season review 2012 / 13 Catherine McGuinness 13 / Chairman, Barbican Centre Board

Welcome to our Season Review for 2012/13.

Here at the Barbican Centre there have been many highlights and headlines over the past year, including great orchestras in our concert hall, thrilling dance and drama in our theatre,

thought-provoking film seasons in our new © Sheila Rock Sir Nicholas Kenyon Catherine McGuinness © Clive Totman cinemas and critically acclaimed exhibitions in our gallery. There has been so much Sir Nicholas Kenyon

activity in the Centre to inspire and excite, and Managing Director, Barbican Centre 2012 Barbican Season Review audiences have certainly responded. It is a unique feature of the Barbican that we have The year 2012 was a remarkable one for the world-class arts this range of art forms in one place, and we Barbican in every way, and the successes of are increasingly forging links between them. this period have been sustained into an equally outstanding 2013. The inspiring power of the But our work also continues outside our London Olympics and Paralympic Games, walls. Through our Beyond Barbican and the enlightened investment in the Cultural and learning programme and creative learning work, we Olympiad that surrounded it, has left a lasting touch the lives of thousands in neighbouring artistic legacy. The Barbican was at the heart boroughs, discovering new audiences and of the celebrations and was invited, with our The Barbican exists to inspire people to discover talents. Perhaps my favourite headline of this partners Create London, to reopen the north of past year has been ‘London youth finds its the Olympic Park with the Open East Festival in and love the arts. We innovate with outstanding voice’, following the moving and powerful July 2013. Unleashed production by young people from artists and performers to create an international across east London working with Boy Blue 2012/13 was exceptional, with record Entertainment and our Creative Learning team. attendances and record levels of commercial programme that crosses art forms, investing in activity as audiences flocked both to the Centre We are proud to play our part in and to its ambitious off-site work in east London. the artists of today and tomorrow. enlivening the City and supporting our neighbouring communities; we thank the Now we are building on that vision of offering City of London Corporation and other arts and learning for all with our use of the supporters for making this work possible. Guildhall School’s wonderful new concert hall at Milton Court, our own new cinemas, and the growing collaborations around the Barbican area that will create a world-class cultural hub

barbican.org.uk as Crossrail arrives in 2018. It is an exciting time for the Barbican, as the arts are needed in ever more challenging times, and we hope that you will join us as audiences, patrons and partners 1 ©Lee Mawdsley 2 Forewords as we move forward. Our vision 13 13 / 160,000 / permanent twitter followers 280 employees 48,407 190,000 creative learning 5.7 million free working with participants website visitors attendances Barbican Season Review 2012 Barbican Season Review Barbican Season Review 2012 Barbican Season Review exceptional Olympic 2012/13 saw a...

33% increase in box office

increase in commercial income arts144 and education partners 35% increase in arts attendance to deliver 36% part of a cluster of City of London arts and cultural organisations that generates barbican.org.uk barbican.org.uk

£291m Cluster the City Arts and Culture of Impact The Economic, Social and Cultural report London commissioned BOP * City of 3 4 3 Year in numbers in Year an audience of to 2,194events million for the London economy* 5 barbican.org.uk Our audience The 2012/13 financial year saw attendances for The Barbicanalsocontinues to increase its online As well asservingtheaudiences of today, we’re Olympics year, box office receipts alsorose by 33%. Queues were alsoafeature of ourBeyond Barbican were willingto queuefor hoursto experience thework. Our Beyond Barbicanoffsite programme was particularly Barbican’s audience,both interms of numbersand Random International’s Rain Room broke audiencerecords Box, andthrough ourFreeB schemeinwhich20,000 Learning programme, ourpartnerships withschools first time,anincrease of 36%on2011/12. Inthis for aninstallation intheCentre’s Curve Gallery. More featuring intheIndependent’spoliticalcartoon. In thepastyear we’ve achieved aremarkable shiftinthe in theincreasingly diverse range of peoplewe serve. members aged 16–25 canaccess free tickets for members having previously low attendance atartsevents. programme, withLeandro Erlich’sDalston House performances, screenings andexhibitions attheCentre. partnerships withorganisations across eastLondonhelped imagination, hostingpress andfilm crews from across in Hackney. Theinstallation caughtthewiderpublic investing inthoseof tomorrow through ourCreative us broaden theappealof ourwork, with26%of audience events attheCentre exceeding onemillionfor the than 77,000 peoplevisited theinstallation, someof whom the world, witnessingmarriage proposals, andeven attracting over 50,000visitors duringitssix-week run currently receives over five millionvisitsayear. and over 110,000 fans on Facebook, whileourwebsite audience, amassingover 160,000 followers onTwitter across eastLondononinitiatives suchasBarbican successful inreaching new audiences.Ourlong-standing

HM TheQueen©Kevin Leighton Queen’s visit Queen’s visit Queen’s Medalfor Musicto visited theCentre to present the when Her Majesty The Queen when HerMajestyTheQueen Orchestra welcomed avery On 5December2012, the Barbican and London Symphony Barbican andLondonSymphony concert intheBarbicanHall. of Great Britain atanLSO the NationalYouth Orchestra special audience member special audiencemember

