri 24 April venues this year. (£12*) # Les Misérables Thu 2 Apr 8.45pm, Cinema 2 Oscar-nominated for Best International Feature The Juniper Tree + live poetry 22–30 Apr, Cinema 2 Film, Les Misérables is a tense crime thriller A teenage Björk stars in Nietzchka Keene’s exploring the fine line between good and bad, Forbidden Colours / beautiful tale of witchcraft in the wilds of Queer East Film Festival and the danger of public anger. (£12*) medieval Iceland, newly restored, with a live poetry performance by Amie Hayter. (£12*) 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*)

For programme information Details of prices are available online. Barbican Members receive 20% off, Business Members and dates and times of new release receive 25% off. Join Young Barbican and get tickets to new releases for just £5, £10 or £15 films visit barbican.org.uk *Booking Fees: 60p per online transaction, 70p by phone. No fee in person.

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Tue 28 Apr 6.30pm, Cinema 2 Sat 11 Apr 5.55pm, Cinema 1 Tue 21 Apr 7pm, Cinema 3 Run Lola Run 15 + Presentation Tosca 12A* Cavalleria Rusticana/ 12A* by Professor Stefano Ruffo Met Opera Live in HD Pagliacci Science on Screen Soprano Anna Netrebko returns in the title role Royal Opera House Live This frenetic adventure explores how even the as the explosive diva in Puccini’s operatic thriller. Two opera classics are drawn together in this smallest details can have huge effects. Before Bertrand de Billy conducts Sir David McVicar’s re-creation of life in a south Italian village as the screening Professor Stefano Ruffo uses evocative production, with tenor Brian Jagde as a travelling theatre visits and emotions erupt. chaos theory to explain how small changes at Tosca’s impassioned lover. (£37*) This vivid production explores secret love and one instant can have wider implications. (£12*) =Thu 16 Apr 7.20pm, Cinema 1 uncontrollable jealousy. (£21*) David Attenborough: Event Cinema A Life On Our Planet Thu 23 Apr 2pm, Cinema 2 + Q&A live from the Royal Albert Hall Rigoletto on the Lake12A A powerful first-hand account of humanity’s Afternoon Arts Thu 9 Apr 2pm, Cinema 2 impact on nature and a message of hope for # Giuseppe Verdi’s masterpiece delights audiences Easter In Art future generations. The film is followed by a with a powerhouse combination of entertainment Afternoon Arts Q&A with David Attenborough live from the and emotional intensity from the spectacular World Premiere. (£20*) shore of Lake Constance, Bregenz. (£10.50*) 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. Families (£10.50*) Every Saturday 11am, Cinema 2 Family Film Club In 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 Screenings Enjoy the best new films every Monday and Saturday morning with your little ones of twelve months and under, at our specially tailored screenings. Sign up to the mailing list at barbican.org.uk/ parentandbaby Information Relaxed Screenings One 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 Song Lang, Part of Forbidden Colours / Queer East Film Festival companion or carer may attend for free. (£7*)

Most new releases have a captioned and audio-described screenings. There are also two relaxed screenings every month. See online for details