Leandro Erlich, Dalston House © Gar Powell-Evans

6 Barbican Season Review 2012/13 7 barbican.org.uk An international, cross-arts programme

Dancers perform in the Bride and the Bachelors exhibition during Dancing around Duchamp season © Felix Clay The 2012/13 seasonfeatured two Trust onaseriesof events Wonder: ArtandScienceon Weekender enabledfamilies Merce Cunningham, andthe Dancing around Duchampwas the major cross-arts programmes, key figures of theavant-garde, his legacy andrelationship to perfect realisation of thiscross-arts playwrights andchoreographers many strands of humancreativity how thebrain relates to the the Brain saw theBarbican including artistsJasperJohns unique abilityto produce experimental composerJohnCage. art forms anddisciplines. experiments andexperiences. examining theinnerworkings of theatre, dance, film andcreative offer, encompassingart,music, demonstrating theBarbican’s to enjoy a wealth of hands-on collaborate withtheWellcome and Robert Rauschenberg, artist Marcel Duchamp,exploring orbited around thelegendary through films, music,performances, the mind.Theseasoninvestigated and talks, whileafree Barbican seasons andevents thatspan such as Samuel Beckett and such asSamuelBeckett and learning. Thismajorseason lectures, collaborations, workshops

Jones’s multimediastaging of Aphex Twin’s ground-breaking We celebrated theinnovators We alsoprogrammed work from Mitchell andSchaubühne Oliver Knussen’sopera, Where was Moving , anexhibition Remote Orchestra project; Netia Berlin’s cinematic reimagining Innovation people create aphotobook photographers of the1960s the WildThingsAre, ran aproject thatsaw young inspired by theexhibition, enabling of thepastwithEverything the innovators of today, including and 1970s, alongsidewhich and share exceptional work. teachers andstudentsto devise of Strindberg inFräulein. Julie surveying thework of visionary

and Katie The Barbican’s commitment to The Barbican’scommitmentto Art Museum in Shanghai Art MuseuminShanghai Watch MeMove, ourinternational Vivienne Westwood, SamTaylor Wood andMike Leigh –selected Wayne McGregor |Random visiting theexhibition during venues inRiodeJaneiro and Fifty Years of BondStyle visittheTiff Our international programme Collaboration Rain Room installation, featuring Brasilia, attracting record- Bell Lightbox inToronto, Minsheng Barbican Barbican Further collaborations included Dance performing to asoundtrack Random International’s astonishing films that,for them,encapsulated film-makers –includingDame both cities,with306,000 people breaking visitor numbersin blockbuster show Designing007: International Enterprises its three-month runinRio. musicians perform Beck’sunique by composerMax Richter. bringing aboutexciting artistic animation exhibition, toured and MelbourneMuseum. of touring exhibitions saw the one of thedeadly sins. and Seven Deadly Sins,afilm concert, whichsaw astellar castof the Beck:SongReader Live a seriesof interventions within collaborations season where leading artistsand sheet musicalbumSongReader,

continued with continued with © Steff Ungerer Richard Ayoade appearsat theSeven Deadly Sinsfilm season Beck performs atBeck:SongReader Live concert©MarkAllan Rain Room , Random International ©Felix Clay

8 Barbican Season Review 2012/13 9 barbican.org.uk Beyond Barbican contributes to eastLondon’sthriving cultural life. but alsoavalued localcommunityresource that ambition to benot onlyahomefor outstanding art, Barbican event over thesummer, helpingfulfil our A total of 116,000 peopleattended aBeyond them to continueto seekoutnew artisticexperiences. an introduction to ourprogramme thatwe hopewillinspire Shoreditch Festival, were free to attend, givingaudiences outdoor celebrations DanceNationsDalston and Many events, includingDalston Houseandtheannual and aformer library andcommunitycentre (BankOnIt). church (How Like anAngel),ashop(ThePaper Architect) and three site-specific theatre shows taking place ina andNationalNeon Theatre Wales atVillage Underground included anacclaimed new collaboration between Neon performances invenues across theeastof thecity. These popular Highlights of theBeyond Barbicanseriesfeatured thehugely commissions andcollaborations across eastLondon. events outsideourwalls, featuring pop-upperformances, England, allowed usto deliver anoutstanding summerof These partnerships,together withfundingfrom ArtsCouncil and organisations intheboroughs surrounding theCentre. high-quality programming andpartnershipswithartists Beyond BarbicanbuiltontheBarbican’slong history of Working closelywithourassociate partnerCreate London, learning events across eastLondon. 2013 featured aseriesof world-class artsand Our Beyond Barbicanprogramme insummer Dalston Houseinstallation, alongsidegigsand

‘Young andold,singles, way to relive thegreatest performance, artandfood. outstanding international music, London aswell aspresenting showcased thecreativity of east unforgettable weekend that the festival, experiencing an Almost 50,000peopleattended of theparkto thepublic. and theopeningof thenorth London 2012 OlympicGames the openingceremony of the marking thefirst anniversary of Queen ElizabethOlympicPark was atwo-day celebration inthe project to date. OpenEastFestival to deliver ourbiggestoffsite saw uswork withCreate London The Beyond Barbicanprogramme Open EastFestival Open EastFestival, July2013 Daily Telegraph on that, like Danny Boyle’s this was anaudience tent, surrounded by fellow today’s Britain ... To be opening ceremony, told an optimisticstory about couples andfamilies, standing underthebig show onearth’ singing, seemedtheright black, white andbrown: Londoners allsmilingand

Jeremy Deller’s Sacrilege at Open East Festival © Mark Allan

10 Barbican Season Review 2012/13 11 barbican.org.uk Investing in established and emerging artists Juliette BinocheinMademoiselle Julie©Christophe Raynaud This year we hosted performances The Barbicancontinuesto work Angeles Philharmonicfor itsfirst We welcomed Barbican Music Director Gustavo Dudamel Complicite’s celebrated adaption well aspresenting asecondrunof with artistsatallstages of their Los AngelesandeastLondon. European premieres andan from Juliette Binoche,PhilipGlass International Associate theLos involving young musiciansfrom residency, whichfeatured three in theartsfor thefirst time. open rehearsal conducted by of and Michael ClarkCompany, as to experience andparticipate opportunities for young people across theglobeandproviding careers, showcasing thebestfrom The Master andMargarita. Gustavo Dudamel,LosAngelesPhilharmonicResidency ©SusanaSanroman This residency alsoprovided the We gave aplatform to emerging ), and opportunities House), andopportunities young composerNicoMuhly, One andSleepwalk Collective Random International (Rain Room ) for exciting young theatre from composerJohnAdams featuring keynote contributions hit artisticcommissionsfrom music curated by celebrated models for musiceducationand international symposium exploring to present their work inThePit. companies suchasNonZero and Leandro Erlich(Dalston and director Peter Sellars. stars through aweekend of springboard for Future Play, an The Barbican and Guildhall School The BarbicanandGuildhallSchool Jazz Orchestra’s collaboration Sleepwalk Collective, …TheSirens, TheSirens ©Futura Tittaferrante Our tailored professional Orchestra andtheestablished with JazzatLincolnCenter work together to develop the Barbican Young Poets scheme. Barbican stage through projects future, withour jointcreative making ThePit available to range from Weekend Labs programmes alsoallow artists emerging and established artists to develop andtrialnew work. directed by leading artists,to careers, to thenext level. Projects to take their work, andtheir development andlaboratory artists andperform onthe chance to work withestablished audience members.Thisincluded almost 50,000participantsand artists andaudiencesof the of Music&Drama continue to learning projects reaching like theEastLondonCreative giving talented young peoplethe

Boy Blue Entertainment, Unleashed © Mark Allan 2012, was theculminationof atwo-year project with Unleashed, presented intheBarbicanTheatre inNovember young peopleof London.Tackling subjectsincluding young peoplefrom eastLondon.Musicians,drummers, with BarbicanArtisticAssociate Boy BlueEntertainment Unleashed film-makers andpoetsfrom across themany ensembles run by ourCreative Learningdepartmentcollaborated the Londonriots, dreams andfamily, theshow received to create aspectacular show thattrulygave voice to the standing ovations andfive-star nationalreviews.

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13 Barbican Season Review 2012/13 What they say = heartburstingwithjoy + Philip Glass at 75 today + PhilipGlassat75today @FromDeskTilDawn @SitaThomas90 @BarbicanCentre is @jonathansebire @Helm Complicite’s Master @HannyLouC @BarbicanCentre #tookmybreathaway #RainRoom thisafternoon. The An amazingexperience you voices of LondonYouth Overwhelmed Government take note: with Really istoo easy to Lovely to seesomany From Twitter happy faces back onthe have doneanamazing job by by and Margarita yesterday arts. That is the talent and arts. Thatisthetalent and site of theOlympics forget how incredible love &wonder (thank in the@BarbicanCentre that isthevalue of the #Unleashed @BarbicanCentre @BarbicanCentre) #openeast festival.

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14 barbican.org.uk The year in pictures Africa Express ©JohnSturrock Mademoiselle Julie©Christophe Raynaud Everything Was Moving ©MalickSidibé sep Michael ClarkCompany, new work 2012 ©HugoGlendinning

Random International, Rain Room ©Felix Clay Britten Sinfonia, 20thanniversary concert©Rhydian Peters Aphex Twin, Remote Orchestra ©MarkAllan oct Boy BlueEntertainment, Unleashed©MarkAllan Sleepwalk Collective, …TheSirens, TheSirens, ©Futura Tittaferrante Oliver Knussen,Where theWildThingsAre ©MarkAllan nov Cecilia Bartoli ©UliWeber Slung Low, 59Minutes to Save Christmas©SusanaSanromán

Philip Glass,Koyaanisqatsi ©MarkAllan dec

Complicite / Simon McBurney, The Master and Margarita © Hugo Glendinning Step into theDark©SusanaSanroman

Çompanhia de Deborah Colker, Tatyana Colker, Deborah de Çompanhia jan Sahara Soul©MarkAllan © Walter Carvalho Ahmad Jamal © Frank Capri and Johns Cage, Cunningham,with Rauschenberg The Bride and Duchamp the Bachelors: © Wonge Bergmann Nothing on Robert Wilson, Lecture feb © Felix Clay Théâtre delaVille–Paris, Rhinocéros ©Jean-LouisFernandez Joyce DiDonato ©JosefFischnaller