April 2020 8 now Classical Music

All concerts take place in the Barbican Hall unless otherwise stated

Wed 1 Apr 7.30pm Arcangelo: Haydn’s Creation The 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 Requiem Sacred 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/Oramo BBC 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 Anne-Sophie Mutter and Lambet Orkis © Dario Acosta/Deutsche Grammaphon Bach: Six Suites, Six Echoes Jean-Guihen Queyras pairs each of J S Bach’s Mon 6 Apr 7.30pm Wed 8 Apr 7.30pm six timeless cello suites with an echo from Lang Lang plays Anne-Sophie Mutter our own time in an afternoon of stimulating the Goldberg Variations plays Beethoven dialogue of mind and spirit. (£15–41*) A profoundly personal project for one Anne-Sophie Mutter is virtually unchallenged Sun 5 Apr 7pm of the 21st century’s most influential amongst living violinists for the sheer breadth musical personalities: Lang Lang tackles of her expressive range. Beethoven’s Spring London Symphony one of the most legendary keyboard and Kreutzer sonatas offer a challenge Orchestra/Noseda works ever written. (£26–86*) worthy of her mastery. (£15–46*) Gianandrea Noseda leads a Palm Sunday performance of James Macmillan’s large- Mon 6 Apr 7.30pm, Milton Court Fri 10 Apr 6pm scale St John Passion telling the story of Astor Piazzolla’s Britten Sinfonia: Easter, acclaimed by The Times as ‘a Greatest Tangos St Matthew Passion blazing blockbuster …’. (£16–57*) Be transported to Argentina for the evening A Good Friday performance of one of in this high-voltage concert of Piazzolla’s Bach’s greatest works: urgent, committed beloved tangos, performed and arranged by and impassioned, with a stellar cast violinist Elmira Darvarova, horn player Howard led by Evangelist Nicholas Mulroy and Wall and pianist Thomas Weaver. (£15*) Roderick Williams as Christus. (£15–65*)

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 Resident Classical Music brochure. Orchestra

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Tue 14 Apr 1pm, LSO St Luke’s Wed 22 Apr 6.30pm Sun 26 Apr 7pm ECHO Rising Stars: LSO Half Six Fix: Bartók LSO/Rattle: Mahler 4 Noa Wildschut Get a drink and grab a seat at this A piece for soprano and ten cellos by Villa- Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky are the informal concert where Sir Simon Rattle will Lobos precedes Ligeti’s Violin Concerto, cornerstones of this showcase recital from introduce and conduct Bartók’s Concerto played by Patricia Kopatchinskaja. Mahler’s the young Dutch violinist Noa Wildschut – for Orchestra – all in one hour. (£12–37*) Fourth Symphony completes the concert only 19 years old, but already a distinctive with a vision of heaven. (£16–57*) musical voice for her generation. (£12*) Wed 22 Apr 7.30pm, Milton Court Academy of Ancient Mon 27 Apr 7.30pm Tue 14 Apr 7.30pm Music: Glories of Venice London Schools Symphony HAUSER with the Richard Egarr directs the AAM in Castello’s Orchestra: Star-crossed lovers Royal Philharmonic second book of fiercely expressive, From Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet to Concert Orchestra colourful sonatas alongside some of Bernstein’s West Side Story and works Monteverdi’s most impassioned music by Bellini, Gounod and Berlioz, some of HAUSER of 2CELLOS fame returns to his for ensemble and soprano. (£15–35*) London’s finest young musicians remind us classical roots, transforming a deeply personal why romance will never die. (£10–28*) selection of iconic pieces with his characteristic flair and distinctive passion. (£25–200*) Thu 23 Apr 7.30pm LSO/Rattle: Thu 30 Apr 7.30pm Fri 17 Apr 7.30pm Bluebeard’s Castle New York Philharmonic: BBC SO/Stasevska From an optimistic vision of community Mahler Symphony No 1 Before the fire and ice of Sibelius’s striking to gripping operatic horror: Bartók’s last Jaap van Zweden conducts the New York First Symphony, Lelia Josefowicz and masterpiece precedes the chilling tale of Philharmonic as they open their two-concert conductor Dalia Stasevska bring us the UK Duke Bluebeard’s young bride Judith and her residency with Mahler’s barnstorming First premiere of Helen Grime’s virtuosic and arrival at his forbidding castle. (£16–57*) Symphony, before Daniil Trifonov joins them dreamlike Violin Concerto. (£12–40*) for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No 25. (£15–66*) Sat 25 Apr 6.30pm Sun 19 Apr 7pm The English Concert: LSO Artist Portrait: Handel’s Rodelinda Antoine Tamestit Lucy Crowe and Iestyn Davies portray partners Antoine Tamestit – a soloist on a mission Rodelinda and Bertarido, heading a cast to make listeners fall in love with the packed with exactly the sort of star-power that viola – plays Widmann’s cleverly staged Handel would have expected. (£15–56*) Concerto, before Daniel Harding conducts Bruckner’s Fifth Symphony. (£16–57*) Sun 26 Apr 10am–5pm, Hall & LSO St Luke’s Tue 21 Apr 7.30pm LSO Discovery Day: Murray Perahia in recital Sounds from South America Perahia stands at the pinnacle of a career Attend a morning rehearsal with Sir Simon devoted to the sublimest heights of the Rattle followed by an afternoon of talks piano repertoire – and his Barbican and chamber music by Latin American recitals are eagerly awaited by everyone composers including groundbreaking who loves great pianism. (£15–46*) Brazilian master Heitor Villa-Lobos. (£22*)

For full programme information, Details of prices are available online. Barbican Members and Business Members enjoy discounts on including artist line ups, please selected events. Join Young Barbican and get tickets for selected events for just £5, £10 or £15 visit barbican.org.uk *Booking Fees: £3 per online transaction, £4 by phone. No fee in person. Some events have reduced booking fees

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Mon 6 Apr 7pm, Frobisher Auditorium 1 Masculinities: Carla Juaçaba Liberation through Architecture on Stage Brazilian architect Carla Juaçaba joins us to Photography discuss recent works, including an outdoor Until Sun 17 May, Art Gallery chapel for the 2018 Venice Biennale and an exhibition hall for the Rio+20 Conference on A timely exhibition charting the often complex Sustainable Development. (£15*) and sometimes contradictory representations of masculinities through film and photography, Mon 20 Apr 7pm, touching on themes including power, patriarchy, Frobisher Auditorium 1 queer identity, hypermasculine stereotypes and more. (£15/17) In conversation: Anthony Hunt Wed 8 Apr 7pm, Art Gallery and Maria Smith An Uncomfortable Architecture on Stage Relationship with Masculinity: Structural engineer Anthony Hunt, instrumental Scottee & Friends in creating the ‘High-Tech’ style of architecture with the likes of Norman Foster, is joined in Scottee & Friends present a night of conversation by engineer and architect Maria performance, rants and overpriced beer Smith, founder of Interrobang. (£15*) from queers, femmes and drags who have an uncomfortable relationship with men, maleness and masculinity. (£20) Fri 24 Apr 7pm, Hall London 2030 Thu 9 Apr 7pm, Art Gallery Architecture on Stage

Exhibition Tour with Tim Clark Toyin Ojih Odutola, To the Next Outpost In the face of climate and housing crises, what from A Countervailing Theory, 2019. © Toyin Ojih Odutola. role can architecture play in the future? This Join Tim Clark (curator, writer and editor) for a Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. special guided tour of the exhibition. (£15) event brings together commentators, designers and architects to propose ideas for a not-so- Thu 23 Apr 7pm, Art Gallery distant future. (£15*) Exhibition Tour Toyin Ojih Odutola: with Edwin Coomasaru A Countervailing Join Edwin Coomasaru (lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art) for special guided Theory tour of the exhibition. (£15) Until 26 Jul, The Curve Thu 30 Apr 7pm, Art Gallery Explore the imagined myth of an ancient civilisation in central Nigeria dominated by Exhibition Tour female rulers in Toyin Ojih Odutola’s first-ever with Chris Bayley UK exhibition, with an immersive soundscape Masculinities Chris Bayley, Curatorial Assistant on by artist Peter Adjaye. (Free) Masculinities, gives a guided tour of the Members’ Hours exhibition. (£15) Sat 4 Apr, 2–4pm Slow Art Day: Family workshop Members enjoy free entry to the exhibition, and a member-only timeslot on 18 April. Join us for some family workshops responding To access exclusive events, priority booking to Toyin Ojih Odutola’s Curve exhibition and more, join our membership scheme A Countervailing Theory. at barbican.org.uk/membership

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Express yourself, you are what you wear Photographer Hans Eijkelboom reveals what he’s learned in a career exploring the often-shifting meaning of how we express ourselves.