Ryoji Ikeda, superposition©DanielKarl FidelisFuchs Gate Theatre Dublin,Watt ©JeffClarke mar Los AngelesPhilharmonic Residency ©MarkAllan Cheek ByJowl, UbuRoi ©JohanPersson Other Voices ©Richard Gilligan apr

Geoffrey Farmer, The Surgeon and the Photographer © Rachel Topham

Juan Diego Florez © Josef Gallauer Nico Muhly, AScream andanOutrage Weekend ©MarkAllan Critics’ Circle: TheFilmthatChangedmy Life, Raging Bull,Dir. MartinScorsese(1980) Schaubühne Berlin,Fräulein Julie©ThomasAurin may Neon Neon,Praxis Makes Perfect ©MarkJames Circa andIFagiolini, How Like ©Robert AnAngel Piwko jun

Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet, Landfall © Mark Allan

Theatre-Rites, Bank On It © Patrick Baldwin Davy &KristinMcGuire, ThePaper Architect ©BenedictJohnson Open EastFestival ©MarkAllan jul Beck, SongReader Live ©MarkAllan Mogwai, Zidane, A21st Century Portrait ©Steve Gullick

Hack TheBarbican©SiddKhajuria aug 18 barbican.org.uk ‘You know thatitmust ‘It isbeautiful,funny, ‘The mostexhilarating new ‘Simple, surprising, ‘Simple, surprising, July 2013 The Quietus onAphex Twin, 2012 Observer onDalston House, Clark Company, new work October 2012 valves, butitstillfeels like Independent onRain Daily Telegraph onMichael Room, October 2012 Britain thisyear’ entertaining anddoesn’t engaging andbrilliant’ From thepress have somethingto dowith piece of contemporary a miracle’ dance to appear in dance to appearin sensors, and cameras, and sensors, andcameras, and last nearlylongenough’ thought provoking, hugely , October 2012

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‘The first event to beheld ‘To heartwo of theworld’s ‘The dazzlingfour-day July 2013 Time OutonOpenEastFestival, The TimesontheLosAngeles young maestro have just Daily Telegraph onJuanDiego Philharmonic Residency, March 2013 Flórez andFriends, April2013 Park couldbethe bestvalue greatest opera stars LA Philharmonicandits not mutuallyexclusive’ best isarare privilege’ pizzazz andprofundity are residency of concerts day outof thesummer’ at thereopened Olympic contemporary way, that completed attheBarbican and workshops thatthe singing what they sing singing whatthey sing suggested, in the most suggested, inthemost

19 barbican.org.uk Our Partners Gustavo Dudamel,LosAngeles PhilharmonicResidency © MarkAllan Michael ClarkCompany, new work ©HugoGlendinning Cheek ByJowl, UbuRoi ©JohanPersson Concertgebouw Orchestra. York Philharmonic andRoyal Los AngelesPhilharmonic, New Jazz atLincolnCenter Orchestra, Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig, Associate Orchestras, the Orchestra; andourInternational Orchestra, theBBC Symphony Orchestra; ourAssociate orchestra, theLondonSymphony which includesourresident part of ourfamily of orchestras, perform atBarbicanvenues as ensembles willnow regularly Music andBritten Sinfonia. These Barbican: theAcademy of Ancient Associate Ensemblesto the We alsowelcomed two new Entertainment (Unleashed). ( ( Artistic Associates, Cheekby Jowl three of ourlong-established presented acclaimed work from Associates. Thisyear we’ve Associate Producer, to ourArtistic east London,andSerious,our deliver muchof ourwork in Create London,withwhomwe who range from Associate Partner fourteen associate companies, This includesourwork with established artistsandcompanies. and supportemerging and reach, achieve ourambitions organisations to extend our with over 140 artsand learning In thepastyear we collaborated New Work 2012 ) andBoy Blue Ubu Roi), Michael ClarkCompany and theCity. young peopleineastLondon learning opportunitiesfor all that deliver highquality, inspiring create new projects and initiatives learning programmes, we will School’s world-class arts and with theBarbicanandGuildhall music andcultural education hubs knowledge andexpertise of the education. Bycombiningthelocal the bestmusicalandcultural London thechanceto experience to give every young personineast education hubsto develop plans the GuildhallSchoolandsixmusic collaboration willseeuswork with Partnership. Thisambitious an EastLondonandCityCulture Fairbairn Foundation to establish three-year grant from theEsmée has alsobeenawarded amajor Our Creative Learningdepartment Barbican Box inthree schools. and piloted afilm version of Hamlets, Islington andHackney, and communitygroups inTower Theatre Project into twenty schools Trust to expand theBarbicanBox Complicite andtheWellcome This year we collaborated with in oursurrounding boroughs. and educationorganisations regularly work withschools Barbican programme, we also that helpeddeliver theBeyond have forged ineastLondon term artisticpartnershipswe Alongside thesuccessfullong-