Hans Eijkelboom has spent much of his life So, what has he learned from 40 years of thinking about identity. The photographer’s studying identity? ‘When I started, I thought my 40-year career takes a wry but compassionate identity was made up of 80% myself and 20% look at how we self identify, and the influences a product of the society we’re in. Now I think it’s that society exerts on our ideas of individuality. the other way around – that we’re He says the basis of his work stems from his 80% a product of our society. childhood. ‘I was born just after the Second ‘I don’t find that problematic. I’m not World War. Whenever there was a family so different from everybody else – party everybody was always talking about and I think that’s the human condition. the war. As a child you feel like the war was However, it is an issue for the consumer a big adventure, until the moment you find society which says it’s important for us out about the concentration camps, and then to believe that we’re unique people.’ it seems very different. From that moment Masculinities: you start thinking “what would be my role Liberation through Photography in a similar situation?”, you think about your Until 17 May father and the other people in the street, See left for details the Jewish people who live on our street, Part of Inside Out. 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

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Until 9 Apr, The Pit 16–19 Apr, Theatre 28 Apr—2 May, Theatre Breach Internationaal Theater Dead Ringers: Live It’s True, It’s True, It’s True Amsterdam/Britten Sinfonia They’re out of the BBC Radio 4 studio and on This gripping dramatisation of a 1612 rape Death in Venice our stage once more. Prepare to be awestruck by the mischievously entertaining, hilarious and trial brought by the gifted painter Artemisia An intense infatuation fuels the tension between Gentileschi roars down the ages centuries after uncanny impressions of the Dead Ringers dream social expectations and personal desire in a team. (£25–49.50*) it shocked Renaissance Rome. (£18*) show that deftly combines theatre and music, directed by Ivo van Hove. (£16–60*) 2– 5 Apr, Theatre 30 Apr–2 May, The Pit Schaubühne Berlin 23 Apr, The Pit manmaRo Project Orlando Inua Ellams The Bees’ Road Live cinema meets performance in this galloping Poetry + Film / Hack – This one-man show eloquently moves between romp through 400 years of history starring a Boyz n the Hood15 storytelling, ancient drama, irony and humour heroine who is born a hero, or a hero who to bear witness to the journey of those who becomes a heroine. For Orlando, it doesn’t Complementing this screening of Boyz n the become stranded in their search for refuge really matter. (£16–60*) Hood, Inua Ellams and a line-up of poets read across Europe. (£18*) new work to open and close the film – their words and verses responding to its blistering themes. (£18*) A time-travelling story for today Katie 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 hero(ine) to transcend timelines in the blink character says no matter what we’re wearing of an eye. Video cameras on stage transmit that designates our gender, underneath all live footage to a big screen, interlaced with of us are fluid. For director Katie Mitchell, pre-recorded footage. ‘We have seven who’s adapted the story for the stage with historical periods, including modern day,’ playwright and long-time collaborator Alice says Mitchell. ‘They all have historical Birch, this has a powerful resonance today. costumes – there are 92 costume, wig and ‘Issues of gender fluidity have always been moustache changes in the play, all in front present in all of history, but what’s happening of the audience, so they see it all happen on Orlando © Stephen Cummiskey now – brilliantly – is the topic is coming into stage. It’s unbelievable what the costume representation of the experience of being alive the light and being welcomed and celebrated. department and performers have to do.’ complete with all the chaos that means, but But if you think back to when Woolf wrote Mitchell, who studied Woolf at university, particularly the experience of being female.’ this in the 1920s, it was really radical.’ has a postcard picture of the author in her Orlando Orlando’s time-hopping jaunt presents a real bedroom. ‘Woolf was out there doing very 2–5 Apr technical challenge for directors, but Birch radical work which honours a very strong See above for details and Mitchell’s use of ‘live cinema’ allows our feminist agenda,’ she says. ‘It has a total

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With thanks The City of London Corporation, Contemporary founder and principal funder Centre Partner Music 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 Lankum © Ellius Grace Reed Smith Slaughter and May All events take place in the Barbican Hall Fri 17 Apr 7.30pm, Milton Court Taittinger Champagne unless otherwise stated tp bennett Shards UBS Sat 4 Apr 8pm The choir is reimagined for our times – Shards Trusts & Grantmakers Manuel Göttsching perform their debut album Find Sound, mixing 29th May 1961 Charitable Trust vocals, synth and percussion in an exploration of Jonathan Ruffer Curatorial Research Grant The Ash Ra Tempel founding member, and the human voice. (£15*) pioneer of the electronic krautrock sound, from the Art Fund Performing Arts Fund NL performs the 1976 record New Age of Earth in Sat 18 Apr 7.30pm full for the first time. (£22–27.50*) The Lost Words: Spell Songs We also want to thank the Barbican Patrons, Tue 7 Apr 7.30pm, Milton Court Responding to the book of the same name, donors to Name a Seat and those who Lee Ranaldo & Raül Refree Karine Polwart, Seckou Keita, Beth Porter and contribute to the Barbican Fund. more perform alongside readings and visuals Catalan producer Refree, and Sonic Youth exploring nature and landscape. (£25–39.50*) If you’re interested in supporting the Barbican founding member Lee Ranaldo perform their Centre Trust, visit barbican.org.uk/supportus, first collaborative record, Names of North End 20–24 Apr or contact us on 0207 382 6185 or Women. (£25*) Guildhall School Jazz Festival [email protected]. Sun 12 Apr 7.30pm Guildhall School The Barbican Centre Trust, registered charity no. 294282 Soul Explosion Guildhall School’s popular Jazz Festival returns Three soul legends on one stage as Brenda with a host of concerts, masterclasses, Q&As Russell, Regina Belle and Angela Winbush and workshops featuring renowned visiting perform music from careers spanning three artists and bands and outstanding Guildhall decades. (£40–55*) jazz students. (Free–£15*)

Wed 15 Apr 7.30pm Tue 28 Apr 8pm Lankum Debbie Harry & Chris Stein The most exciting folk band on the planet right in Conversation now perform their lauded album The Livelong The Blondie founding members discuss their Day with an expanded line-up and special lives and careers with artist Rob Roth. (£30–65*) guests. (£17.50–22.50*)

For full programme information, Details of prices are available online. Barbican Members receive 20% off, Business Members including artist line ups, please receive 25% off selected events. Join Young Barbican and get tickets for just £5, £10 or £15 visit barbican.org.uk *Booking Fees: £3 per online transaction, £4 by phone. No fee in person.

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13–16 May, Theatre Dogs of Europe One 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.

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26 Jun, Hall Jul, Cinema Joyce DiDonato: Songplay Out in the Shadows Promising ‘a song in her heart and a twinkle in her eye,’ mezzo Some of the greatest films have been made by LGBTQ+ directors, DiDonato performs a very personal project bringing together yet many of them worked at a time when identifying as queer opera, jazz and tango for the pure pleasure of improvisation, was a taboo, or even illegal. A number of directors managed experimentation and exchange. Songplay sees DiDonato and to make films that, although didn’t feature explicitly queer her band draw on inspirations from Cavalli to Chet Baker to content, still expressed their sexuality through coded storytelling, create an evening of great breadth, beauty and originality. symbolism, aesthetic and inventive technique. This season shows how great queer art can flourish, out in the shadows. Part of Inside Out

Erland Cooper Jean Dubuffet, Paysage aux argus (Landscape with Argus), 1955. Collection Fondation Dubuffet, © Fondation Dubuffet, Paris / DACS, London 2019. Image courtesy of Fondation Dubuffet, Paris.

13 Jun, Hall 30 Sep–17 Jan, Art Gallery Erland Cooper: Jean Dubuffet An Orkney Triptych Spanning more than four decades in the studio, this major exhibition Immerse yourself in the natural world of birds, the sea and landscape, as of the French artist Jean Dubuffet is the first in the UK in over 50 years composer and multi-instrumentalist Cooper returns following a sold-out – celebrating one of the most powerful and provocative voices in the show in 2019. Using his music to reflect the landscape, his albums Solan postwar avant-garde. Drawing from international collections and Goose and Sule Skerry paint a picture of his Orkney home. Joined by featuring rarely exhibited pieces, the show will highlight Dubuffet’s the London Contemporary Orchestra, he’ll perform music from both radicalism as he experimented with materials and aimed to create albums, plus preview the third in the series, which is due for release this what he described as ‘an art that is directly plugged into our current year and looks at the islands’ land, community, myth and mythology. life, that immediately emanates from our real life and our real moods’. Part of Inside Out