Hack the Barbican © Sidd Khajuria the linesbetween theartsandtechnology. hacker culture to produce projects thatblurred and entrepreneurs that took inspiration from collaboration between artists,technologists the Trampery, Hack theBarbicanwas a new Centre’s foyers. Produced inassociationwith workshops anddiscussionstake over the which saw 100 installations, performances, Hack theBarbicanproject duringAugust, tech andcreative communitiesledto the Our developing relationship withlocal Hack theBarbican

20 Barbican Season Review 2012/13 21 barbican.org.uk Our iconic building AGI conference pop-upshop©SamFranklin OK!, with high-profile shoots thisyear from ICON, popular asalocationfor filming andphotography, The Barbicanhasalsobecomeincreasingly including theBarbicanWeekender andBattleof Ideas. also ran aseriesof successful pop-upfood stalls atevents programme through thesaleof related souvenirs. We and Christmasshoppers,supplementingourarts a numberof pop-upshopscatering to businessevents Our flourishing retail offer alsoextended to thefoyers with events taking place across theentire Centre. saw ourspaces usedto theirfullpotential, with the foyers andtheWonder season,both of which ways, includingtheHack theBarbicantakeover of This year we’ve used thebuildinginnew andexciting for cultural andcommercial audiences. it remains anoutstanding creative destination We continueto develop ourbuilding,ensuring Easy LivingandITV’sThisMorning. as well asaBritishmenu. offering anarray of ginvarieties been transformed into Gin Joint, while Searcy’s restaurant has spaces have also refurbished, been Terraceand Conservatory event Our Garden Room, Conservatory partners we welcome to theCentre. class artistsandcommercial backstage areas for theworld- refurbishment of theHall also continuedthephased and lightingsystems. We have upgrade of theflying, sound and improvement work withan maintenance, refurbishment underwent substantial backstage The BarbicanTheatre Camera Café andCôte Brasserie. places to eatanddrink– the auditoria, aswell astwo new audiences withthree first-class Barbican Cinema1to provide joined therefurbished flagship opened in1982. Thecinemas the BarbicansinceCentre building, thefirst addition to Barbican’s new Cinemas2&3 Westwood officially openedthe In December, DameVivienne Additions andimprovements Concert Hallbackstage ©SiddKhajuria Dame VivienneWestwood opensBarbicancinemas2&3building©MarkAllan in themeetingsindustry. highest standard of accreditation We alsoachieved AIMGold,the Awards andtheEvent Awards. Conference &Incentive Travel Awards andwere finalists at the Venue attheConference won theBestLarge Conference profile international events, we also this area. Aswell ashostinghigh- increase of 23%onincomein business events, recording an and welcoming destinationsfor as oneof London’smostcreative Barbican consolidate itsreputation This year hasalsoseenthe Business events amount we sendto landfill. have significantly reduced the management facilities, which to ourrecycling andwaste refurbishment andimprovements waste management. Thisfollows of LondonPlatinumAward for Recycling Award andtheCity awarded theChangeLondon improvements. Thisyear we were sustainability andenergy efficiency take aleading role inmaking The Barbicancontinuesto Sustainability

22 Barbican Season Review 2012/13 23 barbican.org.uk Developing a cultural hub The development of acultural hubinthe a numberof stations across thecapital. new works from world-renowned artists in Art Programme, which iscommissioning with Crossrail onthe ambitiousCrossrail a cultural destination.We have been working to thedevelopment of theBarbicanarea as Liverpool Street willact asasignificant boost The arrival of Crossrail inFarringdon and exceptional artsandlearningdestination. ensuring thearea isfast becomingan improvements around theBarbicanCentre new buildings,partnershipsandstreet City of Londoncontinuesapace, with for Milton Court’s publicfoyers. by Turner Prize-winning artistMartinCreed School to commissionFeelings,anew work team alsoworked closelywiththeGuildhall Music andBritten Sinfonia. Ourartgallery associate ensemblestheAcademy of Ancient including regular performances from our contemporary musicinthenew concerthall, Barbican willprogramme classicaland rehearsal rooms andstudiospaces. The seat concerthallandtwo theatres alongside building includingastate-of-the-art, 608- for the2013/14 academic year, withthenew Milton Courtbuildingwas openedintime The GuildhallSchoolof Music&Drama’s through thenew Camera Café. with awelcoming andattractive entrance of BeechStreet andproviding audiences transforming theWhitecross Street corner exteriors by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris presence, withthearchitecturally designed Barbican avaluable new street-level Our new cinema buildinggives the

Architects impression of Liverpool Street Crossrail Station ©Crossrail Barbican Cinemas2&3