April 2020 16 always My Barbican: Matt L T Smith As 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. Store Store collab Get into the spirit of London Craft Pit Theatre Backstage Week as we host a range of innovative There’s nothing quite like watching a show workshops led by associates of design develop from the wings, peering through and architecture collaborative, Store. the curtains at castmates in rehearsals as the lights wash over them and their voice booms, Among the activities on offer include making a beeswax candle, learning traditional Pit Theatre Green Room leathercraft, discovering how to use waste I remember one particularly bad day of milk to make a new clay-like material, and insomnia whilst working on A Change is designing your own piece of jewellery. Gonna Come. I stole myself away to the Green Room between rehearsals; splayed ‘These are some of the workshops we offer myself out on the bright red leather couch. I in our Kings Cross retail space, Store Store,’ lay there futilely trying to get in a few winks says the group’s Kevin Smeeing. ‘During of sleep, as the bright mural of the outside the week we host regular activities for on the wall tried to make me forget that I state school students, and the shops sells was underground, but reminded me that it the products they design and make. On was the middle of a sunny spring day. Even Saturdays we hosts public workshops. underground you can’t escape daylight. ‘We are a non-profit community interest company, so proceeds from these workshops Art Gallery Top Floor support our work with young people.’ Photo by Christy Ku (@kukadoodles) Working in the Art Gallery, I really got a As well as the workshops, our shop on Level trying to hit the empty back row. Tiptoeing feel for what it’s like to be a bird watching G will be selling some of the after school club through the thin corridor behind the stage everything from above. Perching myself on students’ work – keep your eye out for some between cues, careful not to make one the top floor observing people filtering in of the innovative designs they’ve created. wrong step and punctuate the quiet pattering and out as poets performed in response to Workshops are open to everyone aged rhythm of the dancers with the loud creak the exhibits. Waiting for the right moment, 16+ and cost £45. Booking is essential as of a floorboard. The ways in which we each enough new faces, a lull in the performance, places are limited to 15 per session. made that narrow space our own, tucking to rush down and perform again. London Craft Week: ourselves silently into corners, peacefully To find out more about Barbican Young laying ourselves down on the carpet. Store Store takeover Poets and our other programmes for young 27 Apr–3 May people, see barbican.org.uk/take-part Shop, Level G

New Perspectives Zero emissions This photo of the Sculpture Court was taken by Lothar Ruttner (@eugenvontrotta), from on Beech Street Berlin. ‘A couple of weeks ago, on my From spring, the City of London Corporation vacation in London, I visited the Barbican for is introducing traffic changes on Beech Street, the first time,’ they say. ‘As a fan of Brutalist Bridgewater Street and Golden Lane in a bid architecture, I was impressed by the vast size to cut air pollution. Polluting vehicles will be of the area and the well thought-out design restricted from driving through Beech Street, of the whole complex. After a walk through making it the UK’s first ‘zero emission street’. the beautiful Conservatory on this wonderful We are fully supportive of this initiative to and sunny day I went to the Sculpture Court, improve Beech Street’s air quality, while also where I took this photo, trying to capture being mindful of the fact that people who use the sunlight, shining on the regular concrete our car parks often have access needs. Drivers structure of the building.’ Discover places using Beech Street to enter or exit the Barbican such as this on one of our architecture tours car park located on Beech Street will therefore – find out more at barbican.org.uk/tours. be exempt from the scheme. To find out more about the scheme see cityoflondon.gov.uk/beechstreet

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GAlways open Always free Everyone’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. Barbican apparel Playing Democracy by Ling Tan Until 31 May Question the social structures that shape From t-shirts and jumpers to bags, our the way in which we live our lives through brand new Barbican-inspired fashion social play in this interactive installation. Toyin Ojih Odutola: range means you can share your love A Countervailing Theory Until 26 Jul, The Curve of our architecture wherever you go. Presenting the first-ever UK exhibition by Nigerian-American artist Toyin Ojih Odutola, this epic cycle of new work will explore an Created by Apparel & Lovers, which have imagined ancient myth. seen their designs featured in Vogue Italia and Collezioni Magazine, the Pick up a guide to the range incorporates Brutalist concepts Barbican and our Level G and colours from around the Centre. programme from the Ticket ‘We started with creating a unique cut for Desk inside the shop 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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Masculinities: Liberation through Photography Art Gallery £15 11 All day Young Visual Arts Group Showcase venue tbc Free Sun–Wed 10am–6pm, Thu–Sat 10am–9pm 11am Family Film Club Cinema 2 £2.50–3.50* 8 7.45pm Internationaal Theater Amsterdam: Death in Venice Theatre £16–60* 13 Toyin Ojih Odutola: A Countervailing Theory The Curve Free 11 7.30pm The Lost Words: Spell Songs Hall £25–39.50* 14 Sat–Wed 11am–8pm, Thu–Fri 11am–9pm Sun 19 Check the website for Bank Holiday opening hours All day Young Visual Arts Group Showcase venue tbc Free 3pm Internationaal Theater Amsterdam: Death in Venice Theatre £16–60* 13 7pm LSO Artist Portrait: Antoine Tamestit Hall £16–57* 10 Wed 1 event venue tickets page Mon 20 7.15pm Royal Opera House Live: Swan Lake Cinema 3 £21* 8 7.30pm Arcangelo: Haydn’s Creation Hall £15–46* 9 7pm In Conversation: Anthony Hunt and Maria Smith Frobisher Auditorium 1 £15 11 7.45pm Breach: It’s True, It’s True, It’s True The Pit £18* 13 Tue 21 Thu 2 7pm Royal Opera House Live: Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci Cinema 3 £21* 8 6pm Autism and Cinema: Temple Grandin + ScreenTalk Cinema 3 Free 7 7.30pm Murray Perahia in recital Hall £15–46* 10 7.30pm City of London Choir: Verdi’s Requiem Hall £12–36* 9 Wed 22 7.45pm Breach: It’s True, It’s True, It’s True The Pit £18* 13 6.20pm Forbidden Colours/Queer East Film Festival: 7.45pm Schaubühne Berlin: Orlando Theatre £16–60* 13 Memories of My Body + Introduction Cinema 2 £12* 7 8.45pm The Juniper Tree + live poetry Cinema 2 £12* 7 6.30pm LSO Half Six Fix: Bartók Hall £12–37* 10 Fri 3 7.30pm AAM: Glories of Venice Milton Court £15–35* 10 7.30pm BBC Symphony Orchestra/Oramo Hall £12–40* 9 7.45pm Breach: It’s True, It’s True, It’s True The Pit £18* 13 Thu 23 7.45pm Schaubühne Berlin: Orlando Theatre £16–60* 13 2pm Afternoon Arts: Rigoletto on the Lake Cinema 2 £10.50* 8 Sat 4 7pm Masculinities Exhibition Tour with Edwin Coomasaru Art Gallery £15 11 11am Family Film Club Cinema 2 £2.50–3.50* 8 7.30pm LSO/Rattle: Bluebeard’s Castle Hall £16–57* 10 2pm Bach: Six Suites, Six Echoes Milton Court £15–41* 9 7.45pm Inua Ellams: Poetry + Film / Hack - Boyz n the Hood The Pit £18* 13 2–4pm Slow Art Day: Family Workshop venue tbc Free 11 Fri 24 8pm Manuel Göttsching Hall £22.50–27.50* 14 6.15pm Forbidden Colours/Queer East Film Festival: 7.45pm Breach: It’s True, It’s True, It’s True The Pit £18* 13 Sisterhood + ScreenTalk with director Cinema 2 £13.50* 7 7.45pm Schaubühne Berlin: Orlando Theatre £16–60* 13 7pm Architecture on Stage: London 2030 Hall £15 11 Sun 5 Sat 25 2pm Schaubühne Berlin: Orlando Theatre £16–60* 13 11am Family Film Club Cinema 2 £2.50–3.50* 8 3pm Autism and Cinema: Le Moindre geste + ScreenTalk Cinema 3 £12* 7 3pm Autism and Cinema: Life, Animated + ScreenTalk Cinema 3 £12* 7 7pm London Symphony Orchestra/Noseda Hall £16–57* 9 6.30pm The English Concert: Handel’s Rodelinda Hall £16–57* 10 Mon 6 Sun 26 7pm Architecture on Stage: Carla Juaçaba Frobisher Auditorium 1 £15 11 10am–5pm LSO Discovery Day: Sounds from South America Hall & LSO St Luke’s £22* 10 7.30pm Lang Lang plays the Goldberg Variations Hall £26–86* 9 7pm LSO/Rattle: Mahler 4 Hall £16–57* 10 7.45pm Breach: It’s True, It’s True, It’s True The Pit £18* 13 Mon 27 Tue 7 7.30pm London Schools Symphony Orchestra Hall £10–30* 10 7.45pm Breach: It’s True, It’s True, It’s True The Pit £18* 13 Tue 28 7.30pm Lee Ranaldo & Raül Refree Milton Court £25* 14 8.15pm Autism and Cinema: Mulholland Drive + Introduction Cinema 3 £12* 7 6.30pm Science on Screen: Run Lola Run + Presentation Cinema 2 £12* 7 8pm Debbie Harry & Chris Stein Hall £30–65* 14 7.45pm Dead Ringers: Live Theatre £25-49.50* 13