Guildhall School’s Milton Court Concert Hall © Clive Totman

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The Barbican’s community of A growing family of supporters Investing in artist and All of this activity has been built / supporters is essential in enabling Our growing family of individual audience development upon the solid foundations laid by our outstanding programme to donors continue to take an active Our trust and foundation the City of London Corporation, flourish. Over the 2012/13 financial role in the Barbican’s success. supporters have nurtured new, the Barbican’s founder and year, in addition to funding This year, Barbican Patrons more diverse audiences. With principal funder. Our supporters support from the City of London deepened their knowledge their help, we have extended play an essential role in keeping Corporation, the Barbican Centre of our programme through the Barbican and Guildhall us strong as we look to the future. and the Barbican Centre Trust exclusive events, backstage access School’s exceptional creative received £927,000 from trusts and and expert insight. As well as learning programme to adults ‘On a business level, I am foundations, individuals and the supporting us themselves, Patrons and children of all backgrounds pleased to see the great business community. LOCOG and have introduced friends and and abilities from across the city. work the Barbican is Arts Council England contributed colleagues to the Barbican who Grants from the J Paul Getty Jr undertaking to develop

a further £1.42 million to support are now joining as supporters. Charitable Trust and the City 2012 Barbican Season Review our arts and learning projects. We are also delighted that Bridge Trust, among others, have its funding model. On a the number of visitors making created life-changing experiences personal level, becoming donations during online or for people in our neighbouring a Barbican Patron has telephone ticket purchases is east London boroughs. given me unrivalled growing year on year. In 2012/13, insight into the Barbican’s over 29,000 people made We have continued the marvellous arts and donations this way, supporting our refurbishment of the Hall world-class arts and learning. backstage area thanks to a learning programme generous grant from Sir Siegmund and provided some Our ongoing relationships with Warburg’s Voluntary Settlement. superb artistic and social influential companies in the The resulting environment is one experiences. I would (and I City and beyond have fostered befitting the outstanding calibre of regularly do!) recommend a host of partnerships within artists and performers it welcomes. it to friends’ the business community. Alderman Matthew Richardson, Major funders have helped the Barbican Patron Our Corporate Membership Barbican take strategic steps programme has welcomed new forward this year. This includes companies with exclusive events a three-year grant from the and employee engagement Esmée Fairbairn Foundation to opportunities. In the pilot year support our new East London of a successful volunteering and City Culture Partnership, an scheme with Linklaters LLP, ambitious musical and cultural local employees lent a helping education partnership that will hand at Creative Learning’s provide outstanding learning Barbican Box programme opportunities for young people barbican.org.uk with east London schools. in eight east London boroughs. 25 Ainslie © Sarah performance Barbican Box 26 Development 27 barbican.org.uk Finance Surplus after balancesbrought forward Balances brought forward from previous year Total expenditure Commercial, buildingsandoverhead costs Salaries Year ended31 March 2013 Barbican FinancialReview Other artsrelated activity Cinema Public funding Earned income Income andExpenditure Music Arts programming Total income Theatre Visual arts CityBridgeTrust Cityof London ArtsCouncilEngland 14,242 15,399 19,875 £000’s 37,383 37,448 8,228 2,870 4,637 5,778 12/13 1,423 1,215 254 751 189 413

13,324 16,639 14,072 31,736 31,740 2,385 3,360 3,905 11/12 7,262 1,190 750 279 189 185 310 Trading and other 27% other Trading and Box office 24% office Box Olympiad projects. LOCOG towards ourCultural additional support from ACE and the ArtsCouncil,combined with National portfolio fundingfrom We received ourfirst year of (compared with55%in2011/12). London andCityBridgeTrust of fundscamefrom theCityof In the2012/13 financial year 43% Principal FundingSources Donations 2% City of LondonCity 43% ACE 4% ACE Total Commercial andother Centre-wide events Cinema Art galleries Silk Street (GSMD) The Pit rentals Barbican Theatre Theatres

Barbican Hall 2012/13 Attendance Barbican Centre ArtsAttendance Fifty Years of BondStyle Designing 007: own promotions Other rentals London Symphony Orchestra Own promotions 12/13 2,194 1,412 209 330 237 157 138 35 70 91 76 1 5 0 Events 11/12 1,832 207 968 240 142 102 151 412 67 52 67 71 0 5 12/13 1,095 287 329 Attendance 000’s 107 183 140 116 117 117 72 30 96 13 0 11/12 802 309 100 102 124 167 127 59 75 94 88 16 17 0 0

and other facilities. includes visitors to the library, catering/retail outlets c 1.8 millioninthisCultural Olympiad year), which is c2.1 million(anincrease from previous estimates of It isestimated that thetotal footfall inthe Centre thisyear boroughs, includingtheBack to Black musicfestival. produced several large events intheCityandsurrounding activity inthefoyer spaces, suchasWeekenders, and In addition to theseactivities, theCentre hosted unticketed events andcommercial activity isshown onthechart. split of attendance between own promotions, third party attendance atcommercial AGMs/exhibitions etc. The events, footfall through TheCurve, andestimated was approximately 1.1 million.Thisincluded allticketed Overall attendance attheBarbicanCentre in2012/13 promotion 67% own events, Arts events 11%events and other Commercial rentals etc 22% etc rentals events, Arts

28 Barbican Season Review 2012/13 29 barbican.org.uk Who’s who Advisor, UBS(untilDec2012) Adviser, Bankof England Anthropology, University of Jeremy Simons John Scott Jeremy Mayhew Tom Hoffman Trevor PhillipsOBE(from Jun2013) Tony Medniuk–Chairman, of SHMProductions Ltd Vivienne Littlechild Vivienne Littlechild Chairman: Catherine McGuinness Chairman: CatherineMcGuinness Chief Operating &FinancialOfficer: Chairman, EMEABanking,Citigroup Chief Executive of Redleaf Polhill Chairman: Christopher PurvisCBE Christopher PurvisCBE Chairman, BarbicanCentre Board Catherine McGuinness– Cambridge; ChairandCofounder William Wyse Chairof Social Wendy Mead Graham Nicholson–ChiefLegal Guy Nicholson Great Lakes Reinsurance (UK)Plc Trustees: September 2012–August 2013 Michael Dick(from 1Oct2012) Managing Director: Matthew Richardson (untilJan2013) Managing Director, BarbicanCentre Stuart Fraser CBE(from May 2013) Sean Gregory Sandeep Dwesar Sir NicholasKenyon Sir David Scholey CBE–Senior Stuart Popham QC(Hon)–Vice Sue Robertson (untilMar2013) Sir BrianMcMaster Sir NicholasKenyon – Interim Operations andBuildings Professor Henrietta Moore – Roly Keating David Graves Deputy Chairman: JohnTomlinson Director of Operations andBuildings: Director of Arts:LouiseJeffreys Director of Creative Learning: Leonora Thomson Director of Audiences &Development: Director: ShaunKerfoot Emma Kane –Founder and London Managing Partner, DLAPiper Lord Timothy Clement-JonesCBE– Dr GilesShilson Keith Salway Richard Regan OBE Foundation (untilOct2012) Director, ManGroup Charitable Lesley King-Lewis – (until 30Sep2012) (from Jan2013) (from Oct2012) Board Members: Barbican Centre Board Barbican Centre Trust Directors

Academy of AncientMusic Anthony Hyde Acting Head of BarbicanArtGalleries: Jazz atLincolnCenter Orchestra Jane Alison Create London Chris Wheal(untilJan2012) Associate Partner Associate Producer Associate Ensembles Associate Orchestra Gewandhaus Orchestra Leipzig Gini Simpson(from Feb 2013) Graz Kalenik General Manager ExhibitionHalls: General Manager, BusinessEvents: Malcolm Johnson Martin Auger Serious Steve Eddy Steve New York Philharmonic Nicholas Triantafyllou Network Manager: DominicSmith International Associates Royal ConcertgebouwOrchestra Los AngelesPhilharmonic Britten Sinfonia BBC Symphony Orchestra London Symphony Orchestra Head of Technical: Head of Projects: JimTurner Business Systems Manager: Peter Martin(until31 Dec2012) Head of Engineering: Lee Dobson Head of Event Management: Head of Learning&Participation: Enterprises: NeilMcConnon Head of BarbicanInternational Interim Head of Finance: Head of Estates andFacilities: Head of Sales:SammeAllen Robyn Lines Head of Commercial Development: Head of Cinema:Robert Rider Head of Theatre: Toni Racklin Head of HumanResources: David Duncan Head of Customer Experience: Head of Music:AngelaDixon Lorna Gemmell Head of Communications: Head of Finance:NikiCornwell Head of Development: Lynette Brooks Head of Marketing: Rob Baker Management Team Resident Orchestra Heads of Department

ATOPOS Contemporary VisualCulture, Greece Arts CouncilEngland A New Direction Amnesty International Aldeburgh Festival Adam Mickiewicz Institute Czech Centre, London Culture Ireland Create London CLP Ltd Clean Break City of LondonFestival Ciné Lumière Chiang Kai-shek MemorialHall,Taipei, Taiwan Chat’s Palace Centro Cultural Bankof Brazil, Brazil Canada Councilfor theArts Cafe OTO Cheek by Jowl Cultural andEducationPartners Artistic Associates Guildhall Schoolof Music&Drama Greenwich MusicService Greater LondonAuthority Goethe-Institut London Glenbow Museum,Calgary, Canada Gillett Squared Gateway HousingAssociation Galerie Stilh, Waiblingen, Germany Michael ClarkCompany Irish FilmInstitute Instituto Camões Institut français ICA London JazzFestival London International MimeFestival London International AnimationFestival London FilmSchool London Festival of Architecture 2013 London Contemporary DanceSchool London Collegeof Communication London Borough of Newham LA PhilharmonicAssociation Kunsthal, Rotterdam, Netherlands Kinoteka KINOKINO, Sandnes,Norway Hi8us South Hackney OneFestival Hackney MusicService Hackney Council Hackney Co-operative Developments Film Nation Film London Film Club Fellows CourtCommunityCentre Fashion inFilmFestival Faber Music Experimental MediaandPerforming Arts Entelechy Embassy of Brazil EON Productions Ltd Da DongArtCenter, Kaohsiung, Taiwan Birmingham Rep Birds Eye View Birkbeck, University of London Bicycle FilmFestival BI ARTS BBC Symphony Orchestra Barking andDagenham MusicService Deborah Warner Boy BlueEntertainment Trinity LabanConservatoire of Music&Dance Tower HamletsMusicService Tower HamletsCouncil Tokyo Gallery The Vortex JazzClub The Shrine/Mwalimu Express The Oxford SamuelBeckett Theatre Trust The Lux The LearningTrust Hackney Theatre Royal Stratford East The Architecture Foundation TIFF BellLightbox, Toronto, Canada Technopolis, BuenosAires, Argentina Village Underground VAM DesignCenter, Budapest,Hungary Queen MaryUniversity of London Oregon Museumof ScienceandIndustry (OMSI), Wilton’s MusicHall Waltham Forest MusicService Wellcome Trust Museum of Popular Art,Lisbon,Portugal Mulberry Schoolfor Girls Museu daImagem edoSom(MIS),SãoPaulo, Brazil Moti Roti Morpeth School Minsheng ArtMuseum,Shanghai,China Maxine andStuart Frankel Foundation for Art Manchester International Festival Mais Um Made inScotland UK Jewish FilmFestival Unthinkable Consulting University of theArtsLondon Union Chapel Stratford Circus St Paul’s Trust SecondarySchool Stoke Newington Town Hall Stoke Newington SecondarySchool Spitalfields Music SPILL Festival of Performance South WindBlows Songlines Shoreditch Trust Shoreditch Town Hall Shoreditch Festival Scottish ArtsCouncil Scarborough ArtGallery Portuguese Embassy inLondon Philadelphia Museumof Art Polish Cultural Institute Penguin Books Palestine FilmFoundation Portland, Oregon, USA Norfolk &NorwichFestival Newham MusicTrust National Theatre Wales National Theatre of Scotland Ruhrtriennale-International Royal Central Schoolof SpeechandDrama Royal Holloway University of London Redbridge MusicService LSO St Luke’s London Legacy Development Corporation Festival of Arts