Wed 8 event venue tickets page Wed 29 event venue tickets page 7pm An Uncomfortable Relationship with Masculinity: 6pm Autism and Cinema: Jigsaw + ScreenTalk Cinema 3 £12* 7 Scottee and Friends Art Gallery £20 11 7.45pm Dead Ringers: Live Theatre £25–49.50* 13 7.30pm Anne-Sophie Mutter plays Beethoven Hall £15–46* 9 Thu 30 7.45pm Breach: It’s True, It’s True, It’s True The Pit £18* 13 6.30pm Forbidden Colours/Queer East Film Festival: Thu 9 Song Land + Introduction Cinema 2 £12* 7 2pm Afternoon Arts: Easter in Art Cinema 2 £10.50* 8 7pm Masculinities Exhibition Tour with Chris Bayley Art Gallery £15 11 7pm Masculinities Exhibition Tour with Tim Clark Art Gallery £15 11 7.30pm NY Phil: Mahler’s Symphony No 1 Hall £15–66 10 7.45pm Breach: It’s True, It’s True, It’s True The Pit £18* 13 7.45pm manmaRo Project: The Bees’ Road The Pit £18* 13 7.45pm Dead Ringers: Live Theatre £25–49.50* 13 Fri 10 6pm Britten Sinfonia: St Matthew Passion Hall £15–65* 9 7pm Masculinities Exhibition Tour with Tim Clark Art Gallery £15 11 Sat 11 11am Family Film Club Cinema 2 £2.50–3.50* 8 5.55pm Met Opera Live: Tosca Cinema 1 £37* 8 Sun 12 7.30pm Soul Explosion Hall £40–55* 14 Tue 14 1pm ECHO Rising Stars: Noa Wildschut LSO St Luke’s £12* 10 7.30pm HAUSER Hall £25–200* 10 Wed 15 7.30pm Lankum Hall £17.50–22.50* 14 Thu 16 7.10pm David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet + Live Q&A from the Royal Albert Hall Cinema 1 £20* 8 7.45pm Internationaal Theater Amsterdam: Death in Venice Theatre £16–60* 13 Fri 17 7.30pm BBC SO/Stasevska Hall £12–40* 10 7.30pm Shards Milton Court £15* 14 7.45pm Internationaal Theater Amsterdam: Death in Venice Theatre £16–60* 13

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