Wallpaper magazine The Times Icon Magazine The Londonist GQ magazine The Telegraph Media Partners Vitra Steinway &Sons Meyer SoundLaboratories Inc. Epson UK Champagne Lanson In KindSupport tp Bennett Swiss Re Societe Generale Slaughter andMay Prudential Osborne Clarke Omega Natrium Captial Linklaters DLA Piper DAC Beachcroft Crédit Agricole Citi CarVal Investors Bloomberg Bank of AmericaMerrillLynch American Express Corporate Partners UBS The Wolfson Foundation Sir SiegmundWarburg’s Voluntary Settlement SHM Foundation Paul HamlynFoundation J Paul GettyJrCharitable Trust Esmée Fairbairn Foundation City BridgeTrust Arts CouncilEngland Major Supporters barbican.org.uk/support-us. [email protected] orby visiting Head of Development, on02073822397, and learning,pleasecontact Lynette Brooks, To helpusprogress ourvisionof world-class arts anonymous) whoare supportingus. and organisations (includingthosewhowishto remain We would alsolike to thankthefollowing individuals Corporation. of ourfounder andprincipalfundertheCityof London The Barbicanisvery grateful for thecontinuedsupport

Stuart Popham QC(Hon) Lord andLady Palumbo Lady Julietand DrChristopher Tadgell Sir Stuart andLady RuthLipton Stuart andCarolyn Popham Judith PleasanceandMargaret Pleasance Graham Nicholson George andBetsy Newell Tony andMelanieMedniuk John andAngelaKessler Lord andLady Hollick Lord TimClement-JonesCBE Anonymous (1) (annual donationsof £3,000ormore) Premier Patrons Sir David andLady Scholey Ian andEmmaRosenblatt Matthew Richardson andAdam Richardson Christopher andPhillidaPurvis Sir LaurieandLady Magnus Donatella Flick Fatemeh Ebtehaj andHamidHakimzadeh Baha andGabriellaBassatne (annual donationsof £6,000ormore) Principal Patrons Wellcome Trust The SwissArtsCouncilPro Helvetia The Stanley ThomasJohnsonFoundation SAHA Association Polish Cultural Institute The NetherlandsArchitecture Fund The NehruCentre The NationalFoundation for Youth Music The Michael TippettMusicalFoundation The JapanFoundation Institut fürAuslandsbeziehungen Institut français The Idlewild Trust The HenryMoore Foundation The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies intheFineArts Goethe-Institut London Fluxus fund The FlemishRepresentation intheUK Film London European Union Embassy of theUnited States of America Embassy of theKingdomof theNetherlands Embassy of theFederal Republic of Germany, London Embassy of Brazil inLondon The Daiwa Anglo-JapaneseFoundation Britten-Pears Foundation BFI Aldgate andAllhallows Foundation Adam Mickiewicz Institute The 29thMay 1961 Charitable Trust Trusts, FoundationsandPublicFunders American Apparel Retail Partners

Thank you when they purchased tickets And the29,096peoplewhomade adonation Our 14,481 members Leonora Thomson Sean Storrs Deputy Wendy Mead Louise Jeffreys Susan Hooper Tom Hoffman Sean Gregory Other IndividualSupporters George Zakhem John andPaula Tomlinson Torsten Thiele The Surrey Square Charitable Trust Stephan andRosamund Shakespeare Keith Salway Catherine McGuinness Lesley King-Lewis Sir NicholasKenyon Richard andJenny Hardie Gary Halkyard Michèle Fajtmann andAlbertMay Claire Enders Tim andCaroline Clark Lynette Brooks-Homer Peter Bazalgette andHilaryNewiss Stephen andAlyson Barter Anonymous (4) Patrons (annualdonationsof £1,200 ormore)

